9-1-1
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| Name: | 9-1-1 |
| Abbreviation(s): | 911 |
| Creator: | Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear |
| Date(s): | January 3, 2018 – present |
| Medium: | Television |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
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9-1-1 is an American procedural television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear, that follows the lives of first responders in Los Angeles. It primarily focuses on the employees of Station 118, as well as their close family and friends.
The first six seasons originally aired on Fox from January 2018 - May 2023. In May 2023, Fox canceled the series due to financial restraints, but it was saved from cancellation when ABC opted to move 9-1-1 to their network for its seventh season.[1] Shortly after the first few episodes of season seven aired, the news of a season eight renewal was announced[2].
The popularity of the series led to a spin-off, 9-1-1: Lone Star, which premiered in 2020.
Canon
9-1-1 focuses on a team of firefighters and paramedics of Station 118 of the Los Angeles Fire Department, those who work close to them like dispatchers and police officers, and their family and friends.
Episodes usually feature two or three calls that they are dispatched to, which frequently contain parallels to the personal lives of the first responders. Each season also contains at least one “major” disaster, most commonly a natural disaster, which the characters must deal with across the span of multiple episodes.
Throughout seasons, calls and story-lines are a mixture of light-hearted or comedic and more serious ones. The show has had story-lines involving trauma, domestic abuse, grief and loss, institutional bigotry, amongst other serious topics.
There has been one substantial crossover episode with 9-1-1: Lone Star, where Hen, Eddie, and Buck guest starred in Lone Star's season two episode, 'Hold the Line'. There was also a brief crossover scene between Athena from 9-1-1 and Grace and Carlos from Lone Star. The character of Marvin Chavez also connects the two shows, he is arrested in 9-1-1 by Athena and is later revealed to be related to Matteo Chavez in Lone Star; both Marvin and Matteo are played by Julian Works. With 9-1-1's move to ABC, it has been announced that any further crossovers are 'extremely unlikely'[3].
In season seven, there was also a crossover episode with 'The Bachelor'[4].
Characters
The original main characters cast consisted of dispatcher Abby Clark, field police sergeant Athena Grant, firefighters Bobby Nash and Evan "Buck" Buckley, and paramedics Hen Wilson and Chimney Han.
Firefighter Eddie Diaz and dispatcher Maddie Buckley (Buck's sister) were introduced in the second season, while it did not feature Abby Clark (who would later on make a guest appearance in a couple of episodes). Other notable characters include May Grant, Christopher Diaz, Albert Han and Ravi Panikkar.
Fandom
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The close-knit depiction of the 118 firehouse has been described by many fans as a found family. The fandom has a heavy Twitter, Tumblr and AO3 presence for much of its run to-date, as well as becoming increasingly popular on TikTok and prompting considerable discussions on Reddit, where the r/911FOX is very active.
As of April 8th 2024, there are just over 32,000 fanworks for 9-1-1 on AO3, while Fanfiction.net has 634.
Pairings
- Buck/Eddie (Buddie), M/M. The most popular ship, non-canon.
- Maddie/Chimney (Madney), F/M.
- Bobby/Athena (Bathena), F/M.
- Henriett/Karen (Henren), F/F.
- Buck/Tommy (Bevan, Kinley), M/M.
Controversies
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- Biphobic backlash to Buck being bisexual (confirmed in canon in season seven).
- Discussions around erasure/ignoring of a number of queer characters in how the show is called/known as "the gay firefighter show" due to the currently fanon pairing of Buck/Eddie, and not the canonical presence of other queer characters and relationships. Four of the characters who are queer are Black, so there are also discussions and meta around how this intersects with race and racism.
- Discussions on this have increased with the confirmation of Buck being bisexual, due to in-fandom and out-of-fandom discussions which voice sentiments around "the gay firefighter show is finally canonically gay" and "I might watch the gay firefighter show now it's actually gay".
- Racism within the fandom and particularly regarding portrayals of Chimney, Hen, and Eddie in fanworks.
- Discussions and debates around the show's queerbaiting (or not) regarding the pairing of Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz.
- Fanon woobification of Buck.
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- a leaf falls on loneliness by iimpossible_things - Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that. But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.” —you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting— So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.
- Those Two Firefighters by DarkFairytale - #thosetwofirefighters starts to gather a following on social media, as everyone tries to figure out if those two cute firefighters from the 118 in LA are a thing or not.
- A Poltergeist Named Chris by inkinmyheartandonthepage - Everything was not okay, but Buck wasn’t about to tell his Captain/father figure that. Not that he didn’t want to. Buck wasn’t exactly sure how to explain it without sounding crazy. Buck was half convinced he was losing it. The whole situation was ridiculous, and he was running out of plausible explanations as to why his belongings kept disappearing. OR Buck thinks his loft his haunted and it turns out to be so much more than that.
Fanvids
- 9-1-1 | "They're my family." by ShatteredxDreams
- #911: the dog days are over
Podcasts
Meta
Archives, Communities & Resources
- 9-1-1 (TV) works at AO3
- 9-1-1 works at Fanfiction.net
- /r911FOX at Reddit
- Various tags are used on Tumblr, some examples are: #911, #911 fox, #911 abc
- Various tags are used on TikTok, some examples are: #911onabc, #911onfox, and the general #911 (the latter also tends to contain a lot of videos not related to the show). Individual characters or pairings will also be tagged.
References
- ^ ‘9-1-1’ Moving From Fox To ABC For Season 7, Archived version published by Deadline on May 1, 2023
- ^ "Lynette Rice, 9-1-1' Renewed For Eighth Season By ABC', Deadline". Archived from the original on 2024-04-02.
- ^ "Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, 'Future 9-1-1 & Lone Star Crossover Episodes Get Disappointing Update', Screen Rant". Archived from the original on 2023-12-11.
- ^ "Armando Tinoco, 9-1-1' & 'The Bachelor' Crossover Is Happening Because Of Jennifer Love Hewitt', Deadline". Archived from the original on 2024-04-03.