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911 Lone Star, on Hulu
Apr. 8th, 2020 08:17 pmMigraining the last couple of days, so trying to take it easy.
I watched the first season of 911 Lone Star on Hulu, which is 10 episodes. This is kind of a bad show in certain ways and I cannot really recommend it BUT it has diversity and good actors. Over the course of the season, it improved somewhat.
Rob Lowe plays a firefighter named Owen Strand who moves from NYC to Austin, TX to rebuild a crew at a station where most of the people died in an explosion. He brings along his adult son, TK, also a firefighter. The first episode has a sequence where he recruits oddballs for his crew, and it's very much like "getting the band together" or assembling a spaceship crew, etc--that kind of trope.
The crew is wonderful: Judd, the only surviving firefighter from the explosion, who needs to be told to go therapy. He has a wonderful wife, Grace, who is black, and is a 911 operator.
Marjan, a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab and leaps into danger.
Paul, a black trans man who is played by same (!), who is just a wonderful person.
Mateo, a probationary firefighter who is a DREAMer and has dyslexia, which has made it hard for him to pass the exam. The captain helps him use the ADA to get an oral version of the exam, and has the crew help him by recording themselves reading the handbooks.
Carlos, a cop, who is a love interest for TK-- hey, an inter-racial gay relationship.
Liv Tyler plays a truly insufferable character named Michelle, who is the head EMT and is super reckless. She has a plot involving searching for her missing sister. At first I hated this plot line, but it got better in the last 2 eps.
Towards the end of the season, they get a firehouse dog!
Good things: Diversity!! Likeable characters, people in queer community with each other. People having identities that are sometimes in front-focus and other times in the background, which is so realistic. Having the main white guy speak positively about things like PTSD was surprisingly moving. People have connections with their intentional family and their biological ones. People care about each other and try to do the right thing.
Bad things: very over-the-top dramatic situations, some of which make no sense whatsoever. Unrealistic medicine, including that TV thing where someone gets seriously injured, but then two episodes later they are totally fine. It bothered me that Liv Tyler's character is out there practicing medicine without a license, and it's presented uncritically.
Content notes: addiction, gun violence, snakes, mental illness. There has been no sexual violence so far. Very little homophobia. There is some transphobia in one episode, exhibited by a guest character.
I watched the first season of 911 Lone Star on Hulu, which is 10 episodes. This is kind of a bad show in certain ways and I cannot really recommend it BUT it has diversity and good actors. Over the course of the season, it improved somewhat.
Rob Lowe plays a firefighter named Owen Strand who moves from NYC to Austin, TX to rebuild a crew at a station where most of the people died in an explosion. He brings along his adult son, TK, also a firefighter. The first episode has a sequence where he recruits oddballs for his crew, and it's very much like "getting the band together" or assembling a spaceship crew, etc--that kind of trope.
The crew is wonderful: Judd, the only surviving firefighter from the explosion, who needs to be told to go therapy. He has a wonderful wife, Grace, who is black, and is a 911 operator.
Marjan, a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab and leaps into danger.
Paul, a black trans man who is played by same (!), who is just a wonderful person.
Mateo, a probationary firefighter who is a DREAMer and has dyslexia, which has made it hard for him to pass the exam. The captain helps him use the ADA to get an oral version of the exam, and has the crew help him by recording themselves reading the handbooks.
Carlos, a cop, who is a love interest for TK-- hey, an inter-racial gay relationship.
Liv Tyler plays a truly insufferable character named Michelle, who is the head EMT and is super reckless. She has a plot involving searching for her missing sister. At first I hated this plot line, but it got better in the last 2 eps.
Towards the end of the season, they get a firehouse dog!
Good things: Diversity!! Likeable characters, people in queer community with each other. People having identities that are sometimes in front-focus and other times in the background, which is so realistic. Having the main white guy speak positively about things like PTSD was surprisingly moving. People have connections with their intentional family and their biological ones. People care about each other and try to do the right thing.
Bad things: very over-the-top dramatic situations, some of which make no sense whatsoever. Unrealistic medicine, including that TV thing where someone gets seriously injured, but then two episodes later they are totally fine. It bothered me that Liv Tyler's character is out there practicing medicine without a license, and it's presented uncritically.
Content notes: addiction, gun violence, snakes, mental illness. There has been no sexual violence so far. Very little homophobia. There is some transphobia in one episode, exhibited by a guest character.
