[Warning: The next incorporates spoilers for the the Season Four premiere of Station 19. Learn at your personal danger!]
Station 19 picked up Season Four mere seconds from the place Season three left off, with Andy (Jaina Lee Ortiz) shell-shocked on the sight of her not-dead mom in entrance of her. After a extreme panic assault, Andy obtained herself collectively sufficient to listen to that her mom had suffered from despair and left Andy when she was 9 years previous to go battle fires in New York, leaving Pruitt (Miguel Sandoval) to place collectively the items. Whereas he wasn’t an ideal man, this encounter along with her mom left Andy to appreciate how a lot her father had executed to supply her with a household regardless of her mom’s absence, simply in time to ship the eulogy at his funeral, which was broadcast over Zoom as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
Elsewhere, we noticed how COVID-19 is affecting Station 19, as the primary responders are separated from family members and have to supply care whereas additionally making an attempt to uphold social distance pointers. Just a few of the firefighters are bunking on the firehouse whereas others have moved in collectively, like Montgomery (Jay Hayden) and Hughes (Barrett Doss). That’ll arrange a enjoyable dynamic whereas it is nonetheless awkward between Miller (Okieriete Onoadowan) and Hughes as Miller nonetheless struggles to determine how one can inform Hughes he is in love along with her. After all, he isn’t the one firefighter at Station 19 that is going to search out it troublesome to avoid somebody he loves. Andy and Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) determined to separate for 90 days to permit the previous captain to get a greater grip on his sobriety.
Will they be capable to make it? How is COVID going to complicate the life of those firefighters and can it have an effect on their capability to work together with the docs at Gray Sloan? TV Information spoke to Station 19 government producer and director Paris Barclay about what to anticipate from Season 4, which as he describes, would be the deepest season the present has ever executed.
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Andy sort of rejects her mother on this episode, however we see that her mother nonetheless signed on for Pruitt’s digital funeral. Are you able to discuss how a lot Andy’s mother can be taking part in an element within the season as we go ahead?
Paris Barclay: I feel Andy will always remember her mother, however she does decide that she honors Pruitt’s sacrifice and that is what that final scene is about. She appears to be like past her mom, and what her mom did or did not do, and focuses her consideration on Pruitt. That final speech that she provides, within the motel room, you possibly can see that she’s transferring in direction of understanding that Pruitt gave her loads actually. [He] gave her a life and gave her a profession. In order that’s actually going to be way more the main target than the mom.
Andy and Sullivan are separating for 3 months. What does that journey appear to be initially of the season?
Barclay: They may discover their means. They will battle, they will have their ups and downs as they undergo the interval of separation, however we’re principally simply seeing that interval start when Season Four begins.
What does Sullivan’s journey appear to be if he isn’t a firefighter and he is give up his job on the non-public agency?
Barclay: That is the query he was asking himself on this very first episode. He is obtained to discover a means. He is obtained to discover a place to be. He is obtained to discover a life for himself. He is obtained to face the implications of his actions. And I feel the primary few episodes of the season are going to be about him navigating that, which is a very fascinating story for us, as a result of we do like to actually dig into drug dependancy and what it means, but it surely’s additionally going to actually affect each his relationship, his profession, and all of the those who was once his group. So his battle goes to be a big a part of the story going ahead.
Are you able to discuss how the pandemic goes to have an effect on the firefighters going ahead and the way it adjustments their job, as a result of the whole lot that is occurring?
Barclay: One of many many sensible issues that Krista Vernoff and the writers did this season is [they] determined to embrace COVID and actually attempt to drive dwelling the fee to the primary responder neighborhood. That is a narrative that hasn’t been instructed and I do not assume can be instructed with as a lot vividness. You’re taking our first responders, our docs, and our firefighters that folks already love, you place them within the state of affairs, which creates an instantaneous turmoil for them personally, and for the folks they love — and it is a powder keg. So by really actually working into it and accepting and embracing what’s taking place in the actual world right now, I feel Krista and the writers have discovered a approach to go a lot deeper with the characters. This season is by far the deepest that we have executed.
Dean says he is aware of what he has to do about this emotions for Hughes on this episode. What does that imply precisely?
Barclay: I feel Dean has loads of obligations which might be tearing him aside. He has an obligation to his little one. He is determined to actually proceed to observe up and proceed to be there for that child and to lift that little one. In order that’s one obligation. He has an obligation to his household, and he is aware of a relationship with somebody in that household, which means of the Station 19 household, a relationship with somebody in that household may sort of rupture that. So I feel he will attempt to steadiness these issues. I feel he will be not as profitable as he’d wish to be.
Within the meantime, Montgomery and Hughes are transferring in collectively. What can we count on from these two this season?
Barclay: I want I may say we’ll don’t have anything however enjoyable, however we can have principally enjoyable…Vic and Travis collectively are, you already know, they are a comedy group, however they’re additionally a love group. They’ve a very tight bond they usually actually have a brother and sister relationship. I feel that is the place loads of the enjoyable of them springs, however they’re additionally going to be confronted with some fairly dramatic conditions in their very own lives and their humor just isn’t going to go away. I imply, even in these dramatic conditions that will pull an odd particular person down, these are usually not odd folks. And so they will proceed to glitter even in adversity.
With added filming precautions due to the pandemic, will we be seeing much less of a crossover with Gray’s Anatomy this season?
Barclay: I feel we’ll see about the identical quantity of crossover as we did final season, maybe somewhat bit extra. We’re very a lot in tune with the 2 reveals, with our security protocols. How we defend our forged and our crew is paramount… it is extra essential than capturing the present itself. We have now to maintain a secure surroundings, so we’re very a lot in sync. We speak weekly about what we’re doing and the way our reveals are working collectively. So it hasn’t impeded our capability to crossover actors. We did simply steal Stefania, however we needed to as a result of the connection with Maya is so, so liked. It is our nice romance proper now. So we needed to steal her and now she’s going to be a daily on Station 19. I feel each reveals can be higher for it.
Station 19 continues Thursdays at 8/7c on ABC.