‘9-1-1’ Sneak Peek: Buck Connects With a Death Doula (VIDEO)
Buck (Oliver Stark) seems to be doing more than just saving lives in TV Insider’s exclusive sneak peek of the April 24 episode of 9-1-1.
In “Death and Taxes,” the firefighter is attracted to a death doula, Natalia (Annelise Cepero), who has minor injuries after the incident that brings the 118 to the scene of a “living funeral,” a car crash. “I specialize in scratches,” he tells her when she tries to brush it off.
After they sit down, he asks, “Aside from planning pre-death funerals, what exactly does an end of life doula do?” As she describes it, “If your job is to prevent death, my job is to help people accept it.” Watch the video above for more from their conversation about death, including what Buck shares with her to explain why he considers himself and death, at the very least, “old acquaintances.”
But will this attraction go anywhere? “I think the main thing for him is that anybody that he is to become romantically entwined with has to meet him where he is. He’s not going to sacrifice or compromise who he is,” Stark told TV Insider of Buck after he was struck by lightning earlier this season.
“He’s becoming very settled in himself, and if the person that he ends up partnering up with isn’t OK with that, then they’re just not the right person,” he continued. “He’s not going to try and fit anybody else’s box anymore. He’s going to be comfortable with who he is, and anybody that comes along has to be equally as comfortable with that.”
In addition to the emergency in the clip, the 118 will race to the rescue when a fire breaks out in an accountant’s office. Also in “Death and Taxes,” Athena (Angela Bassett) is shocked when a suspect dies in her custody minutes after she arrests him, and Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) panic when they are audited by the IRS.
It’s that time of the year, and it looks like Buck might be in the best mood of everyone at the 118.
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I am below zero % interested in seeing Buck running after the next pretty girl…it is getting annoying up to this point. Hey Kirsten Reidel instead of doing yet another annoying circle of hey lets Buck and Eddie getting themselves a nice woman how about to let Buck and Eddie become what they already are: a true family that loves eachother.
I am once again skipping another 911 episode. I‘m not supporting this as a viewer.
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Love your username. Get her off the show and stop letting her come up with stories for Buck. He was always my favorite character and now I dread seeing him outside the firehouse because he's always stuck with these stupid plots they treat as jokes and then change half-way through when the audience hates it. They need a new showrunner ASAP
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Soooo this is literally just a redo of Eddie meeting Ana? Has the showrunner ever come up with an original idea? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Buck and Eddie meeting women on calls and then dating them. How new and exciting.
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This show has become a joke. Morbid curiosity got the best of me to watch this and I wish it hadn't.
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WOW. And I thought the Eddie dating storyline was going to be bad. Who asked for this? Buck yet again looking for a relationship with a woman to fix him is not only a repeat of his every relationship story its also such a misogynistic move by the writers. Kristen has picked failed arc after failed arc with woman after woman after woman for Buck for 3 seasons now just to keep him away from Eddie. I miss how the show used to be but if this is the best they can do, throw women at Buck and Eddie to avoid the sold relationship and family they have already built together (not to mention diminishing Maddie and Chim's love to a tax marriage and Bobby and Athena to background characters), then it might not be salvagable. If they don't remove this showrunner for season 7 I'm done and that's if I can even make it past these last few episodes which all sound awful and again focused on Buck and his terrible arcs. It's a shame they wasted such a good and solid show and a truly phenomenal love story under a woman who has no idea how to run or pace a show.
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Wake me up again when Eddie and Buck get it on on Bucks new couch otherwise no thanks.
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Where can i sign this?
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This is exactly how Eddie and Ana re-met, no? From bandaging her hand at an emergency to the lack of chemistry 🤣 I’ve seen people say that it was the same writer so I’m guessing that they decided to recycle the meeting for Buck because they thought it was cute (I personally don’t, but to each their own). I’ve only seen 3 episodes all season and have realized from watching this and reading the recap that I’m not missing anything worthwhile. Sigh.
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Buck needs a therapist 🤦🏽♀️ I like to know what Athena is doing this episode
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Eddie diaz is a gay man and Buck really needs a good therapist that’s all i’m getting from 911 these days.
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I want to finally watch Eddie and Buck getting together and not this!
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Why is Buck getting another dumb plot? It has been enough. Oliver Stark deserves better than this.
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Buck making yet another rescue all about him 🙄 Kristen is ruining his character and I need her to stop.
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When Kristen started hinting at Buck having another arc related to dating random people I thought it would be bad, they have done so in season 1, season 2, season 4 and season 5. You'd think a character should grow instead of going in circles time and time again.
What I didn't expect at all was for them to literally copy Eddie's last dating arc. A latina with a burn in their hands a firefighter on his knee to try and help her out. I knew the writers were lacking of ideas, I just didn't think it would be this bad.
They try to bring pretty girl after pretty girl hoping that the audience likes them, but they seem to forget that the reason other canon relationships are good and Buck's aren't is that they have done it so many times that you just don't care anymore about his next one, and it's just the same over and over again. They don't even try to look for interesting character with a background that could be developed and who actually has chemistry with Oliver; they just pick any random pretty woman and hope heteronormativity does its job.
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Ugh. Wake me up when Kristen gets fired as showrunner and this show goes back to being good instead of recycling the same plots every season. I hate losing out on Buck and Eddie talking to each other and to the firefam because they're trapped having to have those talks with whatever random woman they're stuck with. They already have a family together! And Buck already has a therapist! If they wanted to have him talk about his death he could have met a nice older man on this call helping people face their deaths (instead of some young woman who has what, 25 years of life experience 🙄), or talked to Chimney who has nearly died THREE TIMES and was clinically dead one of those instances. Get Kristen out of here and get a showrunner who actually understands and cares about these characters.
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So not interested in this. Keep the random women away from Buck and Eddie and focus on THEIR relationship instead. It‘s not that hard.
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Can i get Buck and Eddie instead of this?
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For the love of god. Give Buck a therapist, he really needs one. This here is beyond stupid.
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I’m 72 and i started watching the show after i watched a fanmade video of Buck and Eddie. I always assumed these two men were married and in love, because the love that i saw in their eyes for each other touched me. Now guess how shocked i was to figure out they weren‘t. Now i‘m hoping they still go canon (that is how the younger people call it these days, right?). I am not looking forward to this part of the episode.
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Buck can talk to strangers about dying but not to Chimney. How does this make any sense? Someone explain this to me.
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No. Stop throwing random women at Buck and Eddie (or dredging up someone who abandoned them). They have built a family together over 5 seasons, you're not going to replace that or replicate it with some new side character no matter how hard you try, and trying is ruining the show and these beloved characters. Let Buck and Eddie continue to build their family together, or is there something wrong with two men being together?
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I would rather FORCE myself to watch a Lone Star episode than this pathetic attempt to officially bury Buddie
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YAWN here we go again. Another pointless love interest to keep Buck and Eddie apart. Just let them be happy together you cowards! This is getting ridiculous.
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In the year of 2023 we still use women as love interests and plot devices to develop men's characters. Internal misogyny is real and Kristen Reidel is the prime example in this show.
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They can't be serious with this? I'd like to believe there is greater reason to buck and eddie once again starting dating at the exact same time but the season is almost over and it just feels like another "hey look! They both like women in case you thought otherwise". Always the pattern of heaps of buckley diaz family/ buck and eddie moments followed by episodes where they completely disregard them. If this finale does not tie up these buck and eddie side quests and end in a hint of their journey continuing together as a family unit (with chris), then I give up on the show completely. Slow burn isn't as fun when the candle is constantly being snuffed and re-lit
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It is getting even worse than this folks, because next up on the show is Eddie trying to move on with the girl from the DIY call 🫣🫣🫣!!
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The one who looked like she was in love with her brother and was terribly weeping she like was on a soap opera? Great 🙄 we're losing out on a beautiful relationship between Buddie for THIS?
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What? Good God. How do we know this? How ridiculous.
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Let Eddie love Buck. That‘s all i‘m asking for. They make such a beautiful family.
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Oh man, the episode scenes were even more cringy than I expected! The lack of chemistry was glaring and her childish lingo just made her look completely out of place with Buck. And Buck saying a woman he's talked to twice sees him when Eddie standing there having SEEN Buck for years was such a slap in the face to their relationship. The show needs to get this woman and the showrunner out of here ASAP
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My 83 year old catholic grandmother loves this show and even she is rolling her eyes about this nonsense and asking why the show keeps making "sweet Buck" get stuck with these random side women instead of leaving him with Eddie and Chris "because they're already a little family" and "what is Buck going to do, invite his new gf over to sleep on Eddie's couch?" Enough with forcing the random love interests. Just follow the story to its natural conclusion!
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Kristen Reidel, i really want to know why these random women all have no personality other than being pretty?
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Because they're her self inserts of course!
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I'm looking forward to what is going to come from this, whether Buck and Natalia become friends or something more. Kristen is just doing what is going to get the most views from the larger group of people who watch the show. Part of the Buddie fandom can't see that while they want Buddie, it doesn't mean that others do. Look at the Coma Buck episode, the fandom screamed about getting what they want, and it's one of the least-viewed episodes this season so far. If Buck or Eddie had a single romantic plotline with a male, I might believe that the show is going in that direction. I write Buddie fic all the time, but I don't need validation from the show to keep on doing what I am doing. It's shown that they are great friends and that's enough for me.
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Where is the evidence that this gets the most views, though? Over the past two seasons, 911 ratings slipped quite a bit and it now ties MUCH older shows (the Chicagos, Grey's, SVU). It's true that ratings for network TV are generally down, and the ratings are still considered "good" despite the decline, but I think the short time frame for the declineis...telling. Tying shows that have been on the air for 10-20 years? Not impressive. Perhaps it's a sign that many people weren't buying what Kristen was trying to sell. Not even the "Buddie" of it all, but the non-sensical and disjointed stories that are rarely good enough for the acting powerhouses (who do what they can).
I also have to say that I've seen comments on social media that are likely reflective of general audience opinions - like Facebook moms and grandmoms - and they are hardly positive about Buck's relationships, regardless of what they think about "Buddie." I remember multiple comments on a TVLine article from women saying that they didn't want Buck with Eddie but they hated him with Lucy and Taylor and were so glad that those characters left. Do we REALLY think that they will feel differently about this new character? The truth is, no woman will ever be considered "good enough" for the many general audience members who like to self-insert. Catering to them is a losing game. From what I've seen, the rest of the general audience doesn't seem to care much, if at all, for romance.
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Why would the show cater to an audience who has hated every woman they have tried out with Buck and Eddie when putting them together wouldn't phase most casual viewers since they watch mostly for Peter and Anglea and it would galvanize the online fanbase where they get most of their promotion and new viewers from? Because the casual viewers have been dropping like flies since Kristen took over because her pacing is all over the place and she doesn't understand the heart of the show or why people watch.
Also, the coma Buck episode wasn't at ALL what people wanted (Twitter fans just got told Oliver was sad about the ratings and they went nuts). No one in the general audience wanted a Buckley parents redemption or to see the firefam so sidelined from Buck's story and after years of bad arcs for Buck taking the stage under Kristen while sidelining other characters the casual viewers noped out. Redoing season 2 and s4 of Eddie dating followed by Buck dating is nothing new and having Buck try to get a woman to fix him in a relationship is gross and overdone already. Buddie aside the rest of the viewers are tired of this nonsense.
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A carbon copy of the scene where Eddie met Ana, from the injury, to the lack of chemistry, and even down to the hair. Lazy and unoriginal isn't something I thought I would ever say about this show but since Kristen took over? It's pretty much a weekly occurrence.
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I really don‘t know what happened to this once fantastic show. Ever since Tim Minear left for LS as a showrunner we are stucked with Kirsten Reidel and the show has turned into hot garbage. She ruined the show. Period. Fans want Buddie to happen, she gives us this. Fans want Lucy gone she made Ravi leave (thankfully he is back but i doubt this was because of Kirsten). Why is it so difficult to give the fans what they want instead? Why creating these awful and lackluster storylines (and poor Oliver Stark got a ton of these lately) nobody gives a damn about only to cut most of it in the end because even the general audience despised it. I just don‘t know, these last few episodes of the season (i really hope it gets cancelled because i can no longer endure what Kirsten is doing to my beloved characters of the 118) doesn‘t look watchable to me.
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