“Here's to my future

Here's to my yesterday

Here's to change”

This week Han, Cil, and Rachel check our privacy settings as we tackle Season 4 Episode 3 of 9-1-1, “Future Tense.” Eddie outs himself as a technophobe in the face of HILDY, Buck reveals his “new girlfriend” is actually just a new interest in taking care of his mental health, and Hen has to find a new level of zen to deal with her insensitive lab partner. Meanwhile, Maddie is spiraling over Buck going to therapy.

We discuss how Maddie’s trauma and current pregnancy is coloring her reaction to Buck in therapy opening up the Buckley parent can of worms!

Did someone order a Slow Burn section with a heaping serving of married and co-parenting behavior? Order’s up, we explore some delicious morsels of Buddie text and subtext in this episode! We also add yet another Bathena - Buddie parallel to our ever-growing collection.

Maddie’s a hopeless crash collision

'Cause she’s a hostage to her pride

And by her own volition

She’s been a saint, she’s been the truth, she’s been the lie

Episode title inspired by “Yesterday” by Imagine Dragons

📔 Articles & References

🫂 How Do the 118 Handle Therapy? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here!

📰 9-1-1’s Oliver Stark Teases Buck’s ‘Hidden Feelings’: ‘He’s Unveiling His True Self’ (Exclusive), Us Weekly

📺 Buck Comforts Maddie As She Regrets Missing Some Of Her Daughter's Life | Season 5 Ep. 15 | 9-1-1, FOX on YouTube

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Chapters

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:00:52) Welcome to Dispatch

(00:03:55) General Thoughts

(00:09:48) Jaws of Life - Deep Dive

(00:13:25) Needle Drop - Music Analysis

(00:17:17) Parallels & Foreshadowing

(00:20:56) Flashover - Themes

(00:29:30) What’s Cookin’? - Character Arcs

(00:31:36) Bobby & Athena

(00:37:55) Hen

(00:51:28) Maddie

(01:13:13) Maddie Spills About Buck in Therapy

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