And with that, we have now one other season of Station 19 beneath our belts.
They opted for one thing happier with Station 19 Season 5 Episode 18, and the closest to a cliffhanger is that Jack seemingly stop his job and drove off, leaving his discovered fireplace household behind him.
After all, there’s additionally the chance that Maya has solidified her job as Captain once more, or she’ll rue the day she threatened and blackmailed Ross and Sullivan.
The hour did not precisely really feel like a season finale. As a substitute, it felt like a daily installment, and whereas they wrapped some issues up, there have been a bunch of free strands they did nothing with, which was a bit stunning and disappointing.
It felt like they remembered it was presupposed to be the final installment of the season, so that they ended essentially the most urgent storylines shortly and put a bow on all the pieces.
In hindsight, we spent a variety of time on pointless story arcs after which sped by means of ones that deserved extra respiratory room.
The sequence additionally launched storylines that ought to’ve been extra important and both positioned them on the backburner for a lot of the season solely to wrap it up in a blink of an eye fixed, or they introduced them in on the tail finish of the season and acted as in the event that they had been there all alongside.
I am nonetheless making an attempt to determine how we bought to this Travis operating as mayor arc. It’s actually one thing that they began laying the groundwork for in Station 19 Season 5 Episode 14 when Travis came upon that Dixon was operating for mayor. It inconsistently grew legs inside the previous three installments.
Whereas highly effective, Andy’s sexual assault arc got here so late into the sport, solely to get handwave away and resolved with such little fanfare that there have been no stakes to it within the least.
I’m not sorry. I’m not enjoying by the foundations of a system designed to interrupt me.
Andy
They launched her long-lost mom briefly, then she simply vanished once more, which was so weird that it is jarring in the event you give it a lot thought. Is there a purpose why we did not get half a season of Andy getting reacquainted together with her mom and dealing by means of the blended feelings of that?
Is it one thing that they will push into subsequent season as an alternative? If that is the case, why introduce it right here and abruptly drop it?
It makes most of the season’s storylines really feel like the bulk was a filler season, and the true drama and outcomes will play out within the subsequent one.
They by no means addressed how Ben weaseled out of quitting his job to maintain Pru, however they celebrated them gaining custody of her throughout the remaining moments and gave a small tribute to Dean, who we’ve not seen mourned since Vic and Jack tore up a rest room and kissed.
They usually spent nearly the complete season on Maya and Carina determining sperm, putting Carina’s inexperienced card points on the backburner, just for their interview to pop up within the finale and the caseworker to log off with out batting an eye fixed.
In spite of everything that child drama for Carina and Maya, it is a real shock that they did not even finish the installment with the 2 taking a being pregnant take a look at to find out if Carina is, actually, pregnant.
Maya and Carina had some enjoyable moments (and had been dressed immaculately). They actually do bicker like a wholesome married couple no matter how we bought right here. The interview course of with the immigration officer showcased their full dynamic whereas answering all of these questions.
Carina speaking about after they had intercourse was humorous and so very her, and it was pretty listening to their love story as they instructed it to a stranger. We bought some nice Marina content material right here.
Congratulations, you’ve a inexperienced card. You remind me of me and my spouse. The bickering is limitless.
Official
Maya was doing absolutely the most. She could not cease with the sarcastic quips and responses and could not assist answering on behalf of Carina within the face of what she deemed was stupidity.
It felt like Maya had reached her highest level of performed, and she or he now not gave a rattling about appearances or the rest. It was a dangerous as heck strategy to take throughout the inexperienced card assembly, nevertheless it labored out.
A few of her actions and contours had been humorous, and you can get pleasure from them. For instance, all these snippy feedback at Ross had been fairly rattling hilarious, and her annoyance with some silly interview questions was a temper.
However others felt a bit too crass and offputting. Whereas understandably irritating to her, her response to the human trafficking query felt far too insensitive due to how Andrew died.
And no matter how you are feeling about Sullivan, her line a few “backstabbing drug addict” was fairly effed up.
Maya has sat on her emotions for a very long time, and now she’s able to unleash that fury. We see it in full power. Her throwing the gauntlet down as she threatened Ross and Sullivan until she bought her job again is a daring transfer.
Even now, I am undecided on whether or not it was badass or unhinged. Both approach, it seems like one thing that can backfire, and I would be curious to see how the others reply.
Why? As a result of Character likability apart, it is getting tougher and tougher to find out what’s and is not acceptable by the characters right here.
They attempt to promote the narrative that Sullivan is conniving on a regular basis, even after they do not all the time reach showcasing him because the villain that some purport him to be.
And what’s and is not deemed conniving versus formidable appears murky relying on which character is doing it, the place it is coming from, and what’s behind it.
They’ve put Maya’s demotion on the backburner for therefore lengthy with out doing something with it that her popping out the nook swinging this tough nearly feels jarring. Nevertheless, it’s fascinating, and it ought to shake issues up, so one seems ahead to how this performs out.
And, whether or not you cheered for her or thought she went too far, this can be a return to the ruthless Maya of the early days.
It already seems like Ross was setting Andy up for Captain, which might trigger some critical friction and produce a few new set of points and questions on worthiness.
However the place does this go away Beckett? He claims he is getting assist, and Sullivan cannot have his job. But when he will rehab, will Ross give into Maya’s calls for? And in that case, for the way lengthy?
It’s disturbing that Beckett has been allowed to remain on the job this lengthy when everybody is aware of that he has a ingesting drawback. Nevertheless it’s additionally complicated and peculiar that whether or not it was Ben or Maya, they saved accusing Sullivan of being conniving and opportunistic for reporting who they knew was a drunk.
The best way they’ve dealt with Sullivan this season is complicated as a result of they’re nonetheless treating him like a villain. However they’ve not often proven the rest to help it after the scenario with Maya. It is like we’re presupposed to solely journey on what he did to Maya, which wasn’t sufficient to hold us by means of the season.
You recognize, I’d say unofficially, it was sexism. Presumably homophobia. The chief was threatened by me, after which the brand new chief, the feminine chief, had the possibility to appropriate the error, however she declined as a result of she’s doing it similar to the boys membership, which isn’t progress in any respect. It is simply the identical factor. As a substitute, I am caught watching an incompetent drunk and a backstabbing drug addict have a pissing contest over a job that is rightfully mine whereas I simply wipe up their urine in order that no one else slips and falls.
Maya
His actions with Beckett should not depend. It is relatively scary that everybody else was content material letting Beckett function Captain regardless of his alcoholism and questionable calls till he owned as much as his ingesting and acknowledged he was getting assist.
It seems like a variety of shifting of chess items at Station 19 with characters and their positions. Will Ross make Sullivan Captain? That may be fallacious.
But when she makes Maya Captain, she’d be giving in to her blackmail, and Ross would not look like the kind of one that would try this. After all, there’s Andy, who it did look like Ross would make Captain, however that may pit the ladies in opposition to one another, amongst different issues.
When she requested Sullivan if he might work with Andy, it seemed that she was contemplating making Andy captain. It will be a hell of a come-up after she nearly misplaced all the pieces with the homicide trial.
The best way they dealt with the aftermath of the sexual assault case was anti-climatic. It misplaced momentum, and the dearth of focus meant there wasn’t a real concern that she’d go to jail.
It was bizarre that Andy’s lawyer by no means appeared into different potential victims extensively or do their diligence trying to get any of them on the stand.
Andy doing all of the leg work for her case was irritating, and the way in which they dropped the costs, no drawback, felt so neat it was absurd.
Her potential to persuade Holly to come back ahead with a rousing speech about how everybody has to look after us to make change felt flat due to the low stakes and restricted concentrate on this a part of the arc.
We reported it to the Dean, and he stated that he did not need to throw away a younger man’s future on the account of a drunk school lady.
Holly
Holly’s expertise with Jeremy was horrific, and also you felt for the lady. Nevertheless, it was disturbing that she knew Andy was harmless, noticed how high-profile this case had change into, and was okay letting issues play out with out including help.
What if Andy went to jail for it? Would not she have felt responsible?
Andy slipping in that the costs had been dropped on the tail finish of Ben’s speech felt tacky. And Jack has been the one one who appeared genuinely involved about Andy and been extra lively with the trial portion of the arc.
Andy and Jack’s relationship has been a spotlight of the season, and the 2 have actually advanced and grown inside their relationship.
It is no surprise that he left her that be aware earlier than he pulled off. Driving away from her was in all probability one of many hardest issues he is performed, however he isn’t in a great place in any respect. Jack is one other instance of the season dropping the ball on him for a very long time after which selecting it again up once more on the finish of the season.
The ending confirmed {that a} fruits of issues had prompted Jack to stop and go away. Dean was his finest good friend and brother, and he by no means had the house to essentially mourn his loss of life — that also lingers and is hitting him laborious.
He is in all probability simply now realizing that he contributed to Marina having a household, nevertheless it’s by no means going to be his household, not just like the one he is all the time desired. His moments with that child from the bus hit him laborious.
And he’s nonetheless reeling from all the knowledge he realized about his brother and oldsters. He has not had the time to course of that, which is among the most irritating components about them introducing this storyline on the finish of the season, so now it feels incomplete.
Maya: I would like my job again.
Ross: Bishop.
Maya: I do know you two are sleeping collectively, I would like my job again or I’ll report you.
To not point out, everybody round him is joyful. Theo and Vic are impossibly in love with one another. Warren and Bailey have Pru and their joyful household. Carina and Maya are beginning their household with no concern of Carina getting deported. And Travis has discovered a brand new ardour and is operating for mayor.
Andy bought her costs dropped, and it was apparent she’d be rejoining the station. To Jack, everybody’s lives are all collectively, and he is the one one who’s falling aside.
For somebody who all the time feels just like the piece that by no means suits, it is smart that so many issues have triggered him and prompted him to depart.
It hits all of the tougher when one of the vital frequent criticisms of the sequence is how little they do together with his character.
With this transfer, it feels promising that Jack might have a a lot greater, significant arc within the subsequent season, they usually’ve set it up together with his remaining scene.
My coronary heart hurts for him, although. He is not okay and hasn’t been for a while, nevertheless it’s been simmering beneath the floor. Jack wants remedy and a help system.
If he thinks Andy will settle with taking his place and never attempt to discover him, he has one other factor coming. Of all of the issues arrange for the subsequent season, Jack’s potential storyline is among the most charming.
Over to you, Station 19 Fanatics.
Jack: You discovered her?
Andy: Energy of the web.
Jack: The facility of Herrera.
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