All the reasons why ‘911’ is the TV show you didn’t know you needed
Ah, 911. This TV show about the lives and jobs of first responders has taken the world by storm since debuting back in 2018. It’s the highest-rated scripted drama on Fox, only beat by football and The Masked Singer. 911, more importantly, is just a really great TV show to watch.
Still, if you haven’t got sucked into the world of 911, then here’s all the reason why the series should be checked out. It’s one of television’s wildest and most unpredictable series to date. Really, we all need something that’s heart-pounding from time to time, right?
An excellent cast
911 has one of the best casts on television right now. No arguments. Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kenneth Choi, Aisha Hinds, Ryan Guzman, and Oliver Stark make for a fantastic lead cast with a great mix of recurring characters and child actors thrown into the mix. In addition to sterling chemistry on screen, they appear pretty tight off-camera as well.
The 911 calls are based off real 911 calls
911 seems to pick some truly insane rescue and operations to show. From a woman being strangled to death by her own python to a man stuck in a palm tree, you have to wonder if they are real or not, or just a Ryan Murphy show being a Ryan Murphy show. If you watched any series about weird 911 calls, then many of these will have a ring of truth to them.
But yes, series boss and co-creator Tim Minear confirmed that every 911 call brought to life on the series is inspired by something that happened in real life. What a strange world we live in, huh? Also, don’t cement your head in a microwave.
The action is thrilling
911 is famous for having big disasters at the start and end of its more recent season (two and three). So far an earthquake and tsunami had hit LA in the premieres while there was a bomber and a train crash in the finales, they’re just exciting stories to watch. While you hope that the characters will get out okay, these disasters can easily turn and you don’t know who will make it out.
It makes for some genuine concern amongst fans. Like when Buck (Oliver Stark) and precious summer child Christopher Diaz (Gavin McHugh) were caught up in the tsunami? And they were separated? Fans were ready to riot if anything happened to Christopher (as they should).
A great cast of characters
One of the best things about 911 is that it is a series about people: messy, flawed, loving, amazing, complicated people. The characters have their good and bad days. They have traumas that they need to recover from. They have issues that they need to work through. Yet, these characters dedicate themselves to helping people the best way they can.
911 is well worth the watch because of the characters and the characters alone. They grow and change, make mistakes, and try to learn from them. Seriously, the character development on the series is some of the best out there today.
