New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - 9-1-1 - Season Seven

So real talk, 9-1-1 streams on Disney+ or free to air on Network Seven in Australia. I was waiting (patiently) for all ten episodes of season seven to drop on Disney+. Months after it aired in the USA, I gave up. Luckily whilst in Singapore, their Disney+ had all ten episodes of the crazy, addictive seventh series.

It felt like a reset. Back to basics, no filler episodes, character focused episodes.

Maybe the move to ABC from Fox was a good thing for the series that originally launched bacj in January 2018.

Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear, 9-1-1 follows the lives of Los Angeles first responders: police officers, paramedics, firefighters, and dispatchers.

With some long running cast members, including, Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Oliver Stark, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Guzman, Aisha Hinds, Kenneth Choi and Gavin McHugh. There were a few new faces this season, however there were no crossovers with the spin-off, Lone Star.

That said, there was a random Bachelor crossover episode. The Bachelor also airs on ABC in the USA. This was possibly the weakest episodes. With the season opening up with the three point Titanic style storyline.

Back in April, ABC renewed the series for an eighth season which was set to premiere (in the USA) later this month.

However not sure when it will land in Australia. That said the cliffhangers in the tenth episode, All Fall Down don't really need my attention ASAP.

So that Titanic storyline kicks off season seven with Abandon Ships. The episode opens with a fighter jet crashes into the home of a bickering couple, Chimney falsely believes that his relationship with Maddie is "calcifying" and attempts to fix it; following an emergency where a woman's relational pressure gives her boyfriend severe hypotension, he realizes his misunderstanding. 

Eddie learns that Buck's relationship with Natalia has ended and, later, that Christopher misses his mom, prompting Eddie to give Christopher a letter that Shannon wrote for him when he was younger.

Meanwhile, Bobby and Athena encounter Norman and Lola Peterson, a couple whose relationship they helped mend in Season 2 (episode, Buck, Actually), on their cruise. 

When Lola goes missing and another woman with Norman is wearing Lola's ship ID, Athena suspects Norman of murdering her, but later learns that she was taken by a gang of pirates who think Norman possesses a dongle containing a fortune in Bitcoin on it. The pirates board the cruise ship and take everyone hostage.

So the shit hits the fan out at sea for three episodes, before returning to more week-to-week drama.

One of the dramas this season. Buck goes bi! Yep after years/seasons of fan pressure between Buck and Eddie. Well Buck goes for a former 118 member, Tommy.

This is a fun storyline across the season. The US border also gets a feature with the cartel becoming the big bad of the second end of the season.

We get a wedding too in the mix this season. But not the kind of wedding you expect.

9-1-1 really was firing on all cylinders this season. A fresh network and ten episode run, gave this show more life than ever. Previously it did feel a little like it was on life support.

So to, the finale, All Fall Down, Maddie and Chimney foster Mara while Hen and Karen work on rectifying her adoption process. Marisol leaves Eddie following the Kim incident while Christopher refuses to speak and has his grandparents move him to Texas for the indefinite future, having deemed the situation too unhealthy to be in. 

Athena confronts Amir, who she believes to be the perpetrator of the fire which destroyed her house and incapacitated Bobby, but his detainment is interrupted when the cartel shows up, out for revenge after Amir inadvertently killed one of their members in Jacumba. Alluding that they were responsible for the fire as Bobby had associated with him, Amir offers himself to the cartel peaceably. 

Athena later saves Amir from the factory that the cartel takes him too, helping him overcome his trauma when a fire breaks out. Bobby recovers and, after a heart-to-heart with Amir, returns to the firehouse. There, the 118 are met with former Captain Gerrard, who abruptly publicises Bobby’s retirement plans before announcing that he himself will be taking over as captain, much to everyone's dismay.

So the big finale cliffhanger is Bobby leaving the 118?

No lives in the balance, Christopher back in Texas with Eddie's parents, however it was a bit of an anti-climax.

I am waiting to see what the new drama will be at the top of season eight, whenever Disney+ decides to give us season eight. Let's hope this newfound ABC quality continues across the next season.

Hopefully now I am back in Australia I will have another film review for you soon, or continue to smash through Bel-Air's three seasons.