Within the three seasons that Hearth Nation has been airing, it’s been a curler coaster trip of superior motion and sloppy private relationships.
This Hearth Nation Season 3 mid-season report card breaks down all of the occasions which have unfolded within the first half of this season and what we’d count on when the present returns from its break.
The present has had its moments of genius and trash. It’s needed to redeem itself after a weak second season filled with half-ass storylines and cleaning soap opera drama. Whereas issues have improved with Hearth Nation Season 3, we’re not out of the woods but.
Followers nonetheless need issues to concentrate on firefighting and fewer private drama. And greater than something, we wish to cease seeing repeated storylines which are turning this hit drama right into a weakened cleaning soap opera of messy relationship entanglements.
Greatest Episode – Hearth Nation Season 3 Episode 5
Though we’re solely midway by the third season, there have been a number of nice episodes. The very best up to now has been Hearth Nation Season 3 Episode 5. It briefly introduces a brand new character who’s round however tremendously impacts Bode.
Jared Padalecki visited Hearth Nation for a three-episode arc as California Hearth Captain Camden Casey, who got here to Edgewater to do Part 3 of fireside coaching.
And what an impression he made as he intervened in a combat Bode was about to get into over Gabriela.
Out of all the things the present has completed unsuitable, writing Padalecki’s opening scene as a long-haired man in a baseball jersey throwing flip-flops at a gaggle of indignant drunk guys was 100% proper.
It didn’t take lengthy for Camden’s character to make a nasty impression on everybody — together with the viewers. However they couldn’t have launched his character and the potential Hearth Nation: Surfside spinoff any higher.
Together with assembly Casey, the episode additionally gave us the grand opening of Smokey’s after Vince and Sharon purchased it and made repairs.
It began the thrilling potential of Bode and Audrey as a pair as a substitute of Bode losing time pining over Gabriela.
Worst Episode – Hearth Nation Season 3 Episode 1
Hearth Nation Season 3 Episode 1 was the worst, opening on a bitter be aware for many followers. Bode was out of jail and attempting to be supportive as the lady he cherished deliberate to marry one other man.
A helicopter crash on the town saved Gabriela from calling off the marriage in entrance of everybody, however Diego may inform she wasn’t going by with it.
We struggled by an hour of awkwardness because the love triangle labored to avoid wasting an injured helicopter pilot. Whereas Diego was the voice of purpose attempting to avoid wasting Gabriela from herself, Bode supported her with blind religion and 0 qualms about breaking the foundations.
Earlier than he may even begin with CFD, Bode was placing his profession on the road to avoid wasting Gabriela’s. She screwed up doing her job, and Bode stole from a affected person to cover her error.
The transfer prompted extra drama between Bode and Jake, worsening an already tense friendship as Jake needed to determine whether or not to cowl for the 2 or rat them out. It was additionally the beginning of Gabriela’s psychological downward spiral.
Total, it was a weak season premiere, which could turn into a behavior for Hearth Nation. Hearth Nation Season 2 Episode 1 was additionally arduous to look at.
Biggest Storyline
The best growth in Hearth Nation Season 3 up to now is the addition of Audrey James, a feminine model of Bode.
Straight out of Three Rock jail camp, James tries to redeem herself by becoming a member of CalFire after serving time. And she or he’s been desirous about conserving Bode on the straight and slender whereas he’s been hell-bent on throwing away his probability at a profession.
Audrey isn’t simply making pals with Bode. She suits proper in with the remainder of CalFire and Bode’s group of pals. In spite of everything, she acquired as geeked as they did when the infant eagles hatched. A transferring occasion that didn’t have an effect on Gabriela.
Even the hardass Sharon had a delicate spot for James. She’s taken the youthful lady below her wing and taught her what it was wish to be in cost.
Perhaps with constructive function fashions like Sharon, Audrey received’t turn into a repeat offender who finally ends up again in jail.
Given Audrey and Bode’s chemistry, we count on their friendship to develop right into a romantic relationship within the second half of Hearth Nation Season 3. Though we predict there shall be some hiccups alongside the best way, like perhaps a jealous confrontation between Gabriela and James.
Nevertheless, the story would please extra followers in the event that they let Gabriela and Audrey turn into pals slightly than enemies.
Worst Plot
The worst plot of the season has been Gabriela’s psychological decline as she nears all-time low. She’s been spiraling downwards because the present began together with her as a brand new firefighter after giving up her dream.
As soon as she discovered her place with the identical fireplace division the place her father labored, it appeared like she could be okay.
However then she met Bode, which derailed her regular relationship with Jake. Ever since, she has continuously made the unsuitable errors, resulting in her present scenario.
She’s residing contained in the Leone’s AirStream camper trailer, which remains to be parked inside the hearth division. Now that Bode’s out of jail, she known as off her wedding ceremony to Diego to be with Bode.
Then she began a short dalliance with him, solely to finish issues when Bode wished to make issues severe as a substitute of her low-key non-public affair.
Add some heavy consuming, harmful risk-taking like insane cliff diving, and an entire lot of anger at her father, and also you’ve acquired the proper circumstances for a lady on the sting of a full meltdown.
Gabriela’s present behavior of creating unhealthy selections to really feel one thing — or perhaps so she received’t really feel something — has left her in fairly a predicament when the present went on its fall break.
Sticking to Hearth Nation custom, Hearth Nation Season 3 Episode 8 ended on a serious cliffhanger.
A number of of our favourite Station 42 firefighters had been in excessive peril.
Gabriela stormed off in a tantrum in typical Perez vogue after yelling at Jake when he reprimanded her for being insubordinate throughout a hearth name. She ought to get suspended when the present resumes, if not lose her job.
We left her in the midst of nowhere, trapped on all sides by flames. It’s of her personal making. She wouldn’t have ended up in peril if she hadn’t thrown a match when she acquired into hassle for yelling at her boss.
And as normal, she gave zero regard to anybody else, particularly her dad. She and Manny have been at odds all season as Gabriela continues to behave out as a result of he went again to jail.
We’d count on it from a child, not a grown grownup.
Simply when it seemed like Manny may get out of jail on parole, Gabriela went MIA. Because the season went on break, it appeared like Manny would go AWOL from the jail camp to search out his child.
That doesn’t bode effectively for his future.
However Gabriela wasn’t the one one in peril from the out-of-control fireplace.
Bode and Audrey had been trapped underwater as a zombie fireplace raged above them and sealed off all sources of an exit.
Most Enjoyable Shock
Whereas we’ve spent eight episodes drowning within the aftermath of Bode and Gabriela’s relationship, we’ve additionally gotten some much-needed perception into secondary characters like Eve and Jake.
Jake misplaced the love of his life in Hearth Nation Season 2, leaving him as a struggling single dad to her daughter, who we thought belonged to Bode.
Jake’s stepdaughter was lengthy gone when the present went on its sabbatical, selecting to remain in one other state together with her organic father.
However it’s Eve’s backstory we’re actually having fun with. From assembly her former companion on the Eagle Sanctuary to studying extra about her previous as a rancher, we’re studying extra concerning the present Three Rock fireplace captain.
The present has additionally discovered a inventive approach for her to convey us house, again to her roots. Nevertheless, it hasn’t been as heat of a homecoming as she’d hoped.
Whereas she was in a position to mend bridges together with her brother, she hasn’t been ready to make things better together with her father. When the present went on its break, Eve stood in the midst of her household’s ranch as flames unfold round her, touching all the things she cherished.
Her father’s indignant phrases warned her that in the event that they lose the ranch, he’ll by no means forgive her for selecting CFD and the Leones over her heritage.
Issues didn’t look good when the present paused, making us involved for any probability at an Edwards household reunion. For Eve’s sake, we hope Station 42 and Three Rock are ok at their jobs to avoid wasting the ranch earlier than it ruins her future.
Over to you, fanatics. How are you liking Hearth Nation Season 3 up to now?
What are your hopes for the second half of the season? Are you involved for the protection and way forward for any of Station 42’s (or Three Rock’s) firefighters?
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