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\n\tSPOILER ALERT:<\/strong>\u00a0This review contains spoilers for the series premiere of \u201c9-1-1: Nashville.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tFollowing the shocking cancellation of \u201c9-1-1: Lone Star\u201d and the death of Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Nash (Peter Krause) in the original \u201c9-1-1,\u201d Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear are now expanding their first responder series with a brand new spinoff, \u201c9-1-1: Nashville.\u201d Like its predecessor, the show follows a motley crew of firefighters, paramedics and police officers as they tend to emergencies and navigate the struggles and triumphs of their eclectic personal lives. Like the previous iterations, \u201c9-1-1: Nashville\u201d opens in a swirl of chaos and crisis, proving that, despite being set in a new location and boasting a brand-new cast, the audience can expect the same sort of delicious drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c9-1-1: Nashville\u201d begins at a music festival. Fans dressed in Western gear eagerly crowd around a stage as the headliner begins. A producer is uneasy about the pyrotechnics around heavy winds, but everything seems to be going well \u2014 until she notices a tornado in the background. Almost as suddenly as the whirlwind appears, the entire platform collapses in a fury of flames and chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAs intense as this opening is, the core of the series revolves around Captain Don Hart (Chris O\u2019Donnell), a firehouse chief who shares his love of firefighting and bull riding with his son, Lt. Ryan Hart (Michael Provost). Rounding out the firehouse 113 are Taylor Thompson (Hailey Kilgore), whose true loves are singing and songwriting, and Roxie Alba (Juani Feliz), an adrenaline-obsessed physician who now works as a paramedic. All of the insane cases in Nashville come through 911 dispatcher Cammie Raleigh (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), who also has a significant interest in music.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThere are disasters aplenty in the pilot. In addition to the exploding festival stage, there\u2019s a drunken bachelorette wreck, plus a jaw-dropping boy-with-the-red-balloon moment involving a little girl and a kite. But the core of the new show is a significant fracture in the Hart family. A long-held secret comes to light, rattling Ryan and altering his and Don\u2019s close bond. At one point in the episode, Ryan even jokes to his father and mother, Bythe (Jessica Capshaw), saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle I\u2019m not in therapy.\u201d This won\u2019t be the case for long. Along with the newfound family drama, Ryan and his ER doctor wife, Samantha (MacKenzie Porter), aren\u2019t exactly on good terms. (In fact, she doesn\u2019t even appear in the pilot.)<\/p>\n \n\tOther intriguing characters include Dixie Bennings (LeAnn Rimes), a bitter former singer determined to use her son, Blue (Hunter McVey), to exact revenge on her old lover. While the show\u2019s core narrative isn\u2019t exactly groundbreaking, the exaggerated, intense and fast-paced emergencies, along with the engaging plot turns, will undoubtedly draw in audiences. This new Tennessee-set chapter hits the ground running and will certainly unfold and evolve in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n \n\tMore than anything, even amid the silliness and absurdities of the medical emergencies, the show\u2019s feel-good moments, which involve people being saved and others working together, depict a deep humanity. However fictitious, these uplifting moments are currently missing from our real-life news cycle. Despite the soapier qualities of \u201c9-1-1: Nashville,\u201d this particular element, along with rather thrilling cliffhangers, is the reason why \u201c9-1-1\u201d viewers have stood by the franchise for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n \n\tOverall, \u201c9-1-1: Nashville\u201d delivers exactly what fans of the franchise are looking for, but with a bit of country flair and some new hunky characters. While they may be disappointed that Captain Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) is no longer gracing their screens weekly, given the opportunity, the \u201cNashville\u201d cast seems more than capable of filling in the gap. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see what kind of unimaginable (and frankly unbelievable) crises this new series will contend with.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c9-1-1: Nashville\u201d premiered Oct. 9 on ABC\u00a0with new episodes airing weekly on Thursdays.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This review contains spoilers for the series premiere of \u201c9-1-1: Nashville.\u201d Following the shocking cancellation of \u201c9-1-1: Lone Star\u201d and the death of Robert \u201cBobby\u201d Nash (Peter Krause) in the original \u201c9-1-1,\u201d Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear are now expanding their first responder series with a brand new spinoff, \u201c9-1-1: Nashville.\u201d Like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16231,7348,7198,6342],"class_list":{"0":"post-27133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abcs","9":"tag-absurd","10":"tag-spinoff","11":"tag-thrill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}