“9-1-1: What’s your emergency?”
The famous words from Ryan Murphy’s adrenaline-fueled franchise premiered Oct. 9 from a new location: Music City.
Episode 1 wasted no time diving into the charm and cliché of Nashville — from galloping horses at the Nashville Rodeo to the verdant Belle Meade countryside to boisterous bachelorette parties flooding Broadway. Throw in a few inventive emergencies, some corny dialogue, a CGI tornado that’s stuck in I-40 traffic and two half-brother firefighters vying for their father’s approval, and Murphy may have hit all the right notes in a third city, behind “9-1-1” in Los Angeles and Austin.
As the signature yellow-and-white audio waveform flashed across ABC screens, the first high-stakes emergency in Nashville sent crews rushing to a Kane Brown concert at Ascend Amphitheater. The stage collapsed. A country star’s crew needed saving from an impending tornado.
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A stormy setup
The screen fades to two days prior; Brown’s concert chaos will have to wait on character development.
Chris O’Donnell, a.k.a Captain Don Hart, stands underneath the stands at Bridgestone Arena for the inaugural Music City Rodeo, a real life event that took place May 29-31.
Deep in thought, the camera pans up to Hart’s son Ryan, played by Michael Provost, trotting over to him on horseback. O’Donnell walks over to his black horse Duke who senses the unsettled energy coming from the captain. Even Duke feels the icy storm that is Dixie Bennings, played by LeAnn Rimes. Although she’s not in the scene, the foreshadowing is palpable.
“What the hell’s wrong with Duke?” Ryan asks.
“I don’t know. He’s been acting spooky lately,” Capt. Hart answers.
“What did you do? Piss in his oats?” Ryan returns.
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The script has eye rolling scenes mixed with laugh out loud moments. Just wait till you meet Amy, the bachelorette on Broadway. The father and son set a new national record in team roping. Yeehaw.
After the rodeo we meet Blythe Hart, played by Jessica Capshaw. Raised on country-club cash, her Southern roots run through the deep pockets of old money.
We’ve got to show that Capt. Hart doesn’t come from money so he makes a joke about her “Luby Vee-tan” shoes.
Back at Fire Station 113, Hailey Kilgore shows off her Broadway, New York, musical chops as firefighter Taylor Thompson on FaceTime with Kimberly Williams-Paisley, whose role is Cammie Raleigh, the dispatcher who offers sound advice.
WKRN’s Chief Meteorologist Danielle Breezy forecasts a storm, “When opposites crash into each other, big things happen.”
Enter “Captain Smokeshow,” the heartthrob of the season with a six-pack stacked on a six-pack. Hunter McVey is Blue Bennings, a male stripper dressed as a firefighter along Printer’s Alley.
As his boss says, “You’re not a human being, you’re a set of abs.”
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A bachelorette party strolls down Broadway with a pack of “woo” girls on a pedal cab. Screaming and shrieking, the drama between the bridesmaids is thick.
“Amy, if you puke on me, so help me, I will kill you,” one girl says.
“This is what happens when you let the skinny b—-es plan the bachelorette,” says Amy, who starts to have what seems like a heart attack.
Instead she farts and belches. “Amy, you are so vile,” the bride-to-be says. The operator got off the cart because of Amy. With no driver, shrieks of terror sound as the cart rolls down Broadway prompting the best line of the show, and the headline of this article: “Bachelorettes are bleeding all over Broadway.”
Thank goodness for Captain Smokeshow who single handedly saves the bridal party, which serves as his application for the fire department. Capt. Hart and Ryan show up to reveal the drama: Blue and Ryan are half-brothers.
And who is the opposite force that Breezy foreshadowed? It’s LeAnn Rimes’ character, Blue’s mom. As Blythe says, “Hell hath no fury like Dixie Bennings scorned.”
We only get a snippet of Dixie, a singer who never got the recognition she deserved. She needs Blue to infiltrate Capt. Hart’s heart and Station 113 for a paycheck to pay for surgery.
A birthday party being thrown for a little girl in Centennial Park becomes the second emergency. Instead of playing with the Switch or headphones she opened, she wants to play with a red kite from her aunt. As she runs super fast by the Parthenon, the kite takes flight and launches her into the air, physics be damned.
Executive producer and writer Rashad Raisani said on the “9-1-1: Nashville” red carpet, “Almost everything we do on this show came from somewhere.”
According to celebrity.land in 2020, there was a 3-year-old in Taiwan who flew in the air after getting entangled in a kite tail.
A human net is formed to save the little girl thanks to the quick thinking of dispatcher Cammie.
Capt. Hart introduces Blue to the rest of Station 113 and says he’s going to be a probie (new recruit). His first assignment is the Kane Brown concert where a truss has fallen over the production crew and band.
The weight of the stage is no match for two firetrucks so all the first responders try to lift the metal wreckage by hand. It’s no use. What does encompass the Nashville spirit is the climax when everyone at the concert runs from the shelter to help their neighbors. Welcome to the South, and to a cameo of Kane Brown’s biceps.
But one worker is stuck high above the stage wrapped in a tarp. The half-brothers climb the ladder. A CGI tornado finally makes it through the Music City Loop and crosses over the bumper-to-bumper traffic along Korean Veterans Boulevard parkway to make it to Ascend when the credits roll.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: ‘9-1-1: Nashville’ premiere has bachelorettes ‘bleeding all over Broadway’
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