Spoilers forward!
This week’s 9-1-1 Holy Mom of God, the directorial debut of Aisha Hinds, our beloved Hen, is one for the books.
The primary storyline revolves round Bobby (Peter Krause) assembly once more in surprising circumstances his estranged mom Ann (Leslie Ann Warren) and his brother Charlie (Sean O’Bryan). Ann is the chief of a mega-church happening a tour of some type, and she’s going to spend just some days in L.A. with Charlie.
“Holy Mom of God” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Leslie Ann Warren as Ann, Peter Krause as Bobby. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2025 Disney. All rights reserved.
After a giant accident occurs on the church and the 118 comes to assist, Charlie reads it as divine windfall making an attempt to reunite his household, which makes him set up a dinner with Ann, Bobby, and Athena (Angela Bassett) — evidently, this assembly doesn’t go as anticipated, with the rising tensions between Ann and Bobby main them to say painful stuff that has been buried for years to one another. The 118 offers with the emergency of an abusive husband making an attempt to kill his spouse, making Bobby take into consideration the laborious alternative his mom confronted when she left his abusive father. Then, Bobby goes to her church, getting to observe as she passes out in entrance of her viewers. Later, he discovers that Ann is dealing with terminal most cancers and doesn’t have a lot time left, and in a fantastic scene, they reconnect and make amends.
In the meantime, Buck (Oliver Stark) is struggling due to Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) departure. Though Eddie doesn’t even seem on this episode, he ghosts the narrative from the get-go, from Bobby mistakenly calling Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody) Eddie to Buck bringing his greatest pal up in virtually each dialog.
“Holy Mom of God” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Anirudh Pisharody as Ravi. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2025 Disney. All rights reserved.
It’s essential that Buck can’t sleep in Eddie’s home and might’t unpack his stuff — so after he goes to Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney’s (Kenneth Choi) home to stick with them for some time, Maddie means that Buck ought to make different mates. Buck tries to befriend Ravi, asking him out for some drinks after work, however that seems awkward after Buck retains speaking about Eddie.
That’s when Ravi brings Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) to the desk and leaves them alone. It’s Buck and Tommy’s first assembly after the breakup. They reconnect and spend the night time collectively, however within the morning after, Tommy drops a bombshell: he’d be snug with seeing Buck extra usually now that “his competitors is gone”, which infuriates Buck, who instantly acknowledges that Tommy is speaking about Eddie and solutions that he doesn’t “need to need to sleep with everybody [he has] emotions for” and he doesn’t have “to have emotions for everybody [he sleeps with]”.
“I don’t need to need to sleep with everybody I’ve emotions for, and I don’t need to have emotions for everybody I sleep with.”
Later, Buck brings this to Maddie, who rapidly affirms that it “wouldn’t be so loopy” if Buck was certainly in love with Eddie. Curiously, the “in love with Eddie” half was by no means stated by both Tommy or Maddie; the primary one talked about “competitors” with out saying a lot after this, and the latter solely reacted to one thing Buck himself dropped at the desk.
“What’s that even imagined to imply, I’m dwelling in Eddie’s outdated home, due to this fact I have to be in love with him?”
“Holy Mom of God” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2025 Disney. All rights reserved.
Buck denies it, saying that Eddie is straight, and he would not be “hopelessly pining” for his straight bestie… Which is attention-grabbing as a result of he stated the identical to Tommy. Eddie being straight in Buck’s imaginative and prescient appears a giant drawback that retains him from contemplating that they may very well be greater than mates. If Eddie turned out to be not straight, nevertheless…
Because the episode ends, Bobby reconciles along with his mom, Buck unpacks his stuff and makes his new place his personal, and Athena known as to an emergency that leads her to the luxurious cruise ship The Odyssey — this ends with a cliffhanger, so to know extra about what occurred after this you need to watch this week’s Physician Odyssey.
Holy Mom of God had me dizzy after its ending. Aisha makes a terrific debut as a director, delivering an episode that’s each full of comedy (Ravi’s return as a substitute to Eddie is a good issue on this) and drama — particular props to the hair division for what they did with Maddie and Buck on this one, nice work. I’m normally not a fan of how this present redeems the dad and mom, many instances forgetting to correctly cope with the unhealthy they’ve carried out, however on this case, it labored: Leslie Ann Warren and Sean O’Bryan are nice additions to this universe, and the Bobby-lore introduced by their characters is nothing in need of emotional.
“Holy Mom of God” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Leslie Ann Warren as Ann, Peter Krause as Bobby. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2025 Disney. All rights reserved.
Additionally, this episode marks Tommy’s return to tie up some unfastened ends concerning his relationship with Buck, implicitly confirming that their breakup occurred as a result of he was jealous of Eddie, making their relationship haunted by Eddie from the start to the top — all the things about them, even their one night time stand and subsequent struggle, is about Eddie too. Curiously, Buck reveals little to no real interest in going again to a severe relationship with Tommy too, even admitting that he may need used him to overlook about Eddie. I don’t have any insider info, nevertheless it’s attention-grabbing how this yr’s first three episodes had so many issues to say about Buck and Eddie — it seems to be like Buddie canon just isn’t a distant, unattainable, loopy factor anymore. It truly may very well be simply across the nook.
Now inform me how you are feeling about this episode! Be at liberty to go away a remark together with your impressions and theories, and thanks for studying!