Spoilers forward for 9-1-1 Season 8, Episode 11, “Holy Mom of God” for anybody who hasn’t watched on ABC or streamed it with a Hulu subscription.
Since Season 2, 9-1-1 has been stringing followers alongside for the slowest sluggish burn of all of them: Buck and Eddie. Many followers have lengthy wished the 2 firefighters to get collectively, even sparking a Pop Tradition Jeopardy! reference. Nonetheless, now that Eddie’s moved to Texas, that end result may not ever occur. After all, Buck is taking the transfer particularly laborious, and even denied his emotions for his greatest pal whereas having a long-awaited dialog together with his sister and his ex. Now, star Oliver Stark shared his ideas on whether or not his character was telling the reality.
Within the newest ep to hit the 2025 TV schedule, “Holy Mom of God,” Buck is having a tough time sleeping in the home after taking up Eddie’s lease, and solely after sleeping with Tommy does he really feel snug. Tommy advised Buck he wished to strive issues once more now that the “competitors is out of the way in which,” alluding to Buck’s emotions for Eddie. However Buck denied it there, after which once more whereas talking with Maddie, together with his motive being that Eddie’s straight.
So now the query that everybody’s questioning is, was Buck actually being trustworthy? Talking with TV Insider, Stark shared that though his character’s phrases have been real, there is likely to be one thing extra behind all of it. As he put it:
He’s telling his fact within the second, for certain. I don’t suppose he’s attempting to lie and conceal something from [Maddie]. He’s by no means even thought of this earlier than. He’s telling his fact, for certain in that second. That is one thing that’s been delivered to him from Tommy and one thing that he was not, as I say, having any form of prior ideas about.
Buck was shocked when Tommy had jokingly introduced up Eddie, so it wasn’t too stunning that the previous rapidly voiced his denial, since that may have been the primary time that he ever thought of it. (He’d be alone, however nonetheless.) It’s fairly attainable that this complete state of affairs might be the catalyst that does make him contemplate it extra. Assuming he is not simply adamantly towards the thought, since Eddie is in Texas now.
Issues are definitely extra sophisticated on that entrance than they have been to start with, since Buck solely got here out final season, and his relationship with Tommy initially ended on a bitter observe. It’s unknown how the collection will proceed this storyline or handle Buck’s potential emotions for Eddie, however because the finish objective is for Eddie to return to the 118, it very nicely might be addressed sooner quite than later.
9-1-1 is unpredictable and followers have been wanting Buddie to occur for over six years now. And at instances, it’s just like the present’s inventive workforce is simply as invested, between the 2 being mistaken for Christopher’s mother and father or feedback about how they might be so cute collectively throughout a reside stream throughout a rescue. Though ABC has but to resume the collection for Seaosn 8, it’s more likely to occur, given the in-the-works Nashville spinoff. So there needs to be a lot extra possibilities to get Buddie collectively or, on the very least, for Buck to essentially take into consideration whether or not or not he has emotions for Eddie.
It is laborious to inform what is going to occur and what this implies for Buck shifting ahead, however followers will simply have to look at and see. They’ve already been ready since Season 2 for issues to occur between him and Eddie. What’s so dangerous about ready just a little bit longer? New episodes of 9-1-1 air on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, and stream the following day on Hulu.