[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Fire Country Season 3 Episode 5 “Edgewater’s About to Get Real Cozy.”]
We might not prefer it, but it surely doesn’t seem to be now’s the appropriate time for Bode (Max Thieriot) and Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) to get again collectively on Fireplace Nation. Positive, they’re hooking up (in his dad and mom’ Airstream, which is the place she’s presently residing), however they’re not again collectively—and she or he’d reasonably preserve doing that than face the whole lot else occurring in her life.
However for Bode, issues are going properly. He’s in Section 3 of firefighter coaching, with a brand new teacher Camden (Jared Padalecki), who sees his expertise and desires to make use of it, having him do issues in emergencies that others won’t at his stage. Not everybody (Diane Farr‘s Sharon and Jordan Calloway‘s Jake particularly) is completely happy about that.
Beneath, Thieriot discusses Bode and Gabriela’s sophisticated relationship, the strain ensuing from Camden’s method to instructing, and extra. Plus, watch an prolonged model of Billy Burke and Leven Rambin‘s efficiency of Miranda Lambert’s “Vice” from the tip of the episode.
It looks like Bode and Gabriela are in two completely different locations as they’re each coping with the place their lives are actually. He’s discovering his place in Edgewater and with the individuals there and she or he’s pulling away from everybody. It nearly looks like this isn’t the most effective time for both of them to be in a relationship however for various causes. What’s your take?
Max Thieriot: I utterly agree. I believe that we’ve puzzled so lengthy what their relationship can be like after they’re each in a position to bodily be collectively and don’t even have this barrier between them. And now that she’s referred to as off her marriage ceremony, it doesn’t actually exist and Bode is free. I believe that we’re type of studying that perhaps it’s not that simple. Gabriela is actually combating all of her personal private issues in her life and is so unsure about so many issues. For the primary time now, we’ve seen it form of flipped for Bode. Bode is a Bode who’s so sure and assured and feeling like he’s lastly attending to dwell the life that he needed to dwell, however she’s in a completely completely different place than he’s now. And so I believe there’s type of this conflicting uncertainty between the 2 of them.
I believe that Bode at all times desires what’s finest for everyone and he’s keen and is making an attempt to be there to help her and to be the shoulder for her. She appears actually no less than dedicated on doing the whole lot alone and is variety shutting down and shutting all people out. And I believe it’s onerous for the 2 of them, but it surely’s undoubtedly creating quite a lot of good cleaning soap and drama and a giant a part of the story this season can be type of determining and defining what their relationship is and what they’re.
A promo reveals him telling her he has to decide on between being the most effective firefighter and her, but it surely additionally looks like she’s probably not within the place for him to make such a giant determination and depend on her to make it.
Definitely. Yeah, it’s some good drama developing.
I really like how a lot Bode is de facto trying to the longer term. He’s getting that job at Smokey’s. Love the Leones taking on, however how is that going to go along with the household working there collectively?
I believe it’s going to be enjoyable. It’s going to be enjoyable to see our individuals at this staple of Edgewater. It’s a actually thrilling means for us to type of construct out the city and this household and simply type of this small-town feeling that you simply get while you’re there and this sense of group that Smokey’s helps present. It’s a well-recognized place. We’re going to get to see quite a lot of actually enjoyable interactions with that developing.
There’s clearly stress between Camden and Jake in terms of Bode. But it surely looks like Bode goes to be getting form of caught within the center. And the factor is although Camden is short-term, Jake is his finest pal. How is Bode dealing with that?
Bode is aware of that Camden is his teacher and he has to earn his respect and his belief and observe his orders in these moments. And I believe that it’s a tough factor as a result of Jake is aware of Bode as an individual and as a pal and as his finest pal has recognized him perpetually. Camden solely is aware of him as a firefighter, and so he solely sees his intuition and his expertise as a firefighter, however he doesn’t know Bode on a private stage. And I believe that’s the place the battle actually lies, is that whereas Camden’s rationality will work for the typical firefighter or cadet that he’s coaching, he doesn’t know Bode like Jake does. And so I believe Jake has, rightfully so, quite a lot of concern for Bode and even when that is how he thinks that he ought to function, is it the most effective factor for Bode personally?
It looks like Bode and Jake are in the most effective place that we’ve seen them, too.
For certain. Yeah, for certain. Over the course of the season, we get to—which I’ve been actually wanting ahead to—actually form of discover their friendship increasingly and extra and get to see quite a lot of that, which I believe is one thing the viewers goes to like attending to expertise. It’s at all times been type of at a distance and now we get to see the 2 of them collectively quite a bit, which is enjoyable.
It’s clear that Sharon is just not a fan of Camden’s in any respect from this episode and a preview exhibiting her calling him a sociopath. She and Vince aren’t precisely on the identical web page about that and over-parenting Bode. So what does that imply for Sharon’s relationships with Bode and Vince going ahead?
Sharon is mama bear, particularly after the whole lot that they’ve gone by as a household and Riley and Bode getting again and now Bode lastly really actually out. I believe she simply has a lot concern and anxiousness over something occurring to him. And she or he’s very, very protecting and Vince, however, is, however he’s additionally type of at all times enjoying satan’s advocate of, he’s a grown man. We have now to let him be grown up and make selections and do issues. And I believe that scares Sharon quite a bit. It’s her child. And so I believe seeing anyone new are available in that’s not a part of the household and take over the accountability of instructing him and coaching him scares her. Yeah, Camden does issues in a different way than the brand new college students. As a mother, that’s not her favourite. So it’s going to be enjoyable to see the dynamic between the 4 of them and I believe it in the end has a extremely type of fulfilling however thrilling arc for all of them that we’re going to discover within the subsequent few episodes. So we get to lean heavy into that developing.
The physician says that Sharon is okay, however she says she is aware of she’s not. And naturally, I belief her. What’s developing there?
We are going to get to see, probably within the subsequent episode, some realization of what’s occurring. So that may all begin getting unpacked.
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