The massive success of CBS’s Fireplace Nation has ignited a by-product, Sheriff Nation, starring Morena Baccarin as Sheriff Mickey Fox, aunt to Bode Leone, performed by Max Thieriot, government producer and co-creator of each packages.
TV Insider caught up with Baccarin on the CBS Fest 2025 blue carpet (sure, blue) on the Paramount Studios lot final week to talk in regards to the new present, set to debut this fall on the attention community. “I might say [Sheriff Country] is darker, a bit of extra uncooked, a bit of edgier,” says Baccarin when requested to distinguish between the 2 packages. “We’re coping with some criminality.”
As viewers of Fireplace Nation have seen, that criminality includes Mickey’s dad, Wes (W. Earl Brown), operating an unlawful weed enterprise. Can Wes proceed to develop his pot enterprise and handle to even have a wholesome relationship together with his daughter?
“I feel that’s just about a dealbreaker,” Baccarin tells TV Insider. “That’s what hasn’t been working. I imply, I’m the sheriff, so to have a relationship with a grower…” However what about, you realize, household? “It is household,” she concedes, hastening so as to add, “however [it’s] tough when that’s your job, you realize what I imply?”
Whereas there’s at all times the prospect for making peace along with her dad, Mickey’s not going to get there in a single day. For now, she’s fairly clear on the place she wants to face. “It might be actually onerous to have individuals take you critically should you make an exception in your dad,” Baccarin says. “Mickey is definitive about that.”
We’ve seen Sheriff Fox’s world by means of Fireplace Nation, however that universe goes to be explored to a higher degree when Sheriff Nation debuts in September. “I’m wanting ahead to opening up the world of Edgewater and diving into the crime a part of the city,” Baccarin previews.
Along with Mickey’s battle along with her father, there are going to be quite a few different dynamics for her to discover. “I’m actually within the relationships she has with the opposite individuals on the town,” Baccarin muses. “She grew up with them. She is aware of precisely who they’re, however now she’s on the opposite aspect of the legislation from a whole lot of the individuals she grew up with. And a whole lot of them are going to get into hassle, and he or she’s going to have to make use of compassion and her data of who they’re to typically get them to obey or stand down.”
There are execs to policing a number of the individuals you’ve spent a lot of your life with, however there are disadvantages, too. “The professionals are that while you roll as much as a scene that’s a heated argument between two individuals that you simply’ve gone to highschool with, you may say, ‘Hey, do not forget that time your girlfriend dumped you? Whose shoulder did you cry on? That man proper there that you simply’re combating with,’” factors out Baccarin.
Breaking apart spats that haven’t gotten too far uncontrolled with some old fashioned buddies is one thing the place Mickey can use her discretion. Nevertheless, having to presumably carry her personal dad to justice falls into the “con” class. “It’s very clear [where Mickey stands] as a result of her father is rising unlawful weed and that could be a huge no-no as a result of he’s rising it on a big scale,” Baccarin emphasizes. “He’s not simply stealing right here and there.”
Dealing with instances that lower near dwelling would be the most difficult a part of preserving the peace on Sheriff Nation. “These conditions pose actually nice ethical dilemmas for [Mickey],” Baccarin provides. “I feel that’s actually the crux of the present.”
Would possibly we see crossovers between Sheriff Nation and Fireplace Nation (à la Chicago Fireplace/Med/P.D., Regulation & Order exhibits, and the way in which Gray’s Anatomy did with Station 19), particularly as the 2 Nation sequence shall be airing back-to-back on Friday nights this fall?
“For positive,” predicts Baccarin.
Sheriff Nation, Sequence Premiere, Fall 2025, Fridays, 9/8c, CBS