Station 19 Season 6 Episode 17 Review: All These Things That I’ve Done

What an incredible hour.

They introduced all of the feelings throughout Station 19 Season 6 Episode 17, which made up for a much less flashy name, and to say they took us on a rollercoaster is an understatement.

Can I simply say that Barrett Doss and Josh Randall have been completely unimaginable? Because they have been true phenomenons with tour de power performances.

The hour was well-balanced, even when the tonal shifts had the occasional jarring moments. And it is evident that the penultimate installment would lead us right into a finale that may both wrap up some story arcs of the season or introduce new potential plots for the subsequent.

For one, we lastly received to wrap up this mayoral marketing campaign state of affairs, and it is such a reduction.

To be sincere, this wasn’t essentially the most compelling storyline we have had over time, and it is dragged on longer than needed and, in some moments, felt comparatively pointless.

In the top, Travis did not wish to be mayor, we could not afford to lose him on the station anyway, and actual life has already been exhausting sufficient with politics.

However, we are able to at the very least have fun that fictional politics can end up infinitely higher and supply us with hope. The complete concept of this mayoral run was that it needed to be anybody however Dixon who received, and blessedly, that is what occurred.

Travis’ marketing campaign unfold like wildfire. It’s by way of his actions and the time he put in on the marketing campaign path that the opposite man, whose title I do not even bear in mind as a result of he was largely irrelevant, received to win.

Seattle has a brand new mayor, and it is not the racist, sexist, homophobic, corrupt cop. Dixon is a monster who wanted to be slayed for a very long time now, so hopefully, this shall be his final for a bit, if under no circumstances.

One of essentially the most satisfying moments of the hours was Ross placing Dick in his place, checking him after all of the underhanded and conniving, ugly issues he did to spoil her.

And all of that was for naught as he misplaced and now has to slink again to the gutters he got here from to cope with his crappy marriage. The heroes prevailed on this one.

Aside from Dixon shedding, one of many few entertaining issues to come back for this arc was Eli and Travis making up and making out. Of course, even that took some time, and I had lengthy since failed to know why Eli was so pissed at Travis within the first place.

Fine, he had all this religion in Travis and what he represented.

As a lot as I get pleasure from Travis, Eli was undoubtedly taking a look at him by way of rose-tinted glasses and lust as a result of he oversold how wonderful Travis was throughout this complete enterprise, particularly when, the vast majority of the time, we noticed a whiny model of him who did not need this and by accident fell into folks rooting for him with out a lot effort on his half.

You can maintain smiling if you wish to, however you do not have an opportunity in hell of turning into mayor of this metropolis.

Ross

Eli’s anger about Travis was everywhere, and there is nonetheless a bizarre factor with Eli’s half within the love triangle, largely going unaddressed.

But Eli and Travis look cute collectively, in order that’s all that issues in the long run, proper? Dixon is completed, and Travis and Eli are made up. A win is a win is a win.

Maybe now that Travis’ purpose of Dixon shedding has come to fruition and he received the lovable boy with the good accent, he can possibly lend an ear and a serving to hand to Vic and Theo as a result of these two are struggling, and Theo is inexplicably a scorching mess.

Election day and the firehouse serving as a polling heart additionally introduced again some memorable visitor stars.

Reggie’s return was completely sentimental and candy. It was additionally precisely what Ben wanted to get his head on straight. It’s troubling that he is nonetheless been beating himself up in regards to the sober home name and the person he could not save.

He’s directing all his consideration to the life he did not save and is not weighing that with those he did or the impression he is had on folks due to his actions.

Ben’s heroics earned him commendation, and he was nonetheless able to toss that apart due to his guilt and self-flagellation.

Ross was proper in regards to the honor he received and the way heroic he’s, and I’m relieved that Reggie’s go to put some issues in perspective for Ben.

Because he saved Reggie, this man might say all of the issues he wanted to his spouse, they traveled to Italy collectively, and he had a brand new lease on life.

Ben did that for him. It’s the kind of increase he wanted, and you understand he’ll cherish that trinket from Italy and maintain onto the which means of it on the powerful days when he appears like this once more.

But for now, Ben deserves the popularity, and a commendation ceremony is a grand affair and one thing that may increase all the station’s morale as they rally behind considered one of their very own to have fun his achievement.

It’s not nearly Ben right here. They all want this, and we do as properly.

If Ross could not discuss some sense into him, I’m glad Reggie’s go to managed to shift Ben’s perspective and persuade him. On a extra private entrance, he and Bailey have gone by way of a lot this season that they deserve this second.

Voting additionally introduced a blast from Jack’s previous, and it could not come at a greater time as he weighed whether or not or not he needed to accompany Brooke for a meal with considered one of his siblings.

It was good to briefly test in with Marsha, as she had develop into an integral a part of Jack’s household life outdoors the station. Her look served as a refresher for Jack that household is available in many types and reminded him of what she’s been to him.

Family is all the time on the heart of Jack’s character as he tries to search out one and his place. We’ve endured these similar forms of arcs for Jack.

The hour they’d him acknowledging all the expansion and alter he is made as he is on this a lot more healthy and higher place. But generally, once they make these factors in throwaway strains, it solely feels extra obtrusive that they have a tendency to bench Jack or put him within the background.

Beckett: Ask what it’s worthwhile to ask, Hughes! Just ask it!
Vic: Did you skip shift… did you skip shift at the moment since you have been fascinated by killing your self?

In hindsight, he hasn’t had any important storyline all season. Even the connection Jack has shaped with Brooke has largely occurred offscreen or been by way of throwaway strains and handled like an afterthought.

But man did a lady’s coronary heart soften when he made it to that bar and reunited with Lila. I’m so glad he listened to Maya and adopted her recommendation in a terrific second between two characters who have been in tough locations at the beginning of the season and have since discovered therapeutic.

Suppose Brooke is not remembered for a lot with reference to contributing a lot to Jack’s storyline. In that case, we’ll at the very least bear in mind her as his organic sister who tracked down Jack’s foster sister and reunited them.

It’s such a heartwarming, thrilling improvement for him. Lila is embedded throughout the material of this sequence due to how important she’s been to each side of Jack’s life and who he has develop into.

Carina: There’s nothing she needs greater than her captaincy again.
Warren: You’re flawed. There’s one thing she needs extra.

Getting separated from Lila has haunted Jack his whole life, and now she’s again in his life. It was such an emotional scene when he realized who she was, and I can’t wait to discover this dynamic additional as the 2 of them catch up. Jack went from not feeling like he had any household or a spot to 2 sisters who imply the world to him. I really like that for him.

Ross was in her greatest type, whether or not it was placing Dixon in his place smugly or leveling with Ben.

Natasha Ross has emerged as one of many season’s greatest characters with out a shadow of a doubt. It’s really been her season.

She went from this mysterious and generally one-dimensional new character to this lovely, multilayered, advanced girl wealthy with depth. Merle Dandridge has executed some lovely work bringing this character and all sides of her alive.

We higher perceive who Ross is, what she stands for, and the way she’s carved out an area for herself on this household. And she’s been ready to try this and broaden on her position outdoors of simply being the girl Sullivan loves.

Admittedly, there are moments when it appears like we traded in Sullivan’s improvement for hers. But we nonetheless have some stable Sullivan moments.

Ross refused to resign, which caught some folks off guard, however we’re nonetheless not near resolving the connection difficulty between her and Sullivan.

It was tense when he stepped ahead, throwing his hat within the ring for the captain. People assume that he cannot ever get the place once more so long as Ross is chief due to the battle and controversy.

But it felt like Sullivan was hellbent on inflicting chaos anyway. While his relationship with one of many women in his life has been sophisticated, we received some nice scenes of him with the opposite girl in his life.

Whenever Andy and Sullivan are onscreen collectively and having deeper conversations, it jogs my memory how pleasurable they have been.

Sullivan and Andy play off of each other so properly once they’re not at odds. Even when it is not romantic, there is a bond there that is simply not like the rest they’ve had with different folks.

Andy sees proper by way of Sullivan, and it typically makes her the very best particular person to provide him recommendation or name him out. Even if he would not like what she says, he at the very least hears it.

You gotta costume for the job you need. So be the wolf, otherwise you’ll be the one which will get eaten.

Sullivan

While it nonetheless did not really feel like Sullivan owed Andy something concerning his relationship with Ross, I appreciated that he had the perception into her and the way she ticks to know the way he triggered her along with his dishonesty, and he apologized.

They simply know one another so properly that it really works.

And because of her recommendation, it seems to be like possibly Sullivan will battle for Ross extra than simply combating her.

You cannot say that Maya did not battle for Carina.

While Andy, Sullivan, and Theo have been an utter mess at that automobile wash name making an attempt to show themselves as captain materials, Maya was stepping again from her ruthless ambition.

In reality, Maya did numerous topping again, and that is most likely how she hilariously ended up hooked up to a machine and spinning round in circles in a laugh-out-loud second.

Carina wanted a sight that Maya was combating for them and taking their relationship significantly, and she or he inadvertently received it.

It’s a mark of how critical Maya is taking the whole lot that she did not again out of the captain place for the present. She would not wish to cope with it anymore, or at the very least not now.

Carina: You turned down your alternative to develop into captain.
Maya: Yeah.
Carina: And I’m coming house, bambina.
Maya: For good?
Carina: For higher or worse. For richer for poorer.

Maya is taking good care of herself and her personal psychological and emotional well-being. She’s in a a lot better, more healthy place proper now, and chasing after captain is not her greatest precedence.

It’s essential that they confirmed that she wasn’t sacrificing a job that she’s all the time needed for Carina. She is not giving up on her desires for a woman. But she is studying learn how to prioritize her personal well-being.

Carina wanted to know that their relationship mattered and that it was at the very least as essential as Maya’s ambitions. But Carina additionally wanted to know that Maya might work in direction of therapeutic herself, too.

Carina needed the very best for his or her relationship but in addition Maya as a person. And fortuitously, Maya’s been engaged on herself and succeeded.

Carina would not have even identified about Maya’s gesture, which made it excellent as a result of she wasn’t blindly doing it to win Carina over, if not for Ben and Ross.

Ben is such a Marina fanboy, and he is been making an attempt to get them to work issues out for almost all of the season.

Maya was none the wiser that phrase received round to Carina and barely knew learn how to reply when Carina shared that she was lastly prepared to come back house.

It was such a terrific second for the 2. Maya was caught off guard, then elated.

It was riddled with ardour and sweetness as Carina shared her intentions and inserted their signature pet names.

And we received such a cute, well-earned second when Maya lifted Carina off her toes and carried her into their house collectively. They’ve fought tooth and nail to get so far.

It has been a protracted, arduous, emotionally wrought journey with among the bleakest factors one might’ve imagined. But it was properly value all of the ache and the angst if it received us to this second.

At this stage, there is not something this couple cannot overcome collectively after enduring such critical trials and tribulations.

It’s been an emotionally wrought, uncooked season, particularly for Maya and Marina, however the fruits of that labor are extremely candy. It’s a terrific payoff.

Maya has earned her therapeutic, and Beckett deserves him too.

During this installment, I can’t gush sufficient about Barrett Doss and Josh Randall. Never in 1,000,000 years would I’ve envisioned that these two sharing the display screen extensively would have me on the verge of weeping and clinging to each second of it.

They have been magical collectively, with this completely uncooked storyline that caught viewers to their souls.

I do not wish to sit on this ache, I do not wish to really feel this.

Beckett

Barret Doss has all the time been the wunderkind of this sequence, and when given the fabric, she blows you away.

Vic’s compassion, empathy, instinct, and vacation spot are all qualities that outline her and rule the whole lot that she does.

Unsurprisingly, she might see how others did not regard Beckett, and she or he was hellbent on seeing him by way of the opposite aspect of his darkness, bleeding her personal mild if it meant saving him.

And Vic saved Beckett’s life. For the remainder of his days, and hopefully, they will be lengthy ones; he’ll do not forget that she was actually his saving grace.

Even if it meant making up some peer overview check-in and using all of the instruments she’s discovered working with Diane for Crisis One, she was going to get Beckett the assistance he deserved.

He was nonetheless boxing up his belongings, tossing sentimental issues within the trash, or planning to donate them.

As a lot as he fought her at each flip and tried to ship her away, you would additionally inform he needed and wanted her to remain.

Vic has a method of getting below an individual’s pores and skin, disarming them together with her heat and earnestness, and it was arresting witnessing her do precisely that with Beckett all the time.

She received him to open up in regards to the bowling he not partakes in due to the lack of the vast majority of his crew. She received him to debate rehab, why he did not really feel like he might keep, and his worst day on the job.

And we received all these little nuggets of data to proceed humanizing him and his ache. Beckett has glorious style in music and an appreciation for the classics, together with the file participant.

It wasn’t lengthy earlier than he realized why he was actually there and challenged her to clarify herself. It was considered one of their greatest moments, as he screamed out the inquiry with such ache in his voice, and she or he needed to put her worst fears into phrases and name him out.

The basketball sport was a pleasant method of getting Beckett to share, and thru that, we gained an understanding of the remedy periods and why Beckett left them.

I do not wish to sit on this ache, I do not wish to really feel this.

Beckett

When he defined his worst day on the job, describing how a lot worse the quiet ones are and recalling the deaths of kids to carbon monoxide attributable to their mom taking her personal life, it was gut-wrenching.

But Beckett lastly broke down as a lot worse. That collapse and his sobbing felt paying homage to Judd’s painful show throughout 9-1-1: Lone Star, and you would visibly see how exhausted Beckett was after stripping himself naked.

Vic went to that man’s home at the beginning of her shift, and it was darkish by the point she lastly noticed him off after a hug and a brand new understanding of this man.

She could not let him go, and the sheer weight of the whole lot she was enduring throughout that point had her sobbing in her automobile. It should’ve hit how shut she received to shedding this man in the way in which far too many first responders have.

It really hit Vic that she saved a life.

Beckett has been an fascinating character. And I’ve to commend Josh Randall for his troublesome job of bringing out the totally different layers to a personality who was largely loathsome to the plenty.

It takes expertise to have the ability to flip folks on the dime with this character. He went from abhorrent to the plenty, for many people frightened that his storyline would finish in tragedy.

You cannot really respect the restraint and care he took with depicting this character, increase so far till now.

Beckett: Why are you continue to right here?!
Vic: I’m not leaving, Sean.

Beckett’s journey was much less in-depth than Maya’s, but it surely had a method of sneaking up on the viewers, and it was undoubtedly compelling.

It was a storyline value exploring, and the outcomes felt proper. They earned this improvement and the way they selected to handle it properly.

As for Beckett, I hope he finds therapeutic, and I might like to discover him additional and even contact on the particular bond he has now shaped with Vic.

It was such an surprising dynamic, but it surely was the proper one.

Over to you, Station 19 Fanatics. Are you relieved that Vic saved Beckett in time? What are your ideas on the Marina reunion? Are you thrilled that Jack is assembly the brand new child?

You can watch Station 19 on-line right here through TV Fanatic.

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