Station 19 Season 6 Episode 7 Review: We Build Then We Break

Well, that was an extremely darkish return to the season.

They did not go away us with a glimmer of sunshine throughout Station 19 Season 6 Episode 7 except you’re a fan of Ross and Sullivan’s romance or the prospect of Jack returning to the station and constructing a relationship together with his organic sister brings you pleasure.

But the Maya and Marina conditions do not get higher anytime quickly, and the collection’ protection of police brutality in opposition to Black males once more was gratuitous and triggering.

It was an bold hour, but it did not achieve momentum till halfway by means of. It was additionally a kind of tonally off varieties of installments.

For some motive, we had Maya’s descent and Marina’s present dissolution, Dixon’s blackmail, hilarious Golden Girls-esque senior girls on a scavenger hunt, and an emotionally damaging Crisis One name vying for our consideration throughout the identical hour.

At least two of these storylines have been so heavy that the lightheartedness of the scavenger hunt arc did not match with the remainder of the hour.

It made issues really feel extremely disjointed and irritating. They anticipated us to be amused by sassy seniors joking about Chlamydia and getting Travis and Sullivan to take shirtless photos with them for one minute.

Carina: Hey, you okay?
Jack: I believed she was useless.

But then the following, Maya is having a full emotional episode that requires psychological maintain within the subsequent scene, and a younger Black man and the three WOC on the home going through down weapons by essentially the most demented fucking cops in Seattle within the subsequent.

It was so much. Too a lot. And these are the kind of tonal shifts which are aggravating about this collection and may make installments a muddled mish-mash of nice performances and ridiculous plots.

For the lighter arc, the senior-aged girls have been cute. Surprisingly, Beckett appeared to have a tender spot for them and had no issues indulging them and inspiring their antics.

When they got here in with one among them donning fuzzy handcuffs, it appeared like a storyline involving racy, randy seniors in a house having kinky enjoyable.

The strongest a part of the storyline was Sullivan bonding with the one girl and giving in to the shirtless image. That expertise opened his eyes to Ross’ perspective on her job and their relationship.

He got here round to the thought and realized he would wait and observe her lead so long as it meant he had her. It was candy, and so they had a pleasant makeout session on the rooftop. The scene was shot fantastically with the sundown.

And after the night Ross had — it felt good to see her completely happy for a bit.

Jack heading off to have espresso together with his sister felt like a scene that did not need to get shoved into this installment.

But possibly it was to point out how issues are trying up for him since he will get to work on the station once more after taking Maya’s spot.

Jack changing Maya for the foreseeable future will most positively trigger some pressure between the 2, even when he was the one that discovered her and introduced her to the hospital.

He was expressing how a lot he could not afford to lose anybody, and it was a heartbreaking second when he introduced up Dean and the way terrified he was that he may’ve misplaced Maya too.

He acknowledges that she is his household, and it’s a reminder of Jack’s losses and the way unwell he is been due to them. He’s been misplaced with out Dean for some time now, and he is simply getting from beneath that.

The scene, whereas heartbreaking, was additionally uncommon in its imbalance when it gave who the collection has notoriously utilized as a 3rd wheel within the Marina relationship extra emotional stake within the scene than Maya’s spouse.

Somehow, Jack went from eager to defend and defend Carina from discovering out about Maya earlier than she was mentally and emotionally ready for it to Carina offering him with extra consolation within the ready room.

But they made up for it with a load of angst for Carina and Maya with their each interplay as soon as she was awake.

Fans of this relationship have been clinging to the notion that issues will get higher for these two, however because it stands, they’ve solely gotten worse.

Maya was in such poor situation, however she was one of the crucial obstinate sufferers on earth who did not appear to worth something Teddy instructed her.

She’s nonetheless deep in her self-destructive mode, which made for some disagreeable scenes for her as she acted out a number of occasions whereas on the hospital.

Credit the place it is due, Danielle Savre delivered an unbelievable efficiency throughout this hour. It was so uncooked and visceral that it was brutal to look at.

There was nothing fairly about Maya or her state, nevertheless it was so actual and provocative.

Even after the autumn, it would not appear to be Maya has hit her all-time low sufficient to wish to make adjustments and willingly get the assistance she desperately wants.

And she’s persevering with to destroy all the things in her path, herself, her physique, her job, and her marriage to Carina.

The ugliness and vitriol she spewed at Carina, primarily when Carina had no different alternative however to implement a 5150 order, was chill-inducing.

Maya lashes out as her main protection mechanism, and she or he is aware of the way to go for the jugluar. She’s been doing that with Carina for some time now, and clearly, Carina cannot take it anymore.

It was such a low blow when Maya introduced up Andrew, and you can see the damage on Carina’s face, the way in which she appeared, as if the phrases themselves bodily slapped her.

Maya: Oh, the lengths you will go to get your method. If you stroll out that door, we’re completed, okay? You hear me? You hear me? If you stroll out that door, we’re completed.
Carina: I lose you both method, bella. I’d somewhat lose you and have you ever be alive.

In actuality, it makes you consider how arduous this example was for Carina when she’d spent her whole life round folks having psychological well being episodes, and she or he’s usually been the particular person in command of getting them assist or placing some of these holds on them for their very own profit.

Maya wished to check what she’s doing to when Carina was so depressed about Andrew she may barely pull herself collectively, however they are not related conditions.

Carina’s methodology of mourning her brother did not endanger her life or these round her. She labored by means of issues in her method, and so they proved efficient.

Maya is actually slowly killing herself along with her habits, and it is gone far past giving her the house she must get herself collectively.

Carina made the troublesome alternative, and she or he’s been so courageous and resilient by means of all of this, loving Maya when Maya is making it so arduous and pushing her away.

They meant it after they exchanged the vows for higher and worse, and it reveals.

But Carina additionally has to consider what’s greatest for her personal psychological well being and well-being. It devastated her to stroll out of that room as Maya angrily shouted at her factor everyone knows she’ll remorse.

Stefania Spampinato crushed that scene outdoors the hospital room as Carina cried.

The performances by the feminine stars of the collection have been all stellar. Savre, Spampinato, Doss, Ortiz, and Dandridge took their materials and made magic out of it.

That mentioned, there was nothing magical about that disaster one name.

At some level, it will get emotionally exhausting to see these fictional storylines wholly impressed by actual tragedies and atrocities used “to spread awareness” or educate the identical folks the identical classes again and again whereas subsequently triggering and traumatizing others within the course of.

The case that impressed bits of this storyline was the horrific demise of Elijah McClain—a candy, shy, introverted man with nervousness and sensory points who simply wished to get residence.

It’s less than him to know that his panic assault would possibly upset you.

Vic

The Crisis One name blatantly pulls from this case that also feels far too recent and painful regardless of McClain’s 2019 demise.

It basically presupposes what would’ve occurred if the paramedics did not bend to the on-scene cops’ will and administer medicine that probably weren’t even wanted in such extra that it killed a younger man whose solely crime was “looking suspicious” in a Suburban neighborhood.

It positioned the firefighters and paramedics, from Vic and Andy to Ross, as the nice guys who needed to plead with this gang of officers to let this baby go and bodily put their our bodies between this man and half a dozen cops and their raised weapons.

With each panic assault, your coronary heart broke for this man, nevertheless it additionally jumped into your throat as you awaited the end result.

It merely would not sit proper that this explicit state of affairs that is so critical and actual was gratuitously used to control robust feelings out of viewers.

They dragged the plot on, thus milking all the trend, ache, and concern from viewers as we watched this example continues to escalate and hope it did not finish in a tragedy prefer it so usually does in actual life.

Station 19 is not any stranger to tackling a myriad of social points. Some issues they handle properly sufficient, and others, they do not.

But we’re properly into our fifth or extra storyline with this related subject. It’s redundant, and by now, it feels exploitative.

And for a collection about first responders, they’ve but to deal with any scenario with legislation enforcement with an oz. of nuance.

By now, they’ve totally vilified any character who dons a badge. Every cop in Seattle cannot be the antichrist or ineffectual at their jobs. And they’ve pushed the police brutality storylines into the bottom.

We needed to sit again with bated breath and watch this example proceed to escalate whereas hoping that Andy and Vic, with Ross’s help, may save this Spanglish-speaking child affected by panic assaults and get him residence for his mom’s birthday.

Ross was the true standout for this storyline, and once more, Dandridge was superb.

Her capacity to name out every officer, breaking down all their strikes and the place they fell, was spectacular. Her assessments of those folks particularly hit arduous coming from her as a girl of coloration.

It speaks to the innate stage of consciousness that one is continually underneath for their very own survival.

It was enraging when she talked about that not one of the cops had their physique cams on, and the trigger-happy cop could not wish to shoot the teenager or anybody who moved.

And Dixon thought he had some pull and energy, however figuring out that folks have been staring out the window and streaming this standoff, the cops, the three feminine firefighters, and a civilian had pressured him to again off.

He knew it wasn’t an amazing look, however he was nonetheless prepared to throw his weight round, probably as retaliation as a result of he was operating for workplace and wished to stay it to Travis.

There was no motive for Vic, Ross, and Andy to be on the receiving finish of weapons, similar to it wasn’t for that child. And one shudders to assume how issues would’ve performed out if Vic and Andy weren’t there and did not name within the calvary.

Andy did a outstanding job of soothing the man, chatting with him in Spanish, the language that will have interfered together with his capacity to observe all of the cops’ orders,

She helped him by means of all his panic assaults, stored him from getting shot for operating, and finally, they received him residence.

And all of that trauma came about when he wasn’t even the particular person of curiosity they have been on the lookout for.

The entire scenario felt needlessly triggering, overly traumatic, and self-congratulatory for protecting the subject.

Despite the nice issues on show with the actresses’ performances, one may really feel nothing however pure anger that they even opted for this storyline in any respect.

And it nonetheless wasn’t designed to get the complete breadth of the specified feelings and introspection due to different urgent storylines throughout the hour.

You will not be going to take this child on my watch.

Ross

Over to you, Station 19 Fanatics.

What are your ideas on Carina’s choice to place Maya on a 5150? How did you are feeling in regards to the police brutality case? Sound off under.

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