9-1-1 station 19 has be cancelled and banned from the…..see more••••
9-1-1 station 19 has be cancelled and banned from the…..see more••••
I always felt a little hoodwinked into watching Station 19.
When it premiered back in March of 2018, Station 19 centered around Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz), a passionate firefighter who wanted to follow in her father, Pruitt Herrera’s (Miguel Sandoval) footsteps and become the Captain of the titular fire station. In my original review for Paste, I called it Grey’s Anatomy except with fire. But the series never took hold of my heart the way that Grey’s did.
It’s not that I didn’t often enjoy the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, which ended its seven-season run last Thursday. It’s more that maybe I would not have felt so compelled to watch it each week if the drama about Seattle firefighters hadn’t spent so many of its episodes fully enmeshed in the Grey’s Anatomy world.
Storylines that began on Grey’s would end on Station 19. Not just heavily promoted crossover episodes. But regular episodes would find characters casually bouncing back and forth. Ben (Jason George), who left being a doctor at Grey Sloan to become a firefighter, is married to Grey’s OG character Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson). Having a married couple as series regulars on two different shows means that the two often toggled back and forth between the dramas. Additionally, Carina (Stefania Spampinato), who is an OB-GYN at Grey Sloan, is married to firefighter Maya (Danielle Savre). The fire that engulfed the Station 19 series finale was also a major plot point in the Grey’s season finale. As someone who has never missed an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, I’m all for a Grey’s Anatomy Megaverse. But, even in the end, it never totally felt like Station 19 stood independent from its mother ship.