A little bit ago, Miguel wrote about the new FOX show, Deputy, being a wokefest.  Sadly, it is not the worst offender of the new FOX lineup.
There is a fire-rescue show on FOX called 9-1-1 which isn’t bad. It’s progressive but not rub-it-your-face woke, at least, most of the time.  They decided after three seasons to do a spinoff that takes place down in Austin, Texas.
Holy shit, they beat you in the face with a woke sledgehammer.
Quick premise. A ladder company in Austin responds to a fire at a grain bin, it blows up, kills all but one of the firefighters.
On a side note: they don’t use a grain explosion, no, they say one of the buildings on site is filled with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and that causes the explosion. The thing is, that won’t explode unless it’s mixed with a fuel, it’s only an oxidizer. I know this is me being petty, but that was stupid. Grain bin explosions are terrible.
So they hire Rob Lowe as a captain from the NYFD to rebuild the ladder company because he’s done it before after 9/11 when his old ladder company was killed in the south tower.
His son tries to kill himself when the son’s boyfriend breaks up with him as the son tries to propose, causing Lowe to feel the need to get out of town and restart his life.
Also it’s mentioned that the Austin FD had has a “diversity problem.”
Lowe then goes on a recruitment tour, just like out of every other “build a tight-knit team from scratch” trope movie, where he gets the “best of the best” who are loose cannons and losers to everyone else.
He ends up with his “best of the best” being a Muslim woman who is an Instagram influencer during her off hours, a black trans man, a scrawny Hispanic guy with some sort of learning disability that makes him ace the field portion of the FD exam but flunk the written part but has “heart,” his gay son who is a recovering opiate addict, and Liv Tyler who is a very aggressive feminist paramedic who loves putting men in their place when she shows up to save lives.
I’m not saying anyone of those people can’t be a good firefighter. Only that the “best of the best” looks like it was put together by the Dean of Diversity ad Inclusion at Oberlin is hard to swallow.
Also the one survivor of the explosion that started this ball rolling wants his job back but “isn’t ready” and is the only straight white male originally from Texas and is portrayed as a good ‘ol boy meathead who has a problem with diversity in the department, despite being married to a black woman.
All the time, they make Austin look like a one-horse town in the middle of east Texas, instead of the 11th largest city in the United States and the capital of the second-most populous state in the US.
It was so ridiculously over-the-top, I couldn’t make it through the first episode.
Clearly the demographic for this show is the woke crowd that wants to see the Berkeley six make Texas look like a bunch of racists and rednecks every week. I just don’t know if that is a large enough demographic to carry a show.
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