{"id":48689,"date":"2025-09-07T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48689\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:38:07","slug":"oliver-stark-on-9-1-1-season-9-moving-forward-from-bobbys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48689\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Stark On ‘9-1-1’ Season 9 Moving ‘Forward’ From Bobby’s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs ABC<\/a>\u2018s 9-1-1<\/a> gears up for Season 9, the dearly departed Bobby Nash (Peter Krause<\/a>) will still factor into the narrative, according to star Oliver Stark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn keeping with showrunner and co-creator Tim Minear<\/a>\u2018s theme of change and rebuilding following the stalwart character\u2019s shocking death<\/a>, Stark said the upcoming installment will track the rest of the 118\u2019s grief.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s not gonna be a linear path of healing, as I don\u2019t think grief is,\u201d he told Deadline during the red carpet at ABC\u2019s End of Summer Soir\u00e9e. \u201cThere are episodes that maybe feel lighter and like we\u2019re moving directly past it and then, as grief does, it sneaks up on you again. So I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an overall down feeling of the show, I think it\u2019s looking to move forward, but in a way that is respectful to the memory of the Bobby Nash character and finding creative ways for him to still haunt the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of last season, reeling in the wake of his mentor\u2019s death, Buck (Stark) felt strongly about wanting to leave his crew, calling the 118 \u201cjust a number\u201d without its inspiring leader. <\/p>\n

\n\tPreviewing how his oft-emotional character is processing, Stark noted, \u201cWe definitely come back to a more settled Buck, not looking to leave, and instead \u2014 I would say, probably \u2014 looking to put down more secure roots, if anything. He was obviously in a dark place at the time, and I think that has washed over him and may well come back again, but, for now, I think he\u2019s finding more and more reasons to want to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking more specifically to fan outcry following Bobby\u2019s death (some fans promised they would boycott the show as a result), Stark said the strong response means the creatives behind and in front of the screen are accomplishing their tasks in moving audiences.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, I think that\u2019s the point, is to feel hurt and upset and to invest in things and to feel happy in some episodes and sad in other episodes, you know; that is the point in making any form of television or any movie is that you want people to go on a roller coaster of emotions and, for me, if people are hurt by the actions that are meant to feel painful then it means that we\u2019re on the right path and doing the right thing, so I thank them for their investment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, amid the drama tugging at viewers\u2019 heartstrings, the show will, in following 9-1-1 tradition, feature larger-than-life rescues, including of one tech billionaire (played by Mark Consuelos<\/a>) who is swallowed by a<\/a> <\/a>whale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Stark said his character is \u201cnot as involved\u201d in the effort as he \u201cwants to be,\u201d others will \u201cspring into action a little bit faster,\u201d resulting in Buck \u201cfeeling a little bit left out, which is fine because as long as the job gets done, he doesn\u2019t need all the glory, but yeah, it\u2019s not a typical rescue in terms of what Buck gets to [do to] fulfill his firefighting needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t9-1-1 returns to ABC at 8 p.m. ET\/PT Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As ABC\u2018s 9-1-1 gears up for Season 9, the dearly departed Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) will still factor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[14349,14350,18,117,19,17,36058,14352,36059,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-48689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-9-1-1","9":"tag-abc","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-oliver-stark","15":"tag-peter-krause","16":"tag-tim-minear","17":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}