This week I subjected the wonderful Jamie Peck to an iconic episode of Fox's 9-1-1 "Buck, Actually" Love is in the air when Buck 2.0 meets his match in "Buckette 1.0" a scorned wife shuts the freeway down. Cimney and Maddy have been hanging out a lot...
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| Tony, I'm all right, but I don't want to beat around the bush, all right? | |
| Like, what the fuck did you make me watch? | |
| I made you watch some of the greatest television on earth. | |
| It's maybe just because I'm so cynical, but I love a good hate watch. | |
| It's one of my negative things. | |
| I love a good hate watch, and this is the perfect hate watch. | |
| Wow, you and Sean have that in common. | |
| He hate consumes more media than anyone I've ever met. | |
| Oh, I'm going to for sure make Sean watch an episode of this too. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That has to happen. | |
| That has to happen. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Tell him I sent ya. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So this particular... So I don't know if you saw the title of this episode. | |
| It's called Buck Actually is the name of the episode, which I believe is a play on love actually. | |
| It would seem that way. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Which is funny because that's one of my favorite movies. | |
| I've never seen it. | |
| Oh, I fucking love that movie. | |
| It's a huge ball of cheese, and it's so corny and so bad. | |
| Yeah, it looks dumb. | |
| I fucking love it. | |
| I fucking love that dumb movie. | |
| And I feel the exact opposite about this episode. | |
| Oh, well. | |
| That movie doesn't have any cops in it, does it? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| I don't think so. | |
| I think there might be a cop. | |
| I think something bad happens to him, which is cool. | |
| Good. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hell yeah. | |
| Well, you know what? | |
| I'm actually happy this show came along because all the copaganda I've seen on television, I'm like, you know, this copaganda is all right, but what if it were woke and gay? | |
| Oh, yeah, that's exactly what this does. | |
| It's woke. | |
| It's gay. | |
| It's super rare. | |
| There's so much representation in these shows. | |
| And actually, I feel so conflicted because I fucking, as a person, I mean, I don't really know as a person, but I'm a huge fan of Angela Bassett. | |
| Um, who is incredible and is now, I don't know if you saw this, is now the highest paid black woman on TV. | |
| Wow. | |
| She just signed a contract for this show. | |
| Playing a fucking cop. | |
| How does that make you feel? | |
| It feels terrible. | |
| She's getting paid $450,000 an episode. | |
| Jesus Christ. | |
| For this show. | |
| Cause like the thing is, this is a dog shit show. | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's a terrible show, but it has a following, and it has a demand. | |
| And it's, yeah, it's wild to see that people watch it with the exact opposite feelings that I have. | |
| Because my favorite thing in this show is there's moments where you're kind of supposed to cry or feel something, and it usually results in laughter for me. | |
| Yeah, same. | |
| Yeah, because it is so ridiculous. | |
| It is so over-the-top. | |
| And speaking of over-the-top, it starts with our first emergency. | |
| We now have a different operator. | |
| So the whole thing is supposed to be from the point of view of the operator, but they don't really do that too much. | |
| It ends with the monologue from the operator, who's Maddie, who's Buck's sister. | |
| Okay, I didn't get that at the end. | |
| Yeah, it was weird. | |
| I'm like, who the fuck is talking right now? | |
| They try to make it happen the first two seasons, and they kind of just give up on it, which is a good move. | |
| And they start just investing in individual characters. | |
| So it opens up with 9-1-1, what's your emergency? | |
| And the emergency is... | |
| There is... How about how they depict women in this show? | |
| How about that? | |
| There is a woman who is on a freeway overpass, standing on the sign, on the freeway sign, on that grate in front of it. | |
| She's standing on it with a huge sign that says, see me Norman. | |
| Okay? | |
| Honestly? | |
| Sleep mood. | |
| No, she fucking ruled. | |
| I loved, I actually loved her. | |
| She's in a bathroom and the whole freeway is stopped. | |
| The cops are down there trying to play with her. | |
| And she's like, see me, Norman. | |
| Like, pay attention to me, Norman. | |
| And we're like, who the fuck is Norman? | |
| What's going on? | |
| And then she's like, you're going to see me. | |
| And she just goes full frontal nudity, opens the robe. | |
| Everyone's like, hell yeah. | |
| Yeah, hell yeah. | |
| That's tight. | |
| That's super tight. | |
| But they're also like, of course, because there are cops involved. | |
| They're also super, they need to get her down from there. | |
| She's being disruptive. | |
| They're trying to get her down. | |
| And so they send my man Buck over the rail to talk to her and plead with her. | |
| And as this is happening, they're inflating the giant bag, the fall bag, you know, so you don't die when you fall off stuff. | |
| And that's when she sees that and she produces a gun out of nowhere and shoots the bag. | |
| And now it has like Buck basically held hostage because she has the gun and everyone's freaking out. |