Chicago Fire season 6, episode 8 takeaways: The Whole Point of Being Roommates
Does Chicago Fire need more Dawson and Severide? Is Dawsey our relationship goal? Here’s what we learned from Chicago Fire season 6, episode 8.
Tuesday’s Chicago Fire episode gave us relationship drama, family drama, and a cop being impaled by a literal picket fence. So what can we take away from all of the craziness?
Season 6, Episode 8 was called “The Whole Point of Being Roommates” and saw Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund) going pretty far to help the young girl she’d rescued before. While Dawson set out on a search for Bria, her partner and her brother were rekindling their old romance, but it didn’t have a happy ending.
If you missed any of this Chicago Fire episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re discussing, you can catch up with our “The Whole Point of Being Roommates” recap.
Here are our Chicago Fire season 6, episode 8 takeaways:
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1) More Dawson and Severide
Did anyone else really enjoy watching Dawson and Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) team up this week?
We get a lot of Dawson and Casey (Jesse Spencer), and we get a lot of Casey and Severide. There’s not so much Dawson and Severide, but “The Whole Point of Being Roommates” teamed them up and it was so much fun to watch.
These two are probably Chicago Fire‘s two most stubborn characters, so put them together and not much is going to get in their way.
Plus, with all of his missteps, Severide could completely understand about Dawson wanting to try and salvage Bria’s broken family. After all, he comes from one, and like Bria’s father, he’s been addicted to painkillers. This story perfectly suited both characters, and both characters together.
Now where will it take them? Because if this is at all like Chicago Med‘s “searching for a kid” type storyline from last season (hi, Danny), this could get heartbreaking.
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2) We should be more like Dawsey
If only every couple’s disagreements were as easy to solve as Dawson and Casey’s. When Casey raised a possible objection to Dawson’s handling of the Bria situation, she firmly told him that he ought to question her judgment, and he took that as a cue to walk out of the conversation.
That doesn’t even really qualify as a fight. And yet, they still had an adorable moment in the episode where Dawson apologized to Casey for snapping at him and they cuddled it out. These two are almost always on the same page, and when they’re not, it doesn’t seem to take them that long to make up.
Too bad almost all the other Chicago Fire relationships can’t say the same. Between Stellaride and Brettonio, this episode had plenty of “obviously in love but so not getting there” awkwardness.
3) Herrmann should be a marriage counselor
If he ever quits firefighting, Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) has a second job as a marriage counselor lined up. Last season, Chicago Fire had him giving a much needed lecture to Dawsey, and then in this episode he’s telling Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker) how to handle his brother-in-law. Herrmann’s cynical observations are hilarious, and what’s more, they’re pretty good, too. Could you imagine him writing an advice column?
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What did you take away from this week’s Chicago Fire episode? Let us know your thoughts on “The Whole Point of Being Roommates” in the comments.
Chicago Fire airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC.