Chicago Fire season 1, episode 2 rewatch: Mon Amour
Look back at where Chicago Fire began this summer. Read our retrospective on the second episode as we rewatch Chicago Fire season 1, episode 2.
Over the One Chicago summer break, we’re looking back at where it all began by rewatching the first seasons of our shows—and today we’re revisiting Chicago Fire season 1, episode 2.
If you want to rewatch this episode along with us, you can find Chicago Fire season 1 on iTunes and DVD.
“Mon Amour” is French for “my love,” and that completely makes sense because this episode is more about people’s romantic relationships than anything else.
The case of the week has the most meaningful story, as Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) stays with a trapped man long enough for him to record a farewell video to his wife—and then delivers it to the now-widow himself.
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But then there are subplots that, in retrospect, you look back at and it’s more on the dramatic side of the show’s various relationships—like some of the choices we’ve seen made in the later seasons.
Like Hallie Thomas (Teri Reeves) shows up at the firehouse to proposition Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) for sex, but not before she just happens to run into Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund).
Or how we have the first instance of Severide sleeping with a woman who throws herself at him, in the person of new firehouse employee Nicki Rutkowski (guest star Meghann Fahy).
It is not subtle at all, much like Severide’s fling with Hope Jacquinot (Eloise Mumford) in Chicago Fire season 6. In fact, the only sizeable difference that exists between the two scenarios is that Nicki didn’t wind up being a bit crazy. But watch this scene and you’ll see how she’s just as obvious and frankly, one-dimensional as Hope:
The fact that “Mon Amour” also has that great serious subplot for Severide is the earliest example of Chicago Fire‘s juxtaposition of his personal and professional lives. He’s so great in the storylines where he’s saving people and being a hero, but most of the time when he gets a personal subplot it just winds up being a mess (for him and often for the show). Maybe now that Stellaride is a thing that will change.
Last but certainly not least, Chicago Fire season 1 employs a similiar structure to Chicago PD season 1, in that the second episode picks up the storyline from the first. While Chicago PD had more of a direct continuation (owing to the fact it ended on a cliffhanger), Fire takes its A-story from the pilot and makes it the B-story here.
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Everyone tries to figure out what to do with Heather Darden, the widow of Andy Darden (Corey Sorenson), who is understandably not coping well with her husband’s death and blaming both Casey and Severide for it. That’s the most uncomfortable storyline in “Mon Amour,” but it’s also a nice bit of continuity. The losses people suffer stay with them, and that’s the most important part of an episode that’s as chaotic as everyone’s personal lives.
Next: Counting the rest of Kelly Severide's love interests
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