Chicago Fire’s 3 most frustrating characters in season 7
Which Chicago Fire characters drove us crazy during the most recent season? Count down Chicago Fire season 7’s most frustrating characters.
Now that we’ve ranked the best characters in Chicago Fire‘s latest season, it’s time to flip the script and ask: who are the characters who were the most frustrating?
These are not the worst characters, or characters that we don’t like. These are the characters who got a terrible storyline this season, or behaved slightly out of character, or got the short end of the proverbial stick when it came to character development. We wanted better for them, and it didn’t happen.
We’ve narrowed it down to three characters who, in a season that felt like a period of transition for Firehouse 51, had us shaking our heads or wanting to shake them a time or two.
Click through this slideshow to see our picks for Chicago Fire‘s most frustrating characters during season 7, and let us know who would be on your short list in the comments at the end of the article.
3. Emily Foster
New paramedic Emily Foster (Annie Ilonzeh) just joined Chicago Fire this season, so there were some natural growing pains as the audience got used to her—and so did the writers. They’re still figuring out who she is and what direction they want to take her in, and that showed during season 7.
What was frustrating about Foster was the overemphasis on her personal life. Her biggest story of the season was that she had a one-night stand with a doctor who turned out to be obsessed with her; that didn’t really feel like a storyline that fit the show, let alone one that gave us that much of a look into who Foster is.
And while it’s great that she’s bisexual, giving One Chicago its first LGBTQ main character since the death of Leslie Shay (Lauren German), it felt like the show had to remind us of that more than was necessary.
Take, for example, the episode that opened with Foster somewhat smugly talking about a date (Brett: “I thought she was straight.” Foster: “So did she.”). That exchange didn’t have any kind of relevance to the episode, and it came across as the writers going out of their way to remind us of Foster’s sexual orientation.
Another frustrating point was that a potentially great friendship between Foster and Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney) got truncated because Chicago Fire made it about Stellaride and Stella Kidd’s (Miranda Rae Mayo) jealousy.
Foster having a friend other than Brett would have fleshed her out more, as would Severide having someone outside of Stella to talk to, but that didn’t get utilized as much as it could have. Hopefully in season 8, Foster will continue to grow and be developed further.