Chicago Fire’s 3 most frustrating characters in season 7

2. Sylvie Brett

This Chicago Fire season was a huge opportunity for Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) to grow. She had lost her partner Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund) and she’d also lost her boyfriend since the Brettonio ship had gotten derailed by behind the scenes logistics. But frustratingly, by the end of season 7, it didn’t feel like she had progressed that much.

Brett did pretty well during her first season as Paramedic in Charge. She felt more confident and didn’t let her emotions overwhelm her like they had done in seasons past. But like Foster, most of the character development she got was about her romantic life.

The season introduced a new love interest for Brett, chaplain Kyle Sheffield (Teddy Sears), and that was pretty neat. Kyle was a decent, honest, uncomplicated guy with the same kind of really charming personality as Brett. As much as we missed Brettonio, audiences could start to embrace Kyle, too. All seemed well.

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That was, until Chicago Fire did a hard pivot and broke them up for an awkward reason (a conflict of interest that you’d think one of them would have considered beforehand), then started playing into the idea of hooking Brett up with Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer). Okay, that’s abrupt, but it was still manageable.

Except then Kyle came back and proposed to Brett—and she said yes! Nothing about those last few episodes made sense. Brett’s feelings for Casey felt like she’d had a sudden epiphany. Kyle asking her to marry him when they’d only dated for maybe four months was way too fast and felt out of character for a guy who wasn’t impulsive at all.

And then there’s Brett’s logic for accepting: because Casey said something to her? She’s willing to change her whole life based on one remark from the other guy she was in love with? The writing felt like we’d all missed a couple of things somewhere. Let’s see how this all shakes out in season 8, especially because Brett can’t really be moving to Indiana.