Chicago Fire season 7 character review: Wallace Boden

How was Chicago Fire season 7 for Wallace Boden? We’re looking back at how Chicago Fire’s latest season went for Eamonn Walker’s character.

As we continue to look back on Chicago Fire season 7, we’re breaking down the season for each of the show’s characters.

Did your favorite character have a good season or a bad season? What were their strong points and were there any weaknesses? Was the character affected by the show’s writing, or vice versa? Where could they go from here?

Check out our detailed character breakdown, and let us know your thoughts on how this season was for each character in the comments.

In this article, we’re profiling Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker).

What happened

In some ways, this season of Chicago Fire was similar to the last as far as Boden was concerned. He spent a large portion of it once again battling senior members of the fire department, except this season it was Jerry Gorsch (recurring guest star Steven Boyer) instead of the newly minted Fire Commissioner Carl Grissom (Gary Cole).

After promoting a surprised Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) to keep one of Gorsch’s favorites from taking a position at Firehouse 51, Boden eventually got to give him a not-so-nice goodbye after Benny Severide was able to convince Grissom to transfer the other man out. That left Boden back to running the building unscathed, riding herd on his firefighters and paramedics, and keeping them out of trouble.

One episode in the season did feature a former acquaintance of Boden’s, whom he rescued from a fire. Following his instincts, the chief uncovered that her son had a huge anger management issue and had been abusing his mom. Needless to say, Boden helped put an end to that. Unfortunately it was his one huge episode all season.