Chicago Fire season 8, episode 6 takeaways: What Went Wrong

What can Chicago Fire fans learn from What Went Wrong? Look closer at this week’s episode with our Chicago Fire season 8, episode 6 takeaways.

What did One Chicago fans learn from the latest Chicago Fire episode? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “What Went Wrong.”

“What Went Wrong” featured Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) disciplining new recruit Blake Gallo (recurring guest star Alberto Rosende) for a mistake in the field, before finding out the true story of Gallo’s past that had been revealed to fans in a previous episode.

If you missed any of this week’s episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re about to discuss, you can catch up with our Chicago Fire recap.

Below are our takeaways from this week’s episode:

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1) Did Casey take too long?

The whole point of “What Went Wrong” is that Casey comes down too hard on Gallo because he doesn’t know the context of Gallo’s actions until near the end of the episode. However, it felt like he could have caught on earlier.

Gallo wasn’t going to tell Casey the truth without being prompted, but near the middle of the episode, our captain makes a sort of halfway attempt to ask him about it. The problem is he doesn’t really get there. It’s an awkward conversation and so it’s no wonder that Casey doesn’t get clued in.

That feels weird for the normally pretty capable Casey. It seems like he should have been able to sit Gallo down and gently approach the issue. He could have even said, “Chief Boden told me about your history so is that why you did what you did?”

There wouldn’t be any shame in that, aside from maybe Gallo worrying about Boden knowing, which Casey could have easily assuaged. Casey got to the right place in the end, but couldn’t he have gotten there in a simpler way?

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2) Should OFI have listened to Severide sooner?

Chicago Fire had a blink-worthy moment when OFI chief Van Meter told Severide that “you knew I would” take a look into his suspicion that the house fire was arson, since his hunches were usually right.

So if Van Meter knew that, why dismiss him the first time? Why not just say that when Severide first came to his office? Even if it was something like “I’m busy with all these backlogged cases, but I’ll try to look into it” or “I’ll think about it” would have been better, if Van Meter had even the slightest inclination to trust Severide’s instincts.

3) The lounge subplot was a bust

This episode’s B-story about a “women’s lounge” had shades of Chicago Med‘s terrible subplot about the “TV room” in the hospital. Both of them added nothing to the show and came off as ridiculous. The ladies have been working with these guys for years, with the exception of Foster; only now have they had enough of their quirks? It’s not like the men suddenly developed a bunch of annoying qualities.

Plus, one moment smacked of being a bit unfair. When Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker) is on the fence about the idea, Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) asks him if he has a problem with women having their own personal space. Maybe that was supposed to be funny, but it comes off as a bad ultimatum: either approve their lounge or come off as being sexist. It’s good that this subplot was short-lived.

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