Chicago Fire season 8 midseason report: Matthew Casey
How has Chicago Fire season 8 gone for Matthew Casey? Before Chicago Fire returns, we’re reviewing the season for Jesse Spencer’s character.
Before Chicago Fire comes back in the new year, we’re taking a moment to pause and look at the current season for each character. What are the important events that fans need to remember?
What plot developments have been good for each character, and which story points need to be improved? And of course, where could they go next when new episodes start in January?
Click through the below slideshow as we look at Chicago Fire season 8 as it relates to Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer), starting with:
What’s happened so far
The current season of Chicago Fire started relatively slow for Casey, only to ramp up toward the end with a series of what might be considered questionable decisions.
At the start of the season, we saw Casey more in his leadership role with Firehouse 51 as their Captain. Whether it was helping the team deal with the death of Otis (Yuri Sardarov) or arguing with Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) on who would fill Otis’s spot in the house, he was dealing with the big picture.
He did eventually bring in Blake Gallo (Alberto Rosende), but the two butted heads in one episode when Gallo defied Casey’s orders on a house fire—motivated by his own tragic history that Casey found out about after the fact.
Casey’s personal life remained a mess in Chicago Fire season 8. It wasn’t as bad as last season, but there was another random fling, this one with a tech rep who creepily admitted during their foreplay that she had looked him up online. Casey’s sort of, maybe, might be tension with Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer) remained unaddressed; instead, the show brought back his ex-wife Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund).
After finding out that Dawson had come back to Chicago specifically to see him, Casey shared a night of passion with her in her hotel room, and received a phone message from Dawson saying that there would always be room in her tent for him. So is the show going back to its Dawsey roots, or steering him toward Brett, or is Casey just going to be permanently confused?