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Chicago Fire season 8’s most WTF moments

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO FIRE -- "Infection, Part I" Episode 805 -- Pictured: (l-r) Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd, Taylor Kinney as Lt. Kelly Severide, Kara Killmer as Sylvie Brett, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey -- (Photo by: Matt Dinerstein/NBC)
CHICAGO FIRE -- "Infection, Part I" Episode 805 -- Pictured: (l-r) Miranda Rae Mayo as Stella Kidd, Taylor Kinney as Lt. Kelly Severide, Kara Killmer as Sylvie Brett, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey -- (Photo by: Matt Dinerstein/NBC) /
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“Badlands” Episode 803 — Pictured: (l-r) Randy Flagler as Capp, Joe Minoso as Joe Cruz, Jesse Spencer as Matthew Casey, Taylor Kinney as Lt. Kelly Severide — (Photo by: Adrian Burrows/NBC) /

2. Casey’s romantic decisions

What happened: Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer) has an impulsive fling with a rep who comes to Firehouse 51 to install new “smart house” technology, which gets weird during foreplay after she tells him that she looked him up online. Then in the midseason finale, he likewise has a post-gala hookup with his ex-wife Gabriela Dawson (guest star Monica Raymund).

Why it’s a WTF moment: Because Casey may have exceptional judgment in the field, but he’s had terrible perspective on his personal life over the last two seasons. You could give him somewhat of a pass last season for his fling with reporter Naomi Graham (recurring guest star Kate Villanova), by saying he was heartbroken over his divorce from Dawson and needing a rebound. But what’s in season 8 has proven he hasn’t gotten any better.

Casey’s fling with the rep seems like it was inserted for comic relief, since she gets ticked off at him the next day. But it’s still a head-scratcher. We don’t see how they got to the point of hooking up, so did he just fall for another woman who threw herself at him? And her bringing up that she Googled him is not only out of the blue, it’s just weird.

Then there’s the Dawson situation. This is a lot more understandable, since he was married to her, spent years in a relationship with her, and never wanted to break up with her in the first place. But Casey specifically says when they’re in her hotel room that this is a bad idea, and he’s right. That’s when this becomes a WTF scene—not from the character’s perspective, but from the writers’ side of it.

Why have him get into bed with Dawson when you know she’s not staying? When you’ve spent half of this season and part of last season teasing the possibility that he might get together with someone else? Or, if they have to have that one last night together, Gabby could part with him after a bittersweet goodbye, agreeing that they can’t be together but will always be friends. But instead, she leaves him a romantic voicemail that makes things open-ended all over again.

It may have been great for Dawsey fans, but the plotline also essentially reset everything the writers had done over the last season and a half.

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