Chicago Fire season 8 character review: Stella Kidd

How was Chicago Fire season 8 for Stella Kidd? We’re looking back at how Chicago Fire’s latest season went for Miranda Rae Mayo’s character.

As we continue to look back on Chicago Fire season 8, 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 Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo).

What happened

When you compare Chicago Fire season 8 to past seasons, Stella had things relatively easy this time around. She didn’t need to be rushed to a hospital, she didn’t have any of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriends popping back up again, and there wasn’t anyone from her past returning to give her a headache.

That’s kind of ironic because the theme of the first half of her season was that Stella had too much going on and couldn’t juggle it all. Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) decided that she had leadership potential, and sent her to an important conference despite the fact that it was only supposed to be for officers. Even so, Stella impressed everybody there and put her career on an immediate fast track.

She was briefly teaching at the fire academy in addition to her duties at Firehouse 51, until she caused a car accident. While she quit that job, that didn’t stop Stella from taking on another teaching role: in the second half of the season, Chicago Fire had her start a group called Girls on Fire, where she and her friends mentored high school girls hoping to become firefighters.