The fans have been pushing for a Burzek wedding for years. The pairing of Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) have been through enough drama to last a few different lifetimes. Heck, they've been through enough drama in the last few seasons alone.
It seems like things are finally falling in place for these two, however. Burgess and Ruzek are engaged, and while the grind of IU cases can be psychologically taxing, they appear in a good place in terms of their personal lives.
Marina Squerciati envisions a This Is Us-styled wedding
Wedding bells are around the corner for these two. It's not just the fans who are excited by the notion of a Burzek ceremony, either. Marina Squerciati reflected on what a Burzek wedding could look like in a recent TV Line interview, and she had a very unexpected vision.
The actress likened the wedding to This Is Us in terms of how romantic she'd like it to be:
"I don’t know, because I feel like it’s, like, flowers and frills and beach, and that’s, like, just everything Chicago P.D. is not."
As Squerciati notes in her answer, the melodramatic tone of This Is Us is worlds away from the grim and sobering approach that Chicago PD takes with its characters. It's hard to imagine an extremely cloying wedding fitting in with an episode that would invariably feature a case of the week.
The actress admits it would clash with PD's tone
I think everyone’s unsure how we’re going to accomplish this thing that the fans have waited for for 12 years and still respect the tone of the show," the actress added. "Because what I’m thinking is very much like This Is Us. Like, it’s not respectful of the tone."
Squerciati, perhaps attempting to balance out the scale, quipped that the writers could go the opposite way and have Burgess and Ruzek get married and then immediately solve a crime. How do you envision the Burzek wedding? Are you pro Squerciati's This Is Us version or do you hope the show takes a more hard-nosed approach?