Max Thieriot stars as a man who joins California's inmate firefighter program in hopes of reducing his sentence — and finds himself assigned to serve the very hometown he fled years ago.
Max Thieriot, Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway, Jules LatimerMax Thieriot, Jerry Bruckheimer, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Tia Napolitano, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, inspired by Thieriot’s own experiences growing up in a fire-prone area of California , finds Bode enlisting in the program only as a last resort, after he’s denied for parole. Yet despite his inexperience, he quickly proves a natural.
The series takes its time mapping out precisely how all the principal players are connected to Bode, adding a bit of soapy intrigue to go with the flame-based episodic storylines.
But they’re let down by a script that sounds too often like a first draft waiting for some nuance and personality to flesh out its core ideas.could spend some time exploring the psychologies of its firefighters — what attracts them to such dangerous jobs in the first place and what makes them excel at it, and the personal toll that constant peril can take on a person’s life.
It’s a missed opportunity to dig into the specific experiences of California’s inmate firefighters — to examine the relationship between professional firefighters and their incarcerated counterparts, or to question how participants in the program whoangsty heroes forced to return to their hometowns might feel about the bargain they’ve struck. Nor doeshave any apparent interest in delving into the causes and effects of the steadily increasing fire risk in California, thanks to climate change.
As advice goes, it’s not terrible. But it is telling that Manny offers it just to Bode, while surrounded by empty prison cots that remind us that Bode is one of many. While Bode worries that his redemption will be hard to come by,‘s already made up its mind by portraying him as an exceptional individual so clearly deserving of it — even womanizer Jake and anguished Vince are painted as more obviously flawed, Bode’s armed robbery conviction notwithstanding.
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