From the creators of Glee. The opening episode is both pacy, superficial and glib.
The narration comes courtesy of Abby Clark (Connie Britton.) The 9-1-1 operator who can handle life or death emergency calls, it is her private life that is in a mess.
Abby has to coordinate with the police, ambulance or the firefighters. Sometimes all three.
In the opening minutes the emergency services are in an apartment block looking for a new born baby flushed down a toilet and trapped in some pipes behind a wall.
Later the firefighters attend a woman who is being strangled by her own pet python. Someone is for the chop in that one.
Fireman Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) has to break in hotshot newbie Buck (Oliver Stark.) This young Buck thinks his job is a good way to pull the ladies.
The most interesting character is veteran policewoman Athena Grant (Angela Bassett.) She already has had a run in with Buck but she is reeling from her husband who has come out of the closet.
There was plenty of shock value in this pilot, a little girl home alone while some burglars break in leads to a race against time. However it has very little that is original to offer. Like Buck, they are two dimensional characters in LA LA land.
The narration comes courtesy of Abby Clark (Connie Britton.) The 9-1-1 operator who can handle life or death emergency calls, it is her private life that is in a mess.
Abby has to coordinate with the police, ambulance or the firefighters. Sometimes all three.
In the opening minutes the emergency services are in an apartment block looking for a new born baby flushed down a toilet and trapped in some pipes behind a wall.
Later the firefighters attend a woman who is being strangled by her own pet python. Someone is for the chop in that one.
Fireman Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) has to break in hotshot newbie Buck (Oliver Stark.) This young Buck thinks his job is a good way to pull the ladies.
The most interesting character is veteran policewoman Athena Grant (Angela Bassett.) She already has had a run in with Buck but she is reeling from her husband who has come out of the closet.
There was plenty of shock value in this pilot, a little girl home alone while some burglars break in leads to a race against time. However it has very little that is original to offer. Like Buck, they are two dimensional characters in LA LA land.