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'9-1-1' Showrunner Explains Major Character Death, Angela Bassett Reacts
‘9-1-1’ showrunner Tim Minear explained why a major character died in season 8 and costar Angela Bassett shared her thoughts
In an interview with Deadline published Thursday, Minear explained that after eight seasons of the first-responder characters surviving various high-stakes scenarios, he felt it was time viewers saw the potential consequences of their perilous work. One of the show’s longest-running relationships is between police office Athena (Angela Bassett) and firefighter Bobby (Peter Krause), who started dating at the end of season 1 and […] “And then once I came up with this idea for the lab leak episode, that’s when it solidified for me that it was time to do it, it felt like a real opportunity to give somebody an epic Wrath of Khan-like death.”
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