‘9-1-1’ Season 9 Episode 6 Review: A Lackluster Mid-Season Finale Proves the ABC Procedural Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing Anymore

This week’s episode of 9-1-1, “Family History,” marks the mid-season finale for 9-1-1 Season 9. After opening the season with a space-themed emergency, 9-1-1 has been giving focus to storylines like Harry (

“Family History” sees Athena (Angela Bassett) investigating a cyberbullying case that reminds her of what May (Corinne Massiah) went through at the start of Season 1. All the while, Buck (

I hoped that after Chimney and Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) heart-to-heart in the Season 9 premiere that Chimney would decide to become Captain of the 118. Instead, this week’s episode shows him preparing to pass that title onto someone else. After some encouragement from Maddie (

Oddly, though, the episode doesn’t show Chimney actually changing his mind. It tries to juggle four storylines, and in doing so, sidelines Chimney’s and Hen’s plots. After dragging this decision out all season, Chimney changes his mind off-screen, and then he becomes Captain of the 118. Most of the entire first half of this season has felt transitional, so now that Chimney is Captain of the 118, hopefully, 

Athena, May, and Harry all have to revisit difficult moments from their past this episode. Athena is shaken up when tending to a teenage girl who attempted suicide due to cyberbullying, and she then tries to figure out the identity of the bully. This whole storyline felt predictable to me because it has the same twist reveal as the Netflix documentary, 

Meanwhile, Harry asks Buck to help him train to get into the firefighting academy, and this leads to some hilarious scenes, including a montage of Buck doing bizarre training exercises with Harry. It goes very well, until Harry’s Season 7 storyline of getting arrested resurfaces. For those who need a refresher: in “Buck, Bothered, and Bewildered,” Harry was unfairly arrested for defending himself against a racist shop owner, and he ended up coming to live with Athena for a while. Harry wants to give up after it comes out that he has a record, but 

In theory, Bobby’s death last season should’ve heightened the stakes of 9-1-1, because it proved that nobody was safe. Instead, it’s obvious that 

This was ultimately a lackluster mid-season finale, and I couldn’t help but wonder if this wasn’t supposed to be the mid-season finale at all, and maybe the four-episode opening emergency pushed everything back by a week. As it stands, the first half of the season ends with Harry and Chimney’s big storylines this season finally getting wrapped up, so that it feels like 

Earlier this year, Todd Chrisley received a pardon from the President. However, Patricia Altschul is a tougher sell. Unlike POTUS, this Southern Charm star refuses to absolve Todd of his verbal crimes. Instead, this queen honey bee is standing ten wealthy toes down, adamant that Charleston is not a place for a “felon” like Todd.

Todd and Patricia are the reality feud I never saw coming. Their tiny tit for tat started after Todd’s release from prison. “During the [post-prison] press conference, I had stated that we are doing a hotel and it’s going to be near Charleston, South Carolina,” Todd explained. In response, Patricia said, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”

Well, Todd did not like that. So, he made several jests about Patricia, which mainly focused on her older age and her finances. Overall, it was gross.

So, recently clapping back via Decider, Pat quipped, “He’s very irrelevant. I said four words—there goes the neighborhood — and he went on, and he did a whole program about me. It was just a comment in passing.” Nevertheless, Patricia stands by her original stance, saying, “We just don’t need any more felons in Charleston.”

Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in 2019. They swore they were innocent. Yet, they were still found guilty. In all, The Chrisleys: Back to Reality stars received a combined 19 years in federal prison, but thanks to their pardons, they walked out of their prison cells for good in May of this year.

And now, Ms. Pat wants them to heed her words and not walk toward her in Charleston.

Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on November 19, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock, or Hayu in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.