Contains spoilers for “Fire Country” Season 4, Episode 4 — “Like a Wounded Wildebeest”
Bode Leone (played by former child star Max Thieriot) is notorious for making the worst possible choices with his time, safety, and life in “Fire Country,” so it’s not surprising that he turns away from what’s been a supportive and healthy relationship with Audrey James (Leven Rambin) to try to keep his head above water. It’s a disappointing twist, but probably not that surprising after his brief reconnection with Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) before her departure at the beginning of the season.
Not only do Audrey and Bode break up, she tells him she’s leaving Station 42 for a job at another firehouse. That’s another discouraging twist, and if she goes it will result in “Fire Country” continuing on without an interesting female lead at the station besides Sharon (Diane Farr). There’s no sign so far that Rambin will stop appearing on the drama, though. Which is a good thing, because Bode and Audrey’s relationship — and Audrey herself — really never stood a chance when compared to Gabi’s legacy.
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Audrey staring at a fire in “Fire Country” – Sergei Bachlakov/CBS
Audrey and Bode barely had a half-season of romantic interaction under their belts over the course of Season 3 and Season 4 before breaking up, making their assignation unfortunately brief and largely untested. They did take a big step forward by sharing a kiss, but the show never seemed interested in giving the two of them much of a chance, even when Gabriela was busy having a major emotional breakdown and acting recklessly in the wake of her aborted Season 2 wedding.
The character development the show has given Audrey thus far is also wildly underwritten. The only storyline she has had during her brief time on the show involved her helping Gabriela while Gabi was being stalked by her boyfriend, then shooting him when he menaced them both. The charges against Audrey were dropped earlier in the season, turning her only major plot point into a moot point. If Audrey leaves now, her existence on the show, as well as her storyline, will be forever under-explored — a promising idea that never took root in the rich soil of Cal Fire.
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Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton’s announcement her recently released album, “Bluebird of Happiness,” will be her last — at least for a while — and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.
The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.
Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.
A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a “champagne bar” modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.
Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.
The three-story mansion’s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen’s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.
Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television’s Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.