The Big Picture Now in its sophomore season, Fire Country has been taking off like wildfire. Airing weekly on CBS with a Paramount+ encore, the fire-fighting series has built a strong fan base for itself in a short time. Series star and co-creator Max Thieriot left his long-running series SEAL Team to make this firefighter drama, and so far it's a move that's proven itself successful. But what do the real-life heroes at the firehouse say about Fire Country? Well, it's complicated.
The heart of Fire Country is the idea of personal responsibility and redemption. As Bode works hard to restore the relationships he broke years ago, he falls in love with diver-turned-firefighter Gabriella Perez , who just so happens to be the daughter of his own mentor/chief Manny . Of course, not all goes as planned, and Season 1 ends with Bode back in prison for the time, only to get out about six months later to find that Gabriella has moved on without him.
"When all these laws were implemented, not even sending these low-level inmates to jail, you start to get people that were multiple offenders with violent crimes into these camps," Edwards revealed to the LA Times. "That’s a risk not just to my members and the captains, but to the general public." Of course, Fire Country itself tackles that very issue with the character of Sleeper Hadley in Season 1, whose presence becomes a major danger to Three Rock.