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Chicago Tribune
11-06-2025
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- Chicago Tribune
Summer books 2025: Get lost in our shelves of Chicago, spiritual or just plain weird books
Summer reading, if you ask me, should meander, without a plan. Pick up, put down, misplace, leave crusty with sand or warped with humidity. Fall is for rigor, winter for hunkering down, spring for peering ahead, but the right summer read is a promising dirt road in a field. Someday, when I open a bookstore and the big bucks roll in, I'll shelve titles in very narrow categories, ensuring no one finds anything — except what they didn't know they wanted. This summer survey will be my trial run. A lot of what's here is due to be published over the next six weeks. Some, released in spring but better for summer, are out now. Sorry, I don't know where travel books are, but over there … More Chicago Than Chicago: Soon as I finished Peter Orner's 'The Gossip Columnist's Daughter' (Aug. 12), I emailed the Highland Park native: Has there ever been a more Chicago novel? He said, living in Vermont, he gets his dose of Chicago however he can. Boy, does he: The title refers to Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Chicago writer Irv Kupcinet. She was found dead in 1963. Orner starts there, then veers to conspiracy, Skokie, podcasts, the Cape Cod Room. It's a blast. Don't Drink the Water: Why wait to find out what dismantling environmental regulations will mean? 'They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals,' by the terrific, underrated investigative writer Mariah Blake, traces the unholy conspiracy between DuPont and the United States government to downplay the effects of indestructible chemicals in household products, tap water, etc. It's a small-town horror movie that also happens to be true. Ditto for 'Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers,' by Caroline Fraser, whose Laura Ingalls Wilder bio, 'Prairie Fires,' took a 2018 Pulitzer. Tough to classify and not to be missed: a history of the Pacific Northwest's most infamous, paired with a touch of memoir and a fascinating linking of homicidal tendencies with childhoods marked by industrial waste. Inspired by Celluloid: 'King of Ashes' (June 10), by crime writer S.A. Cosby, at the peak of his powers, nods quietly to 'The Godfather,' though at times, it's more ambitious: The controlling son of a small-town Southern crematorium owner, whose wife disappeared years ago, returns to the family business, only to find it indebted to another family, of killers. It's rousing, queasy — and being adapted by Steven Spielberg and the Obamas for a Netflix series. (Read the book first.) 'The El' (Aug. 12) wears its influence more overtly: Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., an Indigenous writer of Chicago fiction, transplants the grimy 1979 New York classic 'The Warriors' to the CTA, and a Native gang member navigating hostile territory, a very '70s Chicago, and, well … Alice Cooper. Faith and Loathing in Chicagoland: 'My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy' reads like remembering itself. Poet Edward Hirsch recounts '50s-'60s suburban Chicago through bursts of memory, dialogue, jokes, stray images, doctored wedding pictures, no one in homeroom listening to announcements, your age in relation to the construction of the Edens Expressway, etc. It's a lot of fun, gathering steam with a poignance that wallops. 'Pan' (July 22), by Chicago's Michael Clune — of the harrowing 2013 memoir about heroin addiction, 'White Out' — finds suburban Chicago childhood as an ethereal, cultural testing ground for a student convinced his panic attacks are linked to Greek myth, and a vaguely menacing clubhouse called the Barn. Just as impressive: 'The Nimbus' (June 10), the debut novel of Robert P. Baird, a University of Chicago Divinity School graduate. The setting is a Chicago campus, the premise is a child who , though like Clune, Baird grounds the uncanny in notes of faith, philosophy, resilience. Doorstop Biographies: 'Baldwin: A Love Story' (Aug. 19) is sure to devour the last days of summer for James Baldwin fans. It's the first sizable bio in decades, and Nicholas Boggs' approach (alternately inspired and frustrating) is to tell the author's life through Baldwin's relationships with lovers and collaborators. Not including William F. Buckley Jr., who famously debated Baldwin on race in 1965 (the subject of TimeLine Theatre's hit play last February). Sam Tanenhaus's 'Buckley' illuminates that episode, and more — the Whittaker Chambers biographer uses the conservative lodestar as a main street cutting through ideology, with off-ramps for Nixon, Joe McCarthy, but also Disney and the failure to address AIDS. It's a brick, and a well-paced road map to 2025. Ron Chernow, the contemporary king of doorstops (Hamilton, Washington), is back with 'Mark Twain,' which plays the greatest hits, with an emphasis on unpublished papers, Twain the iffy businessman, Twain the fame addicted, and Twain the unknowable Zelig. Spiritual Complications: If Chicago's contribution to the papacy has you curious about faith, 'The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy in the 1980s' is a must. Paul Elie, one of our finest thinkers on the connections between religion and culture, bookends this history with Bob Dylan's evangelical era and Sinead O'Conner's pope protest, using the intervening decade for a virtuosic revisiting of 'Last Temptation of Christ,' Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, Prince, making a smart argument for how the '80s introduced a new secular age. Struggling to believe is the focus of 'Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century,' Stephen Harrigan's story of the 1917 'miracle' in Portugal, in which the Biblical Mary was said to have visited three children. Harrigan, mixing memoir and history, traces the fallout. Girl, So Confusing: Take a second to admire the titles: 'The Girls Who Grew Big' (June 24) by Leila Mottley, and 'Clam Down' by Anelise Chen. Inside isn't bad either: Following her viral hit 'Nightcrawling,' Mottley finds a new path for coming-of-age tales, sketches of young moms, wound together with heartbreaks and pushback. (If you're tempted to see its characters as 'reckless,' one mother warns, 'you clearly haven't ever had to learn how to massage gas out of a baby's stomach before you learned the basic laws of physics.') 'Clam Down,' billed as a memoir, tinkers so cleverly with form, I kept forgetting it wasn't fiction. After a divorce, the author takes her mother's typo-filled emails to heart: She will, indeed, down, adopting the humble crustacean as a model for her future, pulling inward. A break-up tale, natural history and family story. Totally original. A History of Violence: Bryan Burrough, whose 'Public Enemies' became a bestselling account of the Days of Dillinger (and later a Johnny Depp movie), offers a sort of prequel with 'The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild,' a fleet deconstruction of American history perhaps known better as folklore than truth. His subjects — Butch Cassidy, Dodge City, etc. — were not fables, and their reality was occasionally nastier, and Midwestern. (Wyatt Earp, a part-time Illinois bartender and pimp, was nicknamed by local newspapers 'the Peoria bummer.') 'Charlottesville,' in its own way, brings a simmering 'High Noon'-esque unease to its retelling of August 2017 and the 'very fine people on both sides' who converged over a Civil War statue. Despite being a decade removed, journalist Deborah Baker discovers a 'Gimmie Shelter'-ish, era-defining immediacy, and decades of backstory to a seismic event often reduced to tiki torches. Genre Redux: Want to read something fun this summer? Smart? But also classic? Valancourt Books, one of my favorite small presses, just reissued six works by Robert Bloch, born in Chicago, raised in Maywood, who went on to write 'Psycho,' the basis for the film. He was also one of the most influential scary writers of the 20th century. Start with short stories: 'Pleasant Dreams,' from 1960, collects 15 pulpy tales of witches, devils, ravenous houses. If you're thinking crime: Picador just started a three-year-long reissue of 70 novels by Georges Simenon, whose Inspector Maigret became known as the French Sherlock Holmes, with a little Chandler angst. Start here: 'The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien' (1931), in which the stakes are primarily Maigret's guilty conscience. Histories You Don't Know: 'The American Game,' by sports writer S.L. Price, is one of the year's best, a look at the colonialism, elitism and the future of lacrosse, from its WASPy image to an Iroquois team intent on entering the 2028 Olympics under their own Native flag. 'Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age' (July 22) hits Chicago's sweet spot: Architecture and scandal. Specifically, the friendship and whispered-about love between architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (whose best-known Chicago work is Lincoln Park's 'Standing Lincoln'). 'Dining Out,' by former Chicagoan Erik Piepenburg, begins with the Lakeview's long-gone Melrose restaurant, then reveals how LGBTQ+ patrons were shaped by diners, pancake houses, coffee shops. 'The Afterlife of Malcolm X' by Mark Whitaker is the sort of lively cultural history I'd love more of — not a biography, but a study of how one voice resonates through culture. Hollywood Histories You Don't Know: Ignore the glib title: Bruce Handy's 'Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies' is a shrewd elevation of the genre to the status of noirs and Westerns, reserving a chapter for the North Shore classics of John Hughes, and not missing anything, from Andy Hardy to 'Dazed and Confused,' 'Cooley High.' Similarly, 'Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness,' one of the year's best, skips a dull scholarly take for a sharp, clever critical reading full of drama and anecdote and surprises: Did you know that the reviled Hays Code, which shut down studio treatments of gay people (as well as profanity and violence) for 34 years, began with a meeting at Loyola University? How Well Do We Know Anyone: Catherine Lacey was a Chicago writer, but as with her previous tear-downs of fiction and biography made evident, and 'The Möbius Book' (June 17) makes thrillingly personal, rooting her is a waste: Lacey here uses the fallout of a relationship with another Chicago writer as a path to friends, faith and understanding how narratives curl, never ending. Susan Choi's 'Flashlight' is her best novel yet, and though it isn't a mystery, I hesitate to say much about its story of a kidnapped father, other than: If you feel little connection to geopolitics right now, you will after reading this portrait of a family splintering between Korea, Japan and the U.S. Fighting Illini We Have Known: The Washington Post's Pulitzer-winning critic Robin Givhan won't be the last biographer of late Chicago-based, Rockford-bred designer Virgil Abloh, but 'Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh' (June 24) sets the standard with a reverential, necessarily digressive tour of how an influential polymath, architecture student and Kanye collaborator refigured how art, inclusivity and fashion meld. Likewise, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones' 'Allan Pinkerton: America's Legendary Detective and The Birth of Private Security' is not the first history of how a Scottish native built a private security (and union-smashing) empire in suburban Dundee, but it's a fresh look at the man's complicated, contradictory politics. Your Fourth of July Read: 'Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service' doesn't shout summer, but these portraits of federal workers — by Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Michael Lewis and others — headline commitment (NASA), brains (Department of Labor) and decency (National Cemetery Administration), with such humor, it's the civics lesson that could recruit smart people, someday. 'So Far Gone' (June 10) is 'True Grit' by way of 'Big Lebowski,' rippling in 2025 disgust. Which means it's both hilarious and desperate. The always underrated Jess Walter ('Beautiful Ruins') sculpts an indelible outcast, Rhys Kinnick, former journalist. He punches his MAGA son-in-law, ditches his cell phone and retreats to a cabin — until his grandchildren are taken by a militia. As a summer read, it's an escape, and a sharp stick in the eye. Funny Ha Ha: I hate the word 'humorous.' It's always used by the least funny people. 'That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor' is . Roy Wood Jr. of 'The Daily Show' on bombing at the Apollo. A group chat about West Virginia toilets. Grandmas who say: 'I don't like people hovering over my shoulder when I'm working.' Read slowly, savor. Same for 'Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin.' Truth in marketing: A wonderful compilation of his short novels ('Shopgirl,' 'The Pleasure of My Company') mingled with a great assortment of his New Yorker works. Sample line: 'I started with the phone book. Looking up Mensa was not going to be easy …' Thoughtfully Gruesome: Nobody's ever accused Evanston-based Daniel Kraus of phoning it in, and his latest novel, 'Angel Down' (July 29), is even more audacious than 'Whalefall,' his 2023 hit about a man inside a whale. This one, set during World War I, follows soldiers who find, yes, an angel. Kraus' prose boldly resembles a prayer — bursts of liturgy, each paragraph starting with 'And,' then fairies and gore. 'Salt Bones' (July 22), the debut novel of poet Jennifer Givhan, finds Persephone and Demeter in a parched, barbed Underworld, just shy of mythical: As children go missing on the Mexican border, a mother is seeing images of a beckoning horse-headed figure. Smart Writers Waxing on About Random Stuff for a Discrete Amount of Time: How else to describe 50 years of eclectic work from the New Yorker's Jamaica Kincaid? 'Putting Myself Together: Writing 1973 —' (Aug. 5) collects essays on daffodils, her native Antigua, Diana Ross, all in that inimitable plain-spoken voice. 'Life and Art' is a smart title for the preoccupations of novelist Richard Russo, whose great subjects (dusty towns, idiot relatives, the trouble with writing about your neighbors) get the same inviting treatment in these warm essays as they do in his rich novels, at a fraction of the length. 'The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich' (even better title) gathers a decade of stories by New Yorker writer (and Tribune alumnus) Evan Osnos on the grotesquely wealthy. A profile of Mark Zuckerberg. How to hire a pop star for a birthday party. The country club crowd's nose-holding embrace of Trumpism. Support groups for disgraced investor bros. You will throw this book across the room — albeit, . Graphic Memoirs: Alison Bechdel's 'Spent: A Comic Novel' is just vaguely fiction. It tells the story of a Vermont cartoonist/pygmy goat farmer named Alison Bechdel, whose memoir (like the real Bechdel's 'Fun Home') becomes a smash, changing her relationship to family and neighbors. It's also a funny skewering of cultural pretense — on the right and left, though most cuttingly on the left. Conversely, Jeff Lemire's '10,000 Ink Stains' (July 15) is the most straight-ahead cartoonist memoir in ages: Known for his wistfully-illustrated indie hits such as 'Black Hammer' and 'Sweet Tooth' (adapted as a popular Netflix series), Lemire mixes in work-in-progress and prose to show how a creative life swings daily from the stifling ('X-Men') to the exhilarating ('Essex County'). Not Murder Podcasts: Rich Cohen, Glencoe native, Connecticut resident, prolific chronicler of the Bears, the Cubs and the North Shore, is never short on good bingeable books. 'Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story' only resembles tabloid fodder. It's a color guard of red flags above a Connecticut town (like Glencoe, only wealthier), within a disjointed marriage, among 'American aristocracy,' leading to the ugliest of deaths. More eccentric but no less lurid: Matthew Gavin Frank's 'Submersed: Wonder, Obsession and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines,' a fascinating mash of crime narrative, psychological profiling and a peek inside the same misogynistic, all-consuming inventor culture that led to the Titan submersible implosion — a history of obsessives who, as Frank writes with a wink, 'were not always the best of influences.' Losing Touch with Reality: The hero of Lincoln Michel's 'Metallic Realms' is Lincoln, the intense No. 1 fan of a sci-fi writing group that doesn't take itself quite as seriously. Shifting between the tales they churn out and squabbles that intrude on friendships, Michel builds an elegant homage to imagination. Speaking of creativity: 'An Oral History of Atlantis' (July 29), is the first story collection by Ed Park, whose 2023 novel, 'Same Bed Different Dreams' was rightly a Pulitzer finalist. Here, life choices are charted while trying to remember a phone password. A wife on Ambien floats through a surreal mirror life. A man in apocalyptic Manhattan tries to retain any shred of normalcy, like rereading 'The Chicago Manual of Style,' in the hope that 'civilization can start anew.' Difficult Music: 'Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us' (July 22), the passion project of Chicagoan (and co-editor) Martha Bayne, is an overdue assemblage (by Megan Stielstra, Neko Case and others), touching on protest, resilience — the ways O'Connor's career, as Stielstra puts it, 'lives in the body.' The hard part is dissecting a legend without soiling a mystery. 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of 'Born to Run'' (Aug. 5), by Bruce biographer Peter Ames Carlin, shows the unapologetic awe familiar to Boss appreciation, but his meticulous recreation of a struggling artist crafting his own mythology . Likewise, 'The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the Partnership That Rocked the World' (Aug. 5) is no addendum. Peter Guralnick's beloved two-part Presley bio was definitive, but here, a great writer complicates old accusations of exploitation lobbed at Parker, using a ton of unreleased letters. Misplaced Gems: That Nettie Jones's beuatifully scandalizing 'Fish Tales' — bought by Toni Morrison when she was a Random House editor — could be lost for 41 years seems impossible: There's enough coke, orgies and power dynamics in this fearless party-girl novel to fuel canonization for decades. While you're at it, also slip Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain' into a beach bag. First published in 1977, but written during World War II, this lovely reissue recalls the ocean of Rachel Carson and woods of Annie Dillard, yet in the Scottish mountains, giving a taxonomy of place, and a stirring long stare at nature. As Shepherd writes, 'life pours back.' If You Loved 'The Studio,' You'd Love: We know Hollywood may as well be Mars. But 'The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood,' by Matthew Specktor, son of CAA agent Fred Specktor, is shades stranger, a goodbye to a lifestyle, drawing in criticism, fiction, history, family tales — excitingly original. 'Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly' (June 10) is not the gonzo Hunter S. Thompson tour of LaLa Land it's being sold as. It's oodles more measured, employing the rise and fall of Spears for a humid, sleazy invite to the ninth circle of hell, where tabloid press reside. If you've considered trailing Brad Pitt, this will change those plans. Buzzy, Buzzy: What says summer more than a novel about friendships splintering while on vacation? Hal Ebbott's 'Among Friends' (June 24) works a spell reminiscent of John Updike's, showing how class angst and way too much familiarity can sever the bonds between a pair of families at a country home. Dwyer Murphy's 'The House on Buzzards Bay' (June 24), in keeping with his underrated thriller 'The Stolen Coast,' inserts a David Lynchian dreaminess into a whodunit about a tight group of college friends reuniting on Cape Cod. There's a vanishing, then an intrusion. Tried / True / Terrific: The latest Laura Lippman, 'Murder Takes a Vacation' (June 25), is what publishing calls a 'cozy,' as in cuddly. A grandmother, assistant to Lippman's Tess Monaghan P.I., attracts an unlikely beau in Paris. Lippman, like Stephen King, or Megan Abbott, brings such an assured voice, you don't mind the familiarity. Luckily, Abbott is comfortably back with 'El Dorado Drive' (June 24), about a pyramid scheme that pulls several women into a dangerous bond. 'Never Flinch,' King's annual offering, brings back investigator Holly Gibney for another Midwest riff on hardboiled detective fiction. It's flabby, even for King, yet so reliably King — it's pretty cozy.
Time of India
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
9-1-1 Season 8 episode 17: "Don't Drink the Water" - Air date, time, storyline, and streaming details
The eighth season of the high-stakes emergency response drama 9-1-1 continues with its seventeenth episode, titled " Don't Drink the Water ," set to premiere on Thursday, May 8, 2025, on ABC at 8 pm ET. Following a brief pause between previous episodes, the 118 team will face a new and volatile crisis. For viewers preferring to stream, the episode will be available on Hulu in the US. Global Air Times and Where to Watch Here's a breakdown of the air times for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 17 across various regions: United States (ET): 8:00 PM on ABC United States (CT): 7:00 PM on ABC Brazil: 9:00 PM United Kingdom: 12:00 AM (May 9) Central Europe: 1:00 AM (May 9) India: 5:30 AM (May 9) Australia: 10:30 AM (May 9) New Zealand: 12:00 PM (May 9) Viewers in the United States can watch the new episode live on ABC. Operation Sindoor 'Pakistan army moving its troops in forward areas': Key takeaways from govt briefing 'Pak used drones, long-range weapons, jets to attack India's military sites' 'Attempted malicious misinformation campaign': Govt calls out Pakistan's propaganda Those with cable subscriptions can also stream it live or on-demand by logging in to or use their credentials to login to the ABC app. For streaming-only viewers in the US, the episode will be available on Hulu the following day. International fans can catch "Don't Drink the Water" on Disney+, also typically the day after its US broadcast. Expected Episode Duration While the official runtime for Episode 17 has not been formally announced, consistent with previous episodes in Season 8, viewers can anticipate the episode to be approximately 45 minutes in length. The majority of episodes this season have maintained a duration between 40 and 45 minutes, delivering intense emergency scenarios and character-driven narratives within that timeframe. What to Expect in 'Don't Drink the Water' The central emergency in 'Don't Drink the Water' involves a dangerous methane leak that causes an alarming and unpredictable phenomenon: everyday household items, including water itself, are catching fire. The 118 team will be thrust into a rapidly escalating building fire, where their skills and courage will be tested as they race against time to control the raging flames and prevent further catastrophic damage. In the midst of this high-stakes crisis, a significant personal storyline will unfold for Hen. Athena, recognizing her leadership qualities and capabilities, will suggest that Hen consider taking over as captain. However, Hen grapples with uncertainty and hesitation about embracing such a significant responsibility, even though Athena firmly believes she is the ideal candidate for the role. This season of 9-1-1 has been characterized by a relentless series of intense emergencies, showcasing the unpredictable nature of their work. The season began with a bizarre tornado involving bees, followed by a hazardous lab accident that tragically resulted in the death of Captain Bobby Nash. Now, the team faces the equally perilous and unusual threat of fires ignited by a volatile methane leak, highlighting the constant challenges and dangers they confront. Upcoming Episode Schedule To keep viewers informed of the immediate future of 9-1-1 Season 8, here is the schedule for the next two episodes: Episode 17 – Don't Drink the Water: May 8, 2025 Episode 18 – Title TBA: May 15, 2025 The next two episodes promise to continue the gripping narratives and intense emergency situations that have made 9-1-1 a fan favorite, ensuring viewers remain on the edge of their seats.
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
9-1-1 Season 8: What to expect in latest episode? See Episode 17 air date, time, upcoming episode schedule and where to watch
9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 17 will premiere on May 8, 2025. The episode is titled Don't Drink the Water. Viewers can watch it on ABC at 8 pm ET. It will also be available later on Hulu and Disney+. The show returns after a short delay between previous episodes. #Operation Sindoor India-Pakistan Clash Live Updates| Missiles, shelling, and attacks — here's all that's happening Pakistani Air Force jet shot down in Pathankot by Indian Air Defence: Sources India on high alert: What's shut, who's on leave, and state-wise emergency measures Episode Air Date, Time and Where to Watch The new episode will air on May 8, 2025 at 8 pm ET on ABC. It will also be available in other time zones at 7 pm CT and 9 pm Brazil Time. On May 9, it will be released at 12 am UK Time, 1 am CEST, 5:30 am IST, 10:30 am Australia Time and 12 pm New Zealand Time. For those who prefer streaming, the episode will be available on Hulu the next day in the US and on Disney+ in international regions. They can also log in to or use the ABC app with their credentials. Also Read: Denmark's King Frederik X and Queen Mary move to new home. This is what happened by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Want to know more? click here Undo Expected Runtime An official runtime has not been shared. However, based on previous episodes, viewers can expect a duration of around 45 minutes. Most episodes this season have run between 40 and 45 minutes. What to Expect The main story involves a methane leak. The gas causes household items, including water, to catch fire. The 118 team responds to a building fire that spreads fast. They try to control the flames and prevent further damage. Live Events Meanwhile, Athena suggests Hen take over as captain. Hen is not sure if she wants the responsibility. She shows hesitation even though Athena believes she is the right person for the role. This season has presented one crisis after another. It began with a tornado involving bees. Later, a lab accident created a biohazard. This led to the death of Bobby Nash. Now, the team is dealing with fires caused by methane. Upcoming Episode Schedule Episode 17 – Don't Drink the Water: May 8, 2025 Episode 18 – Title TBA: May 15, 2025 FAQs Where can I watch 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 17 after it airs? You can stream the episode on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in other regions the day after it airs on ABC. What time does Episode 17 of 9-1-1 Season 8 air? It airs on May 8, 2025, at 8pm ET on ABC, with different times across global time zones.
Economic Times
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
9-1-1 Season 8 new promo reveals who will be replacing Bobby Nash as 118 captain
While 9-1-1 fans had been hoping for Bobby Nash to return from the dead, the last episode showed an emotional funeral for their captain, and now fans await to see who will take over the leadership role. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads A City in Peril: Flames Flow Through Faucets Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Who Will Lead Station 118? Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Balancing Duty and Grief What Lies Ahead FAQs Is there a new captain leading Station 118? What happened to Captain Bobby Nash? As the eighth season of ABC's high-octane drama 9-1-1 nears its finale, the series takes a characteristically dramatic turn, balancing grief with the emotional farewell to Station 118's longtime captain Bobby Nash (Peter Krause), the newly released 9-1-1 promo suggests the crew is far from any sense of true 9-1-1 fashion, the penultimate episode brings not just emotional reckoning, but literal fire in the 'Don't Drink the Water,' the May 8 episode continues the show's tradition of blending personal tragedy with large-scale trailer reveals an environmental catastrophe brewing in Los Angeles, with methane-contaminated water igniting in household bulletins within the promo warn of fiery eruptions, setting the stage for a full-blown emergency that brings the team face-to-face with disaster once to the official synopsis, a recent earthquake triggers multiple unusual fires across the 118 must act swiftly to identify the source and prevent further harm, all while grappling with Bobby's stakes are high — both professionally and 9-1-1 promo also highlights the simmering question of leadership at Station 118. In a quiet but significant exchange, Sergeant Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) tells Hen Wilson (Aisha Hinds), 'The best thing for the 118 would be you as captain', as mentioned in a report by visibly unsure, responds, 'What if I don't want it?'Series showrunner Tim Minear has confirmed that a permanent replacement for Bobby will not be appointed before the season ends.'There is an interim captain in place, but the chair is still symbolically empty,' Minear said in a recent remaining episodes, he noted, are more focused on how the team copes with their loss than who inherits elaborated that the final arc of Season 8 is intended to be a meditation on love, loss, and resilience.'Even in their grief, they're first responders. They have to put that aside and work together to save people,' he 17 is expected to introduce a 'mass casualty event' that challenges the emotional limits of the 118 team, while also showcasing their unwavering commitment to public episodes following Bobby's death are designed to allow the characters — and the audience — the necessary space to promo teases further conversations among the crew, with moments between Athena and Karen (Tracie Thoms), Hen and Eddie (Ryan Guzman), hinting at deeper character development amid the unfolding fans eagerly speculate who might ultimately take command of the 118, the immediate concern is how the team will navigate a city literally catching blend of large-scale emergencies with intimate personal moments remains the hallmark of 9-1-1, and this penultimate episode promises to deliver both.9-1-1 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on ABC. Viewers await answers — and more than a few explosions — as Season 8 nears its yet. According to showrunner Tim Minear, an interim captain is currently in place, but no permanent replacement for Bobby will be appointed before the season ends. The leadership role remains symbolically Bobby Nash, played by Peter Krause, died in a recent episode. His emotional farewell has left a leadership vacuum at Station 118.
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
9-1-1 Season 8 new promo reveals who will be replacing Bobby Nash as 118 captain
A City in Peril: Flames Flow Through Faucets Live Events Who Will Lead Station 118? Balancing Duty and Grief What Lies Ahead FAQs Is there a new captain leading Station 118? What happened to Captain Bobby Nash? As the eighth season of ABC's high-octane drama 9-1-1 nears its finale, the series takes a characteristically dramatic turn, balancing grief with the emotional farewell to Station 118's longtime captain Bobby Nash (Peter Krause), the newly released 9-1-1 promo suggests the crew is far from any sense of true 9-1-1 fashion, the penultimate episode brings not just emotional reckoning, but literal fire in the 'Don't Drink the Water,' the May 8 episode continues the show's tradition of blending personal tragedy with large-scale trailer reveals an environmental catastrophe brewing in Los Angeles, with methane-contaminated water igniting in household bulletins within the promo warn of fiery eruptions, setting the stage for a full-blown emergency that brings the team face-to-face with disaster once to the official synopsis, a recent earthquake triggers multiple unusual fires across the 118 must act swiftly to identify the source and prevent further harm, all while grappling with Bobby's stakes are high — both professionally and 9-1-1 promo also highlights the simmering question of leadership at Station 118. In a quiet but significant exchange, Sergeant Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) tells Hen Wilson (Aisha Hinds), 'The best thing for the 118 would be you as captain', as mentioned in a report by visibly unsure, responds, 'What if I don't want it?'Series showrunner Tim Minear has confirmed that a permanent replacement for Bobby will not be appointed before the season ends.'There is an interim captain in place, but the chair is still symbolically empty,' Minear said in a recent remaining episodes, he noted, are more focused on how the team copes with their loss than who inherits elaborated that the final arc of Season 8 is intended to be a meditation on love, loss, and resilience.'Even in their grief, they're first responders. They have to put that aside and work together to save people,' he 17 is expected to introduce a 'mass casualty event' that challenges the emotional limits of the 118 team, while also showcasing their unwavering commitment to public episodes following Bobby's death are designed to allow the characters — and the audience — the necessary space to promo teases further conversations among the crew, with moments between Athena and Karen (Tracie Thoms), Hen and Eddie (Ryan Guzman), hinting at deeper character development amid the unfolding fans eagerly speculate who might ultimately take command of the 118, the immediate concern is how the team will navigate a city literally catching blend of large-scale emergencies with intimate personal moments remains the hallmark of 9-1-1, and this penultimate episode promises to deliver both.9-1-1 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on ABC. Viewers await answers — and more than a few explosions — as Season 8 nears its yet. According to showrunner Tim Minear, an interim captain is currently in place, but no permanent replacement for Bobby will be appointed before the season ends. The leadership role remains symbolically Bobby Nash, played by Peter Krause, died in a recent episode. His emotional farewell has left a leadership vacuum at Station 118.
