'Fire Country' Season 4 Teaser Confirms 1 Major Character's Death and Previews Emotional Aftermath for Station 42
The dramatic teaser for Fire Country season 4 is here — and it brings with it some bad news.
CBS dropped a minute-long clip on Tuesday, Sept. 23, revealing that it was Vince (Billy Burke) who didn't survive the life-and-death cliffhanger of the Zabel Ridge fire from the season 3 finale.
"I'm going to spend the rest of my career protecting my father's town, my father's station, my father's mission,” Vince's son Bode (Max Thieriot) emotionally says during his father's funeral.
Vince's loss appears to have sent ripples throughout the community and left Station 42 looking for a new battalion chief — a job Bode believes is his for the taking.
"It's my birthright, and I'm coming for it," he vows.
Amid all the upheaval at Station 42, the firefighters may be looking at being suspended from active duty — "effective immediately," they're told — as the teaser comes to an end.
Before the clip is over, however, Bode vows one last time to carry on his father's mission.
As someone thanks him for showing that he cares, Bode replies, "It's what my dad would do."
Fire Country creator Tony Phelan — who created the series with Joan Rater and Thieriot — spoke to TVLine about Burke's exit and why the show revealed Vince's fate ahead of the season 4 premiere, titled "Goodbye for Now."
"We want to be respectful of what he means to our fans, what he means to us," Phelan said, adding that the character's death is "a big, huge, emotional loss to the show."
Thieriot previously teased to TV Insider that the season 3 finale cliffhanger would be a "game changer" for the show.
"I think it's shocking," he said in April. "It's going to make an impact for sure."
He teased that Bode has "gone on a pretty big journey this season and made a lot of progress towards his ultimate goal of this Leone legacy that he has finally embraced" and that the events he'll grapple with in the upcoming season leave him "at a big turning point in his life and his career, a real crossroads for sure."
Burke isn't the only one leaving Fire Country behind.
Morena Baccarin, who joined the show in season 2 as Mickey Fox, has departed to lead her own spinoff series, Sheriff Country
The Last of Us Part 3 Tease Seemingly Surfaces, We’re So Back
I'm onto you Druckmann
Another The Last of Us Day has come and gone and this year’s instalment was, well, underwhelming.
That was to be expected.
HBO’s TV adaptation is only just casting for season three, so there’s nothing in the way of a trailer or teaser to drop there.
As for the video game franchise, Naughty Dog is hardly going to detract from the hype that’s steadily building around their upcoming IP
Instead, this year, the studio unveiled a selection of merch collaborations, also dropping a snippet of the upcoming The Last of Us: Part I and Part II Scripts
What has surfaced since though is something I’d argue is way more exciting.
My friends, I think Neil Druckmann is teasing a new game.
Listen, I’m known for being the top The Last of Us clown around these parts; I live and breathe this franchise, but that also means I notice things.
Druckmann recently took to Instagram during The Last of Us Day with a picture of that aforementioned script book, captioning it, “Love how the script book turned out. Lots of fond memories while flipping through the pages. Happy TLoU day! Can’t wait to give y’all more TLoU updates when the time is right.”
It’s that last part that’s encouraged me to don the clown paint once more.
“Can’t wait to give y’all more updates when the time is right” is an outright guarantee that more The Last of Us updates are on the way. It’s just a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’.
Personally, I can’t see these pertaining to the HBO series just as it does look like Druckmann is somewhat distancing himself from the adaptation after stepping down as co-showrunner.
What the TV series does seem to have done though is reignite his original love for gaming.
My thesis, and it is just that, is that the TV departure may be directly tied to a yearning to enter development on a third game.
Let me add a few more interesting teases.
In a recent Variety interview, Druckmann dropped three major clues.
“Other things are coming and we can announce more things soon,” is one example.
He later referred to “all the various Last of Us things I’m working on”, eventually also adding, “And there’s more stuff happening in The Last of Us world that has not been announced.”
This man is dropping The Last of Us hints at every opportunity after years trying to convince us that Part II could be the end.
You can’t tell me The Last of Us Part III
I won’t even tell you to take this with a pinch of salt because these teases are coming from the horse’s mouth.
We’re probably going to have to let Druckmann and Naughty Dog cook a little bit longer, but all signs point to big things coming and I’m so ready for this new era.
