Fire Country - Season 3

The third season of Fire Country consists of sugary sweet, bite-sized chunks. The reviews I have written for this website are mostly positive. The motivation to write them comes from rapture, admiration and emotion. And the need to share that. With the series Fire Country it is different.

In our home, consisting of husband, wife and dog, there are three types of series. The series that I watch, the series that my lovely wife takes a keen interest in and the series that we watch together. Fortunately, my wife is also an avid series watcher. That was a precondition for marriage.

Examples of series we watch together are the Chicago series by Dick Wolf, sitcom series such as Friends, Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. And series such as Dexter, Breaking Bad, The Americans, Suits, Revenge, The White Lotus, House M.D. and many others. My wife is a fan of crime series such as CSI, FBI and the like. I don't like that so much. I make an exception for Criminal Minds. But I prefer science fiction and series behind the paywall such as the Taylor Sheridan series.



There are also series that I more or less sacrifice myself for. One of them is Fire Country. We went to see it because of Chicago Fire and to a lesser extent Station 19. Chicago Fire is in my opinion considerably better than Fire Country. There is more depth in it and the action scenes are much better and above all more varied. In Fire Country we mainly see firefighters and prisoners hoeing to create a barrier. Apart from that, Fire Country is sickly sweet, the enamel jumps off your teeth. It reminds me of Virgin River. Lead actor Bode, played by Max Thieriot, may have a criminal record, but we can safely say that he is good. And with him almost all his co-stars.

I'm good, you're good, we're good!

The series meanders through three seasons. The surrounding forests are always on fire and our heroes are always ready to put out the fire. In contrast to the actions in Chicago Fire, where we sometimes see a truck overturned, the fire scenes in Fire Country are not convincing. Mutual conversations are often limited to "I like you, how do you like me?" Followed by the answer "I like you too". The often-used concept of attraction and repulsion is eagerly pulled out of the closet, in this case it concerns Bode and Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila), who we usually see frolicking around in a revealing top. And so we work through the lukewarm stuff. One reason for all this virtue is that the series is released in the US by CBS and therefore not by a streaming service. That limits the possibilities to add some spice. I think I'll pass on season four. But my wife can enjoy this and who am I to deny her that pleasure?

The series gets a meager 6 from me, with the addition that I cannot exactly consider myself part of the target group.