Holy Smokes! This 2020 Prime-Time Drama has everything you want for a powerful Row.

(Heads up…SPOILERS on 10. So tread lightly.)

With the political and social wildness of the the late 20teens and the accountability that comes with every person being able to sound-off about whatever program touches them down in their plums, every production company looking to create a consumable for the masses without rocking such a sensitive vessel was looking for a program with just the right amount of integrity, grit, diversity, compassion, tragedy and humanity.

This task may seem impossible. No one’s going to capture the trust of people without upsetting the boat in this day and age. Not without doing it in jest or with art-house style violence (Now available at an A24 near you).

And you’re right. It’d be impossible for a normal person.

But we’re not dealing with normal people.

We’re dealing with Rob Lowe.

The Pilot to 9-1-1: Lone Star has more hits than I can list packed into a tight 47min.

But off the top of my head it’s got…

9/11 Cancer
Fertilizer Fires
Black Trans Firefighters
Rob Lowe Gay-Son Oxy-Overdose Firefighters
Bodacious Bad-Ass Muslim Lady Firefighters
Liv Tyler
Rob Lowe line dancing
Rob Lowe’s firehouse skin routine
References to how cheap Austin, TX is
a Baby stuck in a tree
and this fuckin show closes with “Old Town Road.”

9-1-1 Lone Star, Season 1, Episode 1, “Pilot"
47m14s
9918 meters
30 avg stroke/min (the Narcan scene and that scene with the baby stuck in the tree had me up to 32str/m…)

Shoutout to all the Firefighters and EMTs out there! Yall are some real ones.