First Respodcast is a lighthearted rewatch podcast for ABC's 9-1-1. Hosts Ryan Kearns and Jane Mulcahy bring their respective backgrounds in theater and film, middling YouTuber skills, and love/hate relationship with Ryan Murphy to this episode-by-episode discussion of TV's silliest procedural drama. Updated every Friday.
CONTENT WARNING/TIMESTAMPS: In this episode, we discuss the show's depiction of a rapist and some of the events surrounding that. We don't go into any detail about any of the assaults, but we do spen…
Hear us discuss the episode where Buck befriends an old man (that he may or may not desire carnally), an episode Ryan likes for some reason.
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It's finally time to cover an episode we have a very complicated relationship with, Eddie Begins. BEHOLD!!!!
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In which we spend much of our discussion of 9-1-1's dispatch hostage situation coming up with toxic yuri/doomed yaoi rarepairs.
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This week's episode is all about Madney, another boring Michael sidequest, and Jane and Ryan's love of musical theater. And nobody even gets eaten by wolves!
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This week's episode is all about FOOLS. And we also spend a pretty long time talking about POOPING. What a show.
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On this week's episode, 9-1-1 returns to Stuck and Trapped-levels of name-dropping the episode every five seconds. Hear about Michael's lackluster cancer storyline, the Degrassi Junior High-core Chim…
In light of Ryan Guzman's recent mask-off moment, we sat down to have an honest conversation about parasociality, the limits of benefit of the doubt, the divorced-dad-to-redpill pipeline, and why we …
It's Christmas in July, everybody! For real this time! In season 3's Christmas episode, Buck continues to be a child/dog, Bobby appears not to be deathly ill (THIS time anyway), Michael is walking in…
Season 3, episode 9 of 9-1-1 has everything: An Athena copaganda subplot, an iconic Buddie scene, and Hen and Karen bonding at a distractingly cult-like wellness spa. You wanna go for the title... of…
In this week's episode, we discuss the culmination of Eddie's fight club arc, Bobby's secret ice dancing past (also the title of my debut Lifetime movie), and Hen's tiny little oopsie.
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Uh-oh, it's another copaganda episode from our frenemies at 9-1-1! Hear about the LAPD recruitment ad that is Athena's origin story, right up to its deeply unsatisfying conclusion.
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Join us as we discuss 9-1-1's second Halloween episode, Monsters. It's Halloween in June! Just like Hallmark's Christmas in July, but with fewer uptight city women learning to let loose through the l…
Hear us and guest Kyla (a.k.a. Ryan Murphy racism scholar and lukewarm Jukebox the Ghost fan) break down one of 9-1-1's most misguided episodes ever: the one where they try to tackle police brutality…
Hear us discuss the birth of Clipboard Buck, the beginning of the fabled lawsuit arc, and an episode that is ultimately teeming with drama and pettiness at every turn.
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Discussing the thrilling culmination of the tsunami storyline, Ryan and Jane get a case of the late night recording sesh sillies. Does divorce guy fall into a meat grinder as he so clearly deserves? …
You asked and we delivered: A final depressing bonus episode of our thoughts on the disappointing rollercoaster that was 9-1-1 season 8 and its finale. Our thoughts were a little scattered due to our…
Today we really get into 9-1-1's famous tsunami arc! Hear us praise Oliver Stark's performance, discuss whether Christopher was after Lily Blossom Bloom's nachos, and go on an embarrassing tangent tr…
It's season 3 time, baby! Forget whatever cold emptiness you might be feeling in the wake of 9-1-1's season finale, because we're traveling back in time to this show's golden age. Hear about Ryan's c…
It's our season 2 FINALE!!!! WOOOOOO!!!! We've made it through another full season and our commitment to this podcast is feeling realer than ever. In this iconic episode, Bathena make major strides, …