There were so many goodbyes in the casts of Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago PD in the last season. Should we be worried?
Fans will have understood it by now: in the series of the successful franchise #OneChicago everyone is useful and no one is indispensable. Season after season, we find ourselves announcing the exit of this or that character, often feeling bad about it. Even in the last one, the goodbyes were numerous and painful. Chicago Fire saluted firefighter Blake Gallo and paramedic Sylvie Brett of Alberto Rosende e Black Killmerwhile Wallace Boden will no longer be the commander of Station 51 and Eamonn Walker will be limited to a few fleeting appearances from now on. In the last episode of Chicago P.D. Detective Hailey Upton and her Tracy Spiridakos have taken flight towards new professional opportunities. And a few days ago, instead, the news that Dominic Rains will not reprise his role as surgeon Crockett Marcel in future episodes of Chicago Meda step back that follows those of his colleagues by a short distance Nick Gehlfuss (Will Halstead), Brian Tee (Ethan Choi) e Guy Lockard (Dylan Scott).
More often than not, when a series’ cast is downsized, it’s a sign of a struggling production that needs to cut costs to survive. #OneChicagoinstead, these changes (the exit of a character almost always leads to the entrance of a new one) are necessary to keep the stories in good health, as Jeff Bader, one of the bigwigs of the American network NBC, was keen to reassure TVLineappearing anything but worried.
#OneChicago: Why So Many Cast Farewells on TV Series?
As sad as it may be to see historical faces of #OneChicago leaving their lives behind and starting new ones elsewhere, it “obviously keeps the shows fresh,” Bader said. “It’s funny, because every year there are changes in the cast, and every year someone asks the same question” about the state of the franchise. “But [quegli show] continue to move forward” and gain huge success among viewers. Last season, Chicago Fire It was the third most-watched drama series on American television in terms of viewers (behind NCIS e FBI), While Chicago Med e Chicago P.D. were the fifth and seventh respectively.
“Some people come and some people go,” Bader noted. “We’re excited about how the series is going. Chicago on Wednesday. We have no intention of changing anything about that night.” The president’s reassuring words echo those of the showrunner of Chicago Fire Andrea Newmanwho told the site earlier this year: “Honestly, longevity is really the only reason. Narratively and in real life terms, 12 years is a long time and things have to change, even dynamically. You need new characters and new dynamics. From an actor’s standpoint, 12 years is a long time. No one on TV expects to be doing the same thing for 12 years, I can say that for sure, across the board.”
Andrew Schneiderco-showrunner at Chicago Medhe added: “This is really what Wolf likes to do. [Entertainment]: letting characters go and introducing new ones in an attempt to keep the shows fresh or find new dimensions and new dynamics for them.” And while it’s true that such long shows are “a gift,” because they allow the writers “to delineate these things and see these characters change,” it’s also true that “you have to mix things up. You can’t stay the same all the time,” Newman continued.
