Is this the last we've seen of [Spoiler]? Lone Star Premiere reveals shocking split

Romance is not going to be on the agenda for Owen Strand in the last season of 9-1-1: Lone Star.

Monday’s premiere discovered Rob Lowe’s character attending grief remedy, the place he casually talked about that he and Kendra (Michaela McManus) are not in a relationship, one of a number of causes he now seems like he’s residing in a haze.

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Minus Owen unintentionally crushing Kendra’s husband’s frozen chest whereas performing CPR, issues appeared to be going pretty effectively for the couple once we last noticed them at T.Okay. and Carlos’ marriage ceremony in the Season 4 finale. So, what occurred? According to showrunner Rashad Raisani, there are two causes — one on-camera and one off.

Let’s begin with the on-camera motive: “What we wanted to say when we meet Owen at the top of this episode is that there’s clearly something going on,” Raisani explains to TVLine. “We’re saying that he’s living in this fog. He’s frozen.” Owen’s private disaster will play out over the last season’s first 5 – 6 episodes, Raisani says, clarifying that “there is something going on with Owen that has been stifling and suffocating a lot of joy in his life.”

If that’s not sufficient of a roadmap for you, Raisani teases that the season’s third episode “gives us the first hint of what’s going on,” including that “Owen is going to have to engage with and go to the dark place before he can get unburdened by it.”

The second motive for Owen and Kendra’s unceremonious split is that there merely wasn’t sufficient room in the present’s shortened last season. “We just didn’t have enough real estate in these first episodes to get somebody of Michaela’s caliber,” Raisani says. “We wouldn’t ask her to come in just for some one-off thing, because that was not where the direction of the narrative wanted to go in these first episodes.”

Elsewhere in the 9-1-1: Lone Star premiere, Owen discovered himself in the tough place of having to decide on between Paul and Marjan to switch Judd at the firehouse; Carlos — now a Texas Ranger — struggled to earn the respect of his new accomplice Campbell (Parker Young), all the whereas nonetheless obsessing over his father’s current homicide; and Judd defined that Grace left city to take care of orphans on a Mercy Ship.

How do you are feeling about Owen and Kendra’s off-camera breakup? Were you hoping that this relationship would work out, following his string of failed romances? Grade the premiere under, then drop a remark with all of your ideas.

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