These 9-1-1 Season 8 Stills Are Making Us Worry

The first 9-1-1 Season 8 released by showrunner Tim Minerar still was more vibes and mustache than anything else. And okay, look. I’ll own up to my mustache misgivings. I’m not a mustache person. I happen to feel the mustache doesn’t work on most people. It’s not a casual look you can pull off! No, it’s one of those things that almost doesn’t work in real life. It’s just …a vibe.

Like, it works on Freddie Mercury, but it doesn’t work on just anyone trying to break into the music industry. It works on Ted Lasso but not on Jason Sudeikis. And it really, really didn’t work for me when I first saw it on Ryan Guzman. But maybe it does kinda work on Eddie Diaz, I don’t know. I’m still kinda waiting to see it in live-action, but I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. But I’ll admit that when the first picture was released, we were all kinda just focused on the mustache.

And truthfully, as I pointed out then, there were other things going on in the background. There were way too many trucks for my liking! And we knew a big emergency was coming. But if Eddie Diaz was going to treat the emergency like a runway, and 9-1-1 was going to focus most of its pre-Season 8 promo on the mustache, then we were going to have to follow their lead and play the game.

But they’re done with that now. They’ve given us bee-nado posters and teasers. And now they’re giving us actual worried Hen and Eddie:

This means we actually have to worry now because this isn’t just Eddie looking pretty in his mustache, this is …what is this? What are they looking at? Who is in danger? The mustache is secondary! The emergency is real.

And we haven’t even gone into the revelations in EW’s Fall preview, which teased that Bobby (Peter Krause) would be “forced to follow through with his retirement and take a job as a technical advisor on an action TV show called Hotshots,” while Councilman Ortiz runs for Mayor, Maddie and Chim try to make sure Hen can stay in Mara’s life, Bobby and Athena look for a new house, Buck struggles with Gerrard and Eddie mourns Chris’s move to Texas and grows a crisis stache. (Okay, I added the last part, but it’s obvious, isn’t it?)

Oh, oh, and did I mention that some of the cast (Oliver Stark, Aisha Hinds, Bryan Safi, Ryan Guzman, and Tracie Thoms) will be competing in an episode of Celebrity Family Feud, which will air on September 16th? There’s a picture of that too!

So, a lot to process. Way too much! Season 7 of 9-1-1 left too many unanswered questions, and it doesn’t feel like this is giving us answers. And we only have a little under three weeks to go. How are you feeling about 9-1-1 Season 8? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!

9-1-1 returns to ABC on Thursday, September 26th at 8/7c.