“Buck, Bothered and Bewildered” might have formally revealed Buck’s bisexuality to the world, however if you happen to ask Oliver Stark, the present laid loads of groundwork for the revelation nicely earlier than the episode dropped. “There have been crumbs for years and years,” the actor advised TV Line. “In the event you look again, and I do not know if it was even intentional from anyone within the second, I believe that the thread is there all through. So coming to this second now’s actually thrilling and deserved and earned.”
Superficially, Buck’s path from his ultra-masculine women’ man picture on the present’s starting to his characterization in Season 7 would possibly seem to be a reasonably large leap, however so far as Stark is worried, Buck has been bisexual for fairly some time. As luck would have it, the actor was able to discover that facet of the character earlier than showrunner Tim Minear advised him concerning the kiss plotline. “What’s type of loopy is that this season I did resolve ‘If there’s a chance, I believe I need to begin leaning extra closely into that,'” Stark advised Leisure Weekly.
It stays to be seen the place Buck’s story arc takes him going ahead, however the reality of “9-1-1” is that it has no scarcity of well-told, critically-appreciated tales. In a present the place even Buck’s armchair has sudden which means, there isn’t any purpose to imagine that the present will fumble what simply would possibly develop into the character’s most pivotal storyline — at the very least if Stark has any say in it.