Warning: spoilers are ahead for the Season 8 premiere of 9-1-1 , called "Buzzkill." The eighth season of 9-1-1 (which is only the second second on ABC after the move from Fox ) has kicked off in the 2024 TV schedule , and the promos for the premiere weren't shy about hyping the bee-nado heading for Los Angeles. The bee-nado was.
.. well, pretty what it sounds like in the post- Sharknado pop culture zeitgeist , and it actually was way more thrilling than I expected it to be.
"Buzzkill" was a fun way to spend an hour of primetime, but there's one element from the episode that kills my buzz. How "Buzzkill" Beat My Expectations First things first – I want to be clear that I didn't have low expectations going into the premiere, per se, but a bee-nado just doesn't have the scale of the Poseidon Adventure -esque crisis of Season 7 that rivaled the tsunami disaster of Season 3 . I figured the swarm of millions of bees menacing LA and taking down a plane would be entertaining, but not really rank among the drama's most epic openers.
(You can revisit both the cruise ship crisis and tsunami disaster streaming with a Hulu subscription .) Joke's on me! I really did underestimate how epic 9-1-1 could get with tens of millions of bees, and I do have the credit the show for finding yet another premiere-worthy disaster after already delivering some of the more obvious ones in earlier years. A plane being downed by bees? An allergic mother and daughter trapped in their car by bees? A garden p.
