'9-1-1' Season 8 Episode 13 "Invisible" Recap

I’m starting to have a love/hate relationship with ‘9-1-1’ and it is destressing me. I am so used to watching it weekly but I am finding this season to be my least favorite. I feel like since the show moved to ABC there has been a shift in the writing and not really for the best unfortunately. Even the look of the show feels different. Am I the only one feeling this way? Am I justified or trippin?

This episode was Hen focused and I love Hen but she can be a bit dramatic at times. It is her birthday and everyone forgot except Athena and Eddie (who only remembered because they are Facebook friends). It was funny when he pointed that out to Buck who then in turn asked how old Eddie is. Do only old millennials still use Facebook and no one told me? Hen is feeling down because even Karen forgot her birthday. Your spouse and bestie forgetting I can understand, but making Buck clean your yard because he forgot, come on now. It was a bit much and her mother had to point that out. 

Hen being Hen got really involved with a patient of hers and the 118 rescued a couple of times. A man named Archie goes through the world being and feeling invisible. He got fired from his job and his fiancé cheated on him with his cousin (he found out while stuck under their pull out bed) then kicked him out and while living in his car it gets towed. Not to mention he gets crushed by a truck so he is just having a bad week. Hen gives him some words of encouragement and when he has had enough he twists her words and hijacks a bus accidentally stabbing a passenger. 

The cops need someone to get on the bus and help and Hen volunteers of course. She is able to talk him down and save his life again when the police think he has another weapon. She learns a lesson in the process about her feelings of her birthday not being remembered.

Meanwhile, Eddie down in Texas finally steps up and takes control over his relationship with his son Christopher. He tries to cook dinner, get basketball tickets to spend time with him but his parents are always in the way. There is a chess tournament over the weekend and Eddie’s dad wants to go making Eddie feel left out. After listening to Buck, Eddie shows up anyway and Christopher throws up under the pressure. He tells Eddie he hates chess and only plays to please his grandparents. Eddie finally decides that he is telling Christopher he is moving back with him instead of asking. Christopher is also happy that Eddie is stepping up and being his dad again. That solves one problem, so when is Eddie moving back to LA?

The episode was kind of mid. The rescues were interesting enough but nothing about the episode as a whole stood out. What did you think? Drop a comment and remember to vote in our poll.