YMMV / 9-1-1: Lone Star

• Accidental Innuendo: In-Universe. In “Red vs. Blue” (3.07), just before they start their baseball game, Owen responds to O’Brien’s bragging with, "If there's gonna any ass-handing, it's gonna be my hand on your ass!"
• Fan-Preferred Couple: There is a sizable part of the fanbase which ships Owen/Michelle, despite their canon relationship being largely platonic. It is the most popular Owen ship and is easily more popular than his many canon ones, such as his one with Catherine Harper. It still has a dedicated fanbase even after Michelle left the show at the end of season one.
• Harsher in Hindsight: “Awakening” has a man catching on fire after a gender reveal party gone wrong. In September of 2020, during massive California wildfires, many were aggravated because of a gender reveal party gone wrong. Both cases even involved the same method: a small explosive releasing colored smoke.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: TK thinking Buck is flirting with him in "Hold The Line" (a Crossover with parent show 9-1-1) is much funnier after the latter show has Buck discover his bisexuality by kissing another firefighter with the initials TK.
• Ho Yay:
  • Owen gets very close to Billy Tyson in season two only to be betrayed. They become friends again only for Billy to double down. They argue constantly in a way that comes off as Belligerent Sexual Tension. Owen even describes Billy's behaviour at the beginning of season 3 as "Like a scorned lover." It helps that they basically only call each other by the nicknames 'New York' and 'Texas' respectively.
  Billy: You did it, New York.
  Owen: With your help, Texas.
  • In Billy’s absence, Owen’s newly-developed rivalry with Ty O’Brien and above Accidental Innuendo in Season 3 has the same belligerence. When most of his APD squad and himself end up incapacitated in a weed factory, and Owen helps carry him out, O’Brien even gives him a Man Hug in thanks. Keep in mind, the guy’s high as a kite at the time.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Season 2 heavily advertised that a member of the cast was going to be killed, many doubting they'd kill anyone of note. Lo and behold, the character killed was Tim, a Recurring Extra given the A Death in the Limelight treatment, making him a Mauve Shirt at best.
  • Happens again at the end of Season 4, with the two-part finale’s summary stating there would be a pre-wedding “tragedy” that many fans correctly guessed was another sudden character death. They just didn’t expect it to be Carlos’ father.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "2100°" (2.02) has a healthy amount of skin melting and people being hit with lava bombs.
  • "Hold The Line" (2.03), has Owen's hallucination of Tim as a decaying zombie.
  • In "The Big Heat" (2.12), there is a lengthy sequence of Carlos and TK's house catching fire, while the two are in bed upstairs, completely oblivious until the flames reach their bedroom door. Before this, we see the serial arsonist burn himself alive to avoid arrest.
  • Anyone who’s ever made it out of a drug den and an addiction, or knows someone in TK’s situation, will cringe at the first 2017 flashback in “In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency” (3.08).
  • In “Negative Space” (3.12), the antagonist gets a win for once in the series without Owen even picking up on anything wrong. Just one name and two words: Sadie. Becker.
  • The entire sequence of a young Black girl’s terror in “Donors” (4.15) when she wakes up near-hypothermic in a motel bathroom and finds that someone cut her chest open.
• Squick:
  • In “Studs” (1.05), two woman get into a fight at a strip club, one lady ends up with a platinum tiara impaled through her cheek. It’s bloody and gory and she ends up with half a Glasgow Grin.
  • In “2100°” (2.02), the skin of a man's arm slips right off in the hands of the girl trying to help him, after he has been basically boiled alive in a pool that a volcano erupted in.
  • In “The ATX Files” (3.06), an ailing young woman is revealed to have been host to… some disturbingly fully-developed roundworms. Let’s just say, always inspect food for bugs and parasites, kids.
  • One call in “Open” (4.13) involves Owen accidentally crushing a hole inside a dead man’s cryogenically-frozen chest when trying to perform CPR, with the brief sight of his organs and the Sickening "Crunch!" making the rest of the scene difficult to watch.
  • In “Donors” (4.15), an underground organ trafficking ring tricks a young Black girl into becoming a kidney donor (offscreen), leaves her in a motel bathtub full of ice with only a note to call 911 and a monetary payment, and transplants the kidney into a well-off white man— only to not realize that the blood types were incompatible.
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Tarlos for TK Strand and Carlos Reyes.
  • Grudd for Grace Williams (formerly) and Judd Ryder.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Billy Tyson. Not in Season 1, but when he returned he had to tell the crew that there wasn't enough money in the budget to reopen the 126 after an arsonist destroyed it. The fact that Owen was the one who alerted the Department to the incoming budget crisis, and the fact that they had to resort to a GoFundMe to save the station, strongly implies that Billy was right about there being no money. Still, he got punched in the face and his oldest friend refused to speak to him. And this was just days after he saved Owen's life.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • In Season 2, when Marjan's fiance from an arranged marriage shows up, she treats it as no big deal though it is clear she isn't happy about the arrangement. When he breaks it off with her she suddenly decides she is in love with him, rushes to his hotel to tell him so, and he happily tells her he'll break it off with the girl he was seeing (as he sensed she wasn't interested in her). She then flip flops again and decides she can't be with him. It's supposed to make her seem vulnerable but instead many found her come off as flaky at best and cruel at worst.
  • When Grace went out into the freezing cold while in labor, rather than let Billy help her, she put her own life and the life of her unborn child in grave danger just to spite someone for doing his job.

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