Guildford

Sounds like something you'd find on One Chicago Center site, who regularly ask if dead characters might be coming back.

The season finale is not next week, they are taking a two week break and are back on April 6th.

This show regularly ignores details that would make things realistic to make up 'time' ....like them going back home to their apartment the next night like a woman hadn't been murdered in your lounge room & let your traumatised child sleep in the bed in the room she was abducted from...like come on. That was stupid. I guess we are supposed to hand-wave away all the stuff they feel is irrelevant but the audience notices it.

But apparently they can't not give her trauma because the writers think it's fun & easy to write her like this & also at odds with Adam constantly because Marina & Paddy have great chemistry, which seems to be the stupidest reason I've heard on why you keep beating the shit out of one character. So clearly they can't give them any happiness because they are too good at the traumatic stuff....🙄🙄 Maybe they should pretend not to have any chemistry & then they can get married.

Why the hell did Voight let him stand on that bridge in the first place? Both he and Kim needed to be benched from the start. Ruzek was off the charts, not helpful or endearing however I wonder how much a part of not being able to find Kim in the finale played into that? Knowing also that Makayla, being a child, can't fight for herself like an adult could. I imagine every parent would be feeling the same to some degree, so they never should've been allowed out of the bullpen. Also a head scratcher..... of course you'd take the child straight back to the same bedroom she was abducted from, in the same apartment her babysitter was murdered in front of her less than a day later. I hope they managed to clean up the blood splatter out of the rugs & off the wall. It was one of the better, more intense episodes of the season & the performances were top notch. Kim, try and remember that she is 'your daughter' next time you need Ruzek to do something for you. We should've known with these writers after last week reminding us that she's 'their kid' that they'd pull shit like this, because this is all they ever do to this couple. I get it, as actors they pull it off but there is only so many times you can go back to the same well & still have the audience buy in. I admit, I am and always have been a Burzek fan.... this show has lost the plot in the last few seasons but I hung on because I enjoy watching Marina & Paddy's work. Not one other character is interesting enough to put myself through this merry-go-round though. (Atwater aside, but they don't give him enough to do to keep me interested). I cannot muster a fuck to give about the rest of the season right now.

How do any of them still have a job?

Knowing this show, and the franchise in particular that refuses to acknowledge that women can have careers & family....yes. I would actually be shocked if Mak is part of the show going forward, one way or the other.

Either the baby sitter or the cult....the uncle/Dad seems too lazy writing, even for this show.

When North first showed up Kim said she wanted to do anything to help. So at that point she still didn't know, they have made no indication that she does know. I do know however that fans of that character are desperate for it to be 'over'. They've moved on because they got everything they wanted from that storyline. It was cruel for the writers to bring it up again only to torture Kim again when they refused to allow her any skin in the game of the so called resolution.

It's sad that Jay is so devoid of personality now. Jesse looks like he's just phoning it it most days. I could barely tell you what he did last night he was that beige.

She actually looked happier in the brief scene in the car with Voight, but then again they are two birds of a feather.

Or the brother of the girl they saved isn't innocent...the uncle/dad thing just seems too easy for the writers. Loved the Uncle Kev scene however it's disappointing that this is the first time they have really shown Burgess actually engaged with Makayla, so I found that a little jarring. I wish they'd spent more time on developing that side. The random glass thing was odd, I would've thought the hair tie link might have gelled with the audience better as they made such a big deal of it last season & in the finale. Kim was a bit reckless, and it was also strange that she ran off to search for the baddie in the warehouse alone, I guess it was for the purpose of the plot but Adam was right with her, it seemed a little contrived to me. At least she didn't push Adam away like she usually does when she's have a crisis. Good to see the Crimesteads continue to not show any interest in anyone else, even each other. It was amusing that they bought up Kim being kidnapped, being shot & flatlining & her trauma but stopped short of asking her how she deals with 'knowing' that Roy is still out there & what if he comes after her or Makayla.....but I guess we just don't talk about that because you know.... 'it's been resolved' Anyway, I really enjoyed this, the case was brutal, if not a tad underdeveloped because they had to put more emphasis on the custody case than usual. As always Marina and Paddy deliver every single time.

So Burgess is hurled into a fresh round of trauma, after not being permitted to explore her last round of trauma? Did Marina piss in someone's cereal? Despite that, at least I know both Marina and Paddy will give us a masterclass..... I mean they are well versed in misery. Looking forward to this one.

Like I have zero interest in any attempt to make Voight a hero, I also have zero interest in the Upton is a hero redemption arc either. So she is celebrated for doing the right thing, and it's kinda gross that even the actress thinks this is good growth for her character because she didn't let a man die? All the while Burgess just smiles along & gets launched into a whole new set of trauma. Hard, Hard Pass. Considering they've never had any visible chemistry & Jay looks permanently constipated or terrified around her, it's not really surprising. There is zero connection between these two characters unless it is forced upon them and us...which I find particularly strange as they seem to be great friends off screen. Also writers please do not think that we want to see Atwater solely play everyone's sidekick and buddy. When we asked for more storylines for him we didn't mean letting him ride shotgun to your focus of the week.

That was a great episode. Even Jay had a personality then, good times.

I hate the centric episodes, it has dragged this show into the gutter. I have long argued that they should be once a season at most, like they used to be. Unfortunately some characters have suffered more than others and Burgess is one of them, and don't even start me on Kevin.

One of the issues with how they write Burgess is they never actually let her explore her trauma. They beat the suitcases out of her every season, she gets one episode of being affected by it and then it's done & never mentioned again. (As opposed to the other one where they shove her never ending misery and miserable life down our throats every second week) Absolutely, with what Kim has been through she 'should' be affected, but she's not because they won't write it for her and hence she just comes off as quite cold and unfeeling at times. It also frustrates me that when they want to show how 'complicated' her and Ruzek are they make her a total bitch to him, with little explanation why? Because he agreed to push back the wedding when you asked him to 6 seasons ago? The whole 'boundries' episode was an example of this, Burzek needed to be complicated for reasons unknown to anyone so they made Kim be a bitch to Adam for no reason & then whiplashed to her leaning on him again when he was needed at the end. Maybe if they let Burgess have more than one episode focus twice a season they'd be able to give her more depth.

Honestly, when she first arrived I liked her, I was at the end of my tether with the Erin drama and thought she was promising....yikes, by mid-way through season 5 they'd well & truely started falling into the trap of making her a lite-weight Erin rehash & have done nothing to change that since. Now she is an unwatchable, unlikeable, whiny, mopey drag on this show. I wonder if they had the chance to go back they'd make different choices for her character. And whats even more disappointing is that she has dragged Halstead down into the mire with her.

It was long, but nailed it. The sad demise of a good cop show laid bare. Hope the people who need to read it do.

She didn't even give Severide or Boden the chance to 'hang up on Stella Kidd' when she was AWOL.😬

I hope that I am wrong too, I do really like her character. It just feels very familiar to the Darrius Walker arc. I really enjoyed him as Voight's CI & it had potential to be a long term thing & Michael Beech was awesome, but then Blondie got pissy & threw a temper tantrum & had him murdered. Hopefully she stays away from Anna. I guess I just don't have faith in this show to take a risk & do something different. I thought she was after them because they killed her brother as well so I was a bit confused about how she was easily back in their orbit & nobody is clued in? Lazy writing? I also thought the long lingering looks between her and Voight when they raided the house were like a screaming red flashing light & that suddenly she is back & the cops are on their asses & the whole glock thing was sloppy.... the plot holes are typically PD enormous but I am liking the whole story in general. And I loved that there was zero ship drama, so we need more episodes like this. It felt more old school PD.

I must admit when she was going through taking photos of the guns I thought she was dead then, even the way she kept asking about seeing the 'glock' was a little too obvious. I was pretty sure she slept with him as well. How he died wasn't really explained. I don't think that whole ending worked as a 'cliffhanger' especially if they aren't going to follow up on it right when they pick up. Nobody is that invested in Anna as a character, I mean we all know she's a dead woman walking but same as you I like her, she's one of the better recurring characters they've introduced in a long time.

This storyline is different. Kev was demoted for just leaving a can in the interview room, Adam went to jail....there have been consequences in the past (even if they were lip service) however that's far more palatable & forgiveable than this story where there was ZERO consequences for the unlawful detainment, beating, killing, & burning of a body & the subsequent destruction of evidence, cover-up, lying & blackmail for either Voight or Upton ....but you are clearly an Upton fangirl so perhaps it's best if we leave this conversation. For many many fans, on many platforms it has left a very bad taste in the mouth.

It can be revisited. It's just not an active case, any case can be re-opened with new evidence. This is also TV drama land, anything can happen. It is ridiculous that there are zero consequences for her & Voight....It was pathetic & gutless & all it has done is make Halstead look like joke. I actually laughed when Voight went to him for advice & his sensational plan...he just did the same as Voight has done time and time again. It was hilariously bad.

I give Pelham two episodes before he heroically steps aside because he sees how amazingly wonderful WonderKidd is & how everyone loves her so he packs up his turn-out gear & annoints WonderKidd as the greatest Lt ever to walk the earth & heads off into the sunset.....and we get Severide forever muttering those eternal words every morning in the locker room "You got this Stella Kidd"....