[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the 9-1-1: Nashville series premiere “Pilot.”]
9-1-1: Nashville kicks off in classic franchise fashion: with the tease of a major emergency. During a Kane Brown concert, after part of the stage collapses, a tornado approaches. Then, flashback to two weeks earlier, when Captain Don Hart ( Chris O’Donnell ) introduces his son Ryan ( Michael Provost ) to his other son Blue ( Hunter McVey ).
We meet Don — distracted by something on his phone — and Ryan first as a father-son duo at the rodeo; they break a record, but Don gets bucked off after (he’s fine). Blythe ( Jessica Capshaw ) is the proud wife/mother. Dispatcher Cammie ( Kimberly Williams-Paisley ) is Ryan’s aunt who helps Taylor ( Hailey Kilgore ) with her music in her d