Prison life looks painful and dangerous for Bode in Fire Country season 2 first look
Bode’s Cal Fire family is desperate to help him as life behind bars gets increasingly dangerous.
Bode has traded his turnout gear for prison blues in Fire Country season 2.
The first footage of the new season shows how tough life behind bars is for Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot), whose journey for redemption was ruined when he took the fall for a friend in last season’s finale. “Taking that fall was a gift to all of the people that I love,” we hear him say in the season 2 trailer, which EW can exclusively reveal above.
Fire Country, inspired by the small Northern California town Thieriot grew up in, follows Bode as he returns to his hometown through an inmate firefighter program to reduce his sentence. The first season saw him work through past family trauma, reunite with his closest friends, help his fellow inmates, and find new love. That was all taken away when he takes the fall for his best friend in the program, who just had a new baby and ends up not taking the next step towards freedom he worked so hard for.
What’s clear is Bode’s loved ones do not feel the same way, as we see most of them fighting to still help him out of his predicament. Gabriela Perez (Stephanie Arcila), who was starting a relationship with Bode last season, is furious in the sneak peek of season 2. When asked to help get through to Bode by Jake Crawford (Jordan Calloway), she tells him to “stop talking to me about Bode at all.”
Honestly, there is cause for concern, because things look dangerous in jail. Bode is seen getting into fights and has what looks like a standoff with a fellow prisoner armed with makeshift weapons in the footage. “If we don’t do something right now, we’re gonna lose him,” Bode’s dad Vince Leone (Billy Burke) says. Bode certainly seems hardened and disillusioned compared to the man viewers knew last season.
But Bode isn’t completely alone thanks to his cellmate, MMA fighter Cole (Tye White). While it’s unknown what put him behind bars, Cole is a family man who has learned from his past mistakes, so hopefully he can help Bode through his current hardships.
Life on the outside is still full of fighting fires and jumping into danger for his Cal Fire family, so not much has changed there. Things may get more complicated when Sharon Leone (Diane Farr) runs into Liam (Jason O’Mara), a hot and confident firefighter that she used to work with.
Will Bode get back out to fire camp and get back to his journey for redemption? We’ll have to tune in and find out.
