Station 19 has always been an exciting show, but in its time, some seasons of the hit drama stood out more than others.
Now in its seventh and final season, Station 19 is a first responder/firefighter-focused show that audiences have fallen in love with. Station 19 began as a spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, centered around the firehouse that Grey’s Anatomy‘s Ben Warren (Jason George) joined when he decided he no longer wanted to be a surgeon. Since the show kicked off with a back door pilot, Grey’s Anatomy‘s Season 14, Episode 13, “You Really Got a Hold on Me,” the show has found its own following and has only gotten better over time.
Throughout the show’s seven seasons, fans have seen the firefighters of Station 19 fall in love, get married, deal with health issues, have children, get divorced, and everything in between. Led by Captain Andrea “Andy” Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz) since Season 7, Episode 1, “This Woman’s Work,” the firefighters at Station 19 are a family, and the performances from the actors have made viewers feel like they are part of the family too.
Season 4 Tackles Tough Topics
November 2020 – June 2021
Best Episodes of Season 4
| Rank | Episode Name | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Quick Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Get Up, Stand Up” | 12 | 6.9/10 | April 22, 2021 | In the wake of national outcry after the tragic murder of an unarmed Black man, Maya brings in Dr. Diane Lewis to grief counsel the team. |
| 2 | “Out of Control” | 5 | 8.0/10 | December 17, 2020 | The crew jumps into action to help a mother in distress, but their heroic efforts spark conflict with police officers. |
| 3 | “No One Is Alone” | 9 | 8.0/10 | April 1, 2021 | New details about Travis’ late husband’s tragic death are revealed. |
| 4 | “Say Her Name” | 15 | 7.2/10 | May 27, 2021 | When Vic helps her parents through a devastating loss, they have a long overdue conversation about the anguish of being Black in America. |
| 5 | “Train in Vain” | 6 | 7.7/10 | March 11, 2021 | Dean and Vic struggle to cope with the fallout of Dean’s traumatic arrest; Carina and her brother Andrew chase down a woman suspected of sex trafficking. |
Season 4, which began airing in November 2020, was Station 19‘s first season after the COVID-19 pandemic put filming on hold for much of 2020. Station 19, just like Grey’s Anatomy, incorporated the pandemic into the storyline, which some fans enjoyed, while others would have preferred that the show remain an escape from real life. One thing most fans agreed that the show did well in Season 4 was address police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement.
The season saw four crossovers with Grey’s Anatomy and dealt with events like Robert Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) getting sober, Carina DeLuca (Stefania Spampinato) losing her brother Andrew (Giacomo Gianniotti), and Travis Montgomery (Jay Hayden) learning about his father’s hidden sexuality. The season tackled some hard topics beautifully, especially given how filming changed with new COVID-19 guidelines and the shortened season.
Season 1 is a Powerful Premiere for Station 19
March 2018 – May 2018
Best Episodes of Season 1
| Rank | Episode Name | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Invisible to Me” | 2 | 7.3/10 | March 22, 2018 | With Captain Pruitt absent, Andy and Jack try to figure out how to work together, and a car accident puts the crew’s lives at risk. |
| 2 | “Shock to the System” | 5 | 7.4/10 | April 12, 2018 | Miranda Bailey visits Ben at work, meeting his new co-workers for the first time; Andy and Maya are paired up to go on their first stakeout. |
| 3 | “Let It Burn” | 7 | 7.6/10 | April 26, 2018 | Ryan and Jack get competitive during disaster drill training and then are forced to work together at a strip mall fire. |
| 4 | “Stronger Together” | 6 | 7.1/10 | April 19, 2018 | Andy and Jack take the captaincy drill test; Ben confronts Vic about her fears. |
| 5 | “Every Second Counts” | 8 | 7.8/10 | May 3, 2018 | Ripley interviews each member of the team about who should be captain, and a mom’s day out on a party bus takes a turn for the worse. |
The first season of any television show has an enormous task. It must set up any future storylines and introduce the audience to the cast of characters while making sure viewers don’t get lost in the new people. Station 19 had a slight advantage as a spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, but it still needed to draw the audience in and entice them to get to know the firefighters of Station 19.
Season 1 saw the Station 19 firefighters step up for each other time and again, whether it was to support Pruitt and Andy through Pruitt’s diagnosis or when Travis, Maya, and some of the others help Victoria Hughes (Barrett Doss) through her fear of fire after being trapped in blue fire in Season 1, Episode 2, “Invisible to Me.” The season finale perfectly sets up Season 2 and leaves the audience on a breathtaking cliffhanger.
Season 6 Looks at Mental Health and Addiction
October 2022 – May 2023
Best Episodes of Season 6
| Ranking | Episode Name | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “All These Things That I’ve Done” | 17 | 8.1/10 | May 11, 2023 | Andy, Theo, and Sullivan vie to be named captain, while Vic forges an unexpected connection with Beckett. |
| 2 | “It’s All Gonna Break” | 13 | 7.3/10 | April 6, 2023 | The crew gets involved in a family dispute while Bailey and Carina go undercover at a crisis pregnancy center. |
| 3 | “Everybody Says Don’t” | 6 | 7.7/10 | November 10, 2022 | When a lightning storm crashes a helicopter, the team is drawn away from hosting a fire boot camp for young women. |
| 4 | “We Build Then We Break” | 7 | 7.9/10 | February 23, 2023 | After a terrifying lightning strike, the crew works overtime to extinguish a fire at Meredith Grey’s home; Maya is rushed to the hospital for a medical emergency. |
| 5 | “Could I Leave You?” | 11 | 7.9/10 | March 23, 2023 | The team is forced to make a call that could cost them dearly. |
Season 6 sees several Station 19 crew members dealing with mental health issues and trying to figure out who they are. Gibson, who left the firehouse at the end of Season 5, is still searching for his foster sister and living with his ex-girlfriend, who is also the widow of his former fellow firefighter. Sean Beckett (Josh Randall) is still trying to hide his alcoholism and is getting closer and closer to losing his job, while Bishop is putting her mental and physical health at risk to avoid dealing with her issues.
The season brings a number of unexpected changes and some of the best episodes of the series, including when Hughes spends the day with Beckett to keep him from harming himself and a crossover with Grey’s Anatomy that sees powerful and heartwrenching performances from both Danielle Savre as Maya Bishop and Stefania Spampinato as Carina DeLuca. The cliffhanger in the final episode will have fans immediately reaching for the Season 7 premiere.
Season 3 Brings More Loss to Station 19
January 2020 – May 2020
Best Episodes of Season 3
| Ranking | Episode Name | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “I’ll Be Seeing You” | 12 | 8.9/10 | April 9, 2020 | Things get complicated as the crew battles a fire at a storage facility. |
| 2 | “Dream a Little Dream of Me” | 13 | 8.3/10 | April 16, 2020 | Vic rallies the crew to pose for a calendar photo shoot that will support a good cause while Sullivan helps Andy grieve. |
| 3 | “Something About What Happens When We Talk” | 10 | 8.4/10 | March 26, 2020 | A psychologist visits Station 19 to help the team process several recent traumas. |
| 4 | “Born to Run” | 8 | 8.0/10 | March 12, 2020 | The crew responds to a drunk driver scene, and Dean receives advice from Pruitt about a difficult situation. |
| 5 | “Poor Wandering One” | 9 | 8.1/10 | March 19, 2020 | When an Army veteran threatens to blow up a pawn shop, Sullivan reflects on his time as a Marine, while Vic and Dean try to reason with a man battling Alzheimer’s disease, and Pruitt takes a stand to honor fallen firefighters. |
Season 3 of Station 19 is a tale of two Pruitts. Dean Miller (Okieriete Onaodowan) has a daughter with his ex-girlfriend in Season 3, Episode 6, “Ice Ice Baby,” and her mother leaves her with Miller in Season 3, Episode 7, “Satellite of Love.” When Dean struggles to care for her, it is his former captain who helps him figure out what to do, and Miller names his daughter Pruitt Arike Miller in honor of the captain. Just a few episodes later, Pruitt Herrera (Miguel Sandoval) makes the ultimate sacrifice to save his team in Season 3, Episode 12, “I’ll Be Seeing You.”
Season 3 also sees the Station 19 firefighters experiencing love and dealing with trauma. The biggest disappointment of Season 3 is that some of the storylines built during the season had to change due to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, but the show did a wonderful job of wrapping up the season even though their ability to film the show was cut short.
Season 2 Balances Love with Grief
October 2018 – May 2019
Best Episodes of Season 2
| Ranking | Episode Name | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Always Ready” | 15 | 9.1/10 | May 2, 2019 | The crew at Station 19 find themselves on high alert when Ripley lands at Grey-Sloan, and no one can locate Hughes. |
| 2 | “For Whom the Bell Tolls” | 16 | 8.8/10 | May 9, 2019 | Hughes and the rest of the team gather for a funeral that has rocked them all. |
| 3 | “Crash and Burn” | 8 | 8.0/10 | March 7, 2019 | In the aftermath of a windstorm, Andy and Sullivan remain trapped in an overturned aid car, and the rest of the team confronts Jack about his well-being. |
| 4 | “Into the Wildfire” | 17 | 8.2/10 | May 16, 2019 | The team heads to Los Angeles to help battle a wildfire that is raging out of control. |
| 5 | “Crazy Train” | 10 | 8.2/10 | March 21, 2019 | Jack and Maya discover a potential outbreak while treating people on a subway train, and some of the Station 19 men see a new side of Sullivan. |
Season 2 of Station 19 introduces a new captain to the firehouse and begins some wonderful love stories—even if they don’t always end the way fans want. Viewers will see Andy and Sullivan begin to fall in love, Jack and Maya build a relationship, and Hughes and Lucas Ripley spend time together.
The season continues to dive into who the characters are and gives them numerous challenges to overcome. Its most powerful moments come in Season 2, Episode 15, “Always Ready,” and Season 2, Episode 16, “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” when Ripley’s involvement in a fire takes a tragic turn and the firefighters at Station 19, especially Hughes, must learn to move forward.
Season 5 Took Station 19 to the Next Level
September 2021 – May 2022
Best Episodes of Season 5
| Ranking | Episode Title | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Things We Lost in the Fire” | 5 | 8.7/10 | November 11, 2021 | An explosion rips apart a neighborhood and puts multiple members of Station 19 in danger. |
| 2 | “When the Party’s Over” | 15 | 8.4/10 | April 7, 2022 | Andy has to deal with the serious consequences of a traumatic evening. |
| 3 | “The Road You Didn’t Take” | 17 | 7.8/10 | May 12, 2022 | Vic and Theo respond to a domestic disturbance involving the parents of a transgender teen, and Jack learns shocking details about his childhood. |
| 4 | “A House Is Not a Home” | 7 | 8.0/10 | December 9, 2021 | Vic and Jack struggle to process the loss of their best friend, and Andy’s role expands at Station 23. |
| 5 | “In My Tree” | 12 | 7.4/10 | March 17, 2022 | Station 19 opens the Dean Miller Memorial Clinic, and Sullivan gives Beckett an ultimatum. |
The fifth season of Station 19 is one of the best-written and performed seasons of the show. Season 5, Episode 5, “Things We Lost in the Fire,” puts several firefights from both Station 19 and Station 23 at risk and sees the Station 19 crew losing one of their own. Season 5, Episode 15, “When the Party’s Over,” is a powerful look at coping with sexual assault, and Jaina Lee Ortiz gives one of her most powerful performances of both the season and the series in the episode.
After a Season 4 that was a little rough around the edges, the writers and producers of Station 19 used Season 5 to take the show to a brand new level. The show skips forward a year to a “future that we hope for, “allowing them to move on from COVID-19 even when the world hadn’t. Season 5 will have audiences weeping at what the Station 19 firefighters lose and beaming at what they gain.
Season 7 is Station 19’s Magnum Opus
March 2024 – May 2024
Best Episodes of Season 7
| Ranking | Episode Title | Episode Number | IMDb Rating | Original Air Date | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “With So Little to Be Sure of” | 6 | 8.4/10 | May 2, 2024 | With both Vic’s job and Crisis One in jeopardy, a flashback shows how the program has changed the lives of the team and the local community. |
| 2 | “Trouble Man” | 4 | 8.3/10 | April 4, 2024 | The team faces a grueling 24-hour shift that threatens to split them apart. |
| 3 | “Give It All” | 7 | 8.5/10 | May 9, 2024 | Maya confronts her brother after seeing him protesting at Pride. Carina deals with a lawsuit, and the rest of the team responds to a call from the Tulalip Tribe. |
| 4 | “My Way” | 5 | 8.3/10 | April 11, 2024 | Andy has her captain’s pinning ceremony after the team deals with an emergency at the Space Needle. |
| 5 | “Good Grief” | 2 | 7.9/10 | March 21, 2024 | Ben and Theo respond to a challenging Crisis One call, Vic joins Beckett at an Irish Wake, and the team honors Jack with a final dinner. |
Though there are still two episodes left in the season, Season 7 has been Station 19‘s best from the very beginning. Whether it’s a new showrunner, eventually knowing that the show is on its way out, or the show finally hitting its stride, the writers and producers have raised the bar with Station 19‘s final season. It’s just one of the reasons fans are so disappointed in the show being canceled.
So far in Season 7, Andy has finally been made captain, Gibson has been forced to retire due to his health, Maya and Carina have adopted a baby, and Hughes has struggled with—and worked through—some serious mental health issues. Though some fans are still hoping to see Station 19 be picked up by a streaming platform, it’s safe to say that if Season 7 is truly the last time audiences see this show, it will go out on top of the world.
