‘Fire Country’ Season 3 Midseason Premiere 2025: What to Expect, Returning Cast & When to Watch!
Fire Country is coming back soon.
Season 3 of the hit CBS TV show just went on holiday hiatus earlier in December, but it’s locked in for a midseason premiere next month!
The showrunner Tia Napolitano has also spoken out about what to expect in the return episode, and it sounds intense.
“Oh, I’m so excited. I’m really excited about the premiere,” she began.
“It’s a shame everyone has to wait all winter break for it. It’s mostly a direct pickup. I mean, it isn’t an episode where you can really skip time. You want to be in that pool, you want to be in that fire, you want to be with Manny. We have a lot of questions of how we will ever pull everyone out of this situation. And it’s a freight train, man. The premiere is just a freight train.”
She also confirmed there will be no time jump.
“No, it’s pretty straightforward,” she said.
The showrunner also said that Gabriela is in the most danger.
“She’s just out there where people should not be and she has no equipment and they have no eyes on her and she’s alone. If there’s two people together, they can work together. And I think she’s not sure if anyone even realizes the dangers she’s in. So she’s in a really scary situation.”
She also addressed Eve’s ranch, which is her family home.
“Yes, that’s still her family home. I don’t think we will ever see Eve more determined to win against fire as we’re about to see in the premiere episode, which is great. It’s just like a great color on her. She’s so often there for our people. We get to see our people be there for her and have her family be at the center of everything and the focus as opposed to the Leone family in that episode. And it’s just a nice expansion of the world.”
The showrunner also confirmed some characters who we’ll see again.
“We’ll see some Katie. Katie will be back. Katie’s great,” she said, as well as confirming Michael is back.
“Yes. I love Michael Trucco. We’re going to continue to get into Leone legacy business. We’re going to see Walter [Jeff Fahey], we’re going to see Luke, just lots of Leone family messiness, more family lore, family history, brotherly dynamics between Luke and Vince, which are so great.”
Plus, she hinted at what’s coming for Vince (Billy Burke) and Sharon (Diane Farr).
“I think we will start to truly see Vince and Sharon walk the walk of letting their adult son be their adult son and getting comfortable there and really the kids are growing up. I mean they’re not kids, they’re adult people, but in their careers and given where Bode is and his journey having been incarcerated, I think they really are growing up and there’s just a lot of gratitude of the perspective of how big a win it is to have their son back, to have him out and not be incarcerated. He’s a firefighter. In a twisted way, it’s a dream come true. And so I think really a place of gratitude for them.”
She also spoke of some “surprises” on the way.
“There are a lot of big bads that we’re going to have to fight against and a lot of good things that we’re going to have to fight for. We have a lot of surprises coming, A lot of really cool fires coming up and really different kinds of story, but it’s almost like a part B of the season. There’s just so much more to look forward to.”
Fire Country returns Friday, January 31, 2025 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.
