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FIRE COUNTRY: Tia Napolitano Previews Diane Farr’s Directorial Debut

November 1, 2024 by  

Fire Country Diane Farr directorial debut

“Welcome to the Cult” – Bode and Gabriela consider confessing a huge secret they have been hiding, on FIRE COUNTRY, Friday, Nov. 1 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Series star Diane Farr directed the episode. Pictured: Diane Farr. Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

FIRE COUNTRY adds a new actor-director to its ranks with the Friday, November 1 episode, “Welcome to the Cult”: Diane Farr, who plays Sharon on the CBS drama.

“Obviously [fellow actor-directors] Max [Thieriot] and Kevin [Alejandro] came to us [with experience]; they had already directed, they were already both very seasoned [and] they make beautiful episodes for us,” Tia Napolitano explains to Give Me My Remote. “Diane took a lot of care to shadow—which is our policy on this show—just to observe other directors and ask questions and learn as much as she could. She took a lot of care with the episode. And the cut came in beautifully. It was a joy.”

In the hour, the Leones get a family visit and Bode (Thieriot) tries to continue his pursuit of firefighting outside of the prison system…while also contending with an important secret. “It’s such a FIRE COUNTRY episode,” Napolitano says. “It’s just your regular run-of-the-mill, character-driven, ambitious episode. And I don’t mean visually ambitious, I mean character ambitious. The characters have big, big goals. You’re not looking at a lot of bells and whistles, you’re looking at the show, like a standard issue episode of FIRE COUNTRY. And it sings, it feels so good. It feels like home.”

On-screen, Sharon and her husband Vince (Billy Burke) will continue to navigate their own new dynamic.

“It’s interesting: They got very good at parenting a child who was incarcerated,” Napolitano acknowledges. “And now we have to watch them make a conscious decision to pivot, to realize that their child is no longer incarcerated. He is an adult. They don’t have to advocate for him the way that they have had to in the past. They don’t want to be overbearing. They want to support him, but they don’t want to coddle him, so they have to find their parental sweet spot.”

“And, also, as a couple, we’ll see a return to the Sharon and Vince we were accustomed to in season 1,” she continues. “Where you see them fight hard, but you see them love hard, too. And you feel very confident that their marriage is the one that bends but doesn’t break when they fight. We’ll live in that area for them as well.”

FIRE COUNTRY, Fridays, 9/8c, CBS

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