Sheriff County‘s midseason finale ended with Travis getting shot, but what does this mean for his reconciliation with Mickey — and a possible love triangle with Boone?
Through the Friday, December 19, episode of the CBS series, Mickey (Morena Baccarin) and Travis (Christopher Gorham) connected, and one in all them took it more seriously than the opposite. Travis was ready to present their relationship one other likelihood — while Mickey thought it was a one-off.
“There’s something about Mickey and Travis that I find deeply romantic,” showrunner Matt Lopez exclusively told Us Weekly about deciding to reexplore Mickey and Travis as a pair. “There’s something about two individuals who just about grew up together, got pregnant on the age of 18, raised a child together, have been through all these trials and tribulations, grown apart and got divorced.”
Lopez argued that folks “can fall out and in of affection with someone” over time.
“But once you’ve passed through those sorts of experiences with someone, I consider Mickey and Travis have such a deep affection and admiration for one another that you simply never fully fall out of affection with someone like that,” he noted. “Originally of the season, Skye was implicated in her boyfriend’s murder and it threw Mickey and Travis back into one another’s orbit in a way that I don’t think they’d been shortly.”
Lopez continued: “I believe there’s also something unexpected to, ‘Oh, who’s Mickey going to fall for?’ Well, probably the handsome partner who you already know. But who’s the last person you expect to fall for? Your ex. So it’s been a fun story to inform.”
While Mickey considered a future with Travis, her case resulted in her arresting the leader of a strong local family following abuse allegations at their ranch. This resulted in an organized attack on the sheriff’s office, which Mickey being told that Travis got shot.
“His life hangs within the balance — and his relationship with Mickey and this precarious place where they’ve gotten to where they may have fallen back in love with one another,” Lopez noted. “He tells her he loves her and she or he doesn’t answer him. Within the second half of the autumn finale — which is a powder keg of an episode — what’s going to blow audiences away is how emotional the episode is. All those questions will likely be answered and and with ripple effects that may last for the remainder of the season.”
Fans rooting for Mickey and Travis will see their romance proceed to play out when the show returns on February 27. But Mickey has other options — with other viewers rooting for her to search out love with partner Boone (Matt Lauria).
“I’m not surprised because they’re such great characters, they’re such charming actors they usually are quite easy on the eyes. What I’ve enjoyed [though] shouldn’t be going there — or not less than not going there too quickly,” Lopez said. “They begin out the season in a spot of great conflict. It’s messy and it’s complicated. What you’re beginning to see now’s a return to the Mickey and Boone that existed before the series began after they were just partners and there wasn’t the weirdness of she got the highest job and he got left behind.”
Season 1 will proceed to explore that dynamic.
“They’re falling into that partnership again and it’s a extremely fun place to put in writing to. I do know the actors love playing that charm and so it’s very big sister little brother. Having said that, could it grow into something more? I believe it could,” he continued. “Those relationships have an intimacy to them. Even when it’s not physical, there’s an intimacy that’s almost like a spouse. The door is open for Mickey and Boone.”
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After its premiere, CBS announced that Sheriff Country averaged 7.6 million viewers and is “consistently a time period winner” for Friday nights. The Fire Country spinoff has since been renewed for a second season.
“[Going into season 2], a few of the struggles that Mickey can have will likely be continuations of the identical character dynamics that exist in season 1. They may all the time be there for Mickey. She’s a one that puts up partitions and it becomes hard for her to indicate vulnerability and trust. Sometimes she does and she or he gets burned,” Lopez teased. “Essentially the most courageous thing that as human beings we will do is make ourselves vulnerable, get crushed for it after which make ourselves vulnerable again. Because happiness and achievement lies on the opposite side — and heartbreak too. That can all the time be a part of her character.”
Lopez promised “twists and turns” going forward, saying, “The audience doesn’t even know we’re laying pipe for it, but we’re. There are Easter eggs being hidden within the shrubs without delay that down the stretch of the season the story will come to roost in an incredible way. It’s hard to discuss without being very vague or coy about it.”
He continued: “There are assumptions about Mickey and her life and her family and her how she became a deputy and why she became a deputy that we’ve had in place because the first half of the primary episode that the audience will likely be forced to reexamine and reckon with in a very different way. There are facts that Mickey doesn’t learn about her own story that we’ll discover together together with her.”
Sheriff Country returns to CBS on Friday, February 27, at 8 p.m. ET. Recent episodes will likely be streaming the following day on Paramount+.