It is always disappointing when something you’ve been looking forward to for a long time seems to be happening finally, only for everything to fall apart.
That’s how Fire Country is making me feel with the writers’ decision to write out Gabriela Perez in the upcoming season.
Just to recap, it was announced that Billy Burke and Stephanie Arcila will be demoted from their series regular duties in Fire Country Season 4.
The Season 3 finale did not set up such exits, although we have a feeling about how Vince Leone will be written out.
These two departures could not have come at a worse time.
We explored how Billy Burke’s departure would be detrimental to the show, but most of the points made are not directly related to the character’s journey.
However, for Gabriela, it would be antithetical to the work done throughout the years that brought her to the point she arrived in Season 3.
Gabriela Will Be Leaving in Fire Country Season 4
When the show’s team announced that the characters won’t return for their regular roles in Fire Country Season 4, my first question was: why now? The second was: now, why would they do that?
We have gotten explanations that the show’s creative team feels it is the appropriate direction for the story.
