Station 19 Season 4 Episode 15 Review: Say Her Name

After the past two character-centric episodes, it took a minute to remember that our favorite firefighters are still dealing with the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd on Station 19 Season 4 Episode 15.

However, for us, it’s been a year since Floyd’s murder, and it’s weird to think about the difference, or rather the lack of a difference, 365 days make.

So even though the penultimate episode of the season takes place in the spring of 2020, it still feels like something that could have happened months, weeks, or even days ago.\
As always, Barrett Doss killed it as Vic struggled to deal with her parents’ apparent nonchalant attitude over everything that’s been happening lately.

To her, they were more concerned with the fate of their restaurant than the state of the world or what she, as a Black female first responder, has been going through.
Vic felt that her parents adopted this view of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, always brushing past the uncomfortable or painful things that happened in their lives, never stopping to talk about it or their feelings.

But for Vic, that was no longer working.

Ever since Breonna Taylor, a Black female first responder like her, was murdered, she’s been holding all of this about heartbreak and pain and fear in, and seeing her parents relatively calm after rioters burned down their restaurant was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

And try as she might, she could no longer keep quiet and had to feel her feelings in their entirety, which led to a flawlessly executed monologue from Doss.

It all came tumbling out in a jumbled stream of consciousness, but it’s something Vic has needed to say to her parents for a very long time.

She always assumed her parents never had the difficult conversations with her growing up because they didn’t want to address the ugly reality of what was right in front of them or deal with the pain.

However, as the episode progressed, Vic learned that all her parents have ever tried is to protect her.

They didn’t discuss certain uncomfortable topics not because they didn’t want to deal with them but because they wanted to protect her.