In the United States, the season 11 episode aired that gave a reason for the sudden absence of Lt. Kelly Severide.
A couple of months ago, the news of the separation of the actor Taylor Kinney and the hit series Chicago Fire had made the blood run cold in the veins of millions of fans around the world. Playing firefighter Kelly Severide since his debut in 2012, Kinney decided to take time off from work to deal with a personal matter, leaving producers and writers in the position of having to figure out a way to justify the sudden absence of the character. And that’s what happened in the episode aired last night in the United States, the fifteenth of season 11. Here’s how things went.
Chicago Fire 11: Why Kelly Severide left the scene?
Clearly, reading the following is not recommended for those who prefer not to spoil the surprise (in Italy, the programming of the remaining unpublished episodes of season 11 is scheduled for late spring on Sky Serie). At the beginning of the episode Damage Controlin which Severide was talked about a lot but he never appeared, his wife Stella (Miranda Rae May) found herself in an empty apartment while her husband was away on an arson investigation training program in Alabama. As the chief of the Chicago Fire Department’s Bureau of Fire Investigation explained to Commander Boden (Eamonn Walker), evidently annoyed at having lost one of his best men on a day’s notice, the last-minute opportunity was simply too great to pass up. However, Captain Tom Van Meter added that what is happening does not mean that Severide will be transferring to OFI.
Though Severide’s co-workers were delighted with the opportunity, Brett (Kara Killmer) said he doesn’t envy Stella, because she knows how difficult it is to maintain a long-distance relationship. And we don’t know for how long. This, in fact, is a point that has not been clarified either by Kinney or by the production, which had no warning about the actor’s decision to take a break, finding himself forced to rewrite the scripts of the following episodes which involved the involvement of he.
