Chicago PD: Calling Team Halstead
|When Chicago PD returns for a second season on Wednesday night, we can’t help but turn our eyes towards Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) after that don’t care, let’s go there, hook-up at the end of Season 1. Especially since it sounds like things will continue to be hot and heavy for a while. But what about the show’s first secretive, almost-pairing–the one between Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush) and Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) that left Voight (Jason Beghe) in a massive tizzy?
“People are trying to make this work!” Soffer laughs to The TV Junkies. “There is a little bit of a triangle, because Lindsay and Jay, they have their moments like, ‘Do we? Do we not? Are there feelings? I don’t know.'”
While PD‘s season kicked off with those two potentially exploring those feelings, they were quickly put on hold when Voight made his wishes known and Lindsay started falling for Chicago Fire‘s moodiest, broodiest dude, Severide (Taylor Kinney). It’s a tricky relationship to maintain given that it spans two series and has to take the actors’ busy schedules into account. Now, it looks as though there might be some scripted hiccups for them moving forward, too. As we saw from the heartbreaking Chicago Fire Season 3 opener, Severide has been a little absent lately, becoming a mountain man and heading off to the cabin to deal with his overwhelming feelings.
“Both actors on both shows were really generous in terms of showing up for a minimal fee, but then it was more of a scheduling problem because they’re so dominant in both shows. We want to keep them alive, but it could be difficult,” showrunner Matt Olmstead says. “And then Severide, as we’ve established on the show, he’s prone to going off on his own and having a few cocktails to make things go way. So that might cause a problem with him and Lindsay. He and Lindsay are cut from the same cloth. They’re very similar, so that could be a complication going forward, Severide’s headspace based on the collapse.”
Does that mean there’s hope for Halstead and Lindsay when we return after all?
“No. No, no, no. For now. For now,” Olmstead teases. At least Soffer has a more optimistic view for those shippers out there.
“We care about each other. They want to take care of each other, they want to protect each other. There’s definitely a flirtation there, but it’s like, how much do you want to poke the sleeping dog? Daddy doesn’t want it to happen, and I think Jay definitely takes that into account. And Lindsay and Severide have their little thing going too. So that’s how they start but we’ll see.”
For now, there’s definitely one thing that Soffer is looking forward to more of during Chicago PD‘s second season: more stunts and good old fashioned police work. Aside from the time he accidentally left a car in drive during an offensive driving training and jumped out while the car started rolling away, it makes him feel a little … badass?
“They make fun of me on the show because everyone wants to do the scenes where we’re doing some intense interrogation or whatever, and I’m like, ‘Hand me the assault riffle where I kick down that door!’ That’s what I want to do because it’s going to look cool,” he wraps with a laugh.
Are you Team Halstead or Team Severide? Let the polling begin in the comments below!
Chicago PD returns Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 10 p.m. ET on NBC/Global. Come back to TheTVJunkies.com tomorrow morning for our full review. In the meantime, here’s a little preview of Wednesday’s return:
Team Halstead. Olmstead needs to let the boring crossover romance go. They
Team Halstead. Olmstead needs to let the boring crossover no chemistry romance go. Not everyone loves Severide and not everybody watches Chicago Fire
WoW !!! It will be an interesting year that is for sure. Well ,I am a fan of both show’s. I stared watching Chicago Fire since season one .I love Severide ,But I started watching Chicago because of Lindsay .I watched her from One Tree Hill,loved her since then and Jay is my favorite guy on Chicago ,but your heart will show you who belongs together .and for my thoughts is Jay and Erin and I love my Severide but he needs to find his soul mate and I haven’t seen her on there yet …So anyway’s time will tell take care both the Chicago Family.. I’ am so glad they are back on…Finally…
Totally Team Halstead. I love Severide, but the relationship with Erin was very weak, they didn’t build any depth of feeling or shared experience, especially since they only pop in on each others’ series for a minute here and there. And I stopped watching Chicago Fire when they killed Shay anyway.
Between Jay and Erin though, there is a lot of heart, you know they would take a bullet for each other. And moments like when Jay pretended to be her fiancé at her reunion really developed a rapport.
Team Halstead. Erin didn’t fall for Severide, more she went running scared after Voight banned her and Jay. They had no development. cry, kiss, don’t call, hookup, cry,hug, cry. don’t call, break up. And the crying was all Kelly. Olmstead just needs to give it up. Like he said they are so dominant on both of their shows, why keep on pursuing it when their scenes will be like 1 to 2 minutes with no development. Erin is always comforting him, Severide doesn’t know anything about her. Jay is the one who been there for her. And well they killed Shay, so not watching Fire