“Without losing a piece of me, how do I get to heaven?Without changing a part of me, how do I get to heaven?”

In this episode of The Buddie System, Han, Cil, and Rachel act as your fandom priests and perform a queer coding exorcism on Eddie Diaz’s Catholic Guilt™️ (as shown in the hit network television series entering its 10th season: 9-1-1). Our sermon breaks down his complete history with religion and faith and how it left him with religious trauma that makes him feel like something in him is broken. Eddie has spent his whole life looking for God in the wrong places, without realizing what’s been right in front of him: Buck, the one person he’s always had unwavering faith in.

We grab our rosaries (aka baby’s first fidget toy) and dive into the “Old Testament”: the foundations of comp-het, peer-reviewed research on queer people raised in homophobic churches, the Hays Code’s history of veiling queerness in religious guilt, and why we think Tim Minear is purposefully referencing the Ancient Texts of Queer Coding through Eddie.

Then we read The Gospel According to Eddie Diaz (aka The Eddie Scriptures), every example of faith, belief, or lack thereof from Season 2 through Season 9. We go from Eddie asking for a sign right before Shannon dies, the universe screaming at him, and Hot Priest’s Juice Bar Intervention, to Abuela’s sage advice on where to find God’s love, and a hospital chapel bearing witness to perhaps the most homoerotic stabbing on network TV since Supernatural.

Next, we enter The Book of Acts, where faith is actually put into practice, and for Eddie that’s always been The Church of Buckley. In 9x18 Eddie tells God, “I’ve been trying to believe… you’re not making it real easy,” but per our scriptures, worshiping at the altar of Buck has always come naturally.

Finally, in Revelation, or The Buddie System Scriptures, we talk about the future we’d like to see for Eddie and his relationship with religion: free of guilt and shame, drinking the juice, and hopefully rolling the stone away from his closet.

This episode is dedicated to our TV dad, Tim Minear, for giving us enough crumbs to cater the last supper. Happy Birthday, hope you enjoy your present! 😂

“All my time is wasted, feeling like my heart's mistaken, ohSo if I'm losing a piece of me, maybe I don't want heaven”

Episode title inspired by “Heaven” by Troye Sivan

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Chapters

(00:00:00) Welcome Back to the Eddie Queer Coding Series 🌈

(00:01:36) Eddie's Catholic Guilt Exorcism – Setting the Stage

(00:10:08) A Brief History of Queer Coding & Subtext

(00:13:36) Eddie’s Catholic Guilt Begins

(00:17:14) Eddie Asks for a Sign and Gets a Ruined Miracle | 2x17

(00:19:11) “I Wasn’t Enough” | 3x08

(00:20:21) The Patron Saint of Travelers | 3x15

(00:21:48) “I Don’t Worry About Things I Can’t Control” | 4x06

(00:24:11) “I Didn’t Save Them” | 5x13-5x14

(00:25:36) “God Has Spoken” | 5x16

(00:28:41) Confused About the Definition of Belief | 6x07

(00:30:43) The Manchurian Catholic | 7x05

(00:35:37) “I’m Broken and I Can’t Fix It” | 7x09

(00:38:18) An Exercise in Faith, A Thought Journey

(00:42:30) “I Don’t Deserve Forgiveness, or Joy” | 8x06

(00:52:55) “I Was Looking in the Wrong Place” | 9x05

(01:05:26) Coming Out as Holey | 9x18

(01:13:42) The Church of Buckley

(01:19:35) Our Hope for Eddie

(01:33:18) Our Closing Sermon – Reflecting on Religion, Repression & Self-Acceptance

📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 (In Order of Mention)

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