Fire Country is expanding the world of Edgewater with Sheriff Country — but how are the characters related to each other?
CBS introduced Edgewater when Fire Country premiered in 2022 with inmate Bode (Max Thieriot) returning home and volunteering for the California Conservation Camp Program during season 1. By season 2, a backdoor pilot set up the world of Sheriff Country, which is centered around Sharon’s (Diane Farr) estranged sister Mickey (Morena Baccarin) as she solves crimes in her hometown.
“They’re very different shows in that Sheriff is a mystery. Fire is all about the incident that happens and how it affects our people,” creator Tony Phelan exclusively told Us Weekly in September. “Sheriff is about creating these mysteries, creating these crimes and then saying, ‘How do we purs