'9-1-1: Lone Star' review: Gets it half right from the start

'Listen, we need some kind of balance for this partnership to work. So, your missing sister storyline takes odd-numbered episodes and the illness I'm hiding from the crew gets the even ones, deal?' Photos: Fox

We just can't get enough disaster on TV, not when it's served up with juicy trimmings of character-driven drama and topped off with a little mound of soap (opera) suds.

And if one series like, say, the cop-firefighter-dispatcher success 9-1-1 hits the spot with fans of that sort of offering, well, why not have two?