Medical Drama

• Title: New Amsterdam – Death Begins in Radiology
• IMDb: link

It’s been awhile since I’ve checked in on New Amsterdam, but the show’s Third Season finale offers an opportune time to do so by providing separate vignettes centered around the various core characters of the show. The theme of love play a prominent role in each one of the separate stories, although I was partial to those involving Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) and Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) eventually finding their way to each other after dealing with their own frantic series of events (his missing wedding ring, her family drama back in England). It’s about time.

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• Title: New Amsterdam – Pilot
• IMDb: link

New Amsterdam offers a pretty straightforward premise. With the arrival of a new medical director of the United States’ oldest public hospital things begin to change. Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) shows up with a vision to scale back the medical bureaucracy and focus on simply helping patients. A novel approach in the current climate. Goodwin’s outlook is colored by a mix of a midlife crisis, impending fatherhood, and a recent cancer diagnosis. Given the chance at his dream job, basically he’s got nothing to lose except further alienating the mother of his child to be and driving the doctors at the hospital crazy.

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