Hospital New Amsterdam

I was impressed by the social commentary in the writing! Well acted. All the usual obvious stuff but a few hidden gems for the naive few who still want to enjoy a show about life.

This show started great, it was fresh, and I liked the first two seasons. The characters were likeable, the stories were good, the patients and medical cases were plausible and believable. Then season 3 happened. Season 3 is unwatchable bad. Consider this show to be a two season show and you'll be happy with it.

What the heck happened. This was a medical show. Doctors, diseases, people. Now it's insanity. Max runs amuck every episode determined to change the world NOW. It's no longer about a hospital, too much personal lives and not enough cases. Someone please go find a writer and watch season 1, and save the show! We're about done with the lunacy.

Another doctor show just seems like it could be overkill on yet another doctor show but Ryan Eggold's portrayal of the new medical director who actually tries to teach doctors to live by the hypocratic oath and advocate for patients regardless of the money that the hospital may or may not make. This show looks at the human side of medicine and that is refreshing.

The show is great, when it sticks to human level stories. But in season 3 Dr. Goodwin has become a cartoon character trying to solve a massive, new problem every week.

While other doctors are helping and healing, he manically runs around trying to end things that have plague the world for centuries. He thinks his pathetic shallow and ignorant attempts to "fix" something always works, but it's inevitably followed up by a lesson from the victim he's trying to help.

I literally fast forward when he's on the screen, simply because his stories never interacts with anything else on the show.