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Melendez, not Claire, pointed out the side effect that the part of the brain involved in maternal bonding and nurturing could be adversely affected. When Claire was with the patient post-surgery and the woman hugged her son, Melendez was not present. That is when the woman made th comment about she hoped it felt the same for her son. The way the scene was played made it pretty obvious that the mother was now detached and emotionally distance, indicating that Melendez had been right. When that woman has time to recover and reflect on what she has lost she will have grounds to sue the hospital. Claire manipulated Melendez into a corner where he pretty much had to support her to minimize damage to both of their reputations and his prospects to become chief of surgery. Melendez was not supporting Claire, he was doing damage control. If they showed up at the hearing with Andrews and Allegra and obviously not on the same page, Andrews would said WTF and just given the CoS job to Lim because if Melendez couldn't keep one resident under control how could he run successfully a whole department. Melendez handled the situation correctly, in my opinion. He stopped the immediate drama and conflict, performed the operation the patient wanted and then got rid of the troublemaker so this wouldn't happen to him again. In this episode Andrews and Allegra only wanted to keep Claire around to avoid damage to the hospital's reputation, not because they particularly valued Claire as an employee. Going behind your boss's back is never well received by upper management. If Claire had been a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman they would have probably let her go. Claire wanted back on Melendez's team so that's what Andrews needed to make happen regardless how he or Melendez felt about it. The final scene between Claire and Neil showed her as cold and calculating. Claire does not understand that there is a difference between being assertive and being manipulative and argumentative, or maybe she just doesn't care. She also has the emotional maturity of a self-absorbed teenager. Claire may be good at certain aspects of her job but overall she is not a good doctor. Claire is not the victim of bad luck or unfair treatment. She is sabotaging her career all on her own. She doesn't seem to see the long-term damage she has caused to her reputation and career for the sake of a of short-term perceived win. She also doesn't get that treating patients not a zero-sum game. I don't see any kind of romantic chemistry between Claire and Neil and I really hope the show doesn't go there. I don't see a way in this day and age they can portray a romance that is not fraught with ethical issues.

Claire presented an experimental treatment to Melendez for his patient, who reviewed and vetoed it for valid reasons. She then went behind his back and pitched the idea to his patient without telling him, never mind getting his permission. The patient wanted the treatment so she then went to the hospital board to get approval, again without consulting Melendez, putting him in a position that he had to go along with a treatment for his patient that he was opposed to. Claire committed a major breach of procedure and protocol as well as it being unprofessional, unethical and manipulative. Melendez was right to kick her off his team because she is a loose cannon whom he can't trust any more. After recovering from surgery, the patient pretty much admitted to Claire that the treatment did indeed have the bad side effect that Melendez had strongly warned about and Claire, apparently, kept that knowledge to herself. In other words, the patient is now a lawsuit waiting to happen due to Claire's actions, but Andrews and Melendez are unaware of that.

Well, Melendez is an authoritative figure. He is the respected attending physician with years of experience and she is a second year resident whose job is to work under his direction and learn from him. Melendez is a probably in his early 40s and Claire is maybe 27 or 28. They are not anywhere close to being peers. We have repeatedly seen that Claire is also a manipulative person so she and her friend deserve each other.

It's just rumors and people trying to create buzz at this point. For example, I read several reviews that made hyperbolic statements about Bodyguard being Madden's Bond audition. I agree he would make a good Bond, certainly better than some of the other names being bandied about.

I don't think the show needs to come back at all. It was a complete story and could be left at that. However, TV being a for-profit business, it is, apparently, difficult to resist the urge to extend a successful idea in the hopes of continued financial success. Budd would need to be put in a different job for a second series to avoid just retreading the series one plot. Perhaps he could be recruited by a hostage negotiation, crisis management or a similar team. If Richard Madden does manage to get tapped to be the next Bond, I doubt a second series would materialize because it would be too similar to a Bond role. A crime or political thriller doesn't need a romance to be engaging so I would rather they not go there. From what I have seen of his work, Jed Mercurio leans more toward depicting short-lived affairs that don't go anywhere rather than romantic relationships. Line of Duty has done well with this approach.

Craddock said explicitly that she chose Budd because he would be the perfect fall guy with his military background and unstable personality. She was his boss so she knew when he was taking time off and Budd probably casually mentioned where he was going and what he would be doing, as people usually do at work. Had Budd made plans to drive to his mother's place they would have modified their plan accordingly. That doesn't need to be spelled out in detail on screen. They got the point across that what appeared to be a lucky coincidence of Budd being in the right place at the right time was, in fact, carefully orchestrated.

It's their Halloween episode. Lots of shows do a stand-alone holiday episode that may not make much sense in the context of the show as a whole but are supposed to be a fun diversion. I think holiday episodes are dumb so I didn't like this one.

I guess this episode is their version of being topical. They didn't even bother trying to thinly veil their criticism. This episode was obviously filmed shortly after the G8 conference.

I would like to a musical season devoted to Irving Berlin. George Gershwin called him the greatest songwriter that has ever lived. Berlin lived to be 101 and his extraordinary life spanned a remarkable time from the Victorian era to the modern computer age. The greatest names in many genres have recorded his music.

I think it is pretty simple. Joan is a prime suspect because, apparently, the FBI doesn't believe her story. An alternative version would be that Joan and Michael had a struggle at the house but she wasn't injured, at least not seriously. She did, however, injure Micheal seriously and he fled with Joan in hot pursuit. She caught up with Micheal at or near where his body was found. A big brawl ensued during which Joan sustained her injuries and Michael ended up dead. It is very plausible that Joan could take out an injured man weakened from blood loss. What I think actually happened is that Sherlock killed Michael and Joan knows it. The key to it is the phone call between Joan and Sherlock where Sherlock tells Joan he will be home imminently. Why include that unless it was significant? Sherlock arrives home just as Michael is leaving, checks on Joan to see that she is not about to die and then takes off after Michael, catches up with him, a brawl ensues and Michael ends up dead. I can see Sherlock violently attacking Michael in a blind rage for hurting Joan. The ongoing theme all season was Sherlock's devotion to Joan. Her well-being and happiness is paramount for Sherlock. He was willing to move out of the house and remove himself from her day-to-day life to help make her adoption happen. She is his heir. He even told Joan he would lay down his life for her. That presumably means he would also kill to protect her, if need be. Moriarty may have been The Woman but Joan is The One and Sherlock is just starting to realize that.

I see the series as the story of one man's journey through a judicial system that was at best inadequate and at worst corrupt. Everyone involved in the case seemed to be either inept, shady, self-serving or all of the above. It's ok that Kathleen Peterson was not the focus because the show was not about her. The medical examiner and blood splatter expert were both shady. The judge seemed like he didn't know what he was doing. He should never have allowed anything about Elizabeth Ratliff's death to be entered into evidence. There is no reason to believe the German medical examiner and police got it wrong. The ME in Durham had a vested interest in ensuring that ER's cause of death exactly matched her conclusions about Kathleen Peterson's death. She even went so far as to exhume ER's body and transort it 1200 miles instead of letting the local ME do an autopsy to ensure she got the result she wanted. Everything about her results is suspect. Barbara, the nanny, was also shady. Her testimony did not match up with the German police report. She claimed there was blood everywhere and admitted that she went up and down the stairs, stepping over Elizabeth, before the police arrived. Why would she do that if not to hide something? The lady prosecutor spewed a lot of inflammatory bigoted rhetoric to sway the jury in the absence of hard evidence. David Rudolf just seemed to be not very good at his job. The ill-fitting suits suggested to me that he was not a high-powered defense lawyer. If he couldn't even afford a decent suit that fit him for court appearances his practice was probably not doing so well. I don't know if Michael is guilty or not. However, I tend to think he is not. The owl theory is not as outlandish as it may seem at first blush. I think it is also possible that Michael took the blame to protect one of his sons from what might have been manslaughter, not murder. He thought he would be acquitted but once he was found guilty there was no going back and admitting the truth because then they both would go to prison. Todd distanced himself from the family after Michael went to prison while Clayton and his wife remained very devoted to him, visiting Michael in prison and giving him a home after he got out. Both behaviors could be interpreted as that of a person with something to hide.

Sony tried shopping the show around without luck. This is an expensive-to-produce niche product that doesn't have a big enough audience to make it profitable for anyone. If a major broadcast network decided the show was too rich for its blood, then it is most certainly out of reach for basic cable. The number of customers who would be willing to pay to watch the show on Amazon would be smaller than the network viewership. This is also not the kind of show that will induce enough people to subscribe to a streaming service just to watch it to make it profitable for Hulu or Netflix. The focus on American history also limited the potential for international success. In the end TV is a for-profit business so there is little interest in keeping shows on the air that are not profitable no matter how good they are or how vocal and loyal the fans are.

The commercial applications for hosts are pretty obvious. 1. Sell to end consumers as a way extend their lives, perhaps indefinitely. I imagine most customers would rather spend eternity as a young, healthy version of themselves in an artificial body than take medications to preserve the middle-aged or elderly body they currently have. The experiments with Bernard and old man Delos are the groundwork for that. 2. Sell to the military, law enforcement, and other entities that need to send operatives into dangerous situations, such as war zones, active shooter incidents, forest fires, nuclear meltdowns, and be sure that the individuals will reliably do their jobs regardless of personal risk including certain death. They could also offer host commanders unencumbered by emotions and ethics to control personnel and direct operations. Clementine controlling the hosts to fight and kill each other was a test of that. Delos has already productionized their process to make host bodies. They just need to build more manufacturing facilities to meet future demand. I doubt that a host costs millions of dollars to produce. The white organic goop and the electronics seem to be commodity items and the software is developed once and then deployed everywhere. Standardization and economies of scale would bring the unit price down to a point that buying a host body would be like buying a car or home. Rich people would pay cash and purchase extras like exclusive upgrades and same-day concierge repair service. Everyone else would finance their purchase, with Delos making money on the financing, just like automobile makers and big residential home builders do today. And like military contractors today, Delos would make a ton of money overcharging for hosts, spare parts and repair service. For example, charging $2000 for replacement eyeballs that cost $50 to produce. Unless I missed something in season 1, I never got the impression the parks are only for the super rich. There are no doubt VIP packages for the wealthy, but such an enterprise also needs to cater to the masses to be financially viable. In real life lots of middle class folks accrue credit card debt to finance vacations at luxury destinations. Many vacation resorts are based on the idea of selling two weeks of luxury living to people who can't otherwise afford that lifestyle.

That guy doesn't know anything, either. He is just speculating and stating his opinion as fact. He doesn't reference any unnamed sources at NBC or Sony or otherwise indicate that he has actual information from anyone with firsthand knowledge.

There are lots of websites that use screenshots to track down the clothes and accessories worn by characters on TV shows, including this show, and post the details of designer labels/manufacturers and availability so people can acquire them. Same for high-profile celebrities. Any items worn in public by the Duchess of Cambridge tend to sell out the same day in stores. It's so common and has been going on for so long that it's really not necessary to waste screen time spelling out how they located the earring store.

I dunno, She looked frumpy to me. The dress is matronly and her hair is messy and competing with the hat for attention. It would have worked better if her hair were pulled back in a neat bun or French roll and the hat placed a bit farther back on her head. Lady Kitty Spencer showed how one wears a facinator to best advantage.

That won't happen. Sony doesn't own the footage from the wedding so the studio would have to pay for it and get clearance from all other individuals appearing in the footage and NBC News loses (more) credibility as a serious news organization if it starts using news footage of a widely viewed event to shill a struggling TV show. The royal family would also oppose the use of wedding footage in a fictional TV show. Maintaining good relations with the royal family is more important than a possible episode plot for a TV show NBC doesn't even own. I don't see how Abigail Spencer attending the wedding as a private person has anything to do with the show. No one is gonna start watching the show because that. If the show does get renewed it will only be because the financials make it feasible not because of fan pressure or internet buzz or an actor attending a high-profile wedding.

While there may have been tension on set, I doubt that Mark Harmon actually got Donald Bellisario fired. He had the reputation of being a tough task master who delivered so CBS knew what they were getting with him. Bellisario retired in 2007 at age 72 and has not worked at all since then. I find it more likely that he decided that after 40 years in the business he was too old for actor bullshit and the daily grind and was done. Maybe health factors played a role. It usually does when people retire suddenly. The fact that Sean Murray is still on the show suggests that it was not personal.

No, Fisher Stevens was always rather odd looking with a head too big for his skinny little body. He played Kyle Chandler's weird little sidekick in Early Edition. Maybe you're thinking of Parker Stevenson. He was a handsome leading man type back in the day.

It's usual for studios to sign actors to 6 or 7 year contracts to ensure their long-term availability. Even big stars like Viola Davis and James Spader sign long-term contracts.

Exactly this story line was done on The Good Doctor this season. Nick and Jessica were engaged when she told him she really did not want children. He tried to compromise and thought he could be happy with coaching Little League or something. Jessica finally broke off the engagement because that's not a compromise and Nick would some day resent that he missed out on something so important to him.

I would guess that John Lithgow was paid more than both Foy and Smith. He is an established star with a lot of high-profile successes over the years. It would also would not surprise me if Anton Lesser and perhaps Jeremy Notham were also paid more than Claire Foy. They are also established stars. Lesser has created a memorable character on the currently most watched TV show in the world and has recently worked with the likes of Brad Pitt in big Hollywood productions. That counts for something in contract negotiations. An actor's market value and proven ability to carry a show and bring eyeballs to the screen plays a really big role in contract negotiations. Claire Foy didn't have much in the way of big international successes to point to at the time she negotiated her contract.

It was clear from the first time Kenny appeared and made a comment about Shaun's nice TV that we would end up here. This comes as no surprise. Kenny has never been any kind of friend to Shaun. It was shown repeatedly that Kenny is one of those people who always sees other people in terms of how they can be useful to him and what he can get from them. He broke into Sean's apartment and helped himself to his cable service. He conned Shaun into spending $300 on entertainment for him and his girlfriend. He again broke into Shaun's apartment and rifled through drawers and cupboards to see what useful stuff he could find and found $20 which he spent on dinner for himself. He broke into Shaun's apartment too get some milk because why buy his own groceries when Shaun has what he needs. Now he again broke into Shaun's apartment and helped himself to Shaun's TV that he's had his eye on the whole time. Kenny has no intention of giving back the TV voluntarily. At some point he will move out, taking Shaun's nice TV with him. How much breaking and entering and stealing does Shaun need before he calls the cops and presses charges? Getting upset and yelling at Kenny will have no effect and is a waste of time. People like that are immune to emotional outbursts. They just wait a bit for things to cool down, then carry on in their usual style, and when that no longer works they move on to the next mark.

There's only a couple more weeks of filming for this season and then the actors have off until July. A play isn't necessarily a long term commitment. Their play could finish its run in June.

It was established in Space Race that Flynn is originally from the present. He traveled back to 1969 to save his older brother from a fatal bee sting. In the final scene the gang verified that Flynn's mother remarried and Flynn was born a few years after the bee sting incident, putting his age at around 45, which matches Flynn's apparent physical age in the present. He may have traveled to the future at some point or older Lucy traveled back to the past by means that is yet to be explained, but Flynn was born in the early 1970s.