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This. What she did with both the daughter and the father were just variations on what she has been doing all shift. She thinks she knows best, rushes ahead to do something based on what essentially is her own arrogance and it suddenly is an open question as to whether she's hurting or helping.

I don't remember my last experience in a New York courtroom, but I don't think it is uncommon for the court officer to be armed. I don't know how it works for police officers who are in court to testify, or for other reasons.

Didn't love the episode. It felt like a rejected SVU script. I had real trouble believing the daughter's video was going to come in at the dad's trial. The allegations she made in the video were explosive (presumably uncorroborated?) and would have prejudiced the jury against the father well beyond the point of whatever probative value it had. Also, she obviously was not under oath when she made her statement and could not be crossed on it. I know the mom confirmed the abuse was happening later in the episode, but at that time, all it would have been was just allegations with no real support. I did wonder about that. They kind of yada yada'ed past a bunch of stuff in the episode.

It was a sad episode. Between his lawyer and Stone, the kid was convinced he was irredeemable. The kid had serious psychological problems, even if he knew what he was doing when he killed the other kid (and obviously had a history of violence). It was the kind of case where I hope the judge accepted the plea, but changed the terms of the sentence to where he was significantly punished for what he had done, but there was still some hope for him.

I was wondering that too. Joyce was talking about the VIP room as though it was something new, but I thought it was introduced in an earlier episode. I was curious if people have actually been to hospitals where the ER staff tried to upsell them with unnecessary procedures? I would think that kind of thing could get a real hospital into a lot of trouble.

I had completely forgotten that he and Julianne Nicholson were regulars on Ally McBeal almost 25 years ago where they played a couple!

Haven't they been down there for years at this point? I find it hard to believe he's been able to keep the dog a secret all this time. And the scientists were killed, not because they found the world was not as dead as it was made out to be, but because they found someone and tried to bring her back with them. I would guess that means there are lots of survivors out there.

The covers of various 80s songs ending episodes reminds me so much of that season of Grey's Anatomy where I think they did the exact same thing, with at least some of the same cover songs. The way things were going, I was surprised she didn't poison him while her hair was in pigtails and she was licking a giant lollipop. I did appreciate Robinson's utter disgust with Jane's carnival outfit.

I thought Pete just had to return to the property to have any lost appendages reappear, not actually have to physically be in the house for it to happen.

I just viewed as new marriage versus old. It's not that Mandy's parents like the lying. They just don't consider this particular lie to be important and both use it to get a break that probably benefits the marriage in the long run.

It's a similar plot, but it feels very different to me. That was an elderly person clearly struggling to hold on, and even when the daughter could not handle it, there was an underlying feeling that everyone did realize his death was imminent and she came around relatively quickly. Contrast that to an 18 year old who was in good health, and had this tragic reaction to Fentanyl laced Xanax. For a parent in that situation, the OD is the first horror and brain death is the second horror. Then for a person to come in and tell them they are there to discuss harvesting the kid's organs. It's way too much in such a short time period.

I'm not sure if the show really thought that far ahead, but yes, if the kids can easily access the above ground level, and there's nothing to suggest they are in danger being up there, to me that would suggest the area outside the mountain is safe for human habitation.

So was the idea of the episode that the adults are almost all assholes? I really am tired of Ava's treatment of Janine. I feel like it's at a point where she's just essentially kicking a puppy. On the positive side, Mr. Johnson's claim to have been one of the hidden figures at NASA was pretty funny. I checked to see if William Stanford Davis had been in the movie, but sadly, he was not.

Amy should have been suspended or fired for ignoring a patient DNR. It's assault when you perform life saving care on someone who has specifically told you that isn't what they want. I know the show tried to sell it as being fine by having the patient be glad that his express wishes were ignored, but give me a break. I may have just missed this in a prior episode, but I didn't realize the husband and his new wife were still living in he and Amy's marital home. That's just a wow from me, if only because the baggage from the son's death and break up of the marriage would be a lot for the new wife to take in and essentially live in a quasi-memorial to it all.

That would be depressing. It would mean it took what, another 40 or 50 more years for a woman to get the job?

It was always described during the show as an adoption. Presuming that is what it was, Jonah's father would have had to surrender his parental rights. When he got out of prison, he would not have any standing to sue for custody.

I don't know why he can't just call them "TK" and "Uncle Carlos." That's who they are to him. After all, his father is still alive and well, and presumably will come back at some point when he is out of jail. It was strange that they ended a past episode with Judd pleading over the phone for Grace to return home followed by her texting him to set up a call. I don't believe there was any follow up and Grace obviously never returned.

For the life of me, I did not understand why TK would have his brother calling him "Papa Bro." Why can't he just call his brother by his name? The show has been so odd about this storyline. Party of Five managed to handle an older sibling acting as a parental figure to his younger siblings without making it this weird. I will say that it said so much about his character that a product placement truck was given more to do during the episode (and seemed to have more personality) than Carlos. And while I was happy Tommy wasn't dead in the end, it was all sorts of ridiculous for her to show up to work on an emergency when she was halfway dead herself.

She was very good. You see her at the beginning of the episode and you think she's in shock because her she was just told her daughter was dead. You later realize she was behaving the way she was because she had just killed her daughter.

Airing 2/3/25 - Series Finale.

Seriously. I feel like we are going to get to a point where the machine is just going to be empty, leaving him in patient gown. I did want to tell him that he should have washed the blood off his face before running to get new scrubs. There's no reason he should be running around with blood on his face. Having said that, I appreciated the other doctor did not for even a moment stop supporting him when the leg wound became a bloodbath. There was no freak out. She didn't throw him off the case or take the entire thing over herself. She just calmly talked him through the next steps. Maybe it's just an over consumption of medical shows, but that felt like such a breath of fresh air to me. I was thinking that too. We already saw a situation where she's struggled to take direction, and it the context of that, she appears to be doing it again. That has mainly happened in hospitals where the state has largely banned abortion and only given doctors vague direction on how to avoid breaking the law. Pennsylvania is not one of those states.

I thought the episode was a little clumsy. I didn't love the golf club storyline. It wasn't just that he was using the kids for publicity. He was making a lot of racist assumptions about the kids. I thought his comment to RJ about being able to work at the club one day as a caddy would lead to the blow up, or his obviously hiding the one white student and white teachers in the group photo to portray the event as being charity for poor black children would do it. On the positive side, I did like the Ava/Melissa heist, as I feel like they don't put those two together in their own storyline often, and their grifter spirits work well with one another.

I think the first thing I saw her in was a sequel series to All in the Family. It took place in the same house the Bunkers lived in during the series, except the house was now owned by a black family. She played the girlfriend of the son. Also, in a blink and you'll miss it bit part, in Star Struck, Allison Janney plays the assistant of the soap star who is attacked in the park by a crazed fan. I didn't realize it, but the victim in the episode played Molly Ringwald's sister in Sixteen Candles. The one who took a bunch of tranquilizers on her wedding day.

When he said he was 38, I was very surprised. I would have thought he was in his mid-40s, at the youngest. I just rolled my eyes at his using the morgue for cryotherapy. To me, the show has trouble with the line between "what a wacky hospital" and "these people just seem stupid." In terms of the terminal patient and the family feuding, I found this interesting because The Pitt also had just this storyline going on in it's last couple of episodes. It's hard to compare, if only because The Pitt is a 50 minute drama and was able to do the storyline over multiple episodes, while St. Denis gave it what, 7 or 8 minutes as a B plot? What was interesting is both shows offered or hinted at a version of The Four Things that Matter Most that you say to a loved one when they are dying: "I love you," "Thank you," "I forgive you," and "Please forgive me." I did want someone to let Alex know that you only get the executor fee after the person is dead, so it's unlikely the money is going to help her pay for her kid's college.

I like the grittier, less polished version of the show in Season 2 where basically everyone has a lot of attitude about everything. There's also a nice bit of nostalgia seeing the characters rely on pay phones or car radios to call things in. It's also interesting to see everyone have to work their way through boxes and boxes of papers to find information. In watching the season, I still remain confused by Aria. I get that the mom was the stage mother from hell and seemingly was happy with her daughter stripping and doing porn as career boosters, but I really didn't buy that she was responsible for the daughter's death. Stone kept changing theories, and everything seemed to rest on the idea that this adult woman had no agency. It was also neat to see a very young Maura Tierney as the sister and Lisa Nicole Carson (from Ally McBeal and ER) in what must have been one of her first roles.