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Well, the PR around the city part, probably, and likely visit hospitals once in a while if it's one of their own or a kid they pulled out.

That is correct. In real-life Chicago I believe there are only 4 Squads, and one of them is dedicated to O'Hare. Squad in Emergency! was a different piece of apparatus with a very different mission. Squad 51 was specifically a paramedic unit that also did things like high-angle rescues, etc. Squad 3 on this show is a dedicated heavy rescue that, in reality, would only be toned out for major incidents such as multiple alarm fires, building collapses, technical rescues, train wrecks, water rescues, multi-vehicle MVAs and the like. I don't know if LACoFD had dedicated technical rescue companies at the time (it's been a few years since I did a series re-watch), but I doubt they'd feature any unit that would detract from Johnny and Roy's heroics.

Well compare that to the nightmare of "the 118" on 9-1-1, where they respond in either a truck or an engine, whichever they feel like, it seems. Now they have a nice tiller truck, but nobody is driving the tiller. I think the (rat-infested) Station 19 is the same, but I gave up on that show three years ago. Just as a medical procedural should (at least in theory) get the basics of certain procedures correct, getting the basics of the fire service right goes a long way in the audience suspending their disbelief. Of the FD-themed shows, CF is the only one that even pays lip service to that—barely. Truth be told, the only recent FD-themed show that even begins to get it right is the comedy show "Tacoma FD."

They do it better than 9-1-1 (which is utterly awful in that regard). I think after 9 seasons that viewers can somewhat differentiate between the Truck (thing with the big stick on the back) and the Rescue, versus the Engine (the useless apparatus that is seemingly incapable of putting wet stuff on red stuff and is staffed by a mostly-invisible crew). The company number doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, and if a company has existed for 80, 100, or 150 years, changing its company number on a bureaucrat's whim would be taken as bad ju-ju. Try doing that in New York and there would be a complete revolt.

Tradition. Mess with tradition at your own peril. And it's less confusing for radio calls as well. Some departments will standardize, many won't. Just what it is, I guess. LA standardizes for the most part. FDNY doesn't. LA County's roster: https://www.lacountyfiremuseum.com/stations-and-apparatus/ Chicago Fire Department roster: https://metrochicagofire.com/cfd.htm FDNY Roster: https://www.n2nov.net/fdny_locations.html

Nope, this is very common. They are different companies, just based out of the same House. In many cases, this came about as a result of consolidation from old neighborhood houses that closed and were consolidated into a newer, bigger building. Even the actual station building the show films has real-world Engine 18 and Ambulance 65 (along with a Deputy District Chief and District Chief and a High Rise Unit, according to Wikipedia).

What I don't get is why Max and the others just didn't go to the media when this all began. The oldest public health institution in the country failing at-risk communities and abusing public trust in NYC wouldn't just be front page of the NY Times and every national TV newscast, but there would be governmental hearings/etc. Not just Fuentes, but every board member would be investigated. The other part of this that I don't get is how were they able to take the hospital private without massive investigations? Again, if this was J. Random Hospital in Nowheresville I could see it, but no way NotBellevue could fall like that without notice. Also, you don't shock asystole! Next step will obviously be that Sharp will be so disgusted with NHS rules she'll go back to NY. Gawd this show is hot garbage. You'd think with all the millions of dollars NBC is throwing at shows like this they'd have some execs who would step in and fire the writers.

Oh, you just know that when the inevitable happens it'll make Phil Harris' passing seem like nothing.

And it's not like there wouldn't be a dozen cameras at the scene anyways, from neighbors with cellphones to freelancers with scanners in their rigs (LAPD and LAFD both transmit in the clear and are repeatered), etc. It would be journalistic malpractice for her to not report the story once the perp had been arrested, and likewise to run with it while the investigation was ongoing if she agreed to sit on it. And if Buck has a problem with that, he can stick it in a warm, moist place of his choosing. She's in the right here, however annoying she can be. And how come that station only has one reporter? When I was an ENG cameraman in the 90s I worked with about 12 reporters in a mid-market station. Now all that said, I'm still convinced Buck/Lucy (Bucy?) is the writers' endgame. Which reminds me, when and why did makeup stop applying the scar to the actor's forehead?

Hey all, I'm looking for more Nordic/Scandi-noir fare to binge, and I think I'm running out of titles. So far I've watched: The Bridge (all 4 seasons) Trapped (2 seasons) Bordertown/Sorjonen Deadwind The Valhalla Murders Ragnarok (not really NN, but close enough) Lilyhammer (one season - wasn't a fan) Broadchurch and Shetland (Not nordic but the same feel) Borderliner Fallet (I truly hated this one) Beat-cop procedural Roba (Please release S3, Amazon!) and my favourite nordic show of all time, Beforeigners, a magnificent time-travel Norweigan drama. Any more that I must add to this list? I'm especially fond of Finnish works.

Time estimates have to include two things: Enough fuel for a diversion to an alternate airport (an extra 45 minutes typical in IFR conditions), plus you can't always be sure that the expected tailwinds will materialize. Not sure about the rules for helos specifically or as established in life-or-death rescue work by the USCG, but in civil aviation you always have to budget in a fudge factor to assume Things Will Not Go As Planned. I'd bet that they did, in fact, budget the same time back as they did for the time enroute, and if they were able to get back faster due to tail winds then all the better. I never flew IFR, but in VFR flight planning you *always* budget extra time and fuel (30 minutes fuel for flight in VMC).

Re caulking Casey's injury. OMFG. I can't even. Jason Patton is a YouTuber who's a firefighter/paramedic based in Florida. He's absolutely hilarious, single-handedly poking fun at the foibles of the job, but his best work is skewering the idiocy in first responder shows. He took on this exact scene in this video. And dear, sweet ghu, Read the comments! Check out his channel as well if you want some seriously good belly laughs.

Exactly. Early TV shows had on-air talent wearing fine stripes that made TVs go nuts. Less of a thing now with HD, I guess.

There should be no difference. Even though cannabis is legal in New York State, it's still an intoxicant and if it's proven that you were under the influence of it you can get the same penalties as if you were drunk. One of the big arguments about legalization is that there's no equivalent of a breathalyzer to quickly determine if a driver is high when pulled over for a traffic infraction. Now in this case, the department still forbids having any THC in the blood, rightly or wrongly, but not booze or tobacco. I don't know if that's real-world (I'm betting it very much is), but in the Reagan Police Department it's very much in force. Why this wasn't the default story here I don't know. Dosing a cop would not be taken lightly by anybody, either higher-ups or cops in his command. One that doesn't cause a horrible moire pattern on a viewer's TV screen. Solid colors, wide stripes, etc, are better than fine repeating patterns.

As far as the new guy, in terms of both the actor and the character, my issue is that Chicago PD (the show) has a diversity problem. I'm not someone who generally cares about such things—just tell me a good story with the best actors—but Intelligence is usually operating in rough neighborhoods, and the criminals they're investigating are mostly African-American and Hispanic.. But the Intel bureau detectives, with the exception of Atwater, are not. From a police story perspective they need a few more cops who look like the perps to make gang infiltrations more believable to the audience. This character would go a long way in that regard. He's talented, moody (seemingly a must today), has a good back-story, and I guess good looking enough to hold down a leading actor's spot. Anna's character also makes a lot of sense, and hopefully they'll find a way to keep her around permanently (although I doubt she makes it out of this season alive). I'm hoping this was an attempt to see how the audience of this expensive-to-produce show, which caters to an older ratings demographic, reacts to the new character. I wouldn't mind seeing him come in as a lead character, but the One Chicago franchise always seems to default to safe Middle-America-Friendly characters straight out of central casting.

I don't mind Asher, and proving herself to a skeptical supervisor after what's come before is legit. I'm betting on things getting patched up and then the inevitable relapse will occur. The one I'm done with is Archer. He was an interesting character when introduced but now he's just an annoying dick who has no business treating patients. He'd be better off twirling a moustache and tying vulnerable patients to railroad tracks or something. Ditto Choi. Or at least Old Choi. I do not buy into his 180° personality inversion. Yes, I seem to recall reading that the actor chose to leave.

Ahh. For some reason I thought he was the one responsible for that abominable T81 pursuit scene last season or the year before.

Assuming an early morning shift start (i.e. bacon and pancakes), fire up the smoker at 11 or 12 and it's done by 7 or 8 if you push the temps a bit and commit the cardinal sin of not resting it for an hour or two. But this is firemen we're talking about. Basically walking stomachs. Six pounds of point meat? Christ on a cracker, after trimming and shrinkage during the cook they'd be lucky to get 3 or 4 pounds to serve. That's enough for 6 normal people, or two firefighters. For the whole house? Start with an 18 pound full packer and maybe everybody will get some.

Agreed. He got a gift sentence of 11 months and he was whinging about it, when being an accomplice in an armed robbery should have gotten him 5-10 years. He should have kept his head down, his mouth shut, did his time and got on with his life. I can see him fleeing custody when the opportunity presented itself, but as portrayed in the episode, he wasn't violent by nature initially. But if he had ready access to a firearm in the brief time he was on the lam, and chose to take it, then I would strongly dispute the non-violent thing anyway. Once it became a hostage situation with an unstable EDP perp, SWAT had multiple clear shots to end it, and that's what they should have done.

Rick Eid, IIRC he's one of the showrunners of the whole One Chicago thing.

I like this guy. A lot. Only question now is who's leaving at the end of the year? No way this kid's one-and-done. And I'm calling it now, Anna gets whacked before the end of the season. Maybe she and Torres hook up or something, she gets popped and he catches the killer and becomes the New Guy. Then maybe we can get rid of at least one member of the Crimestead Family (preferably FelonyBarbie™).

They had a clear shot half the time he was holed up in there. One sniper round and that's that. Lawyer was right about one thing: Causation. If someone dies in the commission of a violent felony, in most jurisdictions (I'm sure Illinois is one but IANAL) then he takes the full ride for felony murder. And a dozen counts of kidnapping and forcible confinement wouldn't be two years either. Although in modern-day Woke Chicago it might very well be, so who really knows. And since urban markets have video cameras, there's enough evidence to convince even a sympathetic jury that he needs to be buried under the prison. Gaah. Yes. Tonight it was Chicago MedPolice, Chicage FirePolice, and an uncharacteristally good Chicago PD. ENOUGH WITH EID'S POLICE FETISH, FFS. I miss the rescue calls the most. Their fires are just so fake that it takes me right out of the story, but they do a decent job on MVAs/pins, unusual events, high-angle rescues, etc. Not to mention the entire house deciding to roll out to offer moral support. Glad I wasn't three blocks in the other direction with my house on fire, or me having a coronary event, etc. WTAF. Every supermarket I know of has employee entrances, loading bay doors for deliveries that come in all day and night, etc. Lazy writing there too. Six pound point, at that. Where you find a separate point cut is beyond me. Flats, yes, but point? I've never seen them sold separately. Best part of the whole damned cow if it's cooked right, but six pounds would be about 8 hours low and slow or about 3 hours hot-and-fast, so not unreasonable. I've done 14 pound full packers in 4-5 hours (starting at 400° and dropping down to 275 after about 2 hours). And best Texas-style rub would have been Lawry's Season Salt, 16 mesh coarse black pepper, and granulated garlic (ugh--I hate garlic). Cumin works in small doses, but add in some Cayenne and ancho chile powders, celery seed (makes for a killer smoke ring), and a couple of teaspoons of espresso grind coffee. Wonder how much the show got paid by Weber for that promotional shout-out?

We're in a suburb of NYC, and my wife had to go to the ER a month ago in acute pain. There were exactly TWO doctors to cover 53 patients at the time. The wait was about 4-1/2 hours. After 2am, we were told that there's only one attending in the ER. This particular hospital is not a teaching hospital like others in the area so there are no residents, PAs or anything else. It was the closest, however. Since PPTH---er---St. Bone is a teaching hospital yes, they should have had a slew of folks onboard.

The residents of the Ridge would have no clue, of course, but at least one of Claire, Brianna, and/or Roger should definitely have remembered and discussed it with Jaime. "Ye willnae hear of it for weeks, but the first shots in the war will have started tonight in Massachusetts. <Kosh>And so, it begins </Kosh>." I hope the start of the war becomes the central theme of these last two episodes and that the nonsense with Claire is wrapped up far faster than it was in the buik. I find these melodramatic Dire Perils Of Our Heroes™ to be tiring by now, and it takes away from the overall storytelling. I do wish they'd move the pace along a bit faster. Just as Lady Stoneheart was cut from Game of Thrones, Malva and Tom Christie could just as easily have been dropped completely from the story, especially since the war starting is a complete game changer overall, and nothing except Tom Christie's interactions with Jaime at Ardsmuir really adds to the characters' stories in my view. And as much as we all loathe Tom Christie, the actor portraying him, Mark Lewis Jones, is doing so brilliantly. I'd love to see him on stage. He knows how to command a scene.

I have one major quibble and it's far more substantial than the goings on on the Ridge. The Letter that Tom Christie was writing when Claire came around was dated January 27, 1775. January in the mountains of western North Carolina is usually a Real Winter with a ton of snow and freezing temperatures. But that's not the quibble. A short while after that, "A few months later" appears on screen, and it appears to be during spring. Well something rather remarkable happened on April 18th of that year, that I think either Claire, Bree, or Roger Mac would have (or should have) remembered: The Shot Heard 'Round The World. The battles of Lexington and Concord, that actually kicked off the War For Independence. I'm no historian but even I remember that from grade school!