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It's ironic that these pretend firefighters suffer greater rates of injuries than their real-life counterparts who have proper training, muscle memory, they drill constantly, and they don't repeat the same physically-risky stunts for 10 hours a day straight until it looks perfect on a director's screen.

Good ghods, that was Donna! I knew I recognized her when I saw her, but the penny didn't drop. The Med cameras weren't as kind to her as the Suits cameras, sadly.

Just to add to what I wrote earlier, they found the cat's remains under a couple of relatively unburned wooden pews. If that was the point of origin the fire would have burned up from there and out. Maybe they really do need Severide to head up Chicago OFI, since whoever determined that was the POI hasn't the first clue about fire dynamics. Fire burns up, not down, so how did the basement become a raging inferno? Now granted, I haven't been in a catholic church in a very long time; if I were to cross the threshold of one either it or I would spontaneously combust. But with that said, I've never seen a modern church with a wooden floor, so unless the parish priest had a secret portal to hell down there, how was the floor compromised that badly? Also, you know, going in with hose lines would have helped too, but this is the Chicago Waterless Fire Department we're talking about here.

She's a med-mal lawyer. She's a (recuperating) plot device.

With that music-montage of them running calls I was getting a Mother, Juggs, and Speed vibe. The cat arson thing....I just fucking can't. Any sort of animal cruelty portrayed as entertainment is a hard safeword for me. I'm a cat dad, including our dear sweet little pain-in-the-arse all black kittie Pixel. That storyline seriously didn't belong in an otherwise good show. Nitpicking, but that was a roaring conflagration they had going--there probably wouldn't even have been a skeleton left if he was the origin of that. And with that fire both in the rafters and through the floor and into the basement there's no way that's getting extinguished by one engine crew with a couple of hand lines. It was a really nice juxtaposition of Heaven and Hell, though.

I'd be good with that. Looked like it was going to Nikki for one forgotten episode only three or so years ago. Yeah, I can just see the dilemma: Collar a serial killer or go for dinner. Guess the bad guys all take Sunday afternoon off. Show me one household who has even one public safety family member always make Sunday Dinner, every week. It ain't happening. If you're lucky, you've got a good boss and cow-orkers who love you, you might be able to switch shifts and get Christmas or a kid's birthday off once in a while. Maybe. An entire family of cops, firemen, or EMS? BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH::snort::HAHAHAHHAA@%oy2#&6j NO CARRIER. But I'll handwave this since it's a nice thing to watch happen.

That actual house on Harbor View Terrace in Brooklyn, where the show's exteriors are filmed is valued at $2.66 Million on Zillow, and even smaller houses on the same street are valued at or selling for over $3m. Would today's NYPD commissioner be able to afford to buy a similar property with the current salary, unless he had a previous career on Wall Street or was married to someone who did? As for the ridealong, since when do NYPD RMP sector cars have no divider between the front and back seats, and look that clean! Once again, the writers failed detectiving-101. Obvious to even a 5 year old that the mother was covering for the son. So why not pull the son's phone records and get the GPS location? That'd be enough P.C. to get an arrest warrant; that and the make/model car would probably be enough to get a plea without going to trial. Her confession would have been worthless once the gun stunt happened, and she would have been released immediately. But go back even further, why is she talking in the presence of an attorney? The lawyer would have denied them the chance to even interview her, period. "My client chooses not to make a statement at this time." The end. Danny didn't have the probable cause to arrest or even detain her in her home based on that conversation, although he absolutely did have the right to start probing behind the scenes. Liked the NFL sub-plot but it was ridiculous to think there's even a 1% chance he takes the job unless the show is one or two episodes away from the series finale and they're moving the pieces in place for the endgame.

IRL, dispatchers make that triage call every single day. Basically following the ABCs is a good rule. Airway, Breathing, Circulation. Air goes in and out, and blood goes round and round. Any deviation is a problem, and calls for a lights-and-sirens response. But with that said, bariatric lift assist calls are as important to the incapacitated patient as a high ankle sprain is to a young jogger or a deep finger lac to a chef. None are likely going to kill you outright, but they absolutely require intervention. And the reality is you never know if that simple lift assist might turn into a cardiac arrest. The so-called "paramedicine" program in this show is, I suppose, akin to simple BLS, or BLS-plus staffing, with ALS crews reserved for life-threatening calls. Basically the reverse of the premise of Emergency!, and the rise of the real-world paramedic movement it depicted. But as I said earlier, you never know if that frequent flier is going to code or that finger lac turns out to be something far worse, etc. The better move would be to get the city to adjust paid EMS staffing levels commensurate with need, and/or support volunteer rescue squads to take up the slack. They're very common in suburbia (my own town has a volunteer ambulance squad that's been around for many decades, in fact), and they're backed up by paid paramedics (ALS) and a mobile ICU. Call in for dizziness and they'll send the first aid squad. Call back and say you're having chest pains and ALS gets toned out. If calls are increasing to the point that response times are greater than 10 minutes in an urban setting, then you can bet that pols and news crews will start making a stink about it and will call for better service. Also, IRL, most FD runs and many PD runs are medicals. Where I'm from, they pioneered a system in the 80s called a tiered response, that sent the nearest cop car and FD vehicle (both staffed by BLS-qualified personnel), as well as BLS and if necessary, ALS crews. My little town of 5,000 here is the same. Every copper is trained in basic life support, and at least one or two have advanced life support certification and gear in the patrol car. Ditto the local engine companies. When I was a teenager, the police service for the city I grew up in had numerous vans with stretchers and basic medical gear as actual patrol vehicles, and that was in the 1970s. So basically I reject the premise of this plot device as just that.

I just handwaived it as Dumb Plot Device #5420, akin to the Slammigan. You never know if that frequent flyer who calls every other night for a free taxi ride to the hospital might just have ODd or accidentally cut his head open in a drunken stupor. Dispatchers might (or might not) have the authority to manage lower priority calls when it's not crazy-busy as well. And besides, how'd you like to see that POS bus show up for your grandmother who just fell out of bed and needs a once-over?

Absolutely. Half the class and the instructor would have let him know. The way it should have played out is to get Eddy suspicious that Jamie might find out, have all the suspicions clearly put in place for the viewer as well, but then they get the big reveal seeing her studying in class. And then the instructor then introduces a special guest who'll give tonight's lecture. Jamie. Favorite by a country mile. He's the only one with even a hint of authenticity in the whole show in terms of personality, but he doesn't belong at Sunday dinner. Speaking of, imagine how awkward it would be if psychic-lady and Danny become A Thing.

Nope (medical reasons put paid to that a long time ago). There's family history, though, which I'd rather not get into. More on the FD side than PD. What he did was incredibly blatant. Especially today, a copper gets a guy killed or put in the hospital, there's no way that real-world IAB turns a blind eye.At the very least he'd lose his badge or he'd be busted out of his gold shield, and more likely he'd catch a charge by some ADA on the warpath. This police procedural show is utterly horrible when it comes to the depiction of real police procedures. That kind of thing I'm told does happen, but it's far more subtle. "Word gets out" somehow, etc.

I'd be fine with it either way, to be honest. I like that side of Casey a lot. But if he leaves, that will utterly destroy Brett, unless both actors leave or take a break. And speaking of, the One Chicago franchise is going into hiatus after week 6 so perhaps in that time away from Chicago things will resolve themselves and Casey will come back. Personally I'd like to see him mentor the kid and get him into the fire academy. The show could use a probie. And if that doesn't happen then it'll be interesting to see Brett pick up the pieces. I think Kara Killmer has it in her to putt that off. Oh, and it's pronounced as Oregun/Oreg'n. It hasn't "gone" anywhere.

Yeah, he gives him a got shot to the face, and Voight just takes it. It felt both satisfying and necessary. And for as much as I really don't like Spiradakos' acting on this show, her performance tonight, at least in some of the more intense scenes, wasn't the complete trainwreck I'd been expecting. Sleep deprived and guilt-wracked Upton wasn't horrible, and for once she was able to emote clearly when she nearly spilled the beans. But after that it was back to the same-old Upton we know and loathe. Nice to see that she was able to sleep peacefully after killing someone else, even if he was a child killer. Jay: Run far and fast if you value your sanity, and possibly your career. It won't end well. Off topic and potentially spoilerific,

Set a guy up to be hurt and it's a charge, which frankly he deserved right there, and if had been Not-a-Reagan he would almost certainly have been. If the guy had gotten whacked it would be some form of a lesser homicide charge. At the very least, I could see a case for reckless endangerment or conspiracy to commit assault. If it was Not-a-Reagan in that case, on this show, he would be shown perp-walked out of the station house after Frank personally stripped him of his badge for bringing His Police Force into disrespect.

Or worse is the key phrase here. Real world outcome would be the guy ends up on a slab within an hour or two, and IAB would have Danny's shield before the body got cold.

So what makes Claudette or whatever her name is all that special? Given that home invasion plus heart attack call she handled, any call-taker or on-air dispatcher on the floor should be able to do precisely what she did every single time. Plus there are scripts that must be read and followed to the letter. I can't speak for L.A., but in most major cities the 9-1-1 call takers (the ones who speak with citizens) hand off the call to radio dispatchers. Some inside-baseball: In most circumstances you wouldn't find a call taker alternating between the caller and the people in the field. Plus PD, FD, and EMS radio work would be handled by completely separate desks, so a PD dispatcher only has his or her sector's cars at that console, fire is, in many cases, handled by sworn firefighters, etc. They don't operate on the same frequencies and their SOPs are completely different. Unless you're talking about small towns or sparsely-populated counties, PD, FD, and EMS and intake are all separate.

No wonder the show was so refreshing. I'd forgotten about him completely. Natalie bugged the hell out of me too, but Choi was the one I honestly couldn't stand. He doesn't have (or at least he doesn't show) the necessary depth of human compassion for the front lines of an inner-city ER. Let's put it this way, if I ever end up in the ER with a less-than-life-or-death injury, I sure as hell wouldn't want someone like Choi treating me. Operating? Maybe, but not as initial point of contact.

The real crime that any real firefighter would have...roasted him for was kicking the door in and not at least partially closing it behind himself. Wanna watch a survivable fire grow to something not survivable in under a minute? Give it some oxygen by leaving a door open. If FFs are going in with a charged line then fine, but without water, giving it more oxygen is suicidal.

Somewhere not too far from New York City. I'm guessing north in the Hudson Valley given the Revolutionary War ghost's having been in Ft. Ticonderoga shortly before his death and the member of the Lenape Tribe. As for the Viking, I'm guessing maybe an exploration down the St. Lawrence River and then down the Hudson?

In an 8pm sitcom played for yukks I can forgive it, if the rest of the writing is good and the jokes are on-point. We're two episodes in so of course it's going to be a bit rough around the edges; the actors haven't yet had time to find their characters. It's a fun, sweet little show and I hope they can keep it that way for a while before going off on heavier themes, like the lives and deaths of the main ghost characters. I really see this show as having the same potential for success as The Good Place if the writing can keep up. I have very high hopes here.

I won't debate popularity, but from the standpoint of this healthy hetero guy, I don't find T.S. particularly attractive, which I think is part of what her purpose is on the show. Is it important? No, absolutely not, but that's obviously what the showrunners want—a tough, hawt, experienced street cop that has chemistry with the leading male character. Tough? Yeah, maybe, and I'm fine with that. Hawt? No. PermaSmirk™ put an end to that. Experienced? I suppose. But a big ol' "F" on her chemistry test. As I said, I don't care whether a detective on a procedural is smokin' hot or plain-Jane. Sure, eye candy is nice, and if she pairs well with a fellow cast member all the better. But at the heart of things viewers watch PD for, I won't say good, but well-told urban policing stories and decent emotional drama. And when an actor is unable to convey the needed emotions it just grates on me like crazy. Fire had Saint Gabby, Med had Saint Natalie, PD has Upton. The two earlier shows improved remarkably when those characters departed, although to be fair, Gabby (the character) was the annoyance; Raymund was easy on the eyes and at least for a while had serious chemistry with Casey. I wouldn't mind seeing T.S. more in a supporting role, but for the love of ghu, she does not deserve the billing she currently has.

I'll go one further and say this was an excellent episode overall. I really don't hate the fictional character of Hailey Upton personally. I just think the wrong actor was chosen for the role, and Spiradakos takes me out of the show with every line and every closeup. IMHO she doesn't have the acting chops to pull this off, and as for her facial expressions, you know how creepy the giant plastic Burger King head is in those ads? I think he was her acting coach. I like morally gray dramatic characters in the right context, and being a LittleVoightWannabe isn't the worst storyline the show could have come up with, but sadly T.S. just can't play the part convincingly to me. The character of Hailey Upton is tough on the outside but vulnerable underneath, and here she's in way over hear head. A good actor would be able to convince the audience of this and sell the story. And her Leading Lady duties with her male co-star lack any form of romantic sizzle whatsoever. There's no (visible-to-the-audience) love, lust, passion, caring, or...much of anything between them. Compare Upton's dramatic scenes with Burgess' scenes and you tell me which actor plays their respective role more convincingly. Maybe in real life she's the kindest, sweetest person in the world, calls her mother, and adopts orphaned puppies, but she just isn't the right actor for this part and her scenes just grate on me to the point I'm out of the story when she's onscreen.

Maybe water tank filming costs more to shoot than a smoke box? The show's pulling a 0.8 share this year...gotta save those pennies where you can!

Eid is also going to be showrunner on the Law and Order series revival on NBC, so now I have to wonder how much input he'll have on PD/FD/Med going forward, if any at all. We can always hope he steps down and puts all his efforts on that show.

Marina Squerciati's acting talents are being wasted on this show IMHO. Undoubtedly she's extremely well paid, though, so there's that.