BreakfastInBed95

i thought i found a board to chat about the show but what is this? is this a message board for people to just hate on the show? why do you even watch? this board is weird. i can't imagine watching something i don't like, let alone coming on to a message board to talk crap about it. anyway, im still enjoying it and letting it unfold how the writers chose. it's typical primetime network tv fare.

i came looking to find a place where people are talking about the show. seems like most people here hate it. lol. why are you all still watching? hate watching? lol i love what they are doing with helen this season. i love that the show is taking her on a path of healing and it is because of this relationship with max (that she doesnt actually want to run from) that she sees the need to heal from her past and personal traumas and also to rediscover herself. we dont usually see that journey with women on tv (especially in a romantic pairing). we've seen some of max confronting the ways in which he needs to heal with losing his ring (and i suspect the ambulance accident in the next episode will bring up some trauma for him as well - how could it not?). so, i'm all for helen and her healing. as for the diversity of the couplings, i love it. for so long the default has been white couples with a black friend and maybe a gay friend. maybe an asian boss. and rarely do we know anything about those peoples lives. i feel like people who would complain about the diversity (in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, lifestyle, disability, etc) are so used to being represented as the "norm" that anything less than being the dominant narrative feels like they've lost something. everything about new amsterdam as a show has always been about reflecting everyone, from the patients to the doctors to the people on the street. it's the truest reflection of NYC that i've seen on tv. i love it. im into the floyd and lynn storyline. i dont know where they are taking it and im down for the ride of finding out. i find floyd so much more interesting than he's been in past seasons (as far as personal life. his doctor/patient storylines are engaging to me) because he's not "mr. perfect" (and all signs in the writing seem to be focusing on the fact that he says one thing and does another because maybe he's holding himself to an 'idea' of who he thinks he's supposed to be). i like lynn a lot. i love that she's super grounded, comfortable in her skin and, though she loves him, she doesn't preen for him. to me, she feels close to the women in his family - which is what he's said he wanted. i get why he likes her and she feels familiar to me, like women i know. they feel real to me. i also like that we've seen floyd really pursuing a woman, which was not the case with bloom (a hookup) and evie (who was handed to him by bloom). he met a woman he has to do a little work for. re: the poly thing. i wish they would have made her single but i think that just wouldve been too boring (and been just like his evie relationship) or maybe not had the husband working at the hospital - but, i get it, a show needs drama and it's pretty different than what i'm used to seeing on network tv (especially with black characters). to someone above's comment, when they told the husband - it was clear that she wasn't cheating or having an affair. she said "you know ive been seeing someone" and he looked and her like "um, dont talk about this in front of floyd" but then found out floyd was the one she's talking about lol. so it's clear that they have an open marriage, he just didnt know it was floyd and that's the issue for him. it's not an "affair" or cheating if they are in an open marriage. honestly, they all seem like open relationship novices to me lol. but i think the writers need to hurry up and tell us what the actual rules of the marriage are once and for all instead of breadcrumbing it. i loved Bloom's patients! so funny and the personal stories of the actors themselves made it that much sweeter. i love that this show really makes real attempts to be inclusive and showing the world as it is vs just giving it lip service. I can't wait to see how they are going to reveal the bribe. i really hope they get into Lauren's use of her privilege vis a vis Leyla (which other residents harped on leyla about a few eps back). im so curious how they will deal with all of that. we're not even half of the way into the season. im letting it unfold and enjoying whatever ride the writers want to take me on. 4 seasons in, i trust them. things i might not understand now will surely be connected and tied together as the season unfolds.