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I thought I might throw up with the tight interior jerky handheld camerawork—it was okay when they were outside, but my screen could hardly keep up with the jerkiness when the camera and the actors were moving in different directions. I don’t remember that from previous seasons and it interfered with the story. Mr MML: “Ruzek has a sister?”

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I can see a spinoff with the older daughter and husband and maybe Kevin’s brother. The other two kids seem to have been erased.

I like the plot device that Kevin’s job interview last week or trip to the hardware store this week really aren’t about his interview or his home repairs. Was that a real board game Kevin, Amy, Reese, and Nate were playing?

I dvr’d W&G so fortunately skipped right past having to watch Nick Ick. Although I do love my Honda Accord.

Yeah, Erin's gone. The scripts this season have zero to do with her.

Bad. So two dirty black characters have dirt on two white stars and will play them. Ugh. Show, Ruzek getting his sister out of a DUI would have been a good storyline to SHOW us, not TELL us about. And fgs why does this guy even have this info and can now put Ruzek in jail if he doesn’t play along? And btw I don’t really care if Ruzek goes to jail. Or Voight. And btw how hard would it be to take Voight down with, oh I don’t know, good old-fashioned intelligence work? And dirty cop commits suicide for stealing and we’re supposed to believe he was a good cop? Sure, why not. Could we please move along and start having Al and Trudy and Antonio just be the cops. Maybe Halsted can stay. All the rest of them can leave now.

I'm so excited that Kevin James might have a new show (where he will still be Doug/Kevin, of course) if this petition is successful: https://www.change.org/p/reed-hastings-keep-netflix-s-house-of-cards-running-with-kevin-james-replacing-kevin-spacey Then he can kill off that loser Robin Wright and bring Leah in! (Just kidding about Robin Wright being a loser, as she's been the subject of my girl crush since The Princess Bride.)

Hope should have applied for the transfer online using Stella's credentials, or something like that. Hard to believe she knew what forms and how to do it. Plus how could that guy at HQ who thought he was getting a different woman been overridden by fake Mullen? Hope should return and sue and go craycray but Show likes to wrap up its storylines. Was random frequently transferred pudgy firefighter supposed to be Stella’s replacement? I can’t decide who I dislike more, Gabby or her father. Yet I adore brother/son Antonio. Now we have to see Gabby Daddy at Med, I guess. Maybe Gabby will have to donate a kidney and they can both die on the operating table. A girl can only dream. But good thing Gabby wasn’t available to save the baby and Stella got the whole show almost! I was soooo afraid it was going to be her swansong and I will be pissed if Hope does her in after the fall hiatus. I say nay to her and Severide, though. The chuckleheads (Otis, Cruz, and Herman) got a little time. Otis and Cruz need girlfriends asap—high hopes for Molly’s North girl!

Gabby hates doctors because she used to go to secret night med school in the first season so she already knows everything, plus Casey’s true love Hailey was a doc before she got killed off? Just go away, Gabby.

Me too, so I liked this episode. Note nobody got away with their tricks, either.... Envelopes, not stamps.

Yes, things are tough in Chicago for kids like Atwater's little brother. This was a good move and will actually open the character's storylines up vs having to be the single parent to his siblings--perhaps a young woman would enjoy being enveloped in those strong guns he's sporting against those exceptional pecs.... <Fanning of my gently perspiring face ensues> I like Burgess so much more now that she's not the dewy young special snowflake. Dawson is finally being who he should have been from season 1--the foil to Voight.

To me, they seem to be making it up as they go along. I'm out.

Not to mention Shay, the most interesting character on this and almost any other show, got killed early on when a beam fell on her after a building exploded (as they do). Mary Sue Gabby, the most predictably written and least interesting character on this and almost any other show, is somehow immune.

Duh. My point was a different fake hospital in a different part of the country had other fake rules that let the fake transplant happen with a fake alcoholic patient who had been actively drinking. The best part of this episode was Shaun’s take that a life was saved—he didn’t value the fake patient in his own hospital who broke the rules over another.

So interesting to see a “child” actor (Dylan Kingwell) who is soooo good playing against Freddie Highmore, who was soooo good as a child actor (and imo is one of the best actors today). I told Mr MML that of course Show had to bring the actor back—bet they wish they hadn’t killed him off as Shaun’s brother. It will be fun to see Dylan’s career progress. A sad episode—dead mom, prodigal son, cancer child, and then To Kill a Mockingbird and Boo Radley. Lots of sniffles in our house. Glad though that the plot veered off the wrong diagnosis course. Enough with miracle re-diagnoses. I thought this was the best episode yet in terms of the cast working believably together—they have meshed for me.

I'm liking this season a lot better than the last two or three. Less angst in the main relationship means more development in the story lines. I will never stop laughing at the gang of girls that occasionally passes by Doc and in the last episode Al and insults them. I was glad to see them again!

Just saw the episode last night on dvr. I love the chemistry between the two original leads, Casey and Severide, which we got a glimpse of at the end when Kelly handed over his tie. I really miss their story lines. I can't believe the writers expect us to believe Gabby knows everything. Really, aren't they just laughing at the audience at this point? I loved the subtle reminder from Capp that he's still there--"they can't call you Cap, it has to be captain." I can't believe most of the episode featured non-regular cast members. The antique badge story line was just stupid. Gabby stealing all Casey's thunder even stupider. Don't get me started on a guinea pig. What kind of mom would encourage a live animal as a surprise gift? If Mr MML didn't think he is in this show (he knows a lot of the locations and is far less critical than I am), we wouldn't be watching it.

I never watched it until this year except for one episode that verified I didn't like it (the book club--snore), but it's understandable that viewers of the first season liked that cast, as they kept watching it. Maybe the show is looking for more people like me who will see it as a "new" show, and at least some of the people who watched the first season are still watching it. If the ratings go down it might or might not be because of the dead wife (I think the lead-in show changed?) but at least the actress can feel vindicated when it gets cancelled for poor ratings. I am interested in seeing what show she will be starring in next.

I would pay dearly for Casey to have an casual affair with some random woman (not a current character) or develop a slight drinking ptoblem or something. I don’t think I can stomach the couple much longer.

Lindsey was the perfect foil to Voight—their relationship was proof that he had a heart to balance his pragmatic policing practices. Not sure if that can stand up without her as he doesn’t have anyone to protect now. So he is going to the dark side. Personally, I love it.

Atwater in a few scenes seems to have backed away from rocking the boat when Ruzek has overreacted--which I think Olinsky has done his whole career with Voight's escapades. BTW so glad to see Atwater getting so much more air time!

Great idea. Even better, have Yvette's character exist only through his cell phone. We don't really need to see her.

Finally saw this episode. I am throwing the remote at the TV with the stupidness of the plotlines, and on the other hand, Mr. MML is loving every minute of it. Gah.

I actually am thrilled to see the inner Hank Voight coming out (and we certainly have enough Mary Sues on these shows)! I think we are supposed to start hating him. In the first season of Chicago Fire, the Chicago original show from Dick Wolf, he was so evil that he plotted several murders to keep one of the Fire's main characters from pursuing Voight's son's prosecution for vehicular homicide. Great storyline, Voight ended up in jail himself and Jon Seda's character Antonio Dawson helped put him there. All of a sudden Chicago PD appears on the scene and not only are Voight's criminal activities excused, a fuzzy storyline gets made up that he's actually a good guy. And Antonio has his back? And we're all cheering for his abuse of suspects downstairs in the chainlink cage? Whaaa? My purely imaginary supposition is that Jason Beghe's performances turned out to be so compelling in the Fire episodes and the early PD ones that the producers needed him to be a bigger character. But I would love Antonio and the other young cops to take over. I think Ruzek is actually being primed to be a baby Voight--Burgess is baby Trudy, Atwater might be baby Olinsky... Yes I do have an active imagination.