S01.E14: 8:00 P.M.

[AstridM]

5 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

I'm glad it was dispensed with, because I was afraid the season would end with a huge cliffhanger where the shooter shows up at the ER and starts mowing everyone down, and we're left wondering who survives. 

Who?

Brian Krakow from “My So-Called Life!”

https://www.mscl.com/characters/brian_krakow.html

Edited April 5 by AstridM

[Notabug]

On 4/4/2025 at 8:45 PM, rwlevin said:

Regarding Whitaker, I was comp Sci and creative writing before I went into medicine. Of course, I didn’t realize I wanted to go into it until I was a senior but that’s besides the point. I had classmates who majored in history, art history, philosophy, etc. Medical schools actually like candidates that don’t major in the main sciences. It makes them look more well-rounded and therefore sympathetic doctors. Whitaker kind of proves that.

I, too, attended med school with people who weren't science majors and, if anything, it is tougher to fit in med school prerequisites around a non-science major.  One of my classmates majored in musical performance.  He was a talented pianist who'd actually toured Europe with a youth symphony as a teen.  He could play anything by ear.  Another was a major in English literature and the breadth of her knowledge of the subject was admirable.  They were both excellent med students and I presume are talented docs. I was a Genetics major, a subject that I love, but it would've been nice to have a broader education.

[EtheltoTillie]

On 4/4/2025 at 8:35 AM, NeenerNeener said:

If you really want your mind blown get a BritBox subscription and watch the same actor playing a cop. I think he's on more than one cop show. He does a pretty convincing American accent here, but he's actually British.

Yes he’s in Ludwig, and it’s a great show. I had just watched it before bingeing this. I had so much fun watching him pop up here. He plays the young trainee in both shows but he’s really older. 

Edited Thursday at 09:01 AM by EtheltoTillie

[EtheltoTillie]

On 4/4/2025 at 10:37 AM, sharifa70 said:

Oh, Javadi. I felt your “he knows my name” down to my bones. Those human Utahs are so, so real.

Please help. What’s a human Utah?  I’ve tried googling. I can sort of guess but I’ve never heard this expression. 

[fastiller]

Just now, EtheltoTillie said:

Please help. What’s a human Utah?  I’ve tried googling. I can sort of guess but I’ve never heard this expression. 

Javadi told someone (Dana, maybe?) that when her parents took her on a ski trip to Utah she was all breathless and discombobulated and whatnot due to altitude sickness.  Mateo is the human embodiment of that.  Hence 'human Utah'.

[EtheltoTillie]

1 minute ago, fastiller said:

Javadi told someone (Dana, maybe?) that when her parents took her on a ski trip to Utah she was all breathless and discombobulated and whatnot due to altitude sickness.  Mateo is the human embodiment of that.  Hence 'human Utah'.

Oh thank you!  I remember that now. It’s not common slang but relates to the show itself. Duh. 

[Jack Shaftoe]

You just know that on a lesser show Langdon would have been the shooter - he is the only one from the main cast without an alibi.  :)

If looks could kill Walsh would have murdered Abbot several times over. I know that this isn't actually the case but I have a funny alternative character interpretation - Walsh and Garcia only pretend to want to do surgery all the time in order to inspire  the ED doctors to come up with yet another improvised life saving procedure, thus sparing them the effort. Speaking of improvisations, I keep thinking they are to fail but they seem to always succeed. Maybe there will be a seemingly epic fail as a season finale cliffhanger?

Santos and Langdon again (mostly) took the high road rather than have another quarrel. Good for them. And Ellis seems to be the kind of mentor Santos might actually listen to.

I am a bit surprised how soon the mass casualty event was over (well, over for the protagonists, at least).

The way they have introduced the night shift staff and had already given quite a few of them chances to shine is writing master class. So many shows struggle with having too many characters and leaving many of underdeveloped as a result. Here, I would love to see more of pretty much every character (well, maybe not Gloria) but I don't have the impression that this or that member of the main cast or even the supporting cast has been woefully neglected and underutilized.

"Chadwick Harrison Ashcroft, III. Douchebag name for a douchebag guy". Grandpa ain't messing around. Apparently that was McKay's actress' real dad. Any chance for a Bryan Cranston cameo too?

"Oh, yeah, that's scary". Just a little, Mel, just a little. Thank goodness little Georgia had the presence of mind that her idiot anti-vax mom is clearly lacking. Mel apologising to Robby for crying almost had me crying too.

A bit annoyed by Robby blaming McKay for the whole David situation. It's not the job of either of them to be right or wrong on whether the kid was really planning mass murder or not. It's not like he is going to be locked up for years because of their report alone, he is going to meet a mental health specialist and hopefully get the help he needs. And if it doesn't work, it won't be McKay's fault in any way. Why did Robby even have McKay talk to David in this episode, exactly what makes her likely to get through to him? Just to rub it in it that he was "right"? I half expected David to attack them when they came for their talk. I reckon the idea was to show Robby didn't actually recover miraculously in record time from his breakdown but still, McKay didn't deserve any of that. Those cops better watch out because she has a temper and the fuse is getting shorter.

Would the younger doctors really be that mystified by measles symptoms? Especially with the comeback certain diseases are making lately thanks to the antivaxers.

Whitaker, you amazing human being who managed to mysteriously disappear for most of the episode. On most other shows, King would be leading by a mile in the wholesomeness department but here she has real competition.

Edited Friday at 06:37 PM by Jack Shaftoe

[Sarah 103]

8 hours ago, Jack Shaftoe said:

Maybe there will be a seemingly epic fail as a season finale cliffhanger?

I don't think this is that kind of show.

8 hours ago, Jack Shaftoe said:

Would the younger doctors really be that mystified by measles symptoms? Especially with the comeback certain diseases are making lately thanks to the antivaxers.

I'm going with it's possible because they are only just starting to make a comeback and it's been pretty localized. It's been little pockets here and there so if the younger doctors haven't trained near one of the outbreaks and seen it firsthand, it might not occur to them. For so many decades vaccination was widespread and standard it wouldn't be their first thought or on their radar as an immediate possibility. 

[Notabug]

On 5/2/2025 at 2:27 PM, Jack Shaftoe said:

 

Would the younger doctors really be that mystified by measles symptoms? Especially with the comeback certain diseases are making lately thanks to the antivaxers.

Short answer: yes, they would.  In the past 20 years or so, until this year, there were usually around 200 cases of measles seen in the US annually, mainly people who'd traveled outside the US and were exposed and those around them who weren't vaccinated.  Very isolated outbreaks.

For that matter, Robbie wouldn't have seen much measles either.  He would've been a resident in the '90's, more than 30 years after the vaccine was introduced.  I did my med school and residency in the 80's, more than 40 years ago and I have never seen an actual case of measles in person except for my sister who had them when I was about 5.  Most docs who've seen measles would have done so in underdeveloped nations in Africa and Asia.

Edited 14 minutes ago by Notabug