On Tuesday night, the writers of New Amsterdam rolled out an old liberal agenda and confirmed our suspicions that they are desperately lacking in creativity. There's no doubt the hit drama is aiming to be the Grey’s Anatomy of NBC. Not only are the writers looking to get in on the medical drama scene so many Grey’s fans love, it looks like they’re also aiming to be as liberal as show creator Shonda Rhimes, with a whole episode pushing the Black Lives Matter agenda.
New Amsterdam’s Medical Director Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) is always on a mission. In the latest episode, "Why Not Yesterday," that aired April 6, the good liberal doctor is suddenly super woke and determined to end “systemic racism” at his hospital.
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New Amsterdam’s Medical Director Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) is always on a mission. In the latest episode, Why Not Yesterday, that aired April 6, the good liberal doctor is suddenly super woke and determined to end “systemic racism” at his hospital.
After being told by the Chief Equity Officer that he is New Amsterdam s biggest illustration of embedded systemic racism, he tries to offer his job to Dr. Helen Sharpe, a black oncologist and his Deputy Medical Director. She refuses, asking, Do you not see the irony in asking someone who s suffering from systemic racism to also fix it? Playing the race card is simply not a game anyone can win. Well, certainly not any anti-racist woke white folk.
It is entirely possible that Evie and Reynolds break up. It s entirely possible that Evie decides that, Hey, I made a mistake leaving New York. I can t live without New York. There s a lot of possibility there when you have a relationship such as theirs. Would she come back to New Amsterdam, in particular? Who knows? We ll have to wait and see.
On the show teasing fans about Reynolds future, he added: Shows often toy with the idea [that] a character might die or a character might leave, and I didn t expect, especially this early in this series, that to be something they toy with, and they are.