NBC's New Amsterdam is a very dumb, medicine-flavored fantasy - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 09-26-2018, 08:10 PM

http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/new-a...bc-review.html

Ryan Eggold's Dr. Max Goodwin's surgeon role on the medical drama has become cliché -- "a Bad Boy Outsider who comes to Shake Things Up, questioning the conventional wisdom and breaking all the rules in order to do the right thing," says Kathryn VanArendonk. She adds that while the show attempts to tackle problems in healthcare, "New Amsterdam couldn’t be any less interested in the complexity, magnitude, details, history, or causes of those problems, nor does it waste time with the real mechanisms for their solutions. No, this show is about big sweeping gestures. Why fire three bad cardiac surgeons when you could fire them all? Why reduce wait times when you can eliminate the whole room? This is not really a medical drama. In the dystopian landscape we currently call medical care, it is a medicine-flavored fantasy." VanArendonk says she gets why "this kind of fantasy is appealing, but I prefer when it doesn’t masquerade as a heart-warming insight. And if we must have a fantasy where one good-hearted white dude shows up and saves us all, it could at least be better written."

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New Amsterdam is achingly predictable, sickly sweet and emotionally manipulative
It's heartfelt, well-meaning and dull with tearful bedside scenes and Bon Iver montages
New Amsterdam producers wanted to make a medical drama rooted in "hopefulness"

SitcomsHeydayfan · 11-17-2018, 04:23 AM

I agree! It's just a COPY of the medical shows of the past shown below. Don't you think it gets canceled after this 1st season?

How many can you list?

ER
House
Grey's anatomy
Heartbeat
Pure Genius
Night Shift
The Resident
The Good Doctor
Chicago Med
Saving Hope

Chicago Med is the best of those.

09-26-2018, 08:10 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,090	NBC's New Amsterdam is a very dumb, medicine-flavored fantasy http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/new-a...bc-review.html Ryan Eggold's Dr. Max Goodwin's surgeon role on the medical drama has become cliché -- "a Bad Boy Outsider who comes to Shake Things Up, questioning the conventional wisdom and breaking all the rules in order to do the right thing," says Kathryn VanArendonk. She adds that while the show attempts to tackle problems in healthcare, "New Amsterdam couldn’t be any less interested in the complexity, magnitude, details, history, or causes of those problems, nor does it waste time with the real mechanisms for their solutions. No, this show is about big sweeping gestures. Why fire three bad cardiac surgeons when you could fire them all? Why reduce wait times when you can eliminate the whole room? This is not really a medical drama. In the dystopian landscape we currently call medical care, it is a medicine-flavored fantasy." VanArendonk says she gets why "this kind of fantasy is appealing, but I prefer when it doesn’t masquerade as a heart-warming insight. And if we must have a fantasy where one good-hearted white dude shows up and saves us all, it could at least be better written." ALSO: It's hard to take Ryan Eggold's doctor character seriously because he's such a hilarious version of TV’s long beloved “doctor who doesn’t play by the rules” archetype New Amsterdam was inspired by a doctor's memoir, but it feels like it was creatively crowdsourced to appeal to everybody New Amsterdam is achingly predictable, sickly sweet and emotionally manipulative It's heartfelt, well-meaning and dull with tearful bedside scenes and Bon Iver montages New Amsterdam producers wanted to make a medical drama rooted in "hopefulness"

11-17-2018, 04:23 AM	#2
SitcomsHeydayfan Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 19, 2018 Location: The Show Me state Posts: 2,966	I agree! It's just a COPY of the medical shows of the past shown below. Don't you think it gets canceled after this 1st season? How many can you list? ER House Grey's anatomy Heartbeat Pure Genius Night Shift The Resident The Good Doctor Chicago Med Saving Hope Chicago Med is the best of those.