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The Resident (2018)
Jumped the shark sooo hard!
I liked this show at first, typical medical drama trope, had some humor and character development. Then season 5 happened. I don't know what showrunner is at the reins of this disaster, but it's going off a cliff.
They seem to be trying for sentimental storylines, but they're just cringeworthy. Stop the madness!
The clincher for me was when they had a very small child meet the woman who received the child's dead mother's heart. The kid had a stethoscope, put it to the woman's chest, and said "Hi mommy".
The Good Doctor (2017)
This show fell off a cliff
This show started out really strong. Freddie Highmore was a breath of fresh air and this promised to be a welcome departure from the endless trope of medical procedural. His father figure and mentor, Dr. Glass, was a lovable curmudgeon and was the only person who could get through to Shawn. At the start of the show, Dr. Glass was told that he was wholly responsible for Shawn as a doctor.
Cut to the fourth season. Dr. Glass has pretty much shunned Shawn, then married a terrible woman who is clearly about thirty years younger than he is. Shawn's girlfriend, who was quirky and fun at first, is constantly complaining every single thing that he does wrong, and shows absolutely no affection towards him aside from a few super cringeworthy sex scenes. Shawn started out awkward and inappropriate around patients, but the viewer still saw a protagonist that they wanted to root for. Now, he constantly says mean-spirited things to every patient, family member, and colleague that there is. Freddie is a great actor, but he can only do so much with the garbage that is being written. Drs Brown, Lim, Park, and Reznick are all equally terrible. I am beyond disappointed in the directions that showrunners decided upon. It also started about a young man learning how to live as a surgeon while dealing with autism, but now his autism is used as a crutch to defend his behavior.
Station 19 (2018)
Started out barely watchable
***Spoilers***
I gave this show a chance because Shonda Rimes has created some good shows. The first season was okay, a lot of overused trope, but I was hoping it would find its stride. Instead it went totally off the rails. The storyline in seasons three and four are at best ridiculous and at worst insulting to viewer's intelligence. A surgeon decides to give up his medical career to be a firefighter, which is dumb enough, but then he creates a mobile surgical ambulance, a storyline so bad that they just dropped it. Then the battalion chief gets addicted to narcotics THAT HE STEALS off of the ambulance. They obviously wanted to keep the actor on the show (no idea why because he is awful, and not in a good villainous way), so now he is the new probie with everyone giving him menial jobs to show that they are better than him.
At first the show had some humor and some lighthearted moments, but now its all just really badly written, cringe worthy drama. I tried, I really did, but now it's just offensive to actual firefighters.
They obviously tried to ride the coattails of the success of Rescue Me and Chicago Fire but they missed the mark by a mile.
Chicago Med (2015)
Did they change show runners or just give up?
First of all, trying to use Covid for ratings is shameless and is already ruining COUNTLESS other shows that used to be good. Now more than ever I want my soapy dramas to be an escape. We have been living through this all year, we know it sucks. We hate it and just for an hour it would be nice to not have to think about it. Writing storylines about people dying alone because their spouse/parent can't be with them is lazy, pandering writing.
I used to really like this show, but everything that was good about it has either been destroyed or played to death. Dr Choi and April have ZERO chemistry, yet they keep breaking them up and getting them back together. Nobody wants to see them together. And Will used to be the fresh faced charming guy who would unapologetically break the rules for his patients. Now he isn't even remotely likeable. He and Natalie actually had a ton of chemistry, but they torpedoed that then had him date a heroin addicted doctor. Lazy and pedantic.
Colin Donnell was right to abandon this sinking ship. It is terrible. They still have some amazing talent like Oliver Platt and S. Epatha Markers on but they barely even give them lines these days.
Someone fire the head writer and the show runner or take this show to the shed and put it out of my misery.
Club de Cuervos (2015)
A lot of fun, don't let the subtitles scare you off!
There aren't many foreign language shows with English subtitles that I enjoy enough to binge watch, but Club of Crows is definitely worth the little bit of extra effort. It isn't deeply cerebral, a lot of the humor is fairly basic, but the cast draws you in and gives the viewer a good time. It's a show about a soccer team, but the soccer usually provides the backdrop to the personal stories.
Luis Gerardo Mendez and Mariana Trevino are perfect as the feuding and dysfunctional brother and sister owners of a not-ready-for-FIFA soccer team. There are some standout performances from much of the cast, especially the very maligned Hugo Sanchez, played by Jesus Zavala. Zavala has made Hugo such a popular character that Netflix gave him a six-episode spinoff in June, 2018 called Club de Cuervo Presents: The Ballad of Hugo Sanchez.
If you're looking for a deep social commentary on soccer, this isn't the show for you. If you are looking for a fun dramatic comedy, that will actually make you laugh out loud in every episode, Its worth every subtitled word.