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New Amsterdam S. 4 finale thoughts *SPOILERS AHEAD*:

-FUCK YOU IGGY. How dare you gaslight Martin like that?! I hate when a tv show has fat characters and the writers always turn them into pathetic, self-pitying messes. It’s lazy. Iggy started as such a great character, he was the heart of the NA staff when the show started, now you don’t even recognize that anymore.

-I feel like they’re setting up either Lauren or Floyd to be the medical director or co-medical directors by the end of the series. The writers have seem to set a lot of clues that Max is probably going to decide to step down because he misses working with patients, and personally that would be the resolution that I would prefer to see from his character, that maybe he finally has some peace and realizes he doesn’t need to be the one who has to fix a broken system to feel better. Helen would be a good bet as well, but she’s always done well professionally that she wouldn’t need the position of medical director to feel any validation in the way that Max did and she has struck the balance between her career and personal life better than Lauren and Floyd. Lauren and Floyd are the characters that I’ve always felt were most similar to Max in the way that they’ve sacrificed their personal lives and relationships for the sake of their career, so seeing them going on arcs where they make peace with their pasts in a way Max was never able to before they take on such a big role would be an interesting resolution.

-I hate this subplot of Iggy taking over the emergency response plan for the hospital just to fulfill his ego. Y’know, you don’t have to put everyone else in danger to make yourself feel better?!

-Also, I think the downfall of the resistance really shook Wilder’s confidence ☹️ when we first met her, she helped Max when the hospital was under threat, but now, she didn’t want to help with the emergency response prep? I hope we get some resolution to that.

-Just my personal opinion, but I hate whenever medical dramas have subplots where doctors have to work somewhere that’s not a hospital and they have to like, Mcgyver their way through saving a patients life with tools or whatever. That scene where Floyd’s saving the woman’s life and stuck a pair of what I think are pliers just gave me the ick. I know that surgeons use similar tools in the OR but I still hate it 🥴

-Man, I’ve been pretty annoyed with Floyd for most of the season but I felt bad for him in the final scene with his dad. I know it was left open ended, but I felt so bad that he finally got the nerve to talk to him and there was like, nothing.

-I love how layered Lauren’s moments with female patients are throughout this series. The scenes with her reading the comic book with the kid in (I think?) season 1, the scenes in season 2 with the female overdose patient, and the scene in this episode with April where she talks to her about getting her help escaping from her abuser are hands down some of my favorite Lauren scenes. They’re loaded with so much significance and you know by her facial expressions, her body language, and how she becomes softer but more protective that she’s thinking of her younger sister in those moments with those patients. I really really really hope that we finally get some emotional payoff next season for this. Also, whenever Leyla asked her where she was staying and Lauren said someplace safe, where do y’all think she’s going? I don’t know why, but I think she’s probably going to stay with her mom, or maybe like, her childhood home if the family still owns it or something? That’d be kind of an interesting full circle moment for her.

-As for Lauren and Leyla, I’m not happy about it but I understand why Lauren had to break up with her for good. I hope that it really isn’t the end for them, but I hope that we get to see them both grow a bit more before coming together again.

-Again, I’d like to say, FUCK YOU IGGY. Sure, the hospital was still standing at the end of the day, but leading the hospital’s emergency response team just because you have something to prove is dangerous and dumb. I wish Vijay would like, haunt him from the afterlife and throw stuff at Iggy when he’s being this dumb. He made Veronica Fuentes look like a fucking angel in this episode. Do you know how badly you need to fuck up to made her more likable? I don’t know how he did it, but by golly he did.

-I knew the wedding would be on the New Amsterdam rooftop. Completely unrelated but that really is such a gorgeous rooftop. And that view of the River from the one side? 🤌 I personally am such a slut for a good waterfront view-

-Hey, no what the fuck? What is going on? No. Helen? HELEN? NO. Please god, no. What the fuck is this? Why is this happening?!