![]() Mariska Hargitay had a huge impact on Dick Wolf. Admit That It’s All About the Ladies, Then Stop Undermining Them But it does start to feel like ‘what’s the point?’ Why am I going to get invested in this plotline when it most likely won’t last beyond sweeps? 5. And credit where it’s due, the actors on Fire sell the awkward transitions. Part of this is just television in a Shondaland landscape: when the cliffhanger is the thing, the stakes have to constantly be moving. Once that struggle was resolved, it’s like the showrunners realized how difficult it was going to be to have a kid around, so suddenly the birth father showed up and the kid went away. To compensate, they introduced a new female firefighter character, but still: why did we get so invested in Dawson’s struggle if she was going to abandon it so unceremoniously? Then she and Casey came together to form a family to fight to keep the foster kid. But once she achieved her goal, she adopted a baby and bumped herself back to ambulance. Watching Dawson fight to become a female firefighter on Chicago Fire was thrilling. Everyone else either needs image rehab or a swift exit. Code Black is a current medical show that perfectly manages to create drama and has good doctors who, you know, do the best for their patients while actually listening to them.Īlso, the characters on Chicago Med are terrible except for Goodwin, Maggie, Reese, and Charles. If Chicago Med is going to continue, it should look to Code Black as a model. ER managed to get drama from the situation without having doctors outright defy the law (to my best recollection, anyway). Remember ER? ER understood that a DNR order was legally binding. Did you catch that? They don’t listen to their patients or the law. So we repeatedly have doctors defying everything–even laws and the wishes of their patients–in order to save a life. Somewhere, someone decided that the only way a doctor can be heroic is if they’re saving a life. Let’s get one thing straight: these people are terrible doctors. Med is the only one that gets it wrong in every episode. It works on PD, which plays with grey areas of right and wrong (sometimes successfully, sometimes not). That works on Chicago Fire, where the crew fights their way into dangerous situations and frequently finds themselves fighting obstacles that make their job more difficult. The characters on every Chicago show are obsessed with being a hero. No more spinoffs–at least until you can guarantee the quality or complete the next item on my wish list. So only one of these shows is consistently good right now. ![]() And let me break that down for you: I like Chicago Fire, I’m up and down on Chicago PD, and I’m done with Chicago Med. ![]() But it’s only as good as the sum of its parts. No More SpinoffsĪgain, I realize the ratings have been worth it to NBC so far to have a set of integrated shows kind of like the Marvel Universe. I realize the ratings payoff has been worth it to NBC so far, but if it continues, I can’t guarantee I’m going to care anymore. Now it feels like they’re pulling Olivia in for routine cases, and now I have to watch at least two shows just to get the conclusion to what should have been a single episode of television. ![]() But the more Chicago goes to this well, the drier it gets. It wouldn’t be such a problem if it really felt like, you know, an event. And the more shows you have to include in these events, the more unmanageable they feel. The more you ask me to include it in my regular TV schedule for a crossover event, the more resentful I become. Now I like SVU, but I don’t watch it regularly. Why? Because they frequently included Law & Order: SVU, which is not part of the Chicago universe but is a Dick Wolf show on NBC. I watched all of the Chicago shows until recently and these crossover events were still a burden on me. Here are my hopes for the Chicago shows, in no particular order. As such, it seemed like a good time to check in with the weaknesses of NBC’s flagship institution as a sort of wish list for how things will turn out now that Justice has arrived. My husband and I have followed the Chicago series since the premiere of Chicago Fire in 2012, but the premiere of Justice happens to coincide with our decision to break up with one of the Chicago series. I mean, where else could they go? Chicago Education? Chicago.Gov? Don’t give Dick Wolf any ideas about the last one, because come to think of it a City Hall spinoff actually might work now that they’ve branched into legal.Ĭhicago Justice, the fourth installment of the Chicago series, launches on March 5, but its premiere is part of a three-hour ‘crossover event’ that begins on Chicago Fire. And I don’t just mean that they’ve run out of heroic institutions to base spin-offs around. ![]()
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