Critic’s Score: 3 / 5.0
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What the heck, Chicago Med?
Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8’s fall finale felt principally like an everyday episode, nothing actually particular.
The cliffhanger felt extra tacked on than thrilling, thought it was extra suited to the final episode we’ll get for almost two months than the remainder of the present had been.
Dr. Archer’s Potential Resignation Ought to Have Been A Greater Query At The Finish of Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8
Archer spent many of the hour pretending he was thrilled to not be ED chief.
He mentioned he was grateful for the additional free time, advised Lenox he had no onerous emotions, and supplied to take a affected person off her palms.
His conduct on Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8 would have made sense if he had a secret plan to steal the place again from Lenox.
That will have been a basic Archer transfer, and it was the explanation I used to be so suspicious of how relaxed he appeared to be because the choice got here down.
Nonetheless, after the Thanksgiving occasion, Archer advised Hannah he was going to resign as a result of he couldn’t be pleased in a lesser place and didn’t have a lot purpose to remain.
Not solely was that NOT who Archer is, nevertheless it was a plot level designed to get him to Sharon’s workplace on the proper time to study she was being held hostage and had been stabbed. Ugh!
Archer’s emotions about his demotion are legitimate, however the best way his resignation was dealt with was not.
I dislike when characters do issues simply because they have to be in a sure place at a sure time. It feels manipulative.
Archer’s battle with the query of whether or not to remain or go ought to have been extra distinguished. Fairly than popping out of nowhere, it ought to have been a bona fide story.
Plus, Hannah gained the wishbone pull, which meant Archer needed to wait 24 hours earlier than submitting his resignation letter. So why was he delivering it now, apart from the plot demanded it?
Archer has by no means been my favourite character, and I’m undecided how I’d really feel about him leaving.
I don’t suppose it’s taking place, anyway. He’ll have to assist save Sharon when Med returns in January, and that’ll most likely lead him to resolve he wants to remain the place he’s.
Which is all properly and good, however was it an excessive amount of to ask for a narrative that wasn’t filled with predictable tropes?
Sharon’s Stalker Reveal Was Extremely Disappointing
Anybody who is aware of me is aware of how a lot I really like an excellent thriller. I write them, learn them, and watch them on TV.
However this stalker storyline has been problematic from the get-go, and the reveal on Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8 wasn’t a lot better.
Why did Atwater and the remainder of the Chicago PD crew suppose they’d caught the stalker and that he was a white man named Paul Dunn who’d been laid off when it was truly a Black lady whose beef with Sharon had nothing to do with employment?
That’s the sort of shoddy police work that belongs on Days of Our Lives, not the One Chicago exhibits.
I’m undecided if the stalker had been featured on Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 1 or if she was newly created for this story.
I suppose her motivation was believable, although I don’t recall a single clue suggesting the stalker was the gruntled ex-wife of a lifeless affected person.
It felt just like the writers made up their minds about this answer on the final minute and got here up with one thing semi-plausible, nevertheless it might have been so a lot better.
Many followers assumed Reese can be the stalker, which turned out to be a purple herring, however there was one other concept that will have been much more fascinating.
Why Zach Hudgins Would Have Been The Good Stalker On Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8
Zach was a quiet and earnest resident who was abruptly fired on the finish of the tenth season premiere.
He’d frozen up throughout a mass casualty occasion and left Sharon to are likely to a affected person by herself. Lenox fired him for his failure, and Sharon signed off on it.
Thus, Zach had each purpose to trigger Sharon hassle. She was concerned in each side of his firing.
Not like Cassidy, the actual stalker, Zach would have been well-known to the viewers and his conduct may need made sense on reflection.
As a substitute, we acquired a random stalker and a dialog filled with tropes wherein Sharon tried to speak the girl down, however the perp misplaced her mood and stabbed her, then felt responsible about it for half an episode.
The ending sequence on Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8 was considerably complicated. If Sharon was supposedly unconscious from lack of blood, why did Cassidy must cowl her mouth to cease her from calling for assist?
Sharon was faking however had the energy to run to the foyer door and bang on it to get Archer’s consideration regardless of having simply been stabbed.
If this is smart to you, please clarify it within the feedback. To me, it appeared like a case of randomly disappearing accidents.
It Was Good To See Reese Once more, However Her Go to Resolved Nothing
Reese and Charles crossed paths once more after six years when Reese’s affected person landed within the ED.
Her interactions with Charles all through Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8 had been unusual. I might have understood in the event that they had been awkward, contemplating the explanation Reese left within the first place, however that wasn’t the issue.
It was virtually as in the event that they had been decided to not talk about the elephant within the room.
Reese initially left as a result of she believed Dr. Charles had allowed her father to die whereas treating him for a coronary heart assault. She’d spent most of Chicago Med Season 4 decided to offer this abusive psychopath one other probability, just for him to break down after Charles confronted him with proof he was a serial killer.
As a substitute of being grateful to have dodged a literal bullet, Reese targeted on the truth that Charles hesitated earlier than beginning chest compressions. In her thoughts, he let her father die, and she or he couldn’t take care of her perception that Charles had betrayed her.
(Reese was additionally on the flighty aspect and jumped from pathology to nothing to psychiatry, which was additionally not noted of Charles’ shockingly excessive reward of her.)
If Reese was going to come back again, she and Charles ought to have cleared the air about that previous battle. As a substitute, they acted like they had been previous associates till Charles disagreed with Reese’s questionable strategies.
There are occasions when unorthodox strategies work — ask Good Minds‘ Oliver Wolf about that.
Nonetheless, I couldn’t blame Charles for being suspicious of Reese secretly giving a suicidal affected person placebos in order that she would study that she didn’t want remedy to maintain her melancholy at bay.
Anti-depressants are controversial as a result of some folks suppose they’re only a crutch. They’re additionally vital for some folks or throughout some circumstances.
I wouldn’t be snug with a psychiatrist who engages in all-or-nothing serious about psychiatric medicine, and doubly so if she’s going to lie about what she’s giving her affected person.
Additionally, didn’t the affected person must fill this prescription at a pharmacy? How precisely did this trick work?
In any case, when Charles wouldn’t allow this ridiculous plan simply because the affected person was actively suicidal once more, Reese accused him of considering he was at all times proper.
She was coming off as emotional and incompetent, which isn’t who Reese must be.
Charles was proper that no one swallows 12 drugs accidentally. Sheesh.
Some Fast Ideas About The Relaxation Of Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8
- Sure, there was a affected person of the week, a goofy man who wished to marry his girlfriend however was liable to dying from accidents sustained in a automotive accident. This case wasn’t significantly memorable, although I beloved Archer’s cavalier angle towards getting ordained on-line.
- So Lenox has a brother who has an alcohol downside and two lifeless dad and mom. Did they die in an alcohol-related automotive crash?
- I might have performed with none extra Sully drama. That story is over, so might it please go away?
Over to you, Chicago Med fanatics. What did you consider Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 8?
Am I being too onerous on this fall finale, or did you additionally discover it missing?
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Chicago Med airs on NBC on Thursdays at 8/7c and on Peacock on Fridays. The subsequent new episode airs on January 8, 2025.
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