Critic’s Ranking: 4.5 / 5.0
4.5
The Hayes storyline gave me chills, whereas one other story pissed me off.
Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 21 pressed all my emotional buttons within the good method.
I’m not pleased with how the fallout from one story will manifest, and I may have accomplished with out Charles’ funeral story, however on the entire, this was one of many strongest episodes within the medical drama shortly.
The Fallout from The Hayes Story Was Extremely Robust and Trauma Knowledgeable
The Hayes story received my consideration from the start.
The person appeared like a predator when he first requested Lenox out shortly after his introduction on Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 10, so I’ve been ready for months for the opposite shoe to drop.
Naomi’s confession to Lenox wasn’t stunning, nor was the truth that Lenox determined to report Hayes’ conduct regardless of Naomi’s need to stay beneath the radar.
The scene between Naomi and the opposite resident within the rest room was my favourite for a number of causes.
Amongst different issues, it made the purpose that not reporting doesn’t make the predator’s subsequent crime a survivor’s fault.
Brittany: I believed not saying something was the good transfer. However perhaps if I’d come ahead, he wouldn’t have accomplished this to you.
Naomi: None of that is your fault.
I’ve been ready endlessly for somebody to say this. Regulation & Order: SVU has dropped the ball with regards to this these days, however Chicago Med received it proper.
The whole arc was accomplished correctly.
Each Lenox’s choice to file a criticism and Naomi’s need to depart it alone had been life like and relatable.
I feel it will have been stronger if Lenox had complained about the best way that Hayes handled her as an alternative of violating Naomi’s confidence.
Nonetheless, it was totally inside Lenox’s character to file a criticism that the survivor had little interest in pursuing and imagine she was doing the proper factor.
Hayes: When you preserve pushing this narrative, you’ll get your self into bother.
Lenox: You assume you will get one over on me since you don’t observe the principles and I do, as a result of I’m pragmatic. However perhaps I’m not precisely who you assume I’m. Perhaps I’ll mild myself on fireplace simply to see you burn.
Her full-throated confrontation of Hayes was among the finest scenes on Chicago Med Season 10. I liked her standing as much as this man who thinks he’s untouchable.
The board, in fact, was as bureaucratic and optics-obsessed as ordinary.
They had been indignant that they needed to punish Hayes after extra ladies got here ahead (and went to the press with their considerations.)
They had been extra involved with defending a preferred physician’s proper to observe than addressing his inappropriate conduct.
I really like tales about establishments defending their popularity as an alternative of preventing for justice. My very own novels typically revolve round this theme.
Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 21 addressed it completely, and the truth that the board didn’t get their approach made it even higher.
The Billionare Storyline Dovetailed Properly With This Different Injustice On Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 21
Whereas Naomi was struggling to imagine she may ever get justice when standing as much as a preferred, highly effective physician, a number of different workers members handled an entitled billionaire who managed to sport the system.
There was little nuance on this story.
Lancer was within the mistaken, interval. He used his cash and affect to push his daughter to the highest of the transplant listing, edging out a 12-year-old who would die with out these lungs.
Whereas Lancer claimed that he was solely doing what any mother or father would do to avoid wasting their youngster, the actual fact is that he had outsized affect over the transplant choice due to his social and financial standing, and he used it to avoid wasting his daughter on the expense of one other youngster.
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No person ought to be allowed to leap the transplant listing like that.
If the lungs had been equally helpful to each sufferers, Lancer may need been barely extra sympathetic (however nonetheless mistaken).
Nonetheless, he was refusing to face the truth that his daughter had little time left, it doesn’t matter what the medical doctors did.
These lungs went to a baby who would die regardless, as an alternative of to at least one who had an opportunity at life, all as a result of Lancer had the cash to fund his refusal to simply accept the reality about his daughter’s prognosis.
It particularly pissed me off that Lancer mentioned that his daughter’s state of affairs was extra dire.
He couldn’t presumably know that — HIPAA would forestall him from being allowed to know something about different sufferers’ conditions. (Or did he purchase another person’s personal information too?)
Plus, Noah had mentioned an hour earlier than that if he didn’t get the lungs, he would die, so there was no level in doing surgical procedure to place him on ECMO.
The Fallout from This Story Seems Disappointing
[This section contains a discussion of the spoiler video for Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 22, so skip past it if you don’t want to know what’s supposed to happen next.]
I’m disenchanted that the spoiler video suggests Noah’s father will pull a gun on folks due to this case.
There was an excessive amount of pointless violence on Chicago Med over time, particularly throughout Season 10.
We already spent half a season with Sharon’s stalker storyline, just for Sharon to shortly recover from her PTSI, rendering the entire story pointless.
We don’t want yet one more hostage story on this present. Persist with medical drama, please, even when it’s the season finale.
Random Ideas About Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 21
- The entire Charles funeral arc was bizarre (even when it does lead into his season finale story), however what was up with Frederick hugging Sharon for therefore lengthy? That was creepy, particularly provided that she needed to cope with the Hayes state of affairs as quickly as she escaped him.
- As quickly because the lab mentioned that Hannah couldn’t be a surrogate due to one thing in her assessments, I knew she was pregnant. Who’s the daddy, although? Ripley and Hannah had been over a very long time in the past, weren’t they?
- Lenox’s brother being significantly in poor health ought to make for an fascinating arc that extends into subsequent yr.
- I agreed with Kip — what the heck was with everybody caring for Sully’s child for Ripley?
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Chicago Med airs on NBC on Wednesdays at 8/7c and streams on Peacock on Thursdays. The Season 10 finale will air on Could 21, 2025.
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