Spoilers are forward for the Season 10 finale of Chicago Med on NBC, now out there streaming with a Peacock subscription.
As any longtime viewer is aware of, NBC’s One Chicago Wednesdays have been identified to finish seasons on life-or-death cliffhangers to maintain followers on the perimeters of their seats over summer time hiatus. Whereas the 2025 TV schedule did not finish on that form of stress for Chicago Med, Chicago Hearth, or Chicago P.D., the medical drama’s ending had me so shocked that I needed to shed all embarrassment and admit it to showrunner Allen MacDonald. He revealed that the plan for Hannah (Jessy Schram) to knock on Archer’s (Steven Weber) door on the finish of Season 10 was within the works all alongside.
MacDonald had previewed a “powerhouse” efficiency from Oliver Platt to organize followers for Dr. Charles’ storyline, and teased that Hannah was “carrying” secrets and techniques, however I am guessing that there weren’t many followers who predicted Hannah exhibiting up on Dean’s doorstep and telling him “We have to speak” after the higher a part of an hour of her NOT telling Ripley that she was pregnant. I used to be lucky sufficient to observe the finale early to go some questions alongside to the showrunner.
I am going to admit it now – I am not normally one to swear, however that exact reveal had me dropping a selected four-letter phrase out of sheer shock. Was there actually extra to the Captain Crunch that I would been joking about?! Nicely, I admitted to the showrunner that I would been gobsmacked by Hannah knocking on Archer’s door, however he saved his playing cards near the vest when it got here to how lengthy he was setting the stage for that reveal:
LOL. I’m actually completely happy to listen to that you simply had been gobsmacked! However past that I’m not going to remark.
If we’re not getting solutions about simply who the daddy of Hannah’s little one is on the finish of Season 10, I am guessing we are able to depend on a reasonably packed begin to Season 11 within the fall. NBC is continuous One Chicago Wednesdays with renewals for all three reveals. However despite the fact that Allen MacDonald would not settle one of many burning questions after Season 10’s finale, he did drop a reveal that has me able to make an inventory of episodes to revisit by way of Peacock.
Season 10 was Allen MacDonald’s first as Chicago Med showrunner, and maybe I ought to have seen one thing approaching the Ripley/Hannah/Archer entrance again within the fall after he shared that he was “very a lot excited” about taking up the Hannah/Ripley storyline and commented on Hannah and Archer’s “positively distinctive” relationship. Once I lately requested how lengthy he’d needed so as to add the Season 10 finale twist for Jessy Schram and Steven Weber, MacDonald shared:
The writing employees and myself figured this storyline out on the very starting of the season and caught to our weapons… little or no was modified in how we in the end executed it.
With just a few months forward with none new episodes of One Chicago, I for one could also be heading again into Season 10 to see if there have been clues that I both missed or dismissed as a result of I by no means thought Med would go any additional with Hannah and Archer than sharing Captain Crunch behind closed doorways.
And to be honest – we do not truly know at this level if there was extra than simply cereal the final time that Hannah confirmed up at his condominium out of the blue. Archer is probably the most logical individual for her to speak in confidence to about her being pregnant after Lizzy’s outburst, and I am on board with him as her shoulder to lean on.
There are way more questions than solutions at this level, and I have been undecided about what I most need to see from Hannah and Archer for a number of seasons now apart from liking their chemistry collectively. The showrunner did tease a bit about Med hitting the two hundredth episode milestone in Season 11:
We do have plans however nonetheless must work out the specifics.
Alas, I am unable to finish by saying that followers can sit up for a brand new episode of Chicago Med subsequent week, because the One Chicago dramas probably will not be again for the 2025-2026 TV season till September. Within the meantime, you may all the time revisit earlier installments streaming on Peacock or take a look at some summer time TV choices.