3 Answers2026-05-21
I loved seeing Bailey in season 19. She makes the transition from running the chief’s office to returning to teaching her residency very well. Her spirit fits well with the new medical staff and her tough love tactics are balanced with a ton of love for her young students, especially when she’s leading them through tough ethic-based decisions. And of course, the tremendous problem with her clinic and Medicare could have been an easy drama plot-point but it wasn’t. Instead we got to see Bailey try to solve the problem created by the systemic problems of today’s healthcare system.
And her comedy in the season was great. Whether Bailey was being spiteful to her interns or just rolling her eyes at hospital red tape, it always managed to be funny. And then there was the moment of vulnerability where she admitted that she missed surgery and having to “cut people open”. This was a very iconic moment for her and the season ended her on a great note. She’s still tough and strongly opinionated but she’s also learned to put herself first in a way that she hadn’t previously.
8 Answers2025-02-10
This event is also a turning point for Damon. Although he has done some terrible things in the past, his guilt over Jenna’s death is clearly evident. He turned her to save her and her death had a profound effect on him. In trying to protect Elena and Jeremy from a similar fate, his failure with Jenna affects his decisions in subsequent episodes. It’s one of the few times his quick-fix solution has had disastrous and irreversible consequences for someone the audience cares about.
You get to see him struggle with this in subsequent episodes. But, he’s not made instantly a good guy. Instead you get to see more of the bad boy with a guilt complex persona. The first time Damon harms someone that the audience cares about in a very permanent way (as opposed to some random victim) is compelling and really adds to the complexity of his character as well as the complexity of his eventual redemption.
3 Answers2026-03-28
Dennis Lehane is bringing his trademark brand of crime and family drama to his new book, centering on a retired cop whose worst nightmare is about to come true: the man he put away for a decades-old murder is found to be innocent, and the real killer is still out there. Joined by the man he wrongly imprisoned for the crime, the two are forced to navigate a complex web of guilt, past grudges, and reluctant respect for one another in order to solve the case and possibly find some measure of redemption for their past mistakes. Lehane’s writing is as lean as ever, but it packs a brutal punch – and he explores the issues of institutional failure and redemption long after the book has ended.
7 Answers2025-11-04
I don't get why a show like 'Blue Bloods' would kill off a kid off-screen (so, without explaining it in the show). The most realistic answer is that the child actor had grown up in real life and no longer fit the "cute baby" role, or that having a toddler on set was too logistically complicated, so the writer just stopped writing the character into scenes and had other characters occasionally reference that he existed. The latter is extremely common in TV and is a truly lazy writing solution.
This is never explained to the audience for obvious reasons. The writers don’t want to draw attention to their mistake and devote an entire episode to a character the audience has barely encountered. It’s far easier to just have him disappear and be done with it. However, this remains a huge continuity error that sits on the Reagan family table like an open sore for us nitpicky fans.
5 Answers2025-07-25
It seems Lehane is moving on to historical fiction with The Given Day and its sequels. As with much of his work, this new endeavor will likely explore the ins and outs of American social history and the flaws of families. I hope he continues the Coughlin series rather than returns to the pressures of Ashecliffe with Shutter Island being the brilliant detour that it was. As always, Lehane is evolving as an author and that means we should be too and follow his journey rather than clinging to his past successes.
4 Answers2026-07-05
Akaza can offer Rengoku immortality as a demon and Rengoku refuses. Rengoku chose to die as a human upholding his tenets rather than live forever as something detestable to him. Rengoku’s death is the result of his decision and the wound is just physical manifestation of it.
3 Answers2025-06-10
So much of the history of human dissection is the history of a single individual and their work. For 16th century physician Andreas Vesalius, that individual was himself, and his work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica or About the Fabric of the Human Body, completed in 1543 and published the following year, is still used today to teach human anatomy from detailed photographs to complete virtual dissections. Vesalius attacked the medicine of Galen, which had been accepted for centuries.
He approached anatomy in a novel way by relying on evidence for his conclusions. Because he personally performed many of the dissections, Vesalius in some cases even had corpses displayed publicly, enabling his readers to test his conclusions on human remains. Ultimately, the book worked. It became the cornerstone of the study of modern anatomy, and played a profound influence on physicians and scholars for centuries to come. His handwork saved countless lives over the years.
9 Answers2025-10-22
Looking at it from a strictly network TV perspective, the character of Erin Strauss had run her course. The ‘bureaucrat who doesn’t get it’ is a great character for about 20 episodes or so and then he or she can start to wear a bit thin as the only way to keep the character going is to have them behave stupidly in order to keep the plot going. In this case, Strauss’s death was part of the resolution of the Replicator case. By having the Replicator kill Strauss, the show was able to make the point that this killer was not simply a random serial killer targeting civilians. He was able to get to FBI personnel as well. It also served as a catalyst for the rest of the team, particularly Hotch, as he was the team leader’s protector. His inability to protect Strauss served to further solidify his role as a protector who is not able to keep everyone he cares about safe. It was a ruthless move, but it served to advance the plot and the characters in a very effective way.
8 Answers2025-09-23
Consider Patch a sort of Rorschach test for romance novel readers. That is, what they see in Patch can often reveal to the reader what it is that he or she wants in a relationship, or even what they are willing to settle for. Some see a protector, of course. Others see a very different man – a predator who seeks out young, inexperienced girls to groom and control. While the text does contain evidence to support both points of view, it’s been painful for me to see Patch portrayed as so very bad, and yet at times rewarded by the narrative for that very badness. This must be very good for marketing, as it has generated a ton of discussion.
4 Answers2025-02-06
Fretting for our boy Clay Spenser from the TV show ‘Seal Team’? Fear not, he’s alive and kicking. The recent explosion in season 4 came as a surprise for us fans and was an extremely near call for Clay but he’s done and he’s good!
But that’s why we love Seal Team. Every episode takes us on a rollercoaster of emotions that brings us back to why we’re invested in the team in the first place. Thanks for worrying about Clay though, he’s alive and well!