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New Amsterdam
2018 · TV series · 5 seasons
Created by David Schulner
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
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Reminds me of New Amsterdam. First season was quite heart wrenching in all the right ways, really nice storyline (lone hospital admin fights bureaucracy to provide treatment to everyone, in spite of personal issues). But they put out all the good gripping content in the first season itself, that there was barely anything to put in the subsequent ones. Instead, they resorted to preaching SJW stuff through the protagonist's different idealistic initiatives, some of which are so unreal that it's laughable in a sad way.
My ex got me into that series, but even she gave up by season 3, and she's one of the most liberal left-leaning persons I've met.
I noticed that the watchtime of `You` was split half-and-half between the new season 4 and the prior seasons 1-3. I was curious about the total results by show, including all seasons. Here's the top 25:
TITLE TOTAL HRS WATCHED ----- ----------------- Ginny & Georgia 967,200,000 The Night Agent 812,100,000 You 766,300,000 Outer Banks 740,400,000 The Walking Dead 738,600,000 The Glory 622,800,000 La Reina del Sur 616,800,000 CoComelon 601,200,000 Suits (2011) 599,100,000 The Blacklist 596,900,000 Manifest 581,900,000 Grey's Anatomy 560,300,000 Wednesday 507,700,000 Gilmore Girls 505,800,000 Breaking Bad 505,000,000 Queen Charlotte 503,000,000 Friends (1994) 448,500,000 Love Is Blind 439,300,000 Lucifer 434,300,000 The Big Bang Theory 420,400,000 Shameless (U.S.) 392,600,000 PAW Patrol 392,300,000 New Amsterdam (2018) 375,500,000 Brooklyn Nine-Nine 358,900,000 Firefly Lane 342,700,000
I mean on your incest example specifically there's an episode of New Amsterdam, a very Liberal show on what I assume is a Liberal channel, which deals with exactly the situation you raise and ends with a fairly "hands off" conclusion, live and let live effectively. As a majority position holder on the topic I find it unsettling but thought provoking.
It's very hard not to assume bad faith on the internet nowadays and the subtext of your post seems to align with the Free Speech position of "I should be able to say whatever I want, wherever and whenever I want, and publishers must platform me and any pushback or negative reaction is dictatorship".
Usually "whatever I want" is some combination of trans, race, class, AGW, right wing moral panic.
I don't know, maybe try sticking to platforms that are open to your 'bold' ideas and don't try and force everyone else to read them without reacting.
Edit: Hackernews is one of those platforms in my opinion. As much as I disagree with many of the moderation decisions I see here (since it requires an almost laughably naive interpretation of people's actions to respond in good faith sometimes and one wonders who benefits) I think this is an appropriate platform for many discussions and the good policy on throwaway accounts means I can express my true views on e.g. abolishing copyright which would be personally and professionally toxic if expressed on e.g. LinkedIn.
I rank New Amsterdam and the Resident better for the hospital politics; Chicago MD is more short episode drama (though does touch on mental health and social services more.
Option 3 is actually the plot of an episode of the medical drama series "New Amsterdam". The main character of the show is the director of a fiction NYC public hospital. In episode 4 of season 2 he tries to encourage black men to get medical checkups. He choses to teach the barbers how to take blood pressure and prescribe some basic meds. The episode centers around the mistrust that black people in the US have of public healthcare, and how barbers are a natural social center for that community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_(2018_TV_series)#ep26
Barber shops are traditionally, and presently, social gathering spots. Go to proper barber shops, not hair cutting chains, and you'll see people just sitting around hanging out talking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber
>Barbershops are also places of social interaction and public discourse. In some instances, barbershops are also public forums. They are the locations of open debates, voicing public concerns, and engaging citizens in discussions about contemporary issues.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog/community-roles-barber-shop-and-beauty-salon
>Since the turn of the 19th century, beauty salons and barber shops have served as special places among African Americans. They have been places not only to get hair care services but locations where black people could be vulnerable and talk about issues of importance in the community. There were spaces where customers played games such as chess, cards, and dominoes, while having conversations about local gossip, politics, and community affairs.
And this isn't just an African American thing, it's a white thing, it's a Hispanic thing, it's an everyone thing.
Here's an article about how governments and non-profits are using salons and the like to help educate people about things, like getting help for domestic violence
https://www.governing.com/topics/mgmt/gov-barbershops-hair-salons-illinois.html
Recently in the medical drama New Amsterdam one of the main characters tried to set up a clinic in a low-income neighborhood barber shop (and it was likely taken directly from this real news https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/cutting-hair-blood-pressure-how-black-barbershops-can-save-lives-n855771 ).
Why do you think there is a line of films called Barbershop?
Or that on shows and movies of yesteryear, like The Andy Griffith Show, barbershops were hubs of the community where the men went (and still do) go to socialize?
https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/23/black-barbershops-photo-essay-interview
https://www.wnyc.org/story/fear-black-barbershop/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/rediscovering-the-barbershop/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/07/06/barbershops-are-back-and-bucking-retail-trends/
https://www.ogleschool.edu/blog/resurgence-of-the-great-american-barbershop/
https://business.mindbody.io/education/blog/barber-shops-trend-will-not-fade-away
https://nearsay.com/c/456502/306271/why-barbershops-have-seen-a-resurgence-in-popularity
https://scandinaviantraveler.com/en/lifestyle/retro-barbershops-are-making-a-trendy-comeback