Tonight at 8p, it is Doc’s two-hour season finale, and what an episode it is.
One of their regular renal failure patients comes in, and he is not doing well because he missed a dialysis appointment a week ago. Richard (Scott Wolf) is working on him, but he is distracted because Liz (Conni Miu) filed a complaint against him because he made her blame Amy (Molly Parker) for killing a patient that he did.
As Richard is taking care of the patient, he gets a phone call from his lawyer to go over the complaint. Just as he walks out of the room, his patient codes, and they try to save him, but they are not able to do it.
Amy believes that Richard’s distraction might have led to the patient’s death, so they try to reach his wife to get an autopsy done. However, they cannot get hold of her to tell her what happened.
When the bloodwork seems to clear Richard of any wrongdoing, Amy has another thought about what might have caused his death. And everyone’s worst fear is about to become a reality.
She believes he has the plague, hemorrhagic fever. His wife recently went on a safari in Africa, and Amy fears she brought it back with her. When public health shows up at her house, they find her dead on the floor.
Now that their suspicion is confirmed, Michael (Omar Metwally) has to lock down the floor, and everyone on the sixth floor needs to be tested.
The patients include a 90-year Holocaust survivor (Judd Hirsch), three fraternity brothers who rushed a pledge to the point that he needed to be hospitalized, a sick woman whose protective brother is a reknowned doctor (Blair Underwood), a woman who needs to get home to her mom, Jake’s (Jon Ecker) ex-wife (Samantha Massell), a conspiracy theorist, and several of the staff including Joan (Felicity Huffman).
The clock is ticking, and this variant is not like anything they have ever seen. Its time table is faster than anything they have heard of, and the incubation period is only hours, not weeks.
They have no cure, nor treatment, and one by one, the patients are getting sicker and sicker, and eventually they will start dying, including members of the staff.
All of this is giving Amy memories of what it was like when she was working during COVID, and they start giving her headaches. She is keeping the memories to herself, but how long can she hide them from everyone? It will get harder for her to do so when she winds up testing positive for the plague.
The doctors and nurses, who aren’t sick, are doing everything they can to find a cure, but nothing seems to be working. And what they try might be worse than the plague itself.
How many more people have to die before they can stop this thing, and they all succumb to it? You will have to tune in to find out.
This episode blew me away. Now, I might be biased. I have been obsessed with plagues since I was a little girl. I have read books and watched movies and TV shows about viruses, so I think I have a good take on the subject. And this is one of the best I have ever seen on dealing with a plague. And they did it all in a two-hour event.
My hat is off to everyone who worked on this episode. And I would not be surprised if Judd Hirsch got an Emmy nomination for his performance in it. But then again, Taxi is one of my favorite shows. So, I have a lot of biases.
Joel McHale is a guest on The Jennifer Hudson Show to promote his Fox game show, The 1% Club, and you know what that means? He walked the Spirit Tunnel.
Since McHale likes to put on a show, he made the Tunnel his own. How? The Animal Control star made it rain, as in he handed them money as they cheered his name!
And then when he passed the Tunnel, the money man shook his money maker!
And with all of that, he will forever be their favorite guest! Not only did he star in Community, but he also believes everyone in his community needs to be rewarded.
Shhh, don’t tell anyone. He is a really good guy, even though he is the Master of Ceremonies of the House of Villains!
In 2002, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez were cast in Barney & Friends, and they became fast friends. The two actresses grew up as Disney Darlings with their own series. The older they got, the more they changed, as did their friendship, so they drifted apart.
But they remained in touch after all of these years. And yesterday, they were reunited at Lovato’s opening night of her It’s Not That Deep Tour in tour because their sisterhood is that deep. And their fans, who grew up with them, could not be happier.
Who knows? Maybe now that they are both married, they can get pregnant together, and we can follow along on their journey, going from child stars to having children.
Celebrity Pop Culture made its debut on Prime Video, but they passed on a second season. So Netflix came in and saved the Jeopardy spinoff that is hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost.
Pop Culture Jeopardy! is a twist on the classic quiz show’s “answer-and-question” format that combines the academic rigor of Jeopardy! with the exciting and ever-changing world of pop culture. Contestants compete on teams to test their knowledge on a variety of categories as they compete in a tournament-style event for the grand prize and ultimate bragging rights.
Today, the streamer announced the premiere date for the 20-episode second season. That date is May 11th, and a new episode will drop every weekday until June 5th.
Over the weekend, donald trump posted a meme of himself as Jesus Christ healing a man who looks strangely familiar.
Who does that patient on his deathbed look like? Jon Stewart. Yesterday, on The Daily Show, the host reacted to the likeness and said, “What the fuck? Wait, what? How did I? I mean, look, I know I don’t have the vigor and spunk of my MTV days, but I didn’t know we were here already. I didn’t realize my look had reached leper territory. I mean, from the picture, it looks like it was touch and go with me for a while.”
Seriously, isn’t it freaky how much the sick guy looks like the host? So much so that Stewart declared, “This is freaking me the freak out.” We are all there with you. And I am sure Dr. trump was freaked out when he realized he was trying to save Stewart.
Stewart concluded his monologue talking about Hungary’s Viktor Orbán’s landslide loss. He told the viewers, “But we cannot give in to the sadness. We must embrace these moments of light and hope and oxygen. Even MAGA is beginning the depths of this man’s depravity. No matter how much we love the person, he’s healing [shows the trump/Jesus photo].”
We will get through this. We are stronger than he is, as much as he thinks we are not.
