‘New Amsterdam’: Max & Brantley vs. Veronica Ends in a Shocking Vote (RECAP)
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for New Amsterdam Season 4, Episode 9 “In a Strange Land.”]
After Dr. Veronica Fuentes (Michelle Forbes) laid off a large number of the staff — including Casey (Alejandro Hernandez), Gladys (Megan Byrne), and Baptiste (Andre Blake) in Bloom (Janet Montgomery), Iggy (Tyler Labine), and Reynolds’ (Jocko Sims) places after Max (Ryan Eggold) fought for them — she’s once again on the (soon-to-be former) medical director’s bad side in the latest New Amsterdam episode. And this time, Karen Brantley (Debra Monk) is with Max: Veronica needs to go.
When multiple victims from a church fire end up at the hospital, the doctors soon learn everyone is undocumented. ICE has been circling the church for weeks and now is set up outside the hospital. Then, ICE gets warrants for everyone and is able to enter the hospital. In response, Max turns the cafeteria into a church, making it a sanctuary for their patients. Veronica, of course, is against it, and tells Max not to try to appeal to her humanity. They’re a hospital, not a refugee center, she argues. She doesn’t care if ICE gives them the medical care they need.
But after Veronica walks away, Karen tells Max she’ll call a vote during the board meeting that night to terminate Veronica’s contract. Does she have votes to pull that off? She’ll find them. And so she goes around to board members, but it’s not so easy to get people on board. Evan, however, seems to be key: Get his vote, others will fall in line. Evan’s reluctant, given that Veronica has done some good things, especially financially, but he eventually tells Karen she has his support and they shake on it.
With ICE closing in, the staff comes up with a way to sneak everyone out of the hospital, via the tunnels in the basement. ICE follows the ambulances (with Max in one of them) away, but when they stop them, they’re empty. They were just a distraction; everyone safely reaches a new sanctuary, a church.
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Max joins the board meeting just before Karen calls for the vote to terminate Veronica as medical director. As the two women face off on either end of the table, people begin raising their hands … but not Evan, and they’re one vote shy. Then Veronica calls for a vote to oust Karen Brantley as board chair of the hospital, given the debacle of the day — and she gets the votes, including Evan’s. Evan is now the board chair of New Amsterdam.
Also with implications for the future: Reynolds lets slip to Leyla (Shiva Kalaiselvan) that a fifth residency spot was created for her. Leyla had no idea that spot opened up after her girlfriend Bloom “donated” to the hospital … just as happened last time that fifth spot existed. Uh-oh.
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Not a fan of the Veronica character. I used to love watching this show. Now, I'm just done.
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Please please please stop this silly storyline. Enough already! I have loved this show but can’t stand the Veronica character and now this Evan character. I will only give this one more show of those two and then I’m done. We all know that there is no show without Max and all of the characters that were laid off. And If Helen truly loved Max, she wouldn’t be asking him to walk away from New Amsterdam and leave it in the hands of Veronica. Please please writers get back to the show and characters that we all love. I don’t understand why writers do this. It has been great for 3 seasons the way it was. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!!!!!!!
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This show has gone from one of favorites to the worse!!! FRUSTRATING GAMES THAT THE WRITERS PLAY ONBTHE FANS!!!!
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definitely get rid of veronica already...she's not even likable as a bad guy...i feel nothing but blech when she walks on screen.
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I’m getting tired of the New Amsterdam Monica storyline it’s run it’s course I’ve been a fan since I started but I’m almost through with it and this Monica crap
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Agreed. There is no NA without Max!
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I think what happened last night was horrible. I will no longer be watching this show. They kicked off that crazy woman from Chicago Fire because she pissed so many people off. I was very disappointed to see where this show is heading.
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Get rid of Veronica please!!!!
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We loved "New Amsterdam" but decided to stop watching it tonight. The whole season was rather lame. It's a show about a hospital and its staff and its medical director's approach to bringing some humanity back. Now it's a show about political games. Don't fire the staff in the show, fire the writers who can't come up with a better storyline. There is just too much to watch to waste time with something that has gone bad. (And now I have wasted three minutes on a review.)
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I stated in another forum that my watch group is done viewing this show while we sipped wine and shared discussion. It is baffling that the producers would allow a distasteful character change the entire premise of the show. The episodes no longer focus on courageous patient care. Michelle’s actions are criminal if closely examined and immoral. She got a cut of the cyber attack ransom money, cared nothing for those patients impacted by the attack, maliciously ended a program for female cancer survivors, and expressed disdain for poor uninsured people.
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I used to love this show. Not watching anymore . Don’t like the story lines .
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Last night's episode took NA off life support on my watch-list. RIP.
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I am done with the show...I have worked in healthcare for over 20 years and I have seen and heard it all...Can someone e-mail me when Veronica is gone...There is no way that she can do half of the stuff she does without a mutiny...She will have to answer to more than one department chief...I don't mind differences on policy but Veronica is blinded by her own press...She is outright manipulating people...No empathy...Iggy has a case against the hospital...There is no way in real life will that happen...Her actions are to win at all cost...Her tone is condescending and rude...In real life she still answers to someone...Bad move for the show...I like the characters but this one is a no go for me...Wake me up when it is over...
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I wonder if @peterhorton and @davidschulner even care about retaining fans with some realism in stories. The show was renewed for another season but it’s going to shed fans. Boards have bylaws and protocol for conducting meetings. No one person can just commandeer an entire board and insert themselves like Michelle. Someone on another tv fan board said she’s a character off a Saturday Night Live skit with a fake laugh track. I can’t unsee it.
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The Fuentes character needs to go. It’s time.
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Why? Why do writers have to manufacture drama by killing the shows heart? Are they not talented enough to build drama WITH heart? Or so they really not understand their fans?
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I'm done with this show. Not sure what happened to it but not liking this season at all. It used to be so good. Great story lines. Max had such passion. There are better medical dramas out there to watch.
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Use to be one of my favorite shows. But can stand watching Veronica destroy lives. If she stays I will not continue to watch your show!!!
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Get rid of the Veronica character, you are KILLING the show with her !!!
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I am not happy with the show I don’t care for Veronica she is a very cure lady she is ruining the show I am not going to watch it any more I loved this show not so much
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I love New Amsterdam! I have a feeling Max and Helen will stay! Look forward to Tuesday night's to watch this!
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Why are they even trying to keep up the silly storyline that Max is going to England. Of course he isn't going to go; his character IS the show. It would have been like Meredith Grey dying of Covid. They should also try making some evil characters like Veronica redeemable in some way. The Resident did that with Dr. Bell and it really made the show deeper. Pure Good vs Pure Evil is fairytale stuff and feels like children's programming.
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I cannot stand the Veronica character! I feel the same with a lot of people here. I am getting disappointed on the direction of the show.
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Done with this show. Never cared for the Veronica character. I so hoped that she would be gone.
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So sad New Amsterdam has changed. I love the original cast they were family. Now you have some Bi—-ch ruining it all. Unless it changes back not watching it any more. Another fan gone!!
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NEW AM continues to be one of my favorite TV series. The 10 year-old boy who smiled
back at Dr. Reynolds while in pain was something. The transgender man with breast
cancer that had spread, broke my heart. Explaining to Helen and viewers, that all
options will probably lead to his death. No. I didn't see the second vote coming.
Veronica, Veronica I was stunned.
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They have changed, and not for the good of the show, two of my favorite medical dramas, New Amsterdam and The Good Doctor by bring on a new character that is ruining the hospitals by making it about the money and not the patients and what the doctors due to help and cure these patients. The need to go back to the original story lines that these 2 shows were about or they are going to lose many viewers, or more than they already have. If Max and Sharp leave next week it is going to kill this show and I am afraid it will make it unwatchable. Please listen to your fans and change both of these shows back to the way the were.
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I’m done, deleted the show from my DVR list after this last episode. This new character has ruined the show and changed the storyline from something I use to love to watch to something that causes nothing but anger and stress. So sad the writers have ruined a good thing
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NA is way too “ woke”
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This show is WAY to liberal now I can’t even watch anymore🤬
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