8 Questions We Still Have After the ‘New Amsterdam’ Series Finale
New Amsterdam has ended its five-season run on NBC, but the finale left quite a few things open-ended — and we just can’t let that go.
The last episode played out over two time periods. In the present day, Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) said goodbye to the hospital for a new job in Geneva with the World Health Organization. He left the keys to New Amsterdam with his new girlfriend, Dr. Elizabeth Wilder (Sandra Mae Frank), but their future was up in the air. Meanwhile, we also followed the new medical director as she arrived, with the final scene revealing that she’s the adult version of Max’s daughter Luna (Molly Griggs).
But the executive producers have ideas about how the show could continue and where, and plenty of loose ends could be addressed, whether in a revival or a spinoff. Scroll down as we take a look at the burning questions we still have for the medical drama.
Did Max end up with Helen or Wilder?
The finale left that up in the air intentionally. “We wanted to leave it on this note of possibility. Yeah, he’s going to Europe. Helen [Freema Agyeman] lives in Europe, but he’s really leaving the show in love with Wilder and giving her the keys to his most precious thing other than his daughter, which is New Amsterdam,” executive producer Peter Horton told TV Insider.
Max and Helen, at the end of the series, hadn’t spoken since she didn’t fly to New York for their wedding; rather, after a phone call, she sent him a letter. She did send him a message to meet when she was in town later, but rather than go inside the bar to join her, Max went to Wilder’s and kissed her. But did he end up with the woman we watched him fall in love with over years or the one we’d just seen him happy with in the final episodes of the series?
Where is Max in the future?
When Luna gives her Max-like speech in front of the staff of New Amsterdam, it didn’t sound like he was dead. He could be retired, he could still be in Europe, he could be back in the U.S. If we ever see more of that time period in some way (more about that shortly), could he pop up again to ask someone in the halls of the hospital, “how can I help?”
What kind of doctor and medical director is Luna?
We know she’s continuing her father’s legacy of “how can I help?” with her speech at the end, but how would she make that her own? Would she build a family at the hospital like Max did? So much of her introduction was mirroring Max’s own in the series premiere, but we have a feeling that the similarities would end quickly after the reveal of who she is.
Is anyone from Max's time as medical director still at New Amsterdam for Luna's?
We didn’t recognize anyone in the auditorium during Luna’s speech, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who worked at the hospital when Max did has moved on. After all, that could have been to leave things open-ended, plus you never know what could have been going on at the time or what could still happen even an hour later.
Can Bloom and her sister repair their relationship?
Dr. Lauren Bloom (Janet Montgomery) was the happiest we’ve probably ever seen her at the end of the series. She’d found a new place, and her sister, Vanessa (Kathryn Prescott), had (finally) joined her in an NA meeting. But that’s just the first step towards the two making amends, given their history with each other and their mother. Plus, it was Vanessa’s first step to sobriety; that would have challenges as well.
Is Reynolds truly going to find the life he wants with Gabrielle?
To say that Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Jocko Sims) hasn’t been lucky in love would be an understatement, though he’s been clear about what he wants since the very beginning. However, at the end of the series, it seemed that things were finally working out for him and he had a future with traveling nurse Gabrielle (Toya Turner), with the two last seen sitting down for dinner with his family. But while given his history, we wouldn’t be surprised if a few months later, he was single again, it sounds like it might work out.
“We knew our series was ending and we were like, we’ve been torturing this man for five years. He deserves the thing he wants,” executive producer David Schulner said. “But honestly, I think once he healed that rift between him and his father, that freed him up in a way, emotionally to accept love from the right person.”
Can Iggy and Martin make their marriage work this time?
To say that Dr. Iggy Frome (Tyler Labine) and Martin’s (Mike Doyle) relationship was messy in the final season would be an understatement. In a few episodes’ time, they went from seemingly on the verge of getting back together to signing divorce papers to dating again to remarrying. We just hope that their time apart, figuring things out, means that they last this time.
Is this truly the end of New Amsterdam?
Schulner and Horton are both in if the opportunity arises.
“We’re kind of feeling like we should come back in some form, but it’s not up to us. We can only sit there and charge that windmill so many times,” Horton said. “[It] would probably be a series of some kind, probably on a streamer somewhere. I think we’re kinda open to whatever anyone wants to suggest.”
And Schulner already has possibilities in mind: “You could follow Max in Geneva. You could follow Luna in New Amsterdam. You could do both at the same time.”
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Oh please. He wasn’t in love with Wilder. Attracted to her yes, in love with her no.
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Right he was desperately in love with Helen and would stay that way
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Why does it feel like we missed a couple of episodes prior to the finale? We heard nothing about Geneva and the who until Max had already taken the job.
To me it felt like they had to hurry up and close all the storylines.
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Bring back New Amsterdam!
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I love Ryan Eggold and would watch him anytime anywhere. I liked this show so much. Yes, at times it got a little messy. But all in all, the characters were wonderful to watch get through the mess.
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If only all men were like Max ❤️
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New Amsterdam is the product of writers who had a good thing in the beginning but, somewhere they wrote a story they didn’t know how to finish, so they wrote anything. I was a huge fan but, I can’t bring myself to finish it.
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New Amsterdam has been ruined with S4-5. Just let it RIP, now since you've essentially debased, disparaged & character assassinated them, especially Helen & Sharpwin
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David Schulner got to know that the schowwas cancelled in March 2023. All loose ends, character assasination of Helen Sharpe and writing Max as an lovestick idiot and non existant meducal director, are his deliberate actions. If he wasn't able to write meaningful S5, whay I would lose my time to watch again anyhting related to him. David Schulner as a schow runer is one of the bigest fall from grace. He destroyed New Amsrerdam in hope to get new show, pathetic.
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I always wondered why they never explored a story line with Max's parents. It seemed like there was some drama there. He mentioned they weren't good parents or something like that. It seems like they never met Luna. They weren't there for him when his wife died.
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Why do producers get us so attached only to pull the plug?! Bring back New Amsterdam ! The main characters, max, bloom, Floyd etc played their roles exceptionally and the storyline’s connected with the viewers. Bring it back!
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Bring something back, I enjoyed this show so much
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Loved the finale. It told the story of each of the main characters reasons 4 becoming Drs. Appreciate the finale being more medical driven than their personal lives. But, we do get enough of it in the end. At first disappointed not to know who Max chooses but glad he didn't choose either woman. The finale was well written & a reminder of the best seasons 1&2. Hoping the series does return as a streaming series.
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Bring it back. Even if Max is not there his daughter is there so bring the show back. Come on everybody
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I don't even think he was attracted to her, it was just like taking the easier option. Instead of meeting his ex to find out why she didn't show up to the wedding. He went to the house of a girl he knew fancied him. Thats not love or even lust, that's called playing it safe.
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Don’t even think about bringing the show back without Dr. Bloom, Dr. Sharpe and of course Dr. Goodwin. I liked Floyd as well. A comedy in the UK? Come on Dr. Sharpe you’re so much more than that and you know it. You and Max need to make a movie together. I would watch it.☺️☺️
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I was watching the series finale saying “ WTF NOT AGAIN MAX!!” And then The last seen when that ended up being Luna, all of a sudden 😭😭😭 that was such an amazing ending, with that being said, I would love a spin off following Luna and Max ( hopefully with Wilder) and the rest of the gang, but if that’s the way the series ended, I can honestly say BRAVO
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I wish they had never made this show about Max and Helen. It should have always been more about the patients Because when Helen left it was like the bottom half went out the show. Also I wanted Dr. Bloom and Max to get together. I think they would have been an awesome couple. She’s so pretty and really invested in New Amsterdam.
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If you turn on subtitles you can see all the sign language parts of the show.
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you so foul for that wym bloom and max
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Europe is not a country. Switzerland and the UK are not neighbours. The relationship would be no easier to maintain than it is now.
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Max and Helen tienen que terminar juntos 😭
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She is a drug addict, from a family of drug addicts and has has an outrageous amount of surgery done on her face, and he is a diligent single dad, they wouldn't work together at all.
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Honestly, I never like Helen Sharp character, she always showed she just care herself and compete ans shows she knows better, putting herself in front and she followed Max all over ignoring he was married and was clear she liked him, she didnt stopped until she had him and then dumpling because was clear she didnt want to make a commitment and have a child, she was always first, and she came back like she didnt do anything. I hope if the continue the series she won't show again, that was an ended chapter for him. In the another side I didn't make sense he loose her wife, but and the end he found a new love, someone honest and lovely with the same ideas, and why he couldn't take her with him, I didn't like that that they didn't ending getting married and continue together??, dissapointed, and Blum??, by herself, she should ended with the doctor Floyd.
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I hated the signing when Goodman and Sharp were talking and no one understood what they were saying
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