Created by David Schulner and based on the book "Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital" by Eric Manheimer, NBC's "New Amsterdam" is a highly popular medical drama series that has turned out consistently strong ratings across its first four seasons, and is still going just as strong on the currently-airing fifth season, which is set to be its last. The show stars Ryan Eggold ("90210") as Dr. Max Goodwin, the medical director working overtime to revitalize New Amsterdam Medical Center, which stands as the United States' oldest public hospital.
The success of "New Amsterdam" is not to be underestimated. The show may be wrapping up after Season 5, but it is going to leave an undeniable mark as one of the most successful series of its "generation" in its genre. Like any good broadcast medical drama, "New Amsterdam" finds as much strength in its cast of varied characters as in the medical stories and cases themselves, and, unsurprisingly, fans of the show have often voiced their opinions about which of the characters they'd like to see become more prominent and impact each other's storylines more often.
Back in April 2022, in fact, a Reddit thread in the r/NewAmsterdamTV subreddit was started, in which fans expressed their hopes of seeing two particular characters share the screen more often in a way that could benefit the development of them both. Since then, ironically enough, one of those characters did indeed grow significantly in screentime — while the other left the series altogether.
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