Wow, this is really bad. First of all it feels/sounds like most of the actors have been just phoning their parts in on every episode of this season so far. Like they're just reading the script in a rehearsal, the dialogue sounds so flat and emotionless. The actors playing Meredith, Megan Hunt and Dr. Kai Bartley in particular have been really bad -- and the first two at least are usually competent actors. I thought that maybe it was the director, but it looks like there's been a different one each time, so what gives?
Secondly, the writers of this show have become so bereft of ideas that yet again, they've got to use the old car accident scenario? I swear that every time over the past eight years or more that I see any of the main actors from this show get into a car, a plane, a bus, a train or even on a bicycle, during an episode, it's guaranteed that there's going to be an accident and someone will die or be seriously injured. So freaking boring! As soon as I saw Hunt, Teddy and Hayes all get into the car to go and pick up the heart for the transplant, I just started fast forwarding cos I knew what was coming. Didn't even care if the other subplots in this episode had anything interesting to see, so done with this particular routine. Besides any episode threatening to feature Schmitt makes me yawn. The character is so whiny, he's even whinier than Jo, and that's a hard one to do. So much faux "feeling" from those two, that it comes across as only pretentious and self-centered. Hard to tell how much of it comes from the actor vs the character, but watching glue dry seems preferable to listening to either of them for any length of time.
And I don't really care if Amelia wants to dip her toe into the bi-pool (or stay there), but couldn't you at least have chosen an actor/character to play opposite her that justifies the attraction? And I don't mean physically. The actor playing her new love interest has the depth and personality of a pizza box. I'm sorry, but just because someone is LGBTQ2S+ or portraying someone from that community, it shouldn't mean that they aren't held to the same standards of quality and competence that other actors are held to. For the record, this whole "must be traditionally married in order to prove my love and commitment" BS between Amelia and Link is so passe and superficial. Look at the 39 year long common law relationship between Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell as an excellent example as to why. Now that is a marriage! And not a traditional engagement ring or wedding band or signed certificate in sight. Relationships take work and commitment, and just signing a certificate to seal one has yet to prove any more effective than not signing one.
This show used to be so good; so fresh (despite the overuse of of vehicular accidents), but now, it really has gone past it's expiry date; even Miranda and Richard sound bored with the whole thing. Time to wrap it up before the bad taste it's leaving in it's viewer's mouths overshadows all that used to be so amazing about this series.
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