Last week was the season finale of St. Denis Medical and it serves as a really good bookend to the season premier.
As we saw in the beginning, head nurse Alex is under stress between her duo obligations to St. Denis and to her family with the hospital winning out. The season ender sees Alex on her day off being pressed into service to salvage multiple crises at the hospital while her husband Tim is going in for surgery.
Alex reaches a breaking point where she can only solve so many of the hospital’s crises and leaves to keep her promise to be with Tim for his surgery.
From the first episode, we see hospital administrator Joyce has big plans for the future of St. Denis Medical but her reach exceeds her grasp.
In the season finale, Joyce has a $10 million grant to make her dreams for St. Denis come true but a major rain storm causing a ceiling collapse and extensive structural damage has put a significant dent into plans.
When young nursing intern Matt showed up in episode one, he was immediately put to work with no orientation or training and of course he keeps getting everything wrong. By season's end, Matt takes quick and decisive action to save a patient’s life because he knows what to do. Matt has finally figured out the job!
Nurse Serena, snarky and too cool for school, has slowly come to realize that maybe she doesn't need to maintain distance from her found family at St. Denis. What she doesn't realize is that Matt is in love with her.
Until nurse Val straight up tells Serena who is left gob smacked by this news. Serena at the start of the season would not have cared. Now? Well, that's a question for season 2.
In an earlier post, I cited my favorite character was David Alan Grier as the perpetually curmudgeon surgeon Ron. But I am seriously impressed by Allison Tolman as Alex as she navigates her personal and professional responsibilities, not always successfully.
Season 1 of St. Denis Medical was very good start to this series and I'm looking forward to season 2 this fall.
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Confession Time: Too Much TV
Saturday afternoon kind of got away from me. There were some things going on in life that was causing me some stress so I did what I tend to do: escape stress via television.
Which leads to the question: is there such a thing as too much TV?
Here is the list of things I watched Saturday afternoon and night.
- Mike & Molly 2 episodes. Mike's mom might be losing her marbles and Carl and Victoria sleep together for the first time.
- Doctor Who Andrea and I did NOT feel better after that one.
- Doctor Who Unleashed
- Jeopardy Masters
- The Kentucky Derby Which self indulgent billionaire will have a good day at the big horse race?
- Because both Andrea and I were feeling a bit stressed and depressed (Doctor Who did not help), we watched The Emperor's New Groove
- Secrets of the Penguins A new documentary series on Disney+ narrated by Blake Lively.
- Phineas and Ferb
- Pop Culture Jeopardy
- Saturday Night Live Quinta Brunson hosted and did a very good job. And I now know who musician Benson Boone is.
Wow! THAT is a LOT of television!
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That is that for this week's Touchbase.
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