[Warning: The next incorporates spoilers for New Amsterdam. Learn at your personal threat!]
A lot ado has been made about Daniel Dae Kim‘s debut on New Amsterdam and rightfully so: his work on Lost and Hawaii Five-0 show him to be the most effective actors on TV and properly, he ain’t precisely rough on the eyes, both. However when New Amsterdam airs the episode that is now the Season 2 finale after the present’s production was halted due to coronavirus, followers won’t love his character, Dr. Cassian Shin, straight away.
New Amsterdam, as die-hard followers know, is a spot the place everybody acts in live performance as a group; from Day 1, Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) has set a powerful, if generally controversial, tone by main with the query “How can I assist?” and getting all people on board with that concept. Beneath Max’s management, everybody on the workers has felt empowered to bend and even break guidelines when obligatory to assist sufferers, and to miss conventional job duties to pitch in when the state of affairs calls for it. Properly, the crew goes to be in for a little bit of a shock when Dr. Shin clocks in on his first day. His type, as people together with Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) quickly be taught, is totally completely different.
“They’re two characters with such completely different philosophies,” creator and government producer David Schulner instructed TV Information in an interview earlier than the finale. “It is enjoyable to jot down.”
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Dr. Shin, not like Max, would not attempt to heal each affected person he encounters. He is not guided by the identical savior complicated, and he would not even compromise his morning rituals to hop into the fray. He is nonetheless an exceptionally devoted well being care skilled, however one who believes he has to care for himself first, after which to hone in on precisely what he is good at quite than put out each metaphorical fireplace that comes his means. It is a perspective that is immediately recognizable as completely different from Max’s, and though the 2 haven’t got a ton of interplay within the finale, they will have interaction — and butt heads — as New Amsterdam goes into Season 3.
In keeping with Schulner, Kim was initially slotted to look in 5 episodes in Season 2, with the potential for extra, earlier than manufacturing on the present was shut down and Kim was diagnosed with COVID-19. So followers can anticipate Kim in at the least a handful of episodes when the present returns with the opportunity of an extended run.
Nevertheless lengthy Dr. Shin does keep at New Amsterdam, depend on some pressure between him and Max — particularly when some private traces get blurred, along with skilled boundaries. “Max did his homework on him,” Schulner mentioned, including that, “as a lot as they conflict, Max does respect him.”
How a lot that respect extends to grace and kindness will stay to be seen.
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New Amsterdam’s Season 2 finale airs Tuesday. April 14 at 9/8c.