When everyone is terrible, itвЂ™s hard to care. As previously reported, The Resident will be without three original cast members when it returns this fall: Merrin Dungey. But it needs a stronger, broader ensemble. TV's Big Cast Changes (2018-2019) Launch Gallery. ItвЂ™s smart that вЂњThe ResidentвЂќ seeks to disrupt TVвЂ™s pleasant fantasies of healthcare in America - and in the show we see one of the most frank discussions of how profit-seeking degrades patient care. But the confusion around Conrad feels like some of the broader confusion of the show it aims to be cynical, but it still needs an idealistic core for the audience to root for. (story editor) (57 episodes, 2018-2021) Tianna Majumdar-Langham. (written by) (57 episodes, 2018-2021) Tianna Majumdar-Langham. (executive story editor) (57 episodes, 2018-2021) Eric I. Fortunately, by the second episode, heвЂ™s less needlessly provocative, which suggests movement in the right direction. (staff writer) (57 episodes, 2018-2021) Eric I. If itвЂ™s supposed to read charming, it doesnвЂ™t he just seems awful. Sure, Conrad is generous and giving with his patients sure, he wears a hoodie around the hospital instead of a white coat and drives a motorcycle, which is all meant to signify that he is a вЂњrebel.вЂќ But heвЂ™s also pestering his ex-girlfriend Nic (Emily VanCamp) to get back together with him, long after sheвЂ™s expressed disinterest, and hazing his intern Devon with jokes about either his education or his ethnicity. The audience is just supposed to accept that heвЂ™s the good guy, without fully understanding what he did to earn that title. Czuchry is an engaging actor, but his characterвЂ™s personality never makes sense. Only Conrad seems immune to the structure of power and money around him, and that is the showвЂ™s biggest flaw. ItвЂ™s what every business would do - except of course when a hospital does it, itвЂ™s lives that get lost in the shuffle. HeвЂ™s despicable, but his strategy isnвЂ™t without sense: The hospital needs to make money to survive, and the best way to do that is to avoid scandal and court the wealthy. Bell is the kind of preening ego that writes вЂњanonymousвЂќ reviews of his own handiwork to boost his profile, and in the second episode вЂњIndependence Day,вЂќ he redirects a transplant heart slated for a long-suffering patient to an idiot politician who got shot in a hunting accident. HeвЂ™s the boss, and the most decorated surgeon at the hospital what he says, goes. On the spot, Bell constructs a plausible explanation to cover up his mistake. In the first rather gruesome scene, chief surgeon Randolph Bell (Bruce Greenwood, deliciously smarmy) botches a routine appendectomy the team goes from taking selfies by the operating table to being drenched with the dying patientвЂ™s blood. As a result, вЂњThe ResidentвЂќ is one of the most negative views of modern healthcare weвЂ™ve got - I mean, besides any trip to your local general hospital.

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