![]() The fact he tries mightily to give them to the “right” people and ends up giving them to nobody is supposed to be his big moment of realization, his coming to terms with the fact that his desire to do more might be detrimental, and might be as harmful to his relationship with Luna as his in-laws claim. And yet New Amsterdam season 3, episode 13, “Fight Time”, nonetheless gives us an entire subplot in which Max tries to use up 1000 rapidly expiring vaccines before they defrost just to make the point clear. This should be obvious to everyone who has ever watched a single episode of the show, let alone three seasons of it. He’s imperfect and sometimes makes the wrong decisions, but always for the right reasons. Since the show has always been careful to make the point that his hare-brained schemes are always for the greater good and never about his own ego, there’s no ambiguity here. ![]() This impulse doesn’t make him the best father, but nobody is. His argument that nobody, including Luna, will be safe until everyone else is safe, is the same idealistic big-picture argument he has applied to every problem he has come across throughout the season, and presumably throughout his career. He already knows that he can’t be a dedicated father while single-handedly trying to end systemic racism and such. ![]() It’s drama for its own sake, something to force Max into rigorously self-examining, even though all of his subplots thus far have done that too. This is partly why I’ve never gotten along with this subplot.
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