New Amsterdam: A drama that angers Max and Helen

Attention, this article contains spoilers for the 4th season of New Amsterdam, which has not yet been published in France on TF1. If you do not want to understand anything, do not read!

Following the death of Dr. Vijay Kapoor (Anupam Kheri) last January, doctors in New Amsterdam will soon have to face a new drama. In the 17th episode of Season 4, which aired last night in the United States, Max (Ryan Eggold) and Helen (Freima Agiemen) took a big step forward in their relationship before receiving a devastating blow to fate.

After last week’s Cliffhenger, viewers find that Helen, Case, Dr. Wilder, Dr. Cassris and Trevor, a bartender who used a drug that was angry at the influence of Covid’s spread on his trade.

He said health professionals were blowing up the effects of the disease when it was just a bad cold. In retaliation, he poured drinks on a group of doctors.

Max, who finds Helen unconscious, takes her to a hospital where doctors discover that a young woman has a lot of blood clots in her body. Hysterectomy is recommended to save her.

While Max insists that Helen undergo this surgery, which could save her life, she explains to him that this intervention will fundamentally change her personality and prevent her from having children.

He eventually chooses to resort to a much more risky treatment that eliminates certain blood clots. But nothing goes as planned and Helen has to undergo emergency surgery. When he wakes up, at the end of the episode, he tries to sort out two words …

“He had a serious cardiovascular accident.“- Explained to our colleagues David Schulner, the show’s showman, to our colleagues TV line.

The doctor lost the ability to speak and “We do not know if he will ever be able to find herAdded executive producer Peter Horton. “ It may take a week, two years, or maybe he will never get there. That’s the whole point of this story.. “

A drama that will put Helen and Max in front of a problem they have never faced before. “It is very easy when you are in love with someone and the future is in front of you, everything is possible and you have already imagined your future in your head.“, – explained Peter Horton.

“And then suddenly, for one reason or another, someone in a relationship may not fit the imagination of that relationship. What effect will this have? What is love in these conditions? What is loyalty and devotion when it happens? These are, to some extent, questions that Max will have to answer. “

Deprecated in December last year due to a lack of audiences, the end of the 3rd season of New Amsterdam will soon be broadcast on TF1. The first two seasons of the medical series are fully available on Netflix.