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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Loved season one but season two is very flat so far.  [/quote]

Agree. I can’t tell if the novelty of season one is what made it so good, or the fact that I came to it late and binge watched, so didn’t notice how slow it can be. [/quote]

I think if you binge watched, you definitely got a false idea of the pacing of the show. You might be forgetting how many of even the more minor plot lines in the first season took several episodes to develop (the adult siblings and their dying father, the couple whose son overdosed and is brain dead, etc.). If you watched those episodes in quick succession, it might feel "slow" to watch this season and have to wait a week between episodes.

But I don't personally think the show is slow. They pack a ton of stuff to chew on into ever episode, both action and character development. For instance, in this episode regarding Langdon, we saw:

- Him tell Mel why he went away, apologize to her, and also show real tenderness to her, plus the call back of him turning off the lights in her room and saying "emergency rooms can be loud" just as she had shown him to do for the neurodivergent patient last season

- The new attending say to him "oh, I've hear ALL about you" and the implications of that, especially with Robby leaving and Langdon now needing to work with this new boss who only knows about him within the context of his biggest failure

- Him presenting a patient to Robby, obviously looking to be included in the treating the patient, only to be yet again dismissed and sent back to triage.

- We also have the continued issue in triage of the deaf woman who cannot hear her name being called and, with Langdon the one doctor assigned to help cover the waiting room, in the best position to either help her or contribute to the problem.

And that's just ONE character. You could do the same with each of the main characters. One of the interesting things about the show to me is the way they use the dramatic action of an ER to create momentum so they can actually spend a ton of time digging in pretty deep with a large number of characters. It's why the characters come to feel so intimately familiar so quickly, and the show gets you to care about them very deeply, even though as you watch it feels like it's just "BLOOD, BONE CRUNCHING SOUND, EW MAGGOTS, HURRY HURRY, BLOOD, BONE STICKING OUT, MEDICAL JARGON, BLOOD!"[/quote]

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