New Amsterdam It’s over. The popular medical drama about a large public hospital in New York City and its rescue by Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) has become one of NBC’s big bets. With a very positive and very optimistic tone, it differed from other similar series in that it always left a good taste in the mouth at the end of each episode.
But while the fifth season has just premiered exclusively on Star+ in Latin America, and later reach Netflix In Spain, we will not see the sixth season, as it was canceled.
At the time of the premiere in 2018 New Amsterdam It was broadcast on Sundays at 22:00. The pilot project was a great success, it was watched by about 14 million people. But by the end of the first season, it was cut in half.
From the second to the fifth season, the show’s audience got smaller and smaller. In fact, the last episode drew barely five million viewers. Problem New Amsterdam was that they could never compete with other medical series such as Grey’s Anatomy.
New Amsterdam was closed for the duration of the fourth season.
Actually, New Amsterdam it was canceled when the fourth season aired. During the series’ winter break, at the end of 2021, it was announced that the series’ fifth season would be its last and that there would be fewer episodes.
The series has also become one of the biggest casualties of the pandemic. That is why in the second season there are only 18 episodes instead of the planned 22. And in the third season there are only 14 episodes out of 22 that should have been originally.
It was after the fourth season that they finally managed to show 22 episodes. Perhaps such important cuts in the show’s narrative pace ended up taking its toll on viewers, leaving us without one of the most feel good recent times.
This is ironic because New Amsterdam, has become one of the favorite series during the pandemic in many countries. Especially for the number of episodes available on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video – where it’s available in Spain, for example – for its upbeat tone and for addressing mental health issues.
New Amsterdam was a different medical series
New Amsterdam was released as procedural a doctor with a slightly different background. While most of these productions focused on the more dramatic side of doctors and hospital residents, the ABC series showed the tougher side of American public health. The larger problems – economic and political – of the management of a public hospital, the personal problems of the director of the institution, and the social consequences for his patients.
New Amsterdam is based on Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital Dr. Eric Manheimer. As the title of the book suggests, the author was the medical director of Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the United States, located in New York City.
The cast consisted of Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin and Freema Agyeman as Dr. Helen Sharpe (although the actress left the series in the fourth season). Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom, Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds, Tyler Labine as Dr. Ignatius “Iggy” Froome, and Anupam Kher as Dr. Vijay Kapoor, who left the series in the third season to take care of his wife’s health.
Creators New Amsterdam they were able to end the series by announcing that the fifth season would be its last. It may not be the end of the series that we all expected, but it maintains a hopeful, positive tone, but above all very optimistic.
Source: Hiper Textual
