New Amsterdam (TV Series) How Can I Help? (2023) User Reviews

So sad it's over!

[rachjewiss · 9/10 · 3 February 2023]

Honestly, I don't think any fan of a show is ever going to be completely satisfied when it ends, simply because we don't want it to end. But I think this last episode wrapped up the show as well as it possibly could have. As always, it played with our emotions and made us feel like we knew all these people. We've been invested in most of them for such a long time, and seen them through the good and the bad, so it was nice to see/ be able to visualise what will become of these characters.

I have really enjoyed this series and would recommend it to anyone. It honestly has a bit of everything, so if you haven't tried it yet, give it a go and you won't be sorry.

WOW, What a final send off to a really smart show!

[tikitracy · 10/10 · 19 January 2023]

Threw me at first, but when it is gathering steam, it really starts to come together and make total sense. This show also ends up going out as it came in, turning the hospital procedural on its head as it has been doing throughout the five year run! We also get the back story on four characters and there wasn't really a lot of surprises on what they put into each of them. We know this because we have seen them each and every time act and behave the same as they did in their origin story! But the real thing for us was how the show started and ended with one person's love and wonder for a calling and the journey to make it better than when they found it.

Was disappointed that there was one main character missing, but....

[njramirezasap · 9/10 · 18 January 2023]

I felt it was a perfect ending to a bold, unbridled and, at times, controversial but honest look of not only the hospital system, but as a society. True study of humanity and many things we wish to see now more than ever. Portrait of humanity at it's worse and finest. Thank you for an unapologetic look at our society today and what it can be tomorrow. Epitome of the phrase, "How can I help?".

Down side, so many more stories filled with potential to further explore various perspectives, views and thoughts outside the box.

I hate that Dr. Sharpe did not make appearance where it truly counts. I miss her.

Almost perfect end

[konsem · 10/10 · 19 January 2023]

This episode might feel a bit rushed but it ties well with the last two episodes making this episode the perfect end to this outside-the-square medical series. We get to see the background stories of some of the main characters, some loose ends are tied, new promising beginnings appear. A small twist that eventually leads to a very touching final scene will make you smile and perhaps shed a tear. All these while a major operation was taking place, that exemplified what makes the New Amsterdam hospital so special. It might feel a bit rushed and I will miss this show but happy it finished in that tone.

Maybe the best Finale Ever

[chrislehman-95746 · 10/10 · 9 February 2023]

I'm sure there might be other finales that compete with this but I can't think of one right now. This ending was poetic. As someone who has been bounced around the healthcare system more than I could ever explain, this show has been a breathe of fresh air and H-O-P-E. Most doctors don't hear patients anymore. They prescribe This was a perfect end to a near perfect show.

Linking all the main characters to their doctor origin story of wanting to become doctors and then having it all come full circle in the surgury to the new medical director was fantastic. Who knows, maybe we will get a Luna spin off!!

A satisfying ending??

[shaunadreelan · 6/10 · 23 January 2023]

New Amsterdam manages to do something, that not many shows have managed in the past - and that is to have both a satisfying and unsatisfying at the same time.

This episode really felt like there was an episode in between that was missing, Max's final storyline in particular is so out of the blue, the last we seen of him before the final, is him and Wilder taking a step forward in their relationship, only for the next episode to see Max off the Geneve and the relationship seemingly over without explanation.

The whole episode felt extremely rushed, which is a shame as there weee definitely storylines in other episodes that could have been cut to fill in the final storylines.

I did adore the ending that saw Luna as medical director of New Amsterdam and the wonderful way that was weaved into the final episode - this was by far my favorite part and moved this ending from unsatisfying to maybe satisfying.

Overall the whole season just felt like the writers didn't know where to take the story - which left us with a final that while gave a satisfying ending to each character, we never really understood how they got there and left me feeling like something was missing.

Why can't anyone ever write a proper ending?

[purple-mug · 3/10 · 20 January 2023]

So, having been put through the emotional ringer as Max gets over Helen's still unexplained decision to stay in England and slowly but surely realises the depth of his affection for Elizabeth; having cheered at his declaration of commitment to the latter; having gone all gooey eyed as he says that "real" is better than "fun"; are we really supposed to believe that just a few weeks later (a year after the Ukraine war started) they are both happy to have Max swanning off to Geneva, thousands of miles away? And how have they suddenly become so distant that they say goodbye with not so much as a handshake let alone a tear?

As for the wholly unnecessary and totally ridiculous hagiographic head to toe surgery story which allows everybody including Daniel Dae Kim's Dr Shin, whose face has not been seen for two years, to bathe in the light of glory, well words fail me. Frankly it wouldn't have been out of place if they'd resurrected Dr Kapoor from the dead to make a last bow in this travesty.

That this often challenging series should end with a bunch of implausible happy-ever-afters is an unforgiveable insult to the show's many faithful viewers. The previous week's episode would have made a more than adequate ending. This ghastly mess should never have been added.

The future sure looks grim

[JamieClaye · 1/10 · 2 February 2023]

So the scenes with 'Dr. Luna' have to be 30 years into the future AND this is what the future looks like? All the cars on the street are from now (no hover cars, delivery robots, police drones) and the hospital and tech all looks the same. So, in 30 years health care will still be a huge mess? Wonderful.

Wish this show had ended when the pandemic hit but it didn't - maybe after the low rated Roe V Wade episode and many of the other progressive themed failures they felt they needed to pull the plug on this disaster.

The show was SO predictable (from the start), contrived, dangerously wrong medically, overly maudlin, and often (almost) unbearable to watch. My wife watched it because of the train wreck effect.

I would often come in and out of the room as she plowed through the episodes, were I would predict - oh that one is a lesbian, that one will hook up with that one and so on then one of them will have to leave for (St.) Elsewhere. She often 'hated' when I was right.

This was no ER, Saint Elsewhere or Chicago Hope. Often we would watch Scrubs just to cleanse ourselves of the crap writing in NA.

Anyway - I can't tell you how happy I was when this finally ended and how cathartic writing this stupid review has been.

Don't get me started.

One big meh...

[DeauMinic · 1/10 · 1 June 2023]

Watching this last episode of a good show, it felt like a big waste of time. The story was way too political, and of course it was written for the leftist liberal viewer.

The storylines didn't make sense and it just gave me a bad after taste and I had to come here and review this episode for it was very poorly written.

Dr Helen Sharpe did not reappear, which was very unfortunate. Suddenly, Dr Goodwin is moving to Switzerland to draw the world health organisation, which should give you a clue about how leftist this show actually is.

The only cute thing is that Luna became a doctor in the future, which is the only reason I am giving one star to this episode.

Worst ending, completely political and misleading

[aaimzqid · 2/10 · 25 May 2023]

Lies upon lies about Ukraine, but what's worst is they made it entirely about it.

Propaganda at it's finest. If they think we'd believe anything they say, they are wrong. As an actor, no matter how much they'd offer me, I would never concede to promote their BS.

Russian shelling of villages? How about the Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk since before the conflict in UA broke out? 15k dead ethnic Russians since 2014 (women, children, simply civilian casualties) mean nothing? Guess so...

The people behind this show lack a spine, promoting this one-sided view.

Shame on you, America. The blood is on your hands.