#iggy fuentes

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

A friend turned me onto this site and it's been literally my entire personality all damn day. Which means that I simply MUST share some very canon Seven Cities interactions.

[accioblack]

Algunas fotos firmadas por Iggy Mars tras enterarse que sería el protagonista del documental de Donna (fuente: él mismo)

📸 Donna Dickens

PD: obviamente es el protagonista 🔥

Feliz cumpleaños atrasadísimo notita, te quiero! @dustydispatch

@atimeodyssey

[uniquetyphoonmiracle]

Yo si le marco un GOL a LAURA GULDEMOND.. no cruzo de RODILLAS el ESTADIO de ZORRILLA (=PUTILLA) como hizo malogrado JUANITO (en cuya calle de su fuengirola natal puso EEUU un CONSULADO junto a la consulta del DR AMORES y frente al PORTAL VERACRUZ, 2 junto al que estaba la FRUTERIA "LA GRAN MANZANA" pues ha cambiado como 5 veces de NEGOCIO desde que descubri esto en 2016 y segun veo en GOOGLE MAPS)..pero ME CRUZO CON ELLA jaja=MONEY TO BURN del discazo GALLUS de GUN que cuando lo presentaron en sala UNIVERSAL SUR me subí al ESCENARIO [26_5_92=20 años y ya era muy ADULTO para beberme una BOTELLA DE BOURBON JIM BEAM con AGUA aunque no me cuidaba tanto como ahora Con JACK DANIELS..NO HABIA DINERO pero había más HIGADO jaja]

Un día como hoy, de hace ya 30 años (era miércoles, 14 febrero de 1990 San Valentin) se inauguró sala de conciertos y discoteca, Universal Sur, en Parquesur, Leganés. La sala estaba situada a menos de 9 kilómetros desde el corazón de Madrid, dentro de un lago artificial, rodeado de una espectacular fuente cibernética con cientos de chorros de agua de luces multicolores, un impresionante Sky Tracker (4 focos giratorios) de gran luminosidad, que iluminaban el cielo del sur de Madrid, restaurantes, cines y zonas de ocio en un enorme centro comercial.

Él éxito fue inmediato! Miles y miles de personas bailaban en la discoteca UNIVERSAL SUR , asistían a fiestas y conciertos: Billy Preston, Willy DeVille, Mano Negra, Iggy Pop, Ian Dury, Vaya con Dios… y se mojaban en el lago del parque acuático en unas magníficas instalaciones con varias pistas de baile, terrazas temáticas, toboganes, piscinas de olas, durante aquel verano de 1990.

[urdnotgrunt]

@frenchy-and-the-sea introduced me to this picrew via twitter yesterday and i’ve been playing it EVER SINCE

in order, left to right and top to bottom:

• [d&d] sarula odalys durothil, half elf half dwarf, lore bard/light cleric

• [d&d] kai-mal “silk”, air genasi, lore bard

• [d&d] tavish darros, human, brute fighter/fiend pact of the blade warlock

• [d&d] cyne, yuan-ti pureblood experiment, drunken master monk

• [d&d] guin dankil, resurrected scourge aasimar, currently classless

• [d&d] imryll rhoben, wood elf, beast conclave ranger/rogue

• [mutants & masterminds] noreen “nori” gray-oyama, teenage superhero, ink wash

• [seven cities] ignacia “iggy” fuentes, cartographer, amateur naturalist

pls do this picrew, there are SO many options and it’s amazing

[callmebrycelee]

NEW AMSTERDAM REACTION

This reaction is for season 4, episode 10 “Death is the Rule. Life is the Exception” which originally aired on November 23, 2021. The episode teleplay was written by Marc Gaffen and David Schulner and directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. Spoilers ahead!

I love a good villain. Growing up, I was way more into Gaston and Scar and Ursula than I was the protagonists they were terrorizing. When I was older and got into comics, I found myself championing The Joker and Poison Ivy and The Riddler. As much as I love those characters, none of them hold a candle to New Amsterdam’s Dr. Veronica Fuentes.

I haaaaaaaaaatttttteee Dr. Fuentes which I reckon is the point of her character so kudos to the writers. After the stunt she pulled at the end of the last episode, it was a breath of fresh air not having her around this episode. 

Casey Acosta, Gladys, Dr. Chang and Dr. Baptiste are still absent. I’m still crossing my fingers that they’ll come back next year.

Iggy gets flirted with by a hot new psychiatry prospect which boosts his confidence. What I loved is that he felt comfortable sharing this information with Martin who was very encouraging. That confidence is short-lived when Iggy has to deliver bad news to a couple whose son has died as a result of the outbreak in the hospital. What shocked me the most was that Iggy ended up offering the job to the hot new doctor. I’m crossing my fingers that this doesn’t result in chaos in the second half of the season. Iggy and Martin are the most stable couple of the show and I know relationships aren’t perfect but they’ve been through so much. Please, writers, just leave them alone!

Now let’s talk about two couples who aren’t so stable. Reynolds insists on keeping his relationship with Dr. Malvo going after she attempts to end things. I’ve already talked about my severe dislike of Dr. Fuentes. Malvo is second on my list. I don’t like her. I’ve never liked her. I think she is bad for Reynolds. I wish Reynolds would wise up and end things with her and just be single for a bit. Oh well, doesn’t look like that’s about to happen any time soon because Malvo is pregnant which can’t bode well for the burgeoning friendship between Reynolds and Baptiste. Sigh.

Bloom finally gets confronted by Leyla who finds out via Floyd that a new position was added to the staff because of Bloom’s monetary donation to New Amsterdam. Even though I love Bloom and Leyla’s relationship, I have to side with Lelya on this. What Bloom did was wrong and the fact that she lied about it has made matters worst. All Leyla has ever wanted was to stand on her own two feet and achieve her own success but now she realizes that Bloom has been working behind the scenes doing it for her. I hope their relationship can survive Bloom’s deceit. 

Poor Max! Max tries so hard to be a good person but it’s always one step forward, two steps back. Max belongs at New Amsterdam. Max has achieved so much good in the last few years and now that things are such a mess, I really think he needs to stay and fix them. If I were Max, I’d find it super difficult to leave my friends - Bloom, Iggy and Reynolds - behind to suffer the wrath of Dr. Fuentes. What bothers me is that on some level Sharpe knows that Max needs to stay behind and I keep waiting for her to acknowledge that and give him permission to stay but it keeps not happening. Even tonight, as they were about to get into the cab to leave for the airport, I thought she would tell him to stay but she didn’t. I can’t decide if she is just oblivious or if she is being selfish. Or maybe she is falling into her old habits which is running away.  Well - we’re ten episodes into season 4 and the show is on hiatus until January. The first ten episodes have been great. This show keeps getting better and better. I love that this show draws focus to issues you’d rarely see on television. I love that so many of our patients at New Amsterdam have been POC and a lot of them have been LGBTQ+. I love that the show is not afraid to let it’s protagonist fail and fail often. If this show were made ten, fifteen years ago, Max would be the lovable white savior who never loses.  Well, that’s all I got! This was a great episode. P.S. - I’m glad Dr. Walsh is okay because he’s one of my faves! Until next time!

[laurenbloomed]

they were so done with fuentes 😂 — New Amsterdam episode 11, season 4: “Talking ‘bout a revolution”

[gifsriot]

4x05  This Be The Verse

Dr. Fuentes continues her quest to remake the hospital in her vision. Max goes the extra mile to help a patient in need. Dr. Sharpe and Iggy find themselves at odds over a very serious issue. Reynolds discovers the importance of personal obligations. Bloom comes to a shocking realization about her mother.

[katluna90olicity]

New Amesterdam, episode 4x07 "HARMONY" 11/02/2021 (10:01PM - 11:00PM) (Tuesday): Max and Bloom are shocked when a deadly ambulance crash reveals a dangerous plan. Dr. Fuentes pressures Iggy to take on patients. Sharpe realizes her own cost-cutting has adversely affected her department. Reynolds, Baptiste and Malvo strive to reach an accord.

Source: NBC

[popchoc]

Is it just me or did the latest ep of New Amsterdam feel like a classic Grey’s Anatomy finale? I’m not saying it was bad (au contraire - the first 12 or so seasons of Grey’s were excellent, with many great finales!), but it sure was... a lot.

The storm, and most of all: the way it hit the hospital, seemed like a bit much. I know this isn’t a wealthy, private clinic, but I’d think some maintenance might be expected! Iggy was a mess, a shadow of the man from the earlier seasons. Makes me feel like it’s plot first, character second (maybe they borrowed some S19 writers too?). I get the point they try to make, I don’t even think it’s that uncommon, but by making it seem like Martin has been acting this way (for all this time) on purpose doesn’t feel right. He’s no villain, just like Iggy is no victim. So yeah, character murder.

Lauren and Leyla broke my heart, maybe even more because I actually believe Lauren’s right. This whole thing has to be out of their way before they can (hopefully!) move on as equals. I for one am not giving up on them, though I also don’t want them to drag it out all over the final season. Can’t have them sad for all those eps, just for a quick reconciliation in the finale. I need some happy moments. Which would leave us with all or nothing, I guess.

I wonder what happened to Helen on that plane to get her this upset. It’s hard to believe it’s (just) her doubt we saw before, as she really did seem happy to board that plane and get married. When it comes to next season though I mostly just want her back, with or without Max. She’s a big part of NA and not having her around in ‘our’ hospital feels like a missing limb.

To wrap it up: just like last year, this season wasn’t as great as the first two, despite some decent moments here and there. The London part, the Fuentes issues, it just didn’t work. Plus with a small cast like this everyone has already gone through hell and back at least three times, which makes whatever they’re facing next not believable anymore. As a result they seem to gradually (?) change them into new characters which - of course - doesn’t work. We don’t buy it, we don’t want it, as we simply love them the way we got to know them. So yes, I think they made the right call by ending this show. But it’s not over till it’s over. They might just surprise us with some great stuff in their finale season. I’d say fingers crossed and till then...

[musicisadrug]

Artistas mas Escuchados

La música es una parte muy importante de nuestra vida. Puede ayudarnos a mejorar nuestro estado de ánimo, así como acompañarnos en los momentos más difíciles o tristes que atravesemos. En el caso de los jóvenes, desempeña un papel fundamental. Por eso queremos contaros aquí cuáles son los artistas favoritos de los adolescentes hoy.

1. BILLIE EILISH 

Es la artista más escuchada del 2020, algo que consigue por segundo año consecutivo y con solo 18 años de edad. Millones de reproducciones en las plataformas de streaming y más de 72 millones de seguidores en Instagram demuestran el éxito de la cantante, que ha ganado premios Grammy, Billboard y AMA’s.

2. BAD BUNNY 

Este rapero y cantante portorriqueño de reguetón y trap latino cuenta, a sus 26 años, con cuatro discos en su haber. En 2020 ha sido el artista más escuchado a nivel mundial, con más de 8.300 millones de reproducciones en las plataformas de streaming.

3. TAYLOR SWIFT 

Taylor Alison Swift es una cantante, compositora, actriz, directora, diseñadora y empresaria estadounidense. Criada en Wyomissing, se mudó a Nashville a los 14 años para realizar una carrera de música country

4. ARIANA GRANDE 

Es fácil darse cuenta por qué a Ariana Grande se la compara con Mariah Carey –la joven de 20 años consigue llegar a los agudos sin esfuerzo y sus actuaciones en directo son deslumbrantes. Su primer álbum, Yours Truly, ha tenido una buenísima acogida y su reciente single con Iggy Azalea, Problem, ha sido todo un éxito.

5. DUA LIPA 

Sus temas, que hablan sobre el gran poder que tiene la mujer, están batiendo récords a nivel mundial. Su música y su estilo se han convertido en todo un icono para muchas mujeres y en fuente de inspiración para las nuevas generaciones. Future Nostalgia acaba de ganar el Premio Grammy al mejor álbum de pop.

6. DOJA CAT 

Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, más conocida por su nombre artístico Doja Cat, es una rapera, cantante, compositora y productora discográfica estadounidense.​​

7. PAULO LONDRA 

Su fama la ganó por la exitosa canción “Adán y Eva”. Se espera que Paulo Londra siga coleccionando nominaciones y muchos premios más en los años venideros.

8. JUSTIN BIEBER 

Con cerca de 800.000 escuchas diarias, su canción más popular es Beauty and a Beat (con más de 50 millones de escuchas), seguida de cerca por As Long As You Love Me.

9. HARRY STYLES 

Harry Edward Styles es un cantante, compositor y actor británico. Inició su carrera como cantante en 2010 como integrante de la boy band One Direction, con la que participó en el programa The X Factor y quedó en tercer lugar.​

10. J BALVIN 

Es conocido como el Príncipe del Reggaetón y se le considera como una de las figuras más influyentes de la época en su ámbito. En definitiva, todo un icono de la música urbana de habla hispana. La prueba es que ocupa la tercera posición en las plataformas de streaming durante el año 2020.

La música te lleva a ese mundo mágico, es donde eres libre de ser y de sentir. 

-Musicisadrug, 2022

REFERENCIAS: 

https://saposyprincesas.elmundo.es/ocio-en-casa/apps-videojuegos/cantantes-influyentes-adolescentes/

-El Mundo, R. Aguilera, 2022

https://www.hoyesarte.com/musica/pop-rock-musica/avicii-lorde-y-miley-cyrus-entre-los-musicos-jovenes-mas-influyentes_166693/

-Hoyesarte, E. Silva, 2019

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

OC-Tober Day 5 - Throne

(from @oc-growth-and-development’s OC-tober list)

I got. Very behind LMAO. Which I sort of expected but I’m still a little upset about it. In any case, I’m going to keep on trucking on these because it’s worth it just to be able to call them done. That’s very much the energy of today’s piece too, I’m afraid. It’s not exactly what I wanted, but hey, we’re finished with it, right? That’s something. 

Featuring @urdnotgrunt’s Iggy, who is the love of my life.

~1200 words

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Iggy wasn’t afraid of unknowns.

She wasn’t afraid of untouched borders on the edges of maps, or strange animals calling in the night, or people who spoke languages that she didn’t know. She made friends with strangers, with wild beasts, the odd fish that she could coax over with crusts of bread. She didn’t fear weather, or water, or even the dwindling coins in her pocket.

She was, however, maybe just a little bit afraid of the captain.

Adelina had laughed when she told her. "What's to be afraid of?" she had asked, grinning. "He is the only one with manners." 

And she was right, of course. Adelina was usually right. But even with his manners, even with his civility, even with the fact that he hadn't actually spoken more than a few words to her since they put Santo Domingo to their backs -- even with all of that, Iggy had seen his thunderous, churning, storm-black moods one too many times to be put entirely at ease. He had to keep them, she knew. He was barking up at most of the men that he was supposed to be commanding, men who snickered quietly about his age and his stature and a number of other faults they found in him when he wasn’t within earshot. But the look still put Iggy in the mind of a hurricane, and she had spent too long on an island not to run for cover.

Most of the time, anyway.

"It's just a little favor," she muttered to herself by way of a pep talk, loitering outside of the captain’s cabin door as she tried to work up the nerve to knock. "Just a question, actually. He can say no! I’ll find another way if he does. But it’s probably not going to bother him, not really. Probably. Not unless -"

"Ahem." 

The interruption came from beyond the door, a pointed clearing of a throat that made Iggy squeak and flatten herself against the wall on reflex. She waited there, heart in her throat, certain that the door beside her was about to burst open in a hailstorm of vicious shouting. Instead, she heard a long sigh, and the faint clatter of a pen being set down.

"Iggy," said Captain Sheffield wearily. “Come in, lass. The door’s open.”

Very slowly, Iggy pushed herself away from the wall. She was well and truly caught now, compelled by politeness and the fact that she would definitely see the captain again to at least give him an answer for her skulking around. Swallowing hard, she shook the last of the nerves out of her hands, counted to five, and pushed through the great cabin door.

It was like walking into a throne room.

Not in grandeur, of course. Nothing on the Ranger could ever be called grand, not even the largest single room it had to its name, the one stacked with glass windows and a locked door and good, solid walls. No, the great cabin of Captain Sheffield was just…dedicated. It existed as if its sole purpose was to be a space for The Captain to be received in, a room where his orders were meted out, where his word firmed up into law. He didn’t live here, certainly. Oh, Iggy could see the shape of a simple berth tucked into one corner, the top of a hastily-filled bookshelf, the rust-spotted lid of a sea chest - but all of that faded into the wings of the stage that was the monstrous writing desk bolted into the center of the room, behind which its captain sat, enshrined in his high-backed chair. Permanently, as far as Iggy knew. If there was a place on the ship where Alex existed on his own, apart from his station, it was certainly not in this room.

He looked up as she slowly approached the desk, shuffling a few sheafs of yellowing paper back into a small pile beside him.

"Evening," he said, switching into his stiff, formal Spanish with a nod. “I don’t usually see you out of your cabin at this hour. Is there, ah, something I can help you with?”

Iggy took a breath. "I need a book," she said, before she could think too hard about it. And then, when the captain quirked a brow, amended, "I mean, I would like a book. Please. If you have one. Or maybe just something heavy? I just need to weigh down a corner of a map, and I thought it might be nice to have something, you know, to read, and I thought, perhaps, maybe, you might just -”

“You thought that I might have something for you,” Alex finished for her. A lopsided little smile had picked up one corner of his mouth, and the angle of it splintered the hard grey veneer of The Captain, just a little. “And I might, in fact. Here.”

He hauled himself off of his chair with a grimace and a few gentle pops of his knees, then moved back towards the small bookshelves pushed against the wall at the foot of his berth. They were short, sagging little things, barely as tall as Iggy’s hip, and the whole of the collection that they occupied could have fit in Iggy’s tiny closet of a cabin with room to spare. Alex squatted in front of them and squinted at the faded covers, muttering under his breath. Eventually, he gave a little noise of triumph and recovered a small, mostly-bound volume wrapped in stained brown buckram from the lowest shelf. He tossed it her way.

“Hamlet,” he said, as she fumbled the catch. “I bought it just before we left England. I think that one might be an illegal printing, but it is well enough. I’ve already spilled everything from ink to ale on it. You can’t possibly do worse.”

He gave her another little twitch of a grin, and a wink, and Iggy felt her face flush with color. She could see no hint of the hurricane now, suddenly. Whatever remained of The Captain seemed to have been left behind at his desk, on the stage, shed alongside his title and his station and the wide, woeful emptiness of his throne. There were hints, still - hard lines around his eyes, the permanent downward slant of his mouth, a deepening bruise color on his lower lids where sleep escaped him - but they were softer now, weary instead of grim. Here, squatting in a little corner beside his berth, backed by sun-baked wood and the only cluster of his things that came from home, he seemed very nearly human.

Iggy felt the thundering of her heart slowly quiet to a rumble.

“Thank you,” she said earnestly, tucking the book against her chest. "I…. will you need it back soon? I won't keep it long, but I -"

"Please," said Alex, with a little huff of a laugh. "Keep it for as long as you need. I would welcome someone else to talk to about it. Tahir tried only once, and wouldn’t get past the first act. I’ve only had my own thoughts to consult since, and it makes for a very poor conversation.”

Five very strange minutes later, Iggy left The Captain enshrined back on his high chair, through the same door that she had stood behind with quaking knees, clutching one of his personally recommended books, and wondering how quickly she could get back in.

[mysterymepost-dream]

This Be the Verse

New Amsterdam: Season 4, Episode 5

Dr. Fuentes continues in her quest to remake the hospital in her vision; Max goes the extra mile to help a patient in need; Dr. Sharpe and Iggy find themselves at odds over a serious issue; Reynolds discovers the importance of personal obligations.

[ginjointsintheworld]

kinda late to the new amsterdam party (or funeral idk) but can we pls talk abt what max did in 4x08? which was somehow even worse than laurens bribe? im too angry to watch more eps rn but im guessing its not gonna be addressed at all or at least not as seriously as it should. like cmon the man simply fired 100+ employees just to keep his friends jobs. thats fucked up. iggy is way more likely to find a job than agnes, for example. ugh i hate max

NOT A FUNERAL 😭😭😭 anon... you come into my inbox... on the day of my daughter's wedding...

but we're always down to talk about that! yep lauren's action, for as dumb and boundaries breaking as it was, didn't take away opportunities from another resident or steal someone's spot. meanwhile helen literally begged max to tell the other characters about what fuentes was trying to do and instead he ran around like a coward unable to fess up, made a call on their behalf and then had the balls to say to their faces "i protected you today" like he took some self sacrificing burden for them even though they all 10000% would have taken being fired themselves instead of sacrificing all these other peoples' jobs. with all the hospitals lauren moonlighted at, i'm sure she could've snapped her fingers and land a new spot.

like with most of max's wrong doings and Main Character of Main Characters armor, it indeed gets brushed away as a lesson of the week.

[urdnotgrunt]

i was tagged by @frenchy-and-the-sea to make my ocs in this picrew and luckily i’ve already made most of em!!!!! these are either d&d i’m currently playing, ones i hold near and dear to my heart, or my sweet sweet ocs

1. sarula odalys durothil, half sun elf half dwarf lore bard & cleric of milil (she/they)

2. kai-mal “silk”, air genasi lore bard (they/them)

3. tavish darros, human brute fighter & fiend warlock (he/him)

4. cyne, yuan-ti experiment way of the drunken master monk (he/him)

5. guin dankil, aasimar tempest cleric (she/her)

6. ignacia “iggy” fuentes, novice cartographer & amateur naturalist (she/her)

i tag anyone who has ocs they want to make!! i’d love to see them!!

[callmebrycelee]

NEW AMSTERDAM REACTION

This reaction is for season 4, episode 11 “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution” which originally aired on January 4, 2022. The episode was written by Graham Norris and directed by Nick Gomez. Spoilers ahead!

***LAST TIME ON NEW AMSTERDAM*** A whole bunch of patients died due to an antibiotic-resistant bacteria caused by a faulty ice machine. Reynolds and Malvo’s ‘it’s complicated’ relationship took an interesting turn when the latter revealed she was pregnant. Bloom found herself single after Leyla discovered the truth about her hiring. Iggy hired a highly-flirtatious new doctor. Oh, and Max and Sharpe made good on their promise and moved across the pond to start the next chapter of their life leaving New Amsterdam in shambles. 

Right before the winter hiatus, we viewers were promised that the next several episodes would essentially be a ‘tale of two cities’ and in the latest episode we got exactly that. The episode gave us two stories running concurrently: we followed Max and Sharpe as they settled into their new surroundings in merry ole’ London and we also checked in with the remaining doctors at New Amsterdam back in NYC. As a viewer and an avid fan of this show, I must say that I was wayyyyyyy more invested in the New Amsterdam storyline. I love Max and I love Sharpe and I even love them together but I find their romance separate from hospital kind of a distraction. I know some readers of my last review were all gung-ho about them leaving and I certainly don’t mind them having separate lives from the other characters, but it did feel rather discombobulating when we’d switch from the New Amsterdam story to the London one.

What I did like about Max and Sharpe’s storyline is that they were experiencing failure. I love that their American optimism isn’t translating perfectly to their new surroundings and for once we get to see Max have to be in Sharpe’s position and vice-versa. One thing I noticed this episode is how truly patient and understanding and kind (to a fault honestly) Max is. When Sharpe fired him from his position, I honestly expected him to deliver a “I uprooted my life to come here and you fired me” rant but he didn’t and instead he got that sad eye crinkle he always gets and then he smiled and he played the firing off as a joke which is such a Max thing to do. I don’t know how long they are going to play this London storyline out because unless they decide to do a spin-off of New Amsterdam, I honestly don’t see how this will sustain for the long haul. I do believe the writers have a reason for bringing them here and something good will come of them being in London so for now I reckon I’m okay with this storyline. 

Let’s talking about Bloom. She is still grieving the end of her relationship with Leyla and the latter is not taking her calls. A part of me feels bad for Bloom but the other part is like, this is what happens when you make deals with the devil. You made your bed and now you have to lie in it. Lucky for us, we don’t have to deal with a sad, mopey Bloom for the rest of the episode because she is too busy fueling a new rivalry with the newly appointed head of holistic medicine department - Dr. Mia Castries. At first I hated Dr. Castries on sight because she was hired by Veronica Fuentes. However, when Bloom and Mia were working with the patient who was convinced he was the unluckiest person ever, I loved their teamwork. What I’m honestly hoping for is a genuine friendship between the two, however, I am not holding my breath because now Dr. Castries knows all about the secret surgery that was performed on the patient they were treating. Will she end up reporting back to Veronica?

It’s no secret that Iggy is my favorite character on the show. I love Tyler Labine. He is one of my favorite actors and I’ve been a fan of his since he was on a show called Breaker High with a young Ryan Gosling. However, I am seriously, seriously worried about our head of psychiatry. Iggy had a new employee named Trevor Vaughn who has absolutely zero qualms about commenting on how hot he thinks Iggy is. Being that Iggy is a diagnosed narcissist, rather than rebuff this highly inappropriate comments, he is now lying about having a husband. Oh, Martin! My dear, sweet Martin! Please, Iggy! Do not do something stupid. You have the best husband in the world and four amazing kids. Do not throw it all away on this guy.

Then there is my absolutely least favorite storyline. When we last checked in on Reynolds, he was still dating Malvo who is very much married to another doctor on staff at New Amsterdam - Dr. Baptiste. All parties know about each other and they have all committed to this rather unorthodox relationship which I think is quite progressive. What I didn’t like about this storyline is how unreasonable Malvo was about Reynolds and Baptiste wanting to know the paternity of the baby. If I were Baptiste - hell, if I were Reynold or Malvo, too - I’d want to know for sure who the father was of this child even if we decide to raise the child together. Her getting upset with them was frankly bizarre to me and I’m so ready for Reynolds to be done with the two of these people. What makes this storyline worse is that it involves three of our black characters. I fear that when things finally boil over, we may lose one or two of these incredible actors. I honestly don’t know about this storyline. I like that this is something we generally don’t get to see played out on network television so I’m all about it. But - sigh. It’s messy AF.

The last thing I wanted to talk about is the MVP of this episode which is Dr. Wilder and her interpreter Ben Meyer. Now that Max is gone, I was wondering who would be willing to pick up the mantle of the great protector of New Amsterdam and the fact that it is Dr. Wilder is so freaking brilliant. I love that she is fully committed to turning things around and I was glad when she got Bloom and Iggy on her side. I loved when she suggested that they have the recently terminated employees reapply but the coup de grace is when she convinced Iggy to have the Santa Claus employee apply to be Veronica’s assistant. Freaking brilliant, I tell you! I love that there’s this underground resistance at New Amsterdam but I am worried for the moment when they will inevitably be found out. Until then, bring on the resistance! 

What a great episode of New Amsterdam! So happy to have my family back, even if they are in different time zones. I am patiently waiting for the day when they are reunited and hopefully it’s a decision that is best for all characters involved. Stay tuned for my next reaction!

[lazyexceptwhencooking]

“These writers have two episodes to fix this before I start throwing bricks!” Message LMFAO. Who do they think they are taking away all the best side characters like that! It better be temporary because this ain’t it. Max pissed me off in this episode. I know he was put in a tight spot but gahdamn.

I think most of them will be temporary (I really hope!) but there will definitely be at least one of them not coming back at all. Poor Agnes got all pepped talked up all day and then this happened. Baptiste is probably just done with the personal and professional BS that seems to have plagued him since coming to NA. And Casey has almost left before so with this and him being on the outs with Bloom, he probably doesn't even want to look back.

I know Max was in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation but I'm sure Reynolds, Bloom, and Iggy wouldn't have blamed him for letting it happen. They know it's Fuentes making all these cuts, not him. His guilt got in the way and it was a bad call, tbh.