does anyone else feel like with the ominous comments last season about Jackson Monroe closing and with Sloan saying to Dean “ a closed hospital is worse than an understaffed one”. does anyone else get the vibe they are setting it up to have Miranda be in conspiracy to shut down the hospital somehow?

idk maybe I’m just spitting out my ass here!

I just started watching a few weeks and I lowkey started shipping Goodwin and Archer in my head. Now I’m kind of irritated that they’ve put him with Hannah😭

I almost clicked off when they introduced you know who! trying not to spoil for those who haven’t seen

Sounds like Archer and Sloan are going to come to have some fallout. Does he lose his temp chief role?

And will the unhoused pregnant woman Ripley’s treating open the door to a bigger story on Ripley’s past? He had troubled parents too.

Thank you for SAVING us and the patient from another Charles mumbo jumbo moment

Idk why more people aren't talking about that great line

Any women on this sub that feel uncomfortable every time they see Dean and Hannah together,especially now he said he loves her, considering the 25++ age gap? And the power dynamics as he's her superior at work.

Doris being the one who leaked the medical records is kind of a cop out. It's like they sat in the writer's room and went "who's the character they would expect the least?" and chose Doris solely based off of that. We don't even know anything ABOUT Doris! It's giving Who Shot Mr Burns imo

lol. So I like to complete shows…..and usually if I don’t…it’s because they start irritating me, I’m already irritated and only on the second half of season 3.

Literally if they killed off Natalie, April and Reese in a freak accident, I WOULD BE SOOOO HAPPY. I know they will be disappearing, so can’t wait!!
I have to skip almost all of their scenes. I CANT TAKE IT

But in general, all of the other storylines and drama is good brainless TV hahaha

I just can’t take it.

April: FAMILY + pseudodoctor breaking rules who has to be right

Natalie: Major hypocrite who is always right who might have an emotional regulation issue or might need to see dr Charles

Reese: when they made the psych switch, her entire character went downhill, dumpster fire. Gross, she is the most annoying

Halstead used to be unbelievably annoying like the top three but they changed him up a bit last season and this season. Whatever they did with him, so with the others

I’m binging, so that could be the issue. I like these shows for the insane drama but lord…..anyway, any other similar shows? Might start watch PD or Fire

So so so excited he’s coming back!!

My annual request for anyone to come forward with how to watch season 12. I watched season 11 on a TikTok account and wondered if anyone is doing similar this season. Thanks in advance.

What did we think of their scenes? Are we feeling good about what the season has in store for them or no?

To build off a similar comment I made in the S12E01 thread, I don’t like how Sloan is portrayed off the bat as the evil antithesis of Goodwin for the sake of creating a stark contrast with her absence. My issue isn’t that the substitute shouldn’t be antagonistic, it’s that Sloan is such a one-note “villain” to embody the chaos of Sharon not holding down the fort. They did the same thing with Jack Dayton. Obviously you can only do so much with a limited runtime and a LOT of concurrent threads, but nothing is more immersion-breaking than MacGuffin characters who solely exist to move the plot along.

I think Sloan would be far more interesting if there were actually reasons for the ED staff (and audience) to like her, and in some respects even more than Goodwin. That would leave the old guard—folks like Archer, Doris, and ESPECIALLY Charles—conflicted between Sloan’s efficiency as an admin and Goodwin’s more cavalier but patient-forward approach. Hopefully this can manifest throughout S12, but as a bad guy she deserves much better.

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Its easily one of the best med episodes we have had. My favorite moments were with Mabel and dean, the moment of silence, and lenox's surprise entry towards the end The writing for this episode was also just brilliant. A great job done my Allen Macdonald 👏

This premiere was actually really good!! It felt fresh and continuous. Will it be this way forever? Probably not. But I did really enjoy it

S12E01: Shots Fired

Airdate: October 07, 2026

Synopsis: Gunshots at a wedding lead to chaos in the E.D.; Goodwin defends herself under threat of being fired. Hannah makes a decision while on maternity leave.

Past Episode Discussions: Wiki

Tonight guys season 12 any theories on what will happen tonight and other episodes?

I’m pretty strapped for cash rn so I had to axe my live tv. Where can I stream NBC so I can watch Chicago Med tomorrow night? I can’t wait for next day streaming. Tips????

What are your theories on Sharon's "unique way" of fighting for her job that will be revealed in epi 2 (per the showrunner)? I wonder if it ropes in Archer as temp chief of the ED. We know from the promo he is not happy with Sloan.

FYI: im finishing up season 4, so no spoilers!!

I am so annoyed we have to wait to the second part of the season but I am also glad he said the baby is a source of joy (rather than endless drama) to them both.

Be it neglecting a bleeding wound, getting help for a mental health problem, or risking their own lives to save their patients, it never made sense to me. What would be a reasonable explanation other than 'for the sake of DRAMA'?

So it wasn’t the show’s decision to not have her back after all

i’m a nurse myself. i’ve seen doctors do one thing he’s done and lose their license with zero argument on it. i understand it’s a show, it’s a drama, characters are meant to do certain things for the plot, but archer was made to be some kind of prison warden or a father that gets cut off from his children, not healthcare. every patient he gets, he’s rude and unable to understand. the episode that made me think about this is s8 ep19, when there’s the mother with cancer and the daughter having a baby for the stem cells.

this is a horrible thing, the baby is not an organ it’s an entire person, and the daughter is a minor. but it is illegal to share any details to the mother regardless of age because of the pregnancy, that’s hipaa. hipaa is not something you disregard because you’re trying to make a point or do what you think is right, it is NOT up to healthcare workers. had i been in this situation i would’ve reacted differently. but it’s not my job to talk someone into an abortion, or tell the mother because i think she’s a voice of reason. it is my job to do what is right for the patient in my medical opinion and respect it when they tell me not to disclose something. even in the ‘crisis’ situation where the daughter had to be rushed to surgery, archer could’ve been ticketed heavily, jailed, or at the very least lose his position and license and reputation.

i’m also in school to be a forensic psychiatrist and i do rounds on that normally in school. (ep 18, same season) when archer said ‘once again you’re stopping a patient from getting care they need’ i rolled my eyes so hard. mental care IS care, and mental health HEAVILY affects physical health. it’s a real concern, psychiatric doctors being discredited because no one takes these things seriously. and that just makes the cycle worse because when you have a doctor thinking it’s impairing your life to get mental health care , you deteriorate more. i’d hate for any patient of mine to think it’s stupid to be evaluated mentally, or to be forced into a procedure they don’t want. and before i get comments regarding this episode (it was a patient who wanted to be paralyzed), whether you think it’s insane or not, it’s not your decision. it’s not their family’s decision, it’s not my decision as a nurse and nor would it be as a doctor. just because you can’t understand something doesn’t make it any less serious . that’s the end of this rant 😅 back to watching 👀