Client: Lauren Stone asks Robyn to return assist her get her daughter a life saving surgical process.
Despite highlighting a few social subjects we ought to be discussing, this week’s consumer story was not considered one of my favourite.
Actually for each the consumer and household tales, I had hassle suspending my disbelief.
It wasn’t that a lot of an issue within the household story, however within the consumer story…it stopped me.
When they listed the explanations that this lady felt she had no choice however to drag out a gun, maintain folks hostage and demand that the hospital carry out the surgical procedure her daughter want, I instantly considered three issues this mom may have finished earlier than her daughter’s time ran out.
There was rather a lot fabricated from the truth that strain had been introduced down on the SWAT workforce had been advised to disregard all protocols, don’t negotiate, simply kill this lady and be finished with it.
Robyn discovers out {that a} senator’s son is likely one of the hostages.
But, they did nothing with this character.
He wasn’t a superb man.
He wasn’t a foul man.
He didn’t even provide to intercede together with his mom to save lots of the day.
His solely objective appears to have been to offer a purpose for SWAT tp be behaving oddly and speak to the loud mouth character. (Just about each hostage story has a loud mouth character that causes some type of hassle.)
Our loud mouth character is Marjorie.
Marjorie is indignant that Robyn spent the episode bending over backward to offer the Lauren what she needs.
She factors out that if one hospital provides in to those sorts of calls for then everybody would pull out a gun when the insurance coverage firm (and/or hospital) declined an important process.
She’s not fallacious. This is the essential purpose the nation doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.
This simply didn’t really feel like the kind of case Robyn ought to have taken. It makes her chargeable for creating extra issues than she’s fixing.
Maybe if Lauren was combating a fallacious that was one thing apart from normal working process.
Marjorie took the scenario from dangerous to worse by grabbing a gun from her purse (How did she get a gun right into a hospital in day 2023?) and inadvertently shoots the surgeon.
This complication did give the present a second to spotlight one other social challenge; the issue for extremely educated immigrants to proceed to work of their discipline once they transfer to the US.
I hope this “desperate mother” has guardianship backups prepared, as a result of she’s not elevating her child for some time.
But the episode appears decided to assist this lady get away together with her actions as a result of her solely various is to let her baby die.
But since they by no means satisfied me this was her solely various, I stand by my perception that actions have penalties.
The writers by no means managed to get me to care about something apart from the place Dante and Robyn’s relationship can be when the distraction was over.
Family Life: Vi helps a neighborhood restaurant re-discover a treasured recipe.
The earlier proprietor of this household restaurant dies. Her youngsters inherit the recipe however by no means suppose to get the recipes from their mom.
Again I hit a psychological brick wall with the setup.
This lady, who knew she was dying, had expressed a need for her youngsters to maintain the restaurant open, however had NOT written down her recipes? A businesswoman who inherited the restaurant herself?
I simply couldn’t purchase that she wasn’t extra ready for this example earlier than she obtained sick. Plus, I’d be she inherited at the least a number of recipes when she took over the restaurant.
I may simply have believed that the youngsters by no means thought to ask.
So, I selected to imagine that she’d written them down for her youngsters to seek out. The youngsters simply didn’t know the place to look.
I do know. I’m being a bit of “extra” right here, however I anticipate rather a lot from this present. I anticipate extra as a result of they often give me extra.
I did discover it fascinating that, relatively than getting dinged for serving lesser high quality of his mom’s recipes he modified up the system fully and went vegan.
This approach, any complaints coming in wouldn’t tarnish his mom’s popularity.
I wasn’t stunned that Vi may reproduce the recipe by style. My mom can try this. I simply saved wishing they’d present her altering spoons every time she tasted.
The important moments within the episode have been a excellent news/dangerous information pair.
Dante (I’m questioning if I ought to begin calling him Marcus as nicely) forgiving Robyn. Robyn did apologize and it was a superb one. She and Marcus are all good. I’m joyful.
Robyn was served with papers. Miles has formally filed for full custody of Delilah. I’ve a sense he’s going to get an earful from his daughter.
This is the story I’m ready to see play out. I may have skipped this week’s episode.
What did you guys suppose?
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