'New Amsterdam': When Adultery Trumps True Love

The show isn't scheduled to last more than 6 episodes. They don't have time to do a "Moonlighting".

I've been watching this new show and 'see' the anguish he is going through being 'immortal'. His susequent parenting of 68 offspring during his 400 years of immortality further speaks of this anguish. Not being able to 'come clean' with his objects of affection and not being able to be believed by them just makes him fell that more disconnected---ultimately seeking the next 'one'. How the writers approach this delimma is going to make an insightful story line.

PUDGE:
If you are upset by the fact that TV shows people jumping into bed "before marriage", turn off the TV...or monitor it closely. I expect if you feel that it is wrong to jump into bed without marriage (or engagement) your children will have been getting that message from you all along (yes?) and even after seeing what is shown on the TV, they can and will make up their own minds when the time comes to decide "to bed or not to bed." It is up to the parents to be teaching their morality to their children, not the TV. Sex and it's consequences should be taught, IMO by the parents, but it seems that many parents can't or don't tell it like it is, and expect someone else to do so (school, church). TV is going to show what they feel viewers want to watch. Parents are the ultimate deciders, at least for at time, of what their children watch.

I, like Pudge, am sick of seeing adultery all over TV and movies--it's not just that it is there but that it is romanticized and glorified--made to look a) acceptable; b) normal; and c) exciting and desirable. The Entertainment business also glosses over the human wreckage left behind by such decisions (or perhaps, lack of decision) to violate vows that are made--not just to our spouses but also to our communities and society in general--they forget to show the real devastation to the faithful spouse or the children of those involved. Like the frog who doesn't realize he is being boiled to death because the temperature under the pot is being raised slowly a degree at a time so he gets used to each higher temperature, we Americans are losing our sense of values by small increments as our values are slowly erroded by an entertainment industry that, perhaps, just wants their ridiculous and immoral behavior to be considered the norm. Why else would we be inundated with the sleaziest possible reality shows and all the immorality plays we are offered today? Folks, vote with your remotes--refuse to watch the trash, let the sponsors know how you feel...