'New Amsterdam' will now end a week earlier than expected after an episode centered around a flu pandemic was shelved—though the show will be back for Season 3 soon.
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Season 2 had 19 of its episodes filmed. However, when one of those was deemed"too horrifying" in our current climate, the decision was made not to air it. This means that the April 14 episode of theSeason 2, Episode 18 was due to be"Pandemic," a look at what could happen if a major flu outbreak affected New York City.
He wrote:"Sometimes, what the mirror reflects back is too horrifying to look at...We shot a fictional pandemic episode right before a real pandemic hit. People are dying in real life. Do we really want to watch fake people die too?"New York State now accounts for seven percent of the world's infections. And by the time you read this, it will most likely be more. The images we put on screen, of New Yorkers fleeing parks, autopsies in makeshift labs, are hard to watch.
This announcement came a few days after a number of crew members tested positive for the virus, as did cast member Daniel Dae Kim. Ironically, Kim was due to be introduced as a doctor who joins the hospital in response to the pandemic. According to this essay, the episode will air in the future,"just not now." This suggests that the"Pandemic" episode will air as part of
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