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Chicago Med season 4, episode 6 takeaways: Lesser of Two Evils

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO MED -- "Lesser of Two Evils " Episode 406 -- Pictured: (l-r) Brian Tee as Dr. Ethan Choi, Arden Cho as Emily -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
CHICAGO MED -- "Lesser of Two Evils " Episode 406 -- Pictured: (l-r) Brian Tee as Dr. Ethan Choi, Arden Cho as Emily -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /
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What should One Chicago fans learn from this week’s Chicago Med? Look closer at last night’s episode with our Chicago Med season 4, episode 6 takeaways.

What did One Chicago fans learn from this week’s Chicago Med episode? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “Lesser of Two Evils.”

“Lesser of Two Evils” featured the show’s engaged couple going to extreme lengths to help an abused wife get away from her husband, while Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) seemed to make peace with his sister’s odd life choices—right before she revealed another questionable decision.

If you missed any of this week’s episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re about to discuss, you can catch up with our Chicago Med recap.

Below are our takeaways from this week’s episode:

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1) Is there any hope for Emily?

Chicago Med brought Emily Choi (recurring guest star Arden Cho) back for another story this season, but it looks a lot like her first story.

Remember that Emily was introduced last season as Ethan’s ne’er do well sister. She stole drugs from the hospital, then wound up finishing the season back in the ED as a patient.

Unfortunately, the show hasn’t given Emily a real chance to grow. It sounded so promising when she returned clean and trying to make amends for her past mistakes.

Even when she turned out to be pregnant, there could’ve been a real story there about her becoming a mother and getting a chance to start over through parenthood.

But instead, the show went the more dramatic route—show Emily’s love interest as a man with a wife and teenage daughter. Then “Lesser of Two Evils” added on by having her decide to not only stick with him, but go with him to Las Vegas. That’s pretty much the worst place that somebody who’s struggled with both drugs and gambling could go.

Why couldn’t Chicago Med let Emily head down a different path? Why does it have to be another season of her making naive choices? Characters can mature and grow; after all, we’ve seen it with all of our main characters on this show.

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2) Ava needs a storyline, STAT

It was fantastic to see Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell) remind us why he’s our favorite doctor. He went head-to-head with the head of the ED over his treatment of Terry (more on that later in this postmortem) and his callous disregard for anything but his own career. Connor is a Good Guy and this episode showcased that.

However, shining such a great spotlight on Connor made us realize how underused Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling) has become. For the last few episodes, the majority of her contribution has been to appear behind or beside Connor in a scene and give some commentary. The show really needs to do a better job continuing to develop her, and not just her inevitable romance with Connor.

At least she got to make a cameo in this week’s episode of Chicago Fire?

3) We miss Dr. Stohl

We never thought we’d say this, but this week’s Chicago Med actually had us missing Dr. Stanley Stohl (Eddie Jemison). Stohl was annoying as all get out, but he looked like a pussycat compared to the recent behavior of his replacement Dr. James Lanik (Nate Santana). Lanik pushing around Terry McNeal (Colby Lewis) was just ridiculous and not something Stohl would have done.

Stohl was a jerk, but he wouldn’t have let that get in the way of treating a patient the way Lanik did here. You could say Stohl was, indeed, the lesser of two evils.

And randomly, has anyone noticed that the One Chicago shows have been using the end cards from the Law & Order universe this season? The black screen with Dick Wolf’s name on it has been in the Law & Order font all season, rather than keeping with the font used in the Chicago series. It’s minor, but it is kind of odd, isn’t it?

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