Chicago Med season 4 midseason report: Will Halstead
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The promo for the Chicago Med midseason premiere focused entirely on Manstead, and it had a big spoiler about Will in it. There’s a real question about where his character can go in the back 13 episodes. The show is going to find some way to repair his relationship with Natalie, because it’s too much a part of the series to just blow it up after three and a half seasons.
But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is who Will Halstead is going to be. With all that he’s been through, he should have some emotional baggage to work through. Where Jay dealt with his grief by acting out, Will has tended to internalize most things in the past, and at this point he’s got to be crushed under all that weight. It would be so much more fascinating if we saw Will come back haunted, frustrated, and just not quite the same.
It’s also vague how long Chicago Med will draw out the undercover cop storyline. It looks like it’s almost done, but then again we thought the Robert story was over last season and he still made an appearance in this season’s premiere. So who knows?
Yet the smart thing to do is wrap it up. Let Will move on with his life, and let him focus on putting his relationship with Natalie back together. Even if she makes up with him in the first episode back there’s room to explore more—to work through his issues, and even hers after finding out that he was hiding something else from her. She’s known for exploding at people, and it wouldn’t be a surprise at all if she let Will have it one more time.
Will Halstead has come a long way from the cocky, kind of brash doctor that audiences met in the first season. He grew up during seasons two and three, and now Chicago Med season 4 is going to truly sober him up. It just depends how far the writers want to turn the screws, or if they’ll opt for the easier, cleaner, happier next chapter.
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