Chicago Med season 5’s biggest WTF moments

2. The Choi/April/Crockett love triangle

What happened: Dr. Crockett Marcel (Dominic Rains) became attracted to April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) after they worked a case together. He tried to kiss her at a hospital party, but the very not single April walked away. She changed her mind in the midseason finale, however, planting an impulsive kiss on Crockett not long after her boyfriend Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) had left Chicago on a military deployment.

Why it’s a WTF moment: Where exactly did this attraction come from? Crockett and April had only worked one major case together before he tried to make a move on her, and it wasn’t like they had a particularly intimate or life-affirming moment during it. In fact, most of that episode, they were fighting with each other. So how did they go from arguing to being romantically interested in one another?

April’s behavior in all this feels nonsensical, as well. Note that in the scene where Crockett tries to kiss her, she doesn’t stop him immediately. And when she does, it’s not emphatic; she doesn’t put up a hand or point-blank say, “I have a boyfriend.” She just quietly walks away. You would think she would be much quicker and firmer to turn him down, since she’s in a committed relationship with Choi, who she loves enough to be talking about starting a family with.

Then in the midseason finale, she’s upset enough with Choi that her reaction is to cheat on him by kissing Crockett? Yes, she’s acting from an impulsive place, but still. April is someone for whom her loyalty is a big deal; we’ve seen that in how she’s stood by her brother Noah (Roland Buck III) even when she shouldn’t. The last thing she’d do would be to break Choi’s trust like that.

But she did, so now Chicago Med has yet another love triangle on its hands—a plot device that the show has used more than once before. It’s going to have to prove to us why we needed one more.