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Chicago Med questions likely to be unanswered in season 5

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO MED -- "It May Not Be Forever" Episode 514 -- Pictured: (l-r) Dominic Rains as Crockett Marcel, Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning, Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
CHICAGO MED -- "It May Not Be Forever" Episode 514 -- Pictured: (l-r) Dominic Rains as Crockett Marcel, Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning, Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /
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CHICAGO MED — “I Will Do No Harm” Episode 515 — Pictured: Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Natalie Manning — (Photo by: Adrian Burrows/NBC) /

One Chicago fans are bracing themselves for an early end to Chicago Med season 5. Production on all three One Chicago series, as well as dozens of other TV shows, was shut down in March because of current events, and many of the series that stopped filming are having to end their seasons ahead of schedule.

While NBC has not made any official announcement as to when the Med season is ending, next week will already be the season’s 19th episode, which is most of the way through the season anyway. Given that there would be only a handful of episodes left, and then we won’t see some of those, odds are very good that some major questions fans have this season won’t be answered.

The good news is that Chicago Med has already been renewed for season 6, so the show will return (there’s also no indication yet that a new season won’t air this fall) and answers will hopefully get revealed then.

But here are the biggest uncertainities unlikely to get resolved in Chicago Med season 5, leaving viewers to speculate about them:

1. Where is Natalie going?

Fans have probably noticed that Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) hasn’t had as large of a role in the second half of the season. She’s still featured in plenty of cases, but Natalie’s stories have been more with another character than solely about her, and her personal life is definitely not the focus that it was in prior seasons (owing to the death, at least for now, of Manstead).

That change of pace has also meant that other than her recovery from her traumatic brain injury at the start of the season, it’s been harder to trace a distinct character arc for her throughout the season. She no longer has a professional challenge in front of her, and recent rumors about her possibly getting a new love interest make her personal life vague, too. There’s no one thing that we can point to and say that’s what Natalie is headed toward.

That could wind up being a positive in the end, since Natalie’s had so much drama particularly over the last two seasons with the failed wedding, her head injury, and all the other curveballs that the writers lobbed to keep Manstead interesting. Even if she just ends this season free and clear and has a chance to grow, that’s a positive for her. But since she is the female lead of the show, it’d be cool to have some idea of where she’s headed, and we’re not sure that there’s time to get into that with the episodes we have left.

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