The Resident - The Resident Spoilers & Speculation #5- So much to look forward too! - Page 7

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-12-2021, 09:24 AM

Very soon

**Unsung Hero** · 01-12-2021, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Like many shows, the season’s present-day will be a post-COVID world. “That was a choice for several reasons,” Amy explained. “One, we started writing in June, and we all hoped we would have the vaccine by January. And indeed we do, though it hasn’t worked out that much yet. But it was also because we felt that if it was not the case, and we were still struggling with this, that people would need to see something else. It does still factor in the season, as it will in a post-COVID world, and the echoes of what the experience did to our leads will be felt because the show is about the doctors and the nurses. The patients are very important, but it is the story of their lives. What the premiere is designed to do is to show the effect of the breaking pandemic on the lives of our leads — of health care workers, of nurses, of doctors.”

Amy noted that our beloved characters will experience loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Personal loss does occur in the premiere,” the executive producer continued. “That will have echoes on all of our characters. Co-workers die so how does it impact them going forward? Also, an occasional patient will have an effect. For example, there’s one who was operated on during the pandemic and ended up catching COVID in the hospital itself, so we’ll explore the long-term effects of COVID.”

Barrett Cain isn’t going anywhere, and The Resident is just beginning to peel back the layers of this doctor. “We are going to see a different kind of Cain, but we’re going to come to it over time,” Amy teased. “He is going to have a disaster and crisis in his own life that he has to cope with. It’s not going to be an instant change for Cain anymore than it was for Bell. Bell’s character is the story of redemption, really, in its entirety. Cain is much more of a loner than Bell was and much more of a wounded human than Bell was. So over time, I think we’re going to come to appreciate qualities in him. He’s never going to turn into the sort of completely dedicated doctor that our other leads are. He’s going to be more pragmatic than that and more unsentimental than that.”

There will also be drama between Mina, AJ, and Cain in season 4. “Very crucially, his relationship with AJ and with Mina is one of the big stories of the season,” Amy told HollywoodLife. “He will come into a very hard conflict with Mina and seek revenge, and how that affects all three of them and the long arc that takes to its resolution at the end of the season is something we’re very excited about.” The Resident season 4 will air Tuesdays on FOX.

https://hollywoodlife.com/2021/01/12...d-nic-wedding/

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-12-2021, 07:46 PM

Do you thin it is time to open a thread for Cain finally?

Despite how evil he is , he is a main character.

Thanks for that.

**Unsung Hero** · 01-13-2021, 07:14 AM

Quote:

“They’re going to have some bumps along the way in season 4, so be aware of that as well. In episode 5, there’s something very traumatic that happens to both Conrad and Nic,” Czuchry teased. “So enjoy the wedding and the joyfulness at the end of episode 1. It’s not going to be like that the whole season.”

UsWeekly

Quote:

TVLINE | You mentioned Devon’s father passing away. How much did you debate whether to have a character die of COVID at all?
We knew we wanted to set up… not a thriller, but a bit of a mystery and stressful moment for the audience, when we see Kit Voss get sick at the end, and Hundley is the main patient through the episode, and we know Devon’s father was sick. We wanted to create a sense of, “Did we lose somebody?” and we’re going to find out at the wedding who that might be. That was the idea. We weren’t going to kill one of our main characters. [Laughs] But we did want it to be somebody who would really give us an emotional punch. We’ve played Devon’s relationship with his parents over the seasons, and we understand it’s a complicated relationship. We’re using it, going forward, to tell a little more about Devon’s emotional life, and also this transition from a private to a public hospital that we’re making during the early part of the season. That gets at a lot of what The Resident does best, those flaws of the system and the complications that money brings to the medicine.

TVLINE

Quote:

How does this getting through COVID affect and change the doctors at Chastain? How does this affect them moving forward in the long-term?

As an example, Dr. Bell, his whole life was his career. He's a man who put his career before everything, and coming out of the pandemic and watching families who came together -- friends and relatives of sick people -- to grieve together and collect around a deathbed of a character. Well, suddenly he's thinking, "Who's going to be there for me?" And it leads him to try to reconnect with someone from his past, an ex-stepson who, as you probably know, will be played by Conrad Ricamora, and he's fantastic. It leads to a really strong emotional season arc for Dr. Bell that we haven't done in these four seasons.

Quote:

Jessica Lucas is joining the cast as Billie, who was a top neurosurgeon at Chastain and has ties to Nic's past. What does she bring to The Resident and what we can expect with her added presence?

She's wonderful. We've seen her first work. It's fantastic. She's smart and beautiful and really interesting. She [plays] a childhood friend of Nic's who had left the hospital previously before season 1 under a cloud. This is her return, potentially, to visit Chastain and she is someone who is a former neurosurgeon who had a little problem and now she's back.

Quote:

We're going to have a story that involves big pharma and we will hint at the end of the season on what a potential season 5 villain might be. We're going to go most of the season without a specific villain and then we're going to tip off the villain for our next season, should we be so fortunate to have one.

ETONLINE

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-14-2021, 01:21 PM

Thank you.

**Unsung Hero** · 01-14-2021, 01:29 PM

I think I caught everything.

Was a lot.

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-14-2021, 07:55 PM

You did a good job.

**Unsung Hero** · 01-16-2021, 11:46 AM

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-18-2021, 06:58 PM

Mystery illness. The new covid?

**Cadenf** · 01-19-2021, 07:01 PM

NO!

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-20-2021, 06:59 PM

It wasn't.

**Unsung Hero** · 01-22-2021, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Although she remains mum about further details regarding the baby and the birth, VanCamp does confirm one exciting bit of news: "We will definitely find out if it's a girl or a boy, but I'm not sure what the timeline will be in terms of meeting the baby."

Quote:

"We wanted to show them this season as a married couple who are working together at the same place and a little drama here and there," he says. "We want to show what a strong marriage looks like, especially when they're doing heroic things like saving lives. But at the same time, we felt like we needed to give audiences something else. We want to give them more by expanding that relationship, and the next obvious step was having a baby. We're going to play out her pregnancy, but I want to warn you that things will get super-crazy around episode 5. It has nothing to do with COVID, but know that episode 5 is going to knock your socks off, in a good way. It's intense, but I know fans are going to scream. She's going to be pregnant a good long time, but I know everyone's going to groove on this."

https://ew.com/tv/the-resident-emily...828e0001e02342

Quote:

“The decision to have her become pregnant in Episode 2 — besides giving the audience something to be excited and joyful about — was that it’s also a storyline that threads through the entire season. There’s a lot of drama surrounding the pregnancy, and it’s one of our big story engines for those two characters.”

Quote:

Before you worry about a (baby) bumpy road ahead for Conrad and Nic, Elkoff is quick to assure us that the pair is “great and in love” in the wake of Nic’s big news, “but that doesn’t mean there isn’t conflict that the two of them have to face together.”

Some of that conflict will stem from Nic’s previous pregnancy with Conrad, which tragically ended in a miscarriage the first time she and Conrad were in a relationship. According to Elkoff, “there’s a lot of concern” weighing on the parents-to-be, “and they want to get to a place where they feel secure in talking about it.”

“That sense of fragility in her pregnancy is a fear,” the EP adds. “When you lose a baby, you think it can happen again. How do they handle that together?”

https://tvline.com/2021/01/19/the-re...-nic-pregnant/

Quote:

Amy Holden Jones: They're pretty joyous about it all. It's still very much taking place at the hospital. There's a big issue that comes up in Episode 5. There will be complications and questions about the pregnancy and Nic's health that play through the season, so that is their focus: her health and the health of the baby and getting to the point of a happy delivery, we hope, at the end of the season.

The pregnancy and the threats to the pregnancy for Conrad and Nic [are] never a threat to the relationship. My conception of these characters — which is one I really had to fight for — was I wanted a good, not unrealistic, couple at the heart of the show that we could really root for, who would have ups and downs and we would see over time how they survive, instead of "here's the new third party so we can set up another triangle." There's a real love story here, and let's see how they face life together. They'll have some very big challenges to face together this season.

TVINsider

Just Conic stuff for now, the rest will follow asap

**Mo Nighean Donn** · 01-23-2021, 09:53 AM

So much to read

**Cadenf** · 01-24-2021, 02:20 PM

At least we know CoNic are not having relationship problems!

**Unsung Hero** · 01-25-2021, 11:52 AM

Wouldn't we prefer that over Nic potentially dying?

pics for 4

https://www.spoilertv.com/2021/01/th...ng-on-and.html


Fan Forum > Archived Television Shows > The Resident > The Resident Spoilers & Speculation #5- So much to look forward too!