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Welcome to TV’s Worst of the Week, where MRC Culture's on TV Blog recounts the top liberal bias moments in entertainment television for the week of November 14, 2021.
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• CBS’s S.W.A.T. jumped into the gun control debate by saying that cops “believe in sensible gun control laws. … 'cause a lot of the times those guns are aimed at us.” Actually, the…
November 16’s episode of New Amsterdam, “In A Strange Land,” was their most woke episode yet this season. All hands are on deck at New Amsterdam hospital when it comes to providing medical care for numerous burn victims from a church fire, all illegal immigrants seeking sanctuary, while they fend off ICE agents looking to strike.
One of the illegal patients being treated is Temi…
Welcome to TV’s Worst of the Week, where MRC Culture's on TV Blog recounts the top liberal bias moments in entertainment television for the week of October 31, 2021.
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• On the Starz drama Hightown this week, a character went to Planned Parenthood to get a pregnancy test. When it was confirmed she was pregnant, the Planned Parenthood worker referred to "the baby"…
Welcome to TV’s Worst of the Week, where MRC Culture's on TV Blog recounts the top liberal bias moments in entertainment television for the week of October 17, 2021.
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• On NBC’s Ordinary Joe, we were told that teens think “binary language” is so “over” and for some reason a man in a monogamous marriage with a woman wanted his unborn child’s future preschool to know…
Welcome to TV’s Worst of the Week, where MRC Culture's on TV Blog recounts the top liberal bias moments in entertainment television for the week of October 10, 2021.
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• The new Netflix sitcom Pretty Smart had a pretty dumb scene where a gay character complained that “being gay in a straight world can be exhausting” because everything “by default is a straight space…
NBC’s New Amsterdam, now in its fourth season, continues to be as woke as ever, but now they're starting to admit it.
At the end of last week’s episode, it was revealed that Dr. Veronica Fuentes (Michelle Forbes) is taking over to replace Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) as the new medical director at New Amsterdam Hospital when he moves to London. And, on the October 12 episode “Seed…
A lot can change in a year. And it seems like no year has brought as much cultural change to America’s TV landscape as the year since African American man George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. In that timeframe, America endured a summer of rioting, the acceleration of cancel culture and attempts to force critical race theory into every aspect of public and even private…
Another week, another social justice crusade on the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam. This time, it’s global warming, which, according to the show, “means human suffering on a scale that we can't even imagine.”
On Tuesday night’s episode, “Pressure Drop,” Medical Director Dr. Max Goodwin’s (Ryan Eggold) announces to Dr. Lauren Bloom (Janet Montgomery), “I'm gonna fix global warming...…
When it comes to love, sex and social justice, anything goes on NBC’s New Amsterdam.
In Tuesday's episode “Radical,” a patient named Niall arrives with his girlfriend. Soon two more people arrive who identify themselves as his boyfriend. While Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Jocko Sims) and Dr. Lauren Bloom (Janet Montgomery) are treating the patient they have a conversation about the…
NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam concocted a plot that slammed both gun owners and critics of the rioting and violence that has broken out at Black Lives Matter protests as racist.
Tuesday's episode, "Disconnected," portrayed a white couple, Mr. and Mrs. Mulvane, as racists who “panic buy” a gun to protect themselves from “Black Lives Matter” protesters. Worse, when their…
New Amsterdam must be gunning for a GLAAD Media Award nomination with its latest episode: “The Legend of Howie Cournemeyer.”
Focused on the hospital’s free HIV-testing day, Tuesday night’s episode campaigned against “bigoted” restrictions on blood donations from gay men, denigrated The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and was bookended with gay sex scenes.
In one…
New Amsterdam’s Medical Director Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) is always on a mission. In the latest episode, "Why Not Yesterday," that aired April 6, the good liberal doctor is suddenly super woke and determined to end “systemic racism” at his hospital.
After being told by the Chief Equity Officer that he is "New Amsterdam's biggest illustration of embedded systemic racism," he…
In order to show Chicago cops in the worst possible light, Showtime’s Shameless made up a rule observed by the police force – "We're here to serve and protect the rich."
In the episode that aired on March 28 titled “DNR”, police are called to assist in an eviction that has turned into a protest.
Rookie Officer Carl Gallagher (Ethan Cutkosky) is a member of the eviction unit. He…
The police are “just a different kind of unsafe” than violent patients, according to NBC's New Amsterdam. Although that anti-cop line came from nurse Casey Acosta, he was not the only nurse at New Amsterdam Hospital disturbed by the idea of police guarding their ER.
After a patient’s violent assault on at least three emergency department staff on Tuesday's episode, titled "This Is All…
2020 has been a year-long series of grievances, and TV was no exception. Although COVID ended a lot of business, leftist Hollywood has been in full force shoving its agenda down our throats. In honor of Festivus on December 23, we’ve once again gathered a list of 2020 TV grievances to air as well as feats of strength and Festivus miracles.
Gather 'round the Festivus pole and enjoy a…
After having spent weeks trashing anti-lockdown protests during the coronavirus pandemic as racist and a threat to public health, on Wednesday, the broadcast networks tried to excuse the same COVID concerns amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. In part, journalists argued “the virus of hate may be more dangerous” and that racism was the real pandemic.
“More than a…
It’s no secret that New Amsterdam’s psychiatrist Dr. Iggy Frome is a “bleeding heart liberal.” His left-wing views drive many show plots including one in Tuesday's Season 2 finale, “A Matter of Seconds.”
Focusing on Red Flag laws, the finale subtly promoted gun control by featuring an unsympathetic gun owner whose firearm was taken when his…
School shootings were one theme of the March 10 episode of NBC’s New Amsterdam, but with a bit of a twist.
Instead of a plotline about a school shooting, it revolved around students traumatized by an active shooter drill at their school. One of the students, Danica, gets referred to New Amsterdam shrink Dr. Iggy Frome. She is so traumatized she never wants to return to the school…
It’s sweeps week for the networks and the February 25 episode of NBC’s New Amsterdam certainly included an unusual storyline. What began as a therapy session for a young couple turned into a case of incest.
In the episode titled “Double Blind”, an engaged couple named Chris and Jenny sought counsel from Dr. Iggy Frome (Tyler Labine), the head of the psychiatry…
NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam had an unusual diagnosis this Tuesday in the episode, “Sabbath.”
After Dr. Helen Sharpe finds her 13-year-old patient Cephas has four benign tumors growing in his stomach and that the boy has elevated levels of stress hormones, psychiatrist Dr. Iggy Frome determines the tumors were caused by racism. As the surgeon operates and…
