'Heartbeat': Five Most Insane Moments in '100,000 Heartbeats'
This week’s episode of Heartbeat, “100,000 Heartbeats,” did not utilize the men’s shower/restroom to give us shirtless shots of Dave Annable and Don Hany, but it did give guest star Christopher Gorham an epic entrance, so the show’s writers still get us.
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This week’s 5 most insane moments:
1. Wyatt’s Magic Mike introduction. If only Ginuwine’s “Pony” would have been playing, it would have been perfect. We met artist Wyatt (Covert Affairs’ Gorham), who was making a lot of noise installing his latest work in the hospital. Millicent (Shelley Conn) was against the disruption until she saw him in his white tank, jeans, and stubble. He could read her life like a book because he used to work long, high-stress hours on Wall Street, and by episode’s end, she was ready to slow down long enough to have a coffee with him. The good news: Gorham will recur. The bad news: Did you catch those hints that Wyatt’s suffered a loss? He’s donating his work for “personal reasons.”
2. Mojo the dog bringing tears to our eyes. Just when you think this show is purely a guilty pleasure, they have terminal cancer patient Evan (Nate Mooney) tell Dr. Alex Panttiere (Melissa George) that he’ll be a part of her experimental study that could potentially add a few more weeks to his life because he can’t bear the thought of outliving his 13-year-old therapy dog.
3. Alex advertised on Craigslist… for more study patients. She needed five, but only had Evan. So she “thought outside the box” and placed an ad that brought 59 terminal patients to the hospital lobby. Hearing that most of them would be turned away, the patients staged a sit in (“We sit, and wait, and hope it’s not too late”) and Alex ultimately joined them. Finally, the hospital board agreed to fund operations for the 41 patients they believed could survive the surgery that involved radiation. (Did anyone actually follow what they were doing? Does it matter?)
4. That Pollack non-euphemism. Dr. Callahan (Jamie Kennedy) helped the nurses take the patients’ vitals and had a lovely conversation about art with his crush, Nurse Ji-Sung (Maya Erskine), who minored in art history. She dropped her pen and had to bend down to pick it up, which was a great time for him to ask, “Do you wanna see my Pollack?” Like, we know doctors and nurses are around terminal patients all day and have to live their lives and find humor where they can, but is it really appropriate to make a penis joke in this particular scene, writers? Also, why wasn’t Callahan writing down the vitals he was taking?
5. “Calling All Angels.” Who else burst into laughter when THAT Train song kicked in as the doctors assembled, Right Stuff-walk style, to perform the 41 operations in a row? A little too on the nose, perhaps? And how about those color-coded vitals machines?
Red is bad.
Blue is good.
Does that fancy change of color exist in the real world, or is it just perfect for a TV scene in which you have to show a lot of fevers breaking at once? Again, does it matter?
Nah. You sleep now, Alex.
Heartbeat airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC.
