New Amsterdam season 4 episode 2: Are Max and Helen really leaving?

New Amsterdam season 4

At the end of last night’s New Amsterdam season 4 premiere, there was a pretty-big shock. After all, Max Goodwin decided that he is leaving — rather than stay at New Amsterdam in the long-term, he is heading off to London with Helen Sharpe!

This is an exciting, albeit sudden development. It represents Max saying yes to his heart rather than any career ambition, and it’s also a seismic change from what he’s done in the past. It’s also something that could dramatically change the show. How would a series entitled New Amsterdam really work when two of the most-popular characters are not actually at the hospital?

Here’s where executive producer David Schulner comes into play. In a new interview with TV Insider, he makes it 100% clear that while he intends for these characters to leave, it is not going to happen right away:

No one believes me when I say that Max and Sharpe are going to London. There’s a lot to do before they leave. There’s a lot to put into place before they go. But they’re going.

This is where things get tricky; it doesn’t feel like there’s any timetable as to when the two could end up departing. It could be in a few weeks, or it could be a little later this season. They could go only for there to be a time jump and they return after the fact. We don’t foresee the hospital ever fading into the background on this show; we wouldn’t even be shocked if we had an episode or two eventually with Max and Helen overseas.

In the end, just know this: There is a lot of room for excitement still with New Amsterdam, and what you saw last night is almost certainly not the end of the surprises.

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