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The season 7 finale, and the second part of a two parter...
safenoe23 September 2016
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This is episode 24 of season 7, and not only is it the season finale, it also serves as the second part of a two parter story, starting with episode 23. No murder in this episode per se, as the plastic surgeon (played by Sam Anderson) was murdered by Brett (John Schneider) in episode 23.

Here we know that Brett is a bad egg when he makes a move on Dr Madison Wesley, and she is so smitten by him that she allows him to move in!! Brett's motives are revealed...it had to do with his wife's suicide when she was a medical student as a consequence of being caught out by plagiarism. And who investigated the plagiarism? Why of course Dr Madison. Thankfully Mark and Steve put 2 and 2 together in time to save a drowsy Madison from being hung by Brett, in her own bedroom. I don't know if Brett died at the end of after falling from the first floor, but maybe he will turn up in a reunion.

Alex, the medical student, doesn't appear in this episode but he was a central character in ep 23. Alex was played by Shane Van Dyke, the son of Barry, and grandson of Dick.

Some key characters in this season 7 finale: Nancy H. Newman (Nurse), Melanie Romain (Autograph Nurse), and Lynda Robertson (Sexy Nurse). Yes, the official credits do give these titles.

They play integral roles in the subplot where everyone in the hospital thinks Jesse wrote a roman a clef about the hospital. It wasn't Jesse, but before this was revealed many of the nurses swooned over him.
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8/10
..."Diagnosis Embraces Cougarism"...
gclarkbloom30 October 2022
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...one of the newest social phenomenons around the millenium was the notion of "the Cougar"...the concept of older women actively pursuing men many years their junior...

...fed by actress Demi Moore's dating, and subsequent marriage to the star of "That 70's Show" star, Ashton Kutcher... it was a cause celeb among women pointing out how very different and hypocritical the double standard was in this area... older men bedding, dating and marrying much younger women was proof of their virility; while older women doing the same with younger men was somehow perverted... like "robbing the cradle"....

...this phenomenon takes the form of Joanna Cassidy as Community General's Chief Administrator, Dr. Wesley dating and then cohabitating with a much younger character Brett, played by 15 years younger blond hunk, John Scneider...

...it is later revealed that Schneider's character is playing the good doctor as a chump, providing him legitimate cover for his muder of a prominent plastic surgeon who gave him a new face to avoid prosecution for his prior criminal activities... including murder...

... while both Cassidy and Schneider play their characters well... the believability of a sophisticated and savvy hospital administrator falling for the unctious and false charms of a cold-blooded manipulator and liar like Schneider's character, Brett rings patently untrue...and Cassidy's weak and emotionally dependent portrayal of a flattered and smitten older woman is absurd...

...this is a classic case where scriptwriters bend their characters to their given story line...and the resulting stew is inedible...
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