Best-bets for Jan.3: time for tough, life-and-death dramas
1) “New Amsterdam” return, 10 p.m., NBC. Two weeks before its series-finale, the show has an hour that is both powerful and (at times) extremely upsetting. Helen is suddenly back in town and Max is reluctant to see her. (They’re shown here in a previous season.) Instead, he takes his hospital staff on an outdoor “retreat” – where new crises appear. One is physical and horrendous; another plays out in the mind of the psychiatrist. “New Amsterdam” is doing great work as it departs. Read more…