SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago Med Season 11, Episode 11.

Chicago Med Season 11, Episode 11 is almost a fantastic episode. It’s another outing that has some wonderful highs and some disappointing lows. “Our So-Called Lives” is slightly reminiscent of the Claire Danes show of the similar name, given all of the personal angst involved, but when it’s great, it’s really great.

Let’s start with the positives: the return of Hope Lauren as Lynne and the idea to mark the one-year anniversary of Sully’s death. It’s a really lovely thought to revisit the Sully plotline, since that was so formative for Dr. Mitch Ripley. The standard practice in TV shows is to forget a lot of these big character moments after they’ve run their initial course. Yet “Our So-Called Lives” wonderfully illustrates how Sully’s passing continues to affect both Lynne and Ripley. In addition to that, it’s just a pleasure to see Lauren and Luke Mitchell working together again. The fact that they shared so many scenes in The Republic of Sarah makes the dynamic between Lynne and Ripley so much more engaging and natural, and this is a friendship that’s worth keeping as part of the show (that one brief attempt at pairing them up aside).

Read the rest of this review at Fangirlish.

Chicago Med airs Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Photo Credit: Courtesy of NBC.

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