SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago Med Season 11, Episode 20.
Chicago Med Season 11, Episode 20 is what happens when a TV show has a lot to say, and not a lot of time left to say it. “Hell Breaks Loose” is an hour that includes several major plot developments and has to completely skip over some others, simply because the NBC series only has 84 minutes left in its entire season. This gives the episode a rushed quality, but one can’t deny it’s covering a lot of ground.
From a medical standpoint, the episode takes its title from the fact that one guard and several prisoners are brought into the hospital—the result of a prison riot instigated by the latter after the former got into a physical fight with a teenager. Meanwhile, Olivia the surrogate mother from earlier in the season returns to discover her baby is coming, which is a big giant clue to Chicago Med viewers that Dr. Hannah Asher’s baby is coming. Like every episode dealing with a mass patient event, there are a lot of different cases introduced, but very few of them get significant screen time and that makes it harder to connect with them. For example, Dr. Mitch Ripley treats a patient who very quickly goes from “probably just has a concussion” to “was in surgery and now we’ll have to see if he lives long enough.”
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Chicago Med airs Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Photo Credit: Courtesy of NBC.
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