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Night Shift is the best show ever (I have never seen it)

Night Shift was a four-season medical drama that ran on NBC. It followed TC  Calhoun, a rebel doctor who doesn't play by the rules. I assume I've never seen the show. I'm a rebel like my hero, Dr. TC Calhoun. I have seen the publicity photos they released, and they're great. For example, TC Calhoun gives us a rare male Escher girl


but this the best in this one.



It’s this masterpiece. Listen, the audience must know that, unlike every other medical show, this one's about a rebel who doesn't follow the rules, and presumably, when the producer said this to the photographer, his mind was subsequently blown. He came up with an idea and was just told one-word motorcycle. I've never seen the show, but I'm sure this scene probably happened. 

TC's riding alone on his Phantom stretch of highway, thinking about how he doesn't follow the rules when a procedure comes up that only he can do, and he doesn't have time to wait for man and does not care about the rules, man. He turns around and rides right into the ER. He then operates on the patient, who happens to be the president of the US, and the procedure, there was a bomb placed in his body TC Calhoun, of course, can't go into surgery without listening to some sick Tunes so he puts on acdc's thunderstruck and ideally in line with the Epic opening he manages to get that bomb right out of the president

that's when this guy who I assume is the hospital administrator, comes up to him and says you can't do that. That’s not regulation. Doctors aren't supposed to drive their motorcycles into the ER. Then TC Calhoun lets his perfectly messy hair fall over his eyes, looks at him all dark, and says well, I guess you don't care about saving lives. That’s the commercial break. Then, for over 50's life insurance place, you think in the back of your head, wow Calhon T. Calhon, he's such a badass, and why did that darn hospital administrator just let him get the job done?