If you missed the premiere of “Boston Med” — the best show of the summer — last week, you can catch up tonight.
In fact, you must catch up tonight. It’s that good.
Like a real-life “Grey’s Anatomy,” this summer series lets us peek behind the patient-doctor stuff into the personal lives of the medical people featured on the show.
Every week, the show follows several cases, but the one that will rip you apart tonight is a soon-to-be-born baby boy, Sam Peerless, and his parents, Renee and Jake.
Jake, a soldier, has been given two weeks leave from his duties in Iraq to come home and see Renee deliver their baby. It’s the first time he’s been back in eight months.
The baby has been diagnosed with a severe heart abnormality and may not live.
It’s enough to keep you in tears for the entire hour of the show.
In the weeks ahead, there is a tremendous amount of not-to-be-missed drama — including the area’s first face transplant. Some of the show’s regulars are also coming into their own — like Amanda Grabowski, the two-time Harvard Med Nurse of the Year, who is cute, funny and tough. Like the female docs on staff, she’s also single, and suprisingly uninterested in the often-egotistical doctors she works with.
A Hispanic hospital worker with a fatherly bent advises her to wear some makeup. “She could look much more excitement,” he stammers in fractured English.
Then, there’s Dr. William Curry, a handsome African-American neurosurgeon who is following in his father’s surgical scrubs. He recalls that after one case, a patient asked, “Are you here to clean the room?”
“Some people would get upset,” he says. “but I only thought it was funny. I mean, I did the operation!”
Brilliant.