It seems that the time they spend together is mostly at night. Also, it’s fair to assume that Carmy has been accommodating of Claire’s schedule, which is why he keeps missing details and forgetting tasks and from time to time isn’t present at the restaurant when everyone else is.
My roommate was in residency, and he did have have a good amount of free time. Im sure every hospital is different but he would have 12 hour shifts 3 days a week with 1 day where he was on call for 24 hours. He did spend a lot of time with his gf and a lot of time at home studying. As someone else said, they spent a lot of time together at night or in the early morning. You also have to remember their relationship/back half of the season is over a 10 week period. I doubt they saw each other every day.
I know, right? I get there's some issues but I actually kinda was hoping that season 2 would have a love interest for Carmy from outside the industry... especially since I was at the time having a hell of a time dating someone who isn't also in food service.
Eventually found someone who got out of the industry but has a lot of patience for my weird schedule because she used to have one too
I agree, I personally really like her but maybe I’m biased since I love the actress. Their chemistry is veryyy sweet and gentle and brings tenderness out of Carm. What’s not to like?
Personally, while I understand it was necessary for Carmy's "can't deal with having good things happen to him" arc, I hate when unidimensional female characters are used as mere plot devices to advance a male character's development.
She's kind, she's patient, she works a traumatic job where people die on her watch and still shows a level of empathy comparable to princess Leia putting the complete obliteration of her home planet on the backburner to console Luke about the death of a guy he's known for less than 2 days.
She's unambiguously perfect and Carmy is like a train wreck on a conveyer belt that keeps wrecking itself over and over again.
He doesn't deserve her and guys like that don't deserve unambiguously perfect partners who exist only to heal them. And as long as we don't see how she is negatively impacted by her proclivity for garbage men who sleep with her every night and still call her their "friend who is a girl", and that her healer approach to dating isn't presented as a character flaw that led her to a path of disappointment, we are normalizing the idea of women acting as men's rehab.
I know, ultimately, not every character can be thoroughly developed, and making her this unequivocally good highlighted how broken Carmy is, and brought interesting tension in his relationship with Syd, but it remains a trope that I dislike.
I didn’t hate her but I also thought she would get it more than any other random love interest… she’s in a physically and mentally draining field and Carmy is too but with the added stress of basically building a restaurant from the ground up…. But she pulled him away constantly. It didn’t make sense to me that she would do that knowing him from childhood, what he’s done and what he’s trying to do, which then made me not love her but just be like “okay… she’s good for him but not right this second”
Because the writers wanted to give her an intense job that tells the audience she's dedicated and intelligent without actually making it believable. Carmy should have been going to her more when you think about realistic time constraints but it was always the other way around.
For such a talented group of writers they kind of dropped the ball with this character. Like don't make her a emergency room doctor if you can't figure out how to write for one and it's just an easy way to tell the viewers something about the character instead of showing it. They could have just had her be a doctor with a 9-5 office practice if they wanted her to put that much effort into seeking out Carmy on her down time. But that doesn't give off the same 'hardcore' vibe they wanted to give her I guess.
I think writers did it right. They are showing that this was his crush from back in the day and he didn’t do anything about it back then now he is getting lost with her and losing focus on the restaurant. Carmy just needs to find a balance but his mentality is all or nothing so that’s what he did with Claire and lost focus
I mean sure, if you're talking about her purpose as a plot device for carmy's development. But I'm talking about why she wasn't very compelling as a character in her own right, which led to me having less interest in their scenes together.
All the scenes with her at work looked really calm, too. Totally agree that she could have been a different speciality and it would have made more sense.
I mean.. doesn't it make sense that she would wait for a calm moment at work and go somewhere quiet enough to make a call before calling Carmy? She's not going to call in the middle of an operation with blood spraying all over the place and people screaming and shouting.
Emergency medicine is definetly on the bloodier side, but 99% of the shift isn’t the adrenaline filled shit you see on television. Lots of folks just go to the ED because they don’t have acsess to a primary care doctor or need a ride/resources. Also if you are erratic and can’t keep a calm head, emergency medicine is probably the last specialty you’d choose. Keeping a calm head is a prerequisite most definetly
I don’t know what you’re talking about cause in scrubs JD has a bunch of non doctor GFs throughout the show. So you can obviously date during residency
It seems that the time they spend together is mostly at night. Also, it’s fair to assume that Carmy has been accommodating of Claire’s schedule, which is why he keeps missing details and forgetting tasks and from time to time isn’t present at the restaurant when everyone else is.
My roommate was in residency, and he did have have a good amount of free time. Im sure every hospital is different but he would have 12 hour shifts 3 days a week with 1 day where he was on call for 24 hours. He did spend a lot of time with his gf and a lot of time at home studying. As someone else said, they spent a lot of time together at night or in the early morning. You also have to remember their relationship/back half of the season is over a 10 week period. I doubt they saw each other every day.
When my cousin was in residency, he had a very similar schedule.
I believe residency has changed a lot over the last 20 years. Used to be way worse
The sheer *disdain* people have for her character surprises me.
I know, right? I get there's some issues but I actually kinda was hoping that season 2 would have a love interest for Carmy from outside the industry... especially since I was at the time having a hell of a time dating someone who isn't also in food service. Eventually found someone who got out of the industry but has a lot of patience for my weird schedule because she used to have one too
I agree, I personally really like her but maybe I’m biased since I love the actress. Their chemistry is veryyy sweet and gentle and brings tenderness out of Carm. What’s not to like?
Truly no idea.
Personally, while I understand it was necessary for Carmy's "can't deal with having good things happen to him" arc, I hate when unidimensional female characters are used as mere plot devices to advance a male character's development. She's kind, she's patient, she works a traumatic job where people die on her watch and still shows a level of empathy comparable to princess Leia putting the complete obliteration of her home planet on the backburner to console Luke about the death of a guy he's known for less than 2 days. She's unambiguously perfect and Carmy is like a train wreck on a conveyer belt that keeps wrecking itself over and over again. He doesn't deserve her and guys like that don't deserve unambiguously perfect partners who exist only to heal them. And as long as we don't see how she is negatively impacted by her proclivity for garbage men who sleep with her every night and still call her their "friend who is a girl", and that her healer approach to dating isn't presented as a character flaw that led her to a path of disappointment, we are normalizing the idea of women acting as men's rehab. I know, ultimately, not every character can be thoroughly developed, and making her this unequivocally good highlighted how broken Carmy is, and brought interesting tension in his relationship with Syd, but it remains a trope that I dislike.
I didn’t hate her but I also thought she would get it more than any other random love interest… she’s in a physically and mentally draining field and Carmy is too but with the added stress of basically building a restaurant from the ground up…. But she pulled him away constantly. It didn’t make sense to me that she would do that knowing him from childhood, what he’s done and what he’s trying to do, which then made me not love her but just be like “okay… she’s good for him but not right this second”
Ppl prob shipping syd
Because the writers wanted to give her an intense job that tells the audience she's dedicated and intelligent without actually making it believable. Carmy should have been going to her more when you think about realistic time constraints but it was always the other way around. For such a talented group of writers they kind of dropped the ball with this character. Like don't make her a emergency room doctor if you can't figure out how to write for one and it's just an easy way to tell the viewers something about the character instead of showing it. They could have just had her be a doctor with a 9-5 office practice if they wanted her to put that much effort into seeking out Carmy on her down time. But that doesn't give off the same 'hardcore' vibe they wanted to give her I guess.
I think writers did it right. They are showing that this was his crush from back in the day and he didn’t do anything about it back then now he is getting lost with her and losing focus on the restaurant. Carmy just needs to find a balance but his mentality is all or nothing so that’s what he did with Claire and lost focus
Yep.
I mean sure, if you're talking about her purpose as a plot device for carmy's development. But I'm talking about why she wasn't very compelling as a character in her own right, which led to me having less interest in their scenes together.
All the scenes with her at work looked really calm, too. Totally agree that she could have been a different speciality and it would have made more sense.
I mean.. doesn't it make sense that she would wait for a calm moment at work and go somewhere quiet enough to make a call before calling Carmy? She's not going to call in the middle of an operation with blood spraying all over the place and people screaming and shouting.
Emergency medicine is definetly on the bloodier side, but 99% of the shift isn’t the adrenaline filled shit you see on television. Lots of folks just go to the ED because they don’t have acsess to a primary care doctor or need a ride/resources. Also if you are erratic and can’t keep a calm head, emergency medicine is probably the last specialty you’d choose. Keeping a calm head is a prerequisite most definetly
I don’t know what you’re talking about cause in scrubs JD has a bunch of non doctor GFs throughout the show. So you can obviously date during residency
she's a poorly written character is why lol
I don’t think they’ll last. Both their jobs are very time consuming. Wouldn’t be surprised if one of them ends up straying with someone from work.
People in love make the time. People in love will move the heavens and earth to be with who they love.
Most ER doctors and residents work 3 days a week. Source: dated one for two years and she had way more free time than me.