Packing in your plots

New Amsterdam is a hospital TV series (not to be confused with the 2008 series about an immortal detective) and while pilots are often rushed, this pilot is really packed. The only public hospital in New York has its own school, a prison ward for Rikers, and it’s the closest to the United Nations. And the new boss upends the system, is trying to get back with his six-month-pregnant wife and has cancer. And there’s an ebola scare among the cases of the week.