Hospital Saturday: Too Much Death on TV

     In addition for this week's Cop Fridays, I'm adding a new recurring column. It's been a tragic death week on television, so we will celebrate Hospital Fridays and pour some out for the homies. 

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   After last night’s blindside passing of Rayna James on Nashville, I went into a glass case of emotion, like Ron Burgundy (left). It was a complete and utter shock. This is Rayna's (Connie Britton) second almost deadly car accident (stale plot writers). Last time, her beau Deacon crashed the car drunk while the two fought for the wheel. This time, it was far more devastating. We have sat though episode after episode of this season with Rayna facing an unknown stalker. When she finally confront him last week, she had a terror-inducing experience convincing him not to hut her. If they had to kill her off (and they did according to this Huffington Post interview), why not just have the stalker off her? She comes out of the ordeal, quite shaken, and gets in the backseat of her police escort to come home. Then someone T-bones the car. Was it an accident? I've learned to believe car accidents on TV are suspect to some hinky stuff. I'm convinced this is some sort of deeply connected plot that ties back to Rayna's ex-husband Teddy and what landed him in jail. I may be wrong because this sounds more like a plot from old Nashville, where the stakes were unbelievably high.

     We also went through a whole  and Tuesday’s passing of William (Ron Cephas Jones) on This is Us, I am completely in a glass case of emotion, like Anchorman's Ron Burgundy.  I knew William would have to die at some point, because when we met him in the pilot, he announced he had cancer. Still, it was shocking to see him wither away after taking Randall on a road trip to meet his biological relatives. We learned all about William's past, growing up close to his single mother and singing in a jazz band. William cared for his mother in her final moments, vowing not to make his family suffer the same fate. We also got to see William (who is gay) meeting Randall's mother and falling in love with her, only to succumb to drug use to cope with the loss of his mother. It made more sense why he gave up Randall at the hospital, he knew he could never do the same job raising a child that his mother did. It was beautiful and emotional.

     I will be hiding out in my glass case this weekend, thinking about happy sitcoms.