The relationship between Dr. Max Goodwin and Dr. Helen Sharpe is one of the things that makes NBC’s medical show New Amsterdam so interesting.
When Helen decides to move to London, Max even quits his job in New Amsterdam to go with her. Helen and Max give each other a lot of help when they are both going through hard times or facing hard challenges. When they realized how important the other person was in their lives, they decided to get married. Helen stood Max up at the altar, though. Fans of “Sharpwin” must be trying to make sense of their breakup now that their cute relationship has come to an end.
What happened between Max and Helen?
Helen writes Max a letter after she stood him up at the altar. In the letter, she tries to explain herself and say she’s sorry. Helen makes it clear in the letter that she doesn’t even know why she had to leave him. Helen can only tell Max the truth, which is that she doesn’t know why they broke up. Helen knows it’s important, and she’s even brave enough to follow her heart and break up with someone she cares a lot about. But she can’t put words together to explain why she does what she does.
During their time together, Max and Helen face a number of problems. Helen’s wish to stay in London for good has to be the most important thing. Helen knows that Max’s life is in New York, but he doesn’t think twice about moving to London with her. Seeing him change his whole life must have put Helen under a lot of pressure, especially since Max is taking Luna to London with him from the place where Luna’s mother lived and died. Helen must have wanted Max to stay in New York and live his life there, and the couple’s breakup could be the price of that.
Helen may have also wanted to have a life that she made herself. Helen may not need to pay Max back for his part in the same. Helen has always let other people, especially her mother, run her life in some way. Helen may want to break this pattern when she moves to London so she can be more independent, even if it means being away from Max and his help. All of these things must have worked together to keep Helen from marrying Max, which also makes it easier for them to break up.
Even though Helen isn’t saying why right now, we may find out in one of the next episodes of the fifth season. “From that letter, it’s not clear why she [Helen] left, and I think we might talk about that later,” Max’s actor, Ryan Eggold, told TVLine. Eggold said that Helen might gather her thoughts and try to make sense of them so she can explain why she and Max had to break up. Max will probably try not to get stuck in the past until then. His growing friendship with Dr. Elizabeth Wilder may help him even more to deal with the hole in his life that Helen leaves behind.
Since the actress who played Helen, Freema Agyeman, left the show after the fourth season, the writers of the medical drama may have realized that Max and Helen need to break up. Since the couple is no longer together, they can also think about writing a love story about Max and Wilder. Before the show ends with the fifth season finale, we can hope to find out why Helen and Max broke up and whether Max will end up with Wilder or go back to Helen, if there’s still a chance they can get back together.
Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) and Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) probably won’t leave New Amsterdam, especially with Dr. Veronica Fuentes (Michelle Forbes) taking over as medical director and so much going on at the hospital, right? Everyone hoped this would happen.
“That was what we wanted. “We tried to make it as hard as possible for them to leave, but they did it anyway,” says David Schulner, the executive producer of New Amsterdam.
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What can you do?
Yes, Max and Helen are going to London, which is part of the season’s theme of finding happiness. “Max and Sharpe definitely deserve happiness. And when they left New Amsterdam, it was to find their happiness, to go after what made them happy,” he says. “Unfortunately, it just took them away from New Amsterdam, but hopefully that moment was the peak of happiness. This will happen more in London.”
Their friends don’t have as much happiness in their lives. Dr. Leyla Shinwari (Shiva Kalaiselvan) finds out that her girlfriend, Dr. Lauren Bloom (Janet Montgomery), gave her a bribe to get that residency spot, so she calls her out on it. Dr. Lyn Malvo (Frances Turner) tells Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Jocko Sims) that she is pregnant. This is a very complicated situation because she is married to both Dr. Claude Baptiste and Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Andre Blake). And Dr. Iggy Frome (Tyler Labine), who hired a new head nurse who hit on him during the interview, might have made a mistake.
Max and Helen were last seen on their way to the airport, so anything could happen. They haven’t gotten on the plane yet. So what will they do next?
David Schulner: [Laughs] They are on their way to London. It’s going on. We’re not playing games…. We’ve been talking about American healthcare for four years. Max wants a system like the NHS in the UK, where healthcare is a human right and everyone gets it, whether they’re a citizen or not. So we can talk about what’s good about socialized healthcare and what else needs to be done. Max and Helen are going to be a part of a whole new system, and we get to talk about it.
What is she doing in London?
She is now the medical director of the clinic that helped her learn and grow into the person she is today. She also has a big problem with her mother, who tells her all kinds of stories about Sharpe’s childhood and her parents. Her mother’s stories about her father completely shaped her memory of him, even though we later found out that they weren’t true. So, both personally and professionally, Sharpe has a lot to deal with in London. Then, for the first time in his life, Max is on his own. When we first meet him in London, he doesn’t have a license to practice medicine, so how can he help people? Everyone has their own problems to solve in London, and everyone has their own problems to solve in New York.
Oh, good. And COVID made it so we couldn’t do as much as we wanted to. It’s hard every time we bring that sweet little girl to the set. The main thing we want to do is keep that actress safe. She’s still too young to get a shot. We’d love to do a lot more with her, but safety comes first, so we’ve had to cut back a bit.
They seem to be moving pretty quickly, so can we expect their wedding this year?
It’s possible for anything to happen, but if they know the show and how I like to tell stories, they’ll know they have a lot to do to get to the next level. As you said, they’ve been moving so quickly that they’ve skipped a lot of steps and conversations we haven’t heard yet. So we need to make sure that all of those things work out before we do anything else.
The last thing Bloom and Leyla said to each other was very sad. You made them happy, but then you took it away. Was there any discussion about whether Bloom should confess first?
No. No, there was no debate. I thought about it for a long time. We were sad that we knew Bloom would have to pay for what she did. And we didn’t want to set up something as big as that bribe and then not give her the full weight of the consequences.
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So where does their relationship go from here?
Oh, it’s so hard because they still love each other, but the situation is so tense, complicated, and messy, and it’s not over in any way. But that doesn’t mean it gets better.
Lyn’s pregnant. What can you say about the conversations she, Reynolds, and Claude will have in the future?
Because it’s all new territory for them and, hopefully, for the audience, those are probably the most difficult and tense conversations. It’s funny that we started telling these stories when Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith admitted that they were married. So it’s been fun to read their confessions and see how our own trio struggles with monogamy, honesty, and loyalty. Keeping track of these two relationships at the same time has been fun.
What did you want to do with Reynolds in this story, no matter what happens next or who the father is? What will it mean for him in the future when he thinks about what he wants out of life?
The whole point of this story was to show that Reynolds was very set in his goals and ideas about how he wanted his life to go in the future. And there’s nothing more fun than taking someone who is sure of their path in life and completely changing it. It’s the result of how sure he was of himself. We had to try to shake him up to see what he was made of, and maybe he’ll come out of this even more sure of what he wants out of life, or maybe he’ll realize he needs to rethink everything he thought he knew. And that’s what makes us happy. I think he’ll know where he’s going by the end of this season.
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