The #ChicagoPD fandom needs to do a group hug with Erin Lindsay.
— Chicago P.D. (@NBCChicagoPD) May 21, 2015#BestFansEver #ChicagoPD #ChicagoPDFinale #LindSLAYisamess #HaveFaith ❤️ @NBCChicagoPD
— Sophia Bush (@SophiaBush) May 21, 2015That's it for Season2 fam, thank you all SO much for your love and passion and dedication to our show. We love you! #ChicagoPDFinale
— Sophia Bush (@SophiaBush) May 21, 2015Erin has been struggling with Nadia’s death for several episodes. Why do you think she went so far as to quit?
Sometimes it's the strongest people who fall the hardest. They're the people who you don't expect to be knocked off their game. This kind of a thing, what it brings up for Erin is where she comes from. The way that she grew up told her who she was going to be, what she was going to be able to do and then by luck, hard work and the grace of being arrested by the right detective, she made it out. It was against all the odds and she's been a tough woman who's been able to push forward no matter what. Erin's motto is always a forward march and she always gets the job done. This just ruptured her. It sliced the parachute and then she's just falling and she doesn't know how to get out of it and how to get away from it. This notion, for her, is that maybe she's not as strong as Hank. Maybe she wasn't able to save someone the way he saved her. Maybe she should have never tried. If she hadn’t fought so hard for this girl, maybe this girl would still be alive. The notion that you caused a death or put someone in the line of fire is so brutal. That all really informed just how much this would make Erin lose her mind.
We've seen her quit P.D. before just earlier this season when she took another job. She ended up coming back pretty quickly. How will this be different from that?
The initial storyline for Erin going to the task force was supposed to last for eight episodes. The way it changed the chemistry of the show – everyone hated it. They pulled the plug on it really quickly, but there's something about this that's different. … This left her, emotionally, in a way that I think will not be so easy to have a quick turnaround from. Leaving the task force is simply about, "I don’t like the politics. I don’t like being surrounded by a bunch of misogynistic assholes." This is getting to the very core of who she is as a person and it slays her vulnerability open in a way that I don’t think she knows how to cope with. I'm hoping at least that that's not something that when we come back in season three, everything's OK. I think she's going to have a lot to deal with when the next season of the show picks up and we'll have to figure out how to tap back into her strengths.
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Well, I like this storyline even less than the task force. I actually think the task force was ok, but do I really want to see Erin going through rehab? No, and I hate her mother, so I don't see how her struggling/healing/recovery story or whatever it is going to be will fit into a cop show with usually a case of the week. I really like this show but Erin's storyline bores me.
ReplyDeleteIt's getting really exhausting watching this show when every major story is about Lindsay (task force, death of Nadia, downward spiral of drugs and alcohol and now her resigning from Intelligence). Really hope that next season this story is resolved and we can move forward with more stories/arcs for the other characters.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. I am so tired of the Erin Lindsay show! This show has a fantastic cast, and it's time other characters get storylines.
ReplyDeleteThis year, I've noticed that Chicago PD is much less of an ensemble cast than its parent show Chicago Fire. It has become focused on Detective Lindsay with others around her. I honestly think half the cast could leave and as long as Detective Lindsay was there, the casual fans would not notice. Even the exit interview is all about Detective Lindsay and not a single question about any other character. I agree that there needs to be a broader focus on everyone next year.
ReplyDeleteTune in next season for Chicago PD: The Erin Lindsay Edition. Watch as she stops crime, cries, has crisis's and fights as a one woman show because hey you wouldn't think anyone else on the show exist most of the time. Who are those people in that background those guys and that woman Burgess, oh, nevermind just background characters to the Erin show.
ReplyDelete:D lol. Exactly how I feel at the moment with CPD. It's really a one woman show. I hope Season 3 will be different, need more stories with the other characters (e.g. Halstead, Dawson, Ruzek, Roman, Burgess).
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