#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: Every Tuesday, I Watch the Latest Episode of Fox’s “The Resident” Like Clock Work

Around January of this year, I finished rewatching all seven seasons of The Good Wife. I have always been a sucker for legal and medical procedurals. I am neither legally nor medically minded in the slightest, but I enjoy the fictional stories that play fast and loose with either set of rules. And while The Good Wife was centered on Julianna Margulies’ Alicia Florrick, the deuteragonist, Cary Agos as played by Matt Czuchry of Gilmore Girls fame, was an equally compelling, charismatic character. There exists an interesting symmetry between the two characters, and appropriately between the actors. Whereas Margulies’ big role pre-The Good Wife was ER, Czuchry’s big role post-The Good Wife was as the titular character in Fox’s latest medical drama: The Resident. So, when I saw Czuchry’s smug smile on my Hulu feed, I clicked the pilot thinking “what the hell, I need the background noise.” And now as season two reaches its halfway point, the first thing I do every Tuesday morning is watch the latest episode of The Resident, and I’m not entirely sure why. And I thought I was already disenchanted with healthcare… A little bit of context: immediately after graduation (like literally two days after walking across the stage), I moved up to Wisconsin for a job in the healthcare information technology industry, a field that is about as close to working for a hospital without actually working for a hospital. Now for a variety of legal reasons, I can’t tell you what I did and what happened …