#savebrilliantminds

The one I made in response to this that's more specific about what I want

The one with more signatures

Another one I just made to make sure that if NBC doesn't want to give it a second chance it shops it around to someone that will

And here's the comment form to give NBC a piece of your own brilliant minds

So the way it works is you select the broadcast option from the first dropdown, the feedback-about-a-show-or-movie one from the feedback type and you can give either positive feedback about how much you love the show, negative feedback about how much you think this decision sucks or do what I do and submit one of each

But if things don't work out with NBC there's also the backup plans of other networks so I found the feedback forms for ABC and FOX so we can leave feedback saying that those networks should pick this up if NBC lets it go

ABC

and what to select on the dropdowns before you write your message is ABC under brand and Suggestion under category

FOX https://help.fox.com/s/contact-support-feedback

Select programming feedback from the feedback category before you write your message

The show must go on!

Also friendly reminder the six remaining episodes of S2 premiere starting May 27th on Wednesdays at 8 so watch them and stream them when they happen but use this time to get as many people into it and binging it as possible before then

Also here's some solutions for how to do some of the other solutions people have thought up

We won the TVLine poll let's make that mean something

And make it mean something that the ratings are actually going up and help them go even further beyond

Also this may sound crazy but since Lil Nas X is black, gay and bipolar, all minorities represented on the show, maybe if the show could end up on his radar the campaign to save it could get a massive awareness boost

And this is proof ScreenRant's got some hope

Oliver Samuel Wolf, I should not be interpreting the Biblical middle name as evidence of his potential Judaism

and straight into the uncanny valley and anxiety inducing shit

I spy with my little eye a very familiar cutie pie (ditched the curls have we)

well that's not gonna be awkward for his autism

I feel like this is kinda their way to have it both ways

so the patient of the week back at the ranch is some kind of Nathan Wuornos type?

He knows Amelia Bedelia, not surprised

said no overeager interns, said nothing about residents

and let's play is this metaphor for show's fate-hanging-in-balance or setup for potential S3

directed by Zachary Quinto, hmm

with you on both the working away from the group and the why can't a therapy activity be just a therapy activity

is it just him being acting-attending or is Charlie kinda giving off a different metaphorical aura here (and maybe even looking kinda cute )

another patient parallel and how the hell do you tell him

and now Nico in blue, que tal?

wow that's an interesting bit of Dana lore (and another Wolf parallel)

are you selfless Wolf or just an avoider

and now the show gets on its soapbox and gets really fucking confusing morally

seclusion room? doesn't sound ok

ooooh two doctors walk into a bar

parallel group fucking therapy too

so Ericka visits before Charlie?

oh so it's business not pleasure

anyone want to bet he's not gonna believe her that it came from Wolf

and here comes the awkward confrontation (not in the angry sense in the my brain couldn't help make a Jekyll-Hyde reference sense)

I'm not crying you're crying

guess I was right about even when I thought she was real describing Sofia as Wolf's platonic-Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl

so was Sofia right as there's no unreliable-narrator here

and we're back where the season started, are we gonna go through other flashforwards in order

girls in the field like Wolf would do

that ain't good

I think Charlie probably saved them an awkward conversation

oh so that's where those scenes come in

that was a different tone and wording than he said in the flashforward but he is right about the department, y'know, Charlie-Dana-Ericka power trio (and one more reason we need a S3)

and Nichols says what I've been thinking since that flashforward when I still thought Charlie was a bad guy, somebody perhaps a little too eager to overstep their bounds?

Ericka getting into her Wolf bag

don't rub it in dude's face

more parallels paralleling the parallels

and now what

so he's getting help but we're not doing the stupid House thing on the plane with telling people to act like certain colleagues

again with the periodic table motif

wonder what this says about neurologist heal thyself that the patient paralleling him was being hurt by his comfort mechanism

Charlie going all alpha and Ericka made him Realize Some Things

ooh Charlie and Nico drinking buddies (and now he's wearing the maroon scrubs again what gives)

and a little bit of meta-commentary with how letting this show stay cancelled would be a similar kind of slight to everything it represents

please tell me Charlie's gonna be fine and this is just late-season-tension-heightening

has she used his first name before

ok what is it with 2020s procedurals and elevator kisses

whole episode about venting?

the truth is that Wolf needs a hug

slight veiled title drop

and we're back to the usual monologue (and really well-chosen sequences)

Charco confirmed?

So here's what musicals you should check out based on which of the current procedurals I've been watching and loving you love too

Musicals you'd love if you love the NBC show Brilliant Minds and that if you love you should watch Brilliant Minds if you haven't seen it

Next To Normal

Fun Home

Rent

Musicals that if you like you should check out the CBS show Elsbeth if you haven't

Legally Blonde

Thoroughly Modern Millie

The Prom

Musicals that you'd like if you like the CBS show Elsbeth (more obscure than the other list's imho as Elsbeth's more likely to attract theater fans)

Amelie

Anyone Can Whistle

Wonderful Town

Musicals you'd love if you love the CBS show Tracker and that if you love you should watch Tracker if you haven't (and I swear these shows share more with Tracker than its needle drops and their soundtrack all being country-adjacent but you're gonna have to trust me on the spoiler-y plot/theme connections)

Hadestown

The Outsiders

Bright Star

Musicals you'd love if you love the ABC show High Potential and that if you love you should watch High Potential if you haven't (some of these might seem a bit of a stretch but that's because some musicals I put in another category might suit High Potential better they just suit that other show more than it) and yeah these are all fantastical in a way High Potential doesn't quite deliver on itself but it's about the vibes /certain-plot-elements-or-arcs-as-best-as-they-can-translate-cross-setting

Seussical

The Addams Family

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Musicals you'd love if you love the FOX show Best Medicine and that if you love you should watch Best Medicine if you haven't

Come From Away

The Music Man

Pirates! The Penzance Musical (and not just because this one would be perfect for if Best Medicine ever did a community theater episode that was musical theater, e.g. I mean even if he'd be playing Sheriff Mark playing him and not fitting subbing in in the role into his schedule if that show's still open, the thought of Josh Segarra playing the Pirate King kinda works imho)

Musicals you'd love if you love the ABC show RJ Decker and that if you love you should watch RJ Decker if you haven't (these may also seem like a stretch but I'm trying to assign it musicals based on 9 episodes of show so far so I don't have much to work with)

Newsies

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Explanations

I keep having to use either tunefind or the kind souls on the subreddit to play what's the name of that song because half the time when there's a needle drop I don't just know-already-because-I'm-a-country-geek I can't make out the lyrics because this show's mixing is sometimes as shit as its outdoor lighting

not sure if cross-network crossovers could happen but why these particular shows is 911 Nashville it feels like has similar themes (not to mention a similar vibed soundtrack) and High Potential has a mythology-mystery involving an abduction (if he can't find Roman for her maybe to make this still end happily he gets Morgan close enough to where she could find him herself) and it feels like tones and teams (as I feel like an easy crossover catalyst would have Colter and someone else in the field teaming up with the Major Crimes squad as I feel like it'd be easy to give certain characters past connections) would go together well

on a related note while I'm glad the support people have now got one base it still kinda doesn't feel as ensemble-y as it should (a lot of shows I've been watching on broadcast TV other than Brilliant Minds, High Potential and both 911s kinda feel like instead of a team it's just one hero and a bunch of supports and where's the found-family vibes) so I feel like it should be more than occasionally-Reenie-before-S3-decided-we-needed-to-focus-more-on-Reenie-the-lawyer and Billie-once-a-season-seemingly-but-she's-not-really-a-part-of-the-team being recurring field partners with Colter that's why I got so hype about both "Memories" (the episode with Colter and Randy in the field together) and the fact that we're apparently getting another team-up like that next week please let him being a regular mean this gets to be a regular thing with them being partners-in-person

since a lot of people esp. on the subreddit have been engaging in Discourse^TM about the team switcheroos I feel like the best way to satisfy them would be someone else being queer (but done in a natural way) to make up for lost representation. Heck with some of the series motifs about masculinity it'd even be thematically fitting to make Colter bisexual (and I'm not just saying this as a bit of a Colter/Randy shipper).

I don't know if someone in this role would be justifiable in the law firm side of things but if it would be then at the very least Colter's support team needs someone who's to them what Sweets was to the team on Bones (psychologist able to both help with the psychological-related aspects of cases and help the mental health of the team (as it feels like Reenie desperately needs one for her apparent PTSD and that feels like the narratively best way to incorporate that just make the psychologist part of the squad))

we've had canon ufos and witchcraft and Colter somehow able to walk through fire and I find it hard to believe with all the Supernatural references on the show we're just gonna ignore it. Not saying supernatural jobs have to take over the show but the weird shit should get out of limbo

I swear I'm not doing it on purpose but the two weeks so far Brilliant Minds has been back (please don't let these six/this pride month be the end of the road) there've been songs I've listened to later the night of an episode's airing that I've randomly connected lyrics from to the show and especially that episode

Last week it was these lyrics from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared fansong "As Above, So Below"

"A prison's not always a dark place/with grey closed-in walls and big loud chains/it can hide in the skin of a home"

Making me think of that episode's story and let's just say the stuff about the patient-of-the-week that paralleled where Wolf's arc was at

And now tonight I'm listening to "In The Ghetto" by Elvis Presley and these lyrics are making me think of Wolf and Charlie