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New Amsterdam Season 3: Premiere Date, Spoilers, Trailers and More

Executive producer David Schulner and Ryan Eggold share what to expect

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New Amsterdam will reflect a whole new world when it returns for Season 3: a world turned upside down by the greatest medical crisis ever experienced in our lifetime. Particularly since the show is set in New York, New Amsterdam will be borrowing heavily from real-life events to show how Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold, Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman), and the rest of the staff deal with the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. 

Of course, the show already had a pandemic in mind prior to COVID-19, ultimately scrapping a flu pandemic-themed episode after people in the show's cast and crew -- including recurring guest star Daniel Dae Kim -- contracted the COVID-19 virus. Few shows have the opportunity to tell stories about the disease and the heroes who've been fighting it like this one, and as executive producer David Schulner told TV Guide in an April  2020 interview, they're going all in. "We can't just pick up where we left off,' he said. What might New Amsterdam Season 3 look like? Here's what we know so far.

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New Amsterdam will return in the spring. NBC has announced a premiere date of March 2 for the new season. 

The trailer will make you emotional. NBC dropped a trailer for the season in early February and it showcases just how trying the upcoming season is going to be for Max and his staff. The trailer also teases that not everyone is going to make it through this trial. Have tissues nearby when you watch! 

The COVID-19 storyline(s) will be hopeful, according to Eggold. In an interview with NBC's Chicago affiliate station, the star said "I that the show has always come from a place of hope. I think [we'll be] focusing on obviously the patients but also the health care workers and the efforts that it has been and continues to be...I think we will begin in a place of reflecting what a crazy journey that we've all kind of been through has been like."

Sharpwin is kaput... for now: Yup, Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) and Dr. Helen Sharpe's (Freema Agyeman) stop-start, sputtering sexual tension isn't about to be realized anytime soon, according to Schulner. The arrival of Cassian Shin (Kim) means that Sharpe has a new colleague/love interest, and they are, in the words of Schulner "going to become a thing."

There's going to be friction between Max and Cassian: How could there not be? With Cassian employing a work style all his own that's nothing like Max's, these two are bound to butt heads -- especially if Max spots Cassian and Helen getting cozy, like they were in the last episode. Then again, Schulner has said that Max may not even care. "I don't think romance is going to be on his mind."

Freema Agyeman and Ryan Eggold, New Amsterdam

Freema Agyeman and Ryan Eggold, New Amsterdam

NBC

Except some very different storylines: We've come to expect certain hallmarks of this show by now -- injustices in the medical system, corporate greed prioritizing profits over people -- and certain storylines too. Iggy (Tyler Labine) was working on a possible food addiction while preparing to adopt another kid; Dr. Bloom (Janet Montgomery) had been working on repairing her relationship with her mom, and so on. But now, the writers are reconsidering what Season 3 might look like in the wake of this pandemic. "All our plans have been blown out of the window," Schulner said. "In Season 3 we have to rethink everything. Their priorities are going to change after this pandemic. I don't think we can force storylines on a new world we're living in -- it would ring false. They're going to change."

We'll see that pandemic episode at some point: This was alluded to in Ryan Eggold's opening sequence at the beginning of the last episode of the season, "Matter of Seconds." How that pandemic episode will factor into the next season isn't clear yet.

Don't expect to see any more new players; Schulner said that they aren't planning on adding any more new characters soon. But he given that he also said all their plans have been blown out of the window, who knows if that might change! We do know that Daniel Dae Kim had originally been slated for five episodes in Season 2, and that plan will remain in place with the option for him to appear in more episodes.

Daniel Dae Kim, New Amsterdam

Daniel Dae Kim, New Amsterdam

NBC

Dr. Reynolds' return is still a possibility: Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Jocko Sims) famously (and sadly) took off for San Fransisco in Episode 17 ("Liftoff") but in past interviews, Schulner has played coy about whether or not he's really gone from the show. "Reynolds is leaving New Amsterdam [but] not leaving the show," Schulner told Cinemablend in March, and even Sims has said we probably haven't seen the last of him. Schulner told TV Guide that Aaron Ginsburg, who wrote the finale episode, has joked that a spin-off for Reynolds might be called "San Fransterdam," but also, "We don't know how to bring him back, especially now." Could he be bluffing? We'll find out when it returns.

New Amsterdam aired its last episode of Season 2 on April 14, 2020; it has been renewed for three more seasons. Episodes are streaming on Hulu.