He’s immortal, and like all immortals, he wants to have a finite life span while the rest of us mortals would all like to live forever. Did I mention the immortal is immortal?

As New Amsterdam, the new series on Fox TV starts, we are rushed through a number of explanations of the character’s background: He’s been sober since the mid 1960′s, he gets a new partner, he’s had a lot of cop partners, he’s had a lot of girlfriends, (In case we don’t get the immortality thing) etc., etc.

Early in the episode, while we watch John (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) chase down a “perp”, he drops to the ground from what looks like a heart attack and we get treated to one of the many flashbacks shown throughout the show. These ...

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