The Resident Season 5’s Halloween episode, “The Thinnest Veil,” introduced an sudden twist, however followers must wait a couple of weeks to see how the twist unfolds. FOX won’t be airing a brand new episode of The Resident on Oct. 26; new episodes are anticipated to return in early November. Why is the medical drama taking a hiatus? Right here’s when followers can count on to see Chastain Park Memorial Hospital’s medical doctors on their TV screens once more, plus what the subsequent episode will maintain.
[Spoiler alert: The third section of this story contains some spoilers for The Resident Season 5 Episode 5, “The Thinnest Veil.”]
A brand new episode of ‘The Resident’ won’t premiere on Oct. 26
The Resident will take a while off the air on Oct. 26 to make room for the World Sequence baseball video games. FOX is one in every of the main cable networks airing the World Sequence yearly, so it doesn’t come as a lot of a shock to see them put a maintain on weekly reveals for the sports activities occasion.
In actual fact, FOX has already paused The Resident for the World Sequence earlier than. In 2019, the medical drama went on a two-week hiatus from mid-October to early November in favor of exhibiting two World Sequence video games.
Based on FOX News, Recreation 1 of the World Sequence 2021 will start at 8:09 p.m. on Oct. 26, round the identical time The Resident normally begins.
When will ‘The Resident’ return to its common schedule?
The Resident’s return date all relies upon on the outcomes of the World Sequence. A staff wants 4 wins to win the World Sequence, so if that occurs earlier than Recreation 6, the occasion will finish, and The Resident will return on Nov. 2. Nonetheless, if the World Sequence continues into Recreation 6, FOX will push the medical drama again once more. At the newest, The Resident ought to return on Nov. 9.
In the meantime, followers can take this time to catch up on any missed episodes. They’ll undoubtedly wish to be caught up earlier than tuning into episode 6 as a result of some vital adjustments are on the manner. All episodes of The Resident Season 5 can be found for streaming on Hulu.
The FOX medical drama will look very completely different when it returns
The Resident’s hiatus might solely be for every week or two, however it’s going to really feel like years. That’s as a result of the subsequent episode, season 5 episode 6, will decide up with a three-year time leap. Viewers caught a quick glimpse of this at the finish of episode 5, the place Conrad Hawkins (performed by Matt Czuchry) entered his daughter’s room to discover a 3-year-old Gigi preparing for Halloween.
Chatting with Entertainment Tonight, showrunner Peter Elkoff defined that they selected a three-year leap to offer Conrad time to mourn the demise of his spouse, Nic Nevin (Emily VanCamp).
“Conrad losing Nic is a terrible tragedy, and we felt like if we were going to tell a true story of grief, it would last for a really long time. And I don’t think we wanted to spend multiple episodes, 10, however long it takes for a man to lose the love of his life and the mother of his 9-month-old child,” Elkoff stated. “We felt like we would play the loss and the grief and the, ‘What the hell just happened?’ for a couple of episodes, and then do the time jump so we could find Conrad recovered, on the brink of, ready for whatever new version of his life there would be.”
Elkoff added that when season 5 returns, the staff at Chastain can be main completely different lives. Followers will even see some new characters, together with an ER physician named Cade. He stated:
When we come again in [episode] 6, everyone’s lives could have modified in numerous methods. Inside the hospital and outdoors the hospital, our characters can be dwelling otherwise than they did in episode 5. We felt like emotionally, the characters have modified some; somebody’s perspective in direction of another person could be completely different. We’ll have a brand new romantic couple inside the story at episode 6 after the time leap. Then in episode 7, now we have a brand new character, a health care provider, who’s going to return in and actually stir issues up.
New episodes of The Resident premiere on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. on FOX.