[friendociate]

I don't know how "sheltered" I am, but I can guess that most of my "growing up" -experience was done in 'watching dramas on television.'

Obviously, a show as new as SO HELP ME TODD isn't one that 'grew ME up,' but those who are being 'grown up' by it today ought to pay close attention to this episode.

Beside the plot referred-to in the title--about how doctors should be allowed to examine medicines without regard to 'getting money from the drug-maker's profits'--there's the plot about Todd's sister. A "practically perfect in every way"-doctor, she never got drunk, partied, disturbed-the-peace & got arrested all her life. And in this episode (actually, a little bit before we see her at the police-station with Todd) she does everything she wasn't allowed to do growing-up.

After 'most of that,' there was "the not-guilty verdict" near the end of the episode. I don't know if it was the jury-foreman's delivery of the line, the defendant's joyous reaction to hearing it or the soundtrack's music, but my heart actually felt a sigh of relief when the foreman announced, "We find the defendant ... Not Guilty."

But--forgiving me that brief diversion--Do you have any comments on "sowing your wild oats"?

[Fergal]

Isn't it natural and normal for people to be wilder in their teens and twenties than when they get older and become more focused on their jobs / careers?