But they also struggle with painful ethical questions and loyalties and sometimes surprise themselves by doing the right thing. Kelley's words are intelligent, of course. He deals in real moral issues and the kinds of conflicting loyalties that are part of every adult's life. In the show a judge rules against the procedure and carries a warrant to the hospital when the doctors defy his orders, but he stops on his way out to tell the patient's wife that his prayers are with her. Viewers get to see them make fools of themselves.
Bad things happen to beautiful people.
If they make love in a not completely private place, they get caught. If a speech or conversation is really important, they say exactly the wrong thing. When they make confessions, the last people in the world they'd want to overhear it do. Then her colleague Ally emerges from one of the bathroom stalls, and everyone is horrified. Not compared with this.