In 2021, a Reddit user by the name of ScottPress revealed they have reached a breaking point with regards to Max following the events of Season 3, Episode 12, in which he tried to "one-man a chemical spill" in the emergency room instead of calling for a HAZMAT team. "There's only so much stupidity I can swallow, even in the un-reality of a tv show," they wrote, specifically calling out Max's history of putting himself at risk in the name of his patients but also at the cost of his staff, who are then forced to clean up his messes.
"How many times now have we seen Max do something noble and stupid because any problem he sees must be fixed RIGHT NOW instead of stopping to think, which typically results in some kind of disaster," they continued. "[This] is then resolved in the last 20 seconds of the episode with a Max voiceover that demonstrates that he actually found a solution when he stopped to think about it for a moment."
"I really like the other characters but Max is sort of 1 note by this point," agreed fellow Reddit user soneg, who also called the show "tedious."
