# Station 19 S5 E17 "The Road You Didn't Take" is must-watch TV

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**Created:** [May 26, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/station-19-s5-e17-the-road-you-didnt-take-is-must-watch-tv/965120 "2022-05-26T04:02:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/station-19-s5-e17-the-road-you-didnt-take-is-must-watch-tv/965120/1 "2022-05-26T04:02:45Z")

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My mother told me, without telling me what it was about, that I needed to watch Season 5, Episode 17 of the ABC show _Station 18,_ available to watch on Hulu. I had never seen the series before, or even heard of it.

I was floored. A domestic dispute between a father who’s supporting his trans son, and the mother and stepfather who want to take him away. A man with diabetic peripheral neuropathy who doesn’t want to go into debt, so he literally doesn’t come into the fire station’s clinic until his toes fall off. A firefighter who was abused by her ex-boyfriend to the point where she couldn’t take it anymore and she shot him, now going on a short road trip with her co-worker, who learns about the family he never had.

Lots of compelling storylines in just that one episode. This series might be worthy of a binge-watch.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/station-19-s5-e17-the-road-you-didnt-take-is-must-watch-tv/965120/2 "2022-05-26T12:13:05Z")

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Station 19?

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/station-19-s5-e17-the-road-you-didnt-take-is-must-watch-tv/965120/3 "2022-05-26T14:09:01Z")

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Blarg. That’s correct. I’ll put in for a re-name. Too many dang numbers.

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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/station-19-s5-e17-the-road-you-didnt-take-is-must-watch-tv/965120/4 "2022-05-26T14:24:33Z")

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Sounds like pretty much every other modern network TV drama on these days.