"The Resident" Season 3 Trailer: Emily VanCamp Weeps for Her Post-"Revenge" Career in a Field of Flowers

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 3:15 p.m. PDT

Frustrated Revenge fans, you’re not alone! She may be in a field of flowers, but actress Emily VanCamp is weeping with us too…for her career! On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, FOX dropped its first season 3 trailer for its medical procedural The Resident. Yes, we must sadly refer to this show as a procedural now since it has jettisoned its compelling serialized plots involving evil scam cancer doctors and evil medical device companies. Hell, it’s even softened the edges of its shifty Dr. Bell (and he’s shifty in more ways than one — just check out those shaking hands!)

Would you like my shaking hands to handle your surgery?

In the new trailer (which you don’t need to bore yourself with…just check out the hilarious picture below), Emily VanCamp/”Nurse Nic” weeps…in a field of flowers!

They all think I’m crying, but really, there’s something in my eye.

Shh, don’t tell anyone!

TV gods haven’t been so kind to VanCamp’s family unit in her role on The Resident. She went from having the most loving daddy in the world on Revenge to the very absent father Mr. Kyle Nevin on The Resident. Plus, she gets a drug-addict sister who needs a kidney!

When we last left off, one (or perhaps both?) of Nurse Nic’s family members was/were dying on the operating table…all thanks to a drug-addicted anesthesiologist. Seriously, how does this hospital stay in business?!? Oh, wait, it’s not, because in a very unrealistic scene from the season finale, shifty-hands Dr. Bell managed to hold his hands steadily just long enough to sign the hospital over to some wonderful new people. Yes, apparently, this is how things are done. A doctor can just sign over an entire hospital without reading the contract and without a board approving the transaction!

But never fear, based on the season 3 trailer below, the whole hospital is now going to blow…UP IN FLAMES!

Revenge fans, keep dreaming if you think the upcoming fire will blast Emily out of the show and into one more suited to her talents. Girlfriend’s gonna keep playing the girlfriend… (Do we need to remind y’all what happened on Brothers & Sisters when our beloved Emily went from playing the erratic long-lost sibling to being de-Walkered and becoming her brother’s girlfriend?!?)

Season 3 of FOX’s The Resident airs on Tuesdays this season, with the premiere set for Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 8 p.m. EDT / 7 p.m. CDT, followed by the final season of Empire, which, like, no one is going to watch…I mean, where is the justice for Star? Better yet, where is the justice-seeking soul of Emily Thorne that Nurse Nic brought to season 1 of The Resident?

We sure hope the writers have some storyline for Emily this season that involves being something other than THE GIRLFRIEND, but we’re keeping them expectations low. Here’s to hoping that one day Emily will sink her teeth into a meatier role again. She does dark and twisty so well; it’s a shame we’re stuck watching her chasing kidneys and blowing kisses.