The show certainly jumped the shark many many years ago, perhaps with the person turning into a tree!! The show has become almost laughable at this point from where it started 17 seasons ago. Every season cliffhanger has either a serial killer, mass killer, fire, or some other type of natural disaster that puts everybody in the hospital at risk. The past few seasons have really started to pile into delivering political messages. This season, not only weighted into the pool but dove into the deep end. The show is now nothing more than a vehicle for its creator to push a political agenda.