“Several minutes he spent contemplating whether to call an ambulance or not.”
Aha! That really sounds like a novella-I saw a scene like that one night recently in a series on Telemundo-except the supposedly loving husband dithered for a few minutes after someone shot his wife...
The series y’all watched sounds like it had a lot of plot twists and turns...
Just to be clear, Jack Donaghy was on 30 Rock, not HIMYM. I brought him up as an example of an actor who can act well despite being personally unbearable.