Was that The Good Physician? There was little or no medication concerned on this story.
The Good Physician Season 6 Episode 16 was a backdoor pilot for its spinoff, The Good Lawyer. Your complete hour was dedicated to a brand new regulation agency and the lawyer with OCD that Shaun wished to take his case.
This new sequence was solely tangentially associated to the unique however was related sufficient to maintain viewers’ consideration.
Many of the hour was dedicated to introducing the brand new characters and making a parallel state of affairs to Shaun’s state of affairs at St. Bonaventure.
Like Shaun, Joni is a neurodivergent particular person whose situation could intervene together with her potential to do her job — and her mentor has performed an analogous function all through her life as Glassman has for Shaun.
Oddly, Glassman by no means talked about this, although he is recognized Janet Stewart for years and depends on her for all his authorized wants.
Glassman: She’s good. She’s sensible. She’s been useful each time I want it.
Shaun: What number of occasions have you ever been sued?
Since Glassman’s relationship with Janet is strictly skilled, he won’t have been conscious. However I would assume the 2 would have in contrast notes when Glassman referred Shaun to Janet’s regulation agency!
Janet ought to have been ready for her new consumer’s idiosyncracies, and it will have been the right time to share her related historical past with Glassman.
Glassman was roughly there solely to assist Shaun. He did not attempt to advise him in any means or clarify to Janet the best way to deal with Shaun’s insistence that Joni tries his case.
Glassman’s not normally shy about attempting to assist Shaun, so it was bizarre how hands-off he was. It will have added one thing to the story for Glassman to place his two cents in, particularly given the parallel between him and Janet.
In fact, neither Glassman nor Shaun might be a daily a part of the forged as soon as The Good Lawyer begins. (ABC has no phrase but on when that might be.)
Janet’s involvement in Joni’s childhood case was meant to be a shock, nevertheless it felt considerably tacked on. Supposedly, the one purpose she saved Joni on at her agency was that Joni threatened to sue, and Janet did not know Joni thought of her a mentor.
These issues felt incongruous after the reveal that Janet had taken Joni and her sister’s case. Certainly that previous relationship had one thing to do with why Joni was working for her now!
New reveals all the time have a few of these varieties of plot holes, so they don’t seem to be a dealbreaker by any stretch of the creativeness.
This story had loads going for it regardless of these hiccups.
Considered one of its finest elements was the way it depicted Joni’s intrusive ideas. Utilizing a high-volume voiceover whereas everybody else saved speaking within the background was one of the best illustration I’ve ever seen of how most of these ideas can distract and overpower somebody.
Lea: OCD? You imply she’s neat and arranged?
Shaun: No. That’s not OCD.
Shaun dispelled a standard fantasy about OCD nearly instantly whereas speaking to Lea, and Joni’s habits and reactions have been reasonable for somebody with this dysfunction.
Many viewers solely know OCD by way of the character of Monk, who sarcastically typically acted like he was on the autistic spectrum. Whereas Monk was a groundbreaking present in some ways, Joni’s habits felt like a extra correct depiction of OCD.
Janet was an fascinating character I could not resolve whether or not I cherished or hated.
Her fixed insistence that Joni could not do the work aggravated me.
She was worse than Dr. Andrews was about Shaun means again when, and that is saying loads!
However I am unable to be the one one who cheered when Janet accepted a positive for contempt to drive a squeak out of the opposing counsel’s chair and get Joni unstuck!
Janet stood up for Joni towards a lawyer who was purposely triggering her OCD to sabotage her case, and it nearly made up for her earlier habits.
The chair squeaking challenge might have been made a non-issue if anybody had spoken to the decide beforehand. If Joni cannot operate round squeaky chairs, then these varieties of chairs ought to be faraway from the courtroom earlier than she enters it.
In fact, that prices cash that courts do not all the time have. However underneath the ADA, Joni is entitled to lodging to assist her do her job.
Conversely, the decide might have dominated that leaning again in squeaky chairs shouldn’t be allowed when Joni is in court docket or ordered the lawyer to squeak thrice. I do not know if a decide can be keen to do this, however once more, Joni is entitled to lodging.
And perhaps if individuals with extreme OCD got them, it will normalize that and different varieties of neurodivergence so that individuals would not danger being judged for being totally different.
I’m wondering if we’ll meet Janet’s unseen companions when The Good Lawyer premieres.
Janet stated all of them wished Joni off the case, however who have been they? And the way did she clarify the choice to reverse course and let Joni deal with Shaun’s case in any case?
Lastly, Park’s testimony throughout the deposition was fascinating. Did he bear in mind telling Shaun to not amputate due to a doable basal spasm, or did he simply assume he did? It might need gotten in his head if he knew the opposite aspect would declare that.
Park disappeared after giving this testimony. I’d have appreciated to know extra about his ideas and emotions in regards to the lawsuit and his function in it.
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