Bringing new medical residents into St. Bonaventure must be a breath of recent air.
However The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 2 ended up being extra foolish than severe between Charlie’s incapacity to cease speaking and Dom’s fainting and incapacity to acknowledge a mind scan.
What are they instructing in that medical college? Sheesh.
I am not sure how I really feel about Charlie and her extreme case of babble-itis.
As an autistic viewer, I used to be thrilled that The Good Physician employed an autistic actress to play the character. It is about time — there isn’t any motive for it to have taken this lengthy for an precise autistic particular person to painting a personality that shares the best way their mind is wired.
However the best way Charlie was written made her arduous to take, which was an enormous disappointment.
The sequence’ unique premise was that Shaun’s autism made sure issues tougher for him, and it appeared the writers had been making an attempt to recreate that with Charlie. However she got here off as a parody of neurodivergent folks, with each detrimental trait and few constructive ones.
Jared: Good commentary.
Charlie: Optimistic affirmations are good for folks with ASD.
I am glad she loves being autistic. I really like being autistic, too. However that message was approach overdone as if the writers had been making an attempt to persuade us that they had been pro-autism by her dialogue.
And to date, she would not have a lot of a character outdoors of being autistic. Autistic individuals are nonetheless folks. They’ve hopes and desires, family and friends, hobbies and pursuits… it is simply that social expertise will be tougher for us, and our pursuits can typically turn into obsessions.
The Good Physician has lengthy taken care to depict psychological well being points, particularly autism, precisely, however they missed the mark by a mile this time.
Moreover making Charlie a one-note character, they made her far an excessive amount of like Shaun. Autistic folks aren’t all alike, and to date, the one distinction is that she talks an excessive amount of, and he is extra on the quiet aspect.
All she has going for her is that she’s bubbly and wanting to be taught — and she is going to most likely be crushed increasingly more to find her hero would not like her.
How disappointing!
Her relationship with Dom is odd, too. Once they first arrived at St. Bonaventure, I assumed he was her aide, not one other medical pupil, as a result of he was serving to her perform.
He spent many of the hour making an attempt to not faint on the sight of blood — did he significantly not know this may be a difficulty when he began medical college>
Park and Dom’s surgical procedure was severe, however the story got here off as foolish for numerous causes. Dom fainting on a regular basis did not assist, and neither did Park deciding to make use of the promise of surgical procedure to drive the affected person to wash up his act.
You gotta have pores and skin within the sport.
Affected person
It wasn’t Park’s enterprise whether or not the affected person gave up playing, received again collectively along with his spouse, or the rest. The affected person consented to this dangerous surgical procedure, and it was Park’s job to carry out it. Interval.
Morgan’s newfound assist of Park was refreshing. Thank goodness these two have moved previous their cut up for the sake of drama.
Nonetheless, I wasn’t certain her pep discuss was sufficient. Park stored failing when doing a simulation of the surgical procedure — should not which have been resolved earlier than he did the actual factor?
Happily, he received it proper, particularly for the reason that complete hospital gave the impression to be observing.
Speak about stress! I would not need all these folks within the OR observatory if I needed to do a high-stakes surgical procedure.
I knew Park would succeed, although. It could have been pointless to undergo all this just for the man to die on the working desk.
In the meantime, Glassman and Lim received locked right into a ridiculous competitors. I had hoped that The Good Physician would keep away from the drained TV trope of two co-presidents butting heads at each flip, however nope.
No less than it wasn’t malicious. However nonetheless, it was foolish, and we did not want any extra comedian reduction. There was greater than sufficient nonsense already.
No less than Shaun and Glassman lastly made up. Hopefully, that is the top of their feud.
Shaun: You must have met Steve the day he was born.
Glassman: Sure, I ought to have. I used to be mad since you humiliated me and made it so I can not do surgical procedure. Did you overlook that?
Shaun: That isn’t an apology.
The infant-holding scene on the finish of The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 1 was a fakeout; Shaun was nonetheless so uncomfortable with Glassman that he nearly did not go to Eden’s celebration as a result of Glassman can be there.
Happily, Shaun discovered one thing from his affected person combating along with his intercourse employee daughter and concluded that “household would not all the time need to agree.” I am glad that storyline had some extent as a result of it was one other instance of docs minding sufferers’ non-public enterprise.
Charlie discovering out that Grace was a intercourse employee appeared contrived, and it solely took her just a few seconds to spill a secret she’d been requested to not inform — but another excuse she’s not endearing to date.
Thank goodness Charlie would not find out about Lea’s struggles with supplementing breast milk with system. Goodness is aware of what she would say — and to whom — if she discovered about that!
Lea’s by no means been my favourite character, and I often do not benefit from the home tales. However I beloved her dialog with Morgan.
Morgan was empathetic and supportive for the second week as a substitute of snarky and annoying. I like this new and improved Morgan; let’s hope she stays round!
Among the best issues about The Good Physician is how supportive most girls are of each other. The feminine friendships on this present are a lot enjoyable and much better than the catfights and petty jealousy many writers insist on giving to feminine characters.
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The Good Physician airs on ABC on Tuesdays at 10/8c.
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