The Good Doctor Season 7 Episode 4 Review: Date Night

Shaun’s refusal to work with Charlie was the perfect factor that might have occurred to her.

On The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 4, Charlie helped Park, Jared, and Jordan devise a workable answer for a affected person who was reluctant to endure mind surgical procedure whereas Shaun labored on a distinct case.

Charlie had her probability to shine, and he or she did so fantastically. Ought to she quit on Shaun?

Though Charlie nonetheless made a couple of inappropriate feedback, she wasn’t practically as annoying — or possibly the remainder of her mentors had been simply extra tolerant of her quirks.

Charlie’s insertion of her opinion about Nathan and Jordan flirting wasn’t that far off from how the remainder of the medical doctors speak to one another. Jordan constantly and gently reminded her to maintain it skilled as an alternative of dropping her mood. That made an enormous distinction.

Charlie Demonstrated She Belongs at St. Bonaventure

All through the hour, Charlie contributed lots to the case she was engaged on.

When Jared and Jordan had been busy discussing Jordan’s love life, Charlie was centered on medication and got here up with a couple of concepts. Later, she discovered an obscure examine that pointed to an experimental therapy that met Nathan’s wants.

She confirmed off her medical expertise for the primary time, which she would not get to do with Shaun. He shoots down each thought she has and would not need her to speak.

His frustration on The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 3 was comprehensible since Charlie refused to just accept suggestions. However her interactions with the remainder of the workers had been a lot much less annoying that I questioned if the issue was Shaun.

“Endurance” and “tolerance” should not phrases in Shaun’s vocabulary. He needs issues the best way he needs them, and he doesn’t need medical college students speaking incessantly.

It’s going to be laborious for Charlie to just accept that the person she idolizes cannot stand to be in the identical room together with her. However when she’s not round Shaun, she will do much better work and is not consistently subjected to putdowns and harsh criticism.

Is she masking (trying to cover her quirks in order that she’ll slot in) when she’s round neurotypical medical doctors?

She might enable herself to be extra authentically autistic round Shaun as a result of she thinks he’ll perceive. In that case, that is backfiring badly, as Shaun has written her off due to behaviors that irritate him.

The Good Physician Missed a Probability To Show Charlie’s Empathy

Opposite to a pernicious fantasy, autistic folks aren’t devoid of empathy. Usually, we really feel different folks’s feelings to such a level that we shut down as a result of it is too uncomfortable and intense.

The Good Physician did not push again in opposition to the concept that autistic means missing empathy in Charlie’s storyline.

Nathan did not need to have the surgical procedure as a result of he was afraid he would lose his listening to and not have the ability to sing. It might have been pure for Charlie to empathize with that.

Many autistic folks have particular pursuits that they can not think about life with out, simply as Nathan could not think about a life with out singing. It might have been a shifting psychological well being story if Charlie had linked with Nathan by bringing that up.

Nathan and Jordan vs. Jordan and Jared

I am not normally a fan of affection triangles, particularly when the writers make clear who the individual will find yourself with when the mud settles, however Jordan made up her thoughts too shortly.

Was anybody else unhappy when she turned Nathan down? If he is every thing she’s praying for, it appears to me that embracing the unknown would imply giving him an opportunity.

Jordan needs to expertise life with Jared, so her choice is smart. But it surely nonetheless felt just like the incorrect one.

He is tachycardic and heat. That is not per an OD. I believe he is having a stroke.

Jordan

A minimum of she and Nathan had the sense to attend till he was not her affected person earlier than they thought of taking their relationship to the subsequent degree. So many medical doctors on TV ignore that moral boundary, and it is develop into a drained TV trope (and a relatively gross one.)

Melendez and Lim had been dangerous sufficient, however not less than they had been each medical doctors. We do not want different medical doctors sneaking round so far somebody they should not.

Shaun’s Try to Search Steadiness Labored Nicely

Prior to now, I have never had a lot use for Shaun and Lea as a pair. However the two of them making an attempt to determine the way to spend time collectively now that they’ve a child was a compelling, relatable story.

Their try to make time for one another led to some humorous moments. I laughed at how Shaun signed his notice to Lea, and the scene the place they tried to provide Jordan a billion directions was hilarious.

Solely Shaun Murphy would put collectively a thick ebook to information the babysitter.

Jordan’s response to Shaun and Lea’s anxious instruction-giving was excellent. It is too dangerous she solely had a couple of minutes to reveal she was as much as the duty earlier than Lea and Shaun referred to as it an evening.

Shaun’s concentrate on the small print of the karaoke bar that had modified was so typical of Shaun. However Lea stole the present together with her commentary on their date.

I am sorry, this isn’t like outdated instances. It isn’t simply the tequila and music which have modified. Every part’s modified. How I see the world, how I see you. One teeny tiny child, and the entire world seems to be totally different.

Lea

Parenthood is a large adjustment, and Shaun and Lea are studying that as they go. Their dilemmas are sometimes foolish or annoying, however this one was one which many mother and father might relate to.

Shaun’s Case Provided an Fascinating Parallel

Shaun may need been harried and exhausted, however he and Lea had their recollections intact, a blessing his affected person’s scenario made extra poignant.

Cam did not bear in mind Gilly, and he or she was contemplating terminating their child so she might dedicate herself full-time to his care, making them the precise reverse of Shaun and Lea, who had been looking for time for one another whereas caring for their toddler son.

Shaun supplied a medical miracle on the final second. Thank goodness he discovered what was incorrect earlier than Gilly went by with the abortion.

This is not about whether or not abortion is ethical. Gilly had absolutely the proper to have one if she determined that is what she wished.

Nevertheless, she was solely contemplating it as a result of she did not assume she might handle each her husband and a child, so it might have devastated each of them if he’d turned out to be okay after she’d already terminated the being pregnant.

Lim’s Mom’s Story Went in a Predictable Course

Lim’s mom confirmed up out of nowhere, pressed her daughter to work much less, and went out with Glassman when Lim did not need to go.

The second she and Glassman met up for the purchasing journey, I knew they might find yourself collectively. Hopefully, Lim will not trigger them to separate for the sake of drama.

Glassman was extra relaxed than he’d been in months, however we already know from the spoiler video for The Good Physician Season 7 Episode 5 that Lim is not going to love this one bit. Ugh.

Some Extra Foolish Park/Morgan Stuff

Park and Morgan have lastly stopped bickering, not a minute too quickly.

I discover it obnoxious after they snark at one another, even when they discover it a turn-on. Nevertheless, this fixed seek for a spot to have intercourse wasn’t significantly better.

Morgan: It has been virtually two months.
Park: Now we have the proper excuse.
Morgan: Folks with youngsters have intercourse, proper?

A minimum of Morgan did not imitate Days of Our Lives’ Sloan Petersen, who’s jealous of the eye her husband provides the newborn and desires he’d cease to allow them to have intercourse. When Morgan first introduced up intercourse, I used to be afraid that is the place this was going.

I might have accomplished with out them making an attempt to do it in a provide closet and Lim’s workplace, even when that did give us some comedian reduction.