The Good Doctor

I Love You

Sheesh, The Good Doctor. Did you want us to be depressed all summer? It's not that The Good Doctor Season 3 Episode 20 wasn't well-written or well-acted, but in the middle of a pandemic the last thing viewers need are stories about people dying left and right despite doctors' best efforts. Of course, it wasn't all bad news -- Shaun's patient survived somehow, and so did most of the doctors. But still. Is it bad that I found Casey's death more emotional than M... more

Hurt

The Good Doctor shook things up between Shaun and Lea. Literally. When several relationship storylines appear to have hit dead ends, what to do besides raise the stakes with a natural disaster? The Good Doctor Season 3 Episode 19 was the first of a two part season finale involving the aftermath of a huge earthquake. Couldn't the series have done better than this trope? The earthquake had all the elements a soapy disaster plot needs. The stakes were ... more

Heartbreak

For once, Morgan wasn't the most obnxious person in the room. Her dilemma was sympathetic on The Good Doctor Season 3 Episode 18, while Shaun acted like a jerk for most of the hour. There was a ton of drama in the penultimate episode before the season finale, too, but not all of it worked equally well. Morgan's rheumatoid arthritis has been carefully built up over the course of The Good Doctor Season 3. Her refusal to tell anyone but Glassman about ... more

Good Doctor Finale Earthquake: Whose Lives Were at Risk at the End of Part 1?

The Good Doctor was rocked by a massive earthquake on Monday that left multiple lives — and one resident’s career — in serious jeopardy. In Part 1 of the Season 3 finale, Glassman, Melendez and Lea attended a fundraiser for cancer research at a nearby brewery owned and operated by Marta (Ed‘s Lesley Boone), one of Melendez’s former patients. Disaster struck when Marta’s wife Noreen (Greenleaf‘s Kim Hawthorne) gave the trio a to... more

TV Ratings: 'The Good Doctor' Snags Season High 6.8 Million Viewers

Monday night saw yet more strong numbers for the broadcast networks, most notably for ABC’s medical procedural “The Good Doctor.” The Freddie Highmore series scored a season high 1.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 6.8 million total viewers, a full 1 million more pairs of eyeballs than the previous episode. Earlier on “American Idol” posted a 1.4 rating and 7 million viewers, a significant uptick from last Monday’s ... more

The Good Doctor's Shaun Just Exploded on Lea - Was It the Right Thing to Do?

The Good Doctor‘s Shaun doesn’t handle heartbreak well. Case in point: The surgical resident was ready to take a bat to Lea’s Gran Torino in the closing moments of Monday’s episode. Of course, Shaun had inspiration for his sudden, out-of-character impulse. Beforehand, he and Claire treated Finn, a patient with a rare form of dwarfism who was revealed to be a bit of a philanderer. When Finn’s longtime girlfriend found out about his side piece, she took it out on ... more