• Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

  • Summary: Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson), a high-priced surgeon, is visited by the ghost of his ex-wife Anna (Jenifer Ehle), who leads him to a free clinic where he learns what life and death really means.
  • Genre(s): Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 19
  2. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Sep 22, 2011
    80
    There's no question that A Gifted Man is the network's best, most creatively successful effort in the past five years.
  2. Fifteen minutes into A Gifted Man, the performance of Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Ehle and Margo Martindale had completely won me over, and of all the pilots I've screened for fall, this is the one I most want to see more of.
  3. Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Sep 26, 2011
    60
    It's all a bit edgier than you might imagine, and I'll be giving this another look--though it's probably not going to keep me home on Fridays.
  4. Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Sep 23, 2011
    25
    It's painful watching an actor as skilled as Wilson trying to force-feed credibility to a horrifically unbelievable moment and sadly failing. Things only get worse from here on.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Negative: 3 out of 12
  1. Love, Love, Love this show! Please more seasons!!!! Patrick Wilson is a great fit and supporting cast has great chemistry. 16 shows went by in a flash! Expand
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  3. 5
    Maybe this should have been called Asperger Man. In a nutshell: wife had the heart of gold and empathy role, hubby honed brilliance. He is so brilliant that other doctors become fumblingly incompetent in his presence. When you see him in action at the free clinic, the other doctors don't seem to be able to handle basic first aid or triage. How did they ever function without him? The episode I just watched (my last!), he finally found a supermodel/doctor with a heart of gold to run the clinic (thank God! what if someone ugly or over 30 had come along?) So now viewers can watch as Asperger dude takes 2 or 3 seasons before someone tells him that new doc is hot and he should go for it. She of course, will pine away in that cute, sassy, rescueing lives kind of way these show are so fond of. It will be painful viewing, I'm sure. Expand
  4. A great medical drama, it's too bad it got canceled. I want something new though, A Gifted Man is the traditional medical drama, there are patients, they come in, they get treated. I want a redefining medical drama. This just isn't it. Expand

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