SummaryShonda Rhimes serves as executive producer on this new medical drama that will debut on ABC. Three doctors are transplanted from the U.S. to work in an isolated clinic in the tropics.
SummaryShonda Rhimes serves as executive producer on this new medical drama that will debut on ABC. Three doctors are transplanted from the U.S. to work in an isolated clinic in the tropics.
Great enjoyable show for the family. It has emotional depth and touches on some universal human issues such as loss, self-doubt, loneliness and finding one's own path in life. Sometimes lighthearted and a good laugh. Medical procedures do not have to be truthful; they are believable enough to non-medical audience and inspire imagination. We are heartbroken that the show has been cancelled and are hoping this decision will be reversed.
I love this show okay maybe it is like Greys Anatomy but it is in so many ways also different. It doesn't matter witch time it is on I still watch it or I just record it. I hope that they will reconsider the cancellation and bring it back. I will miss the Action out off it and the romance =)
So what we have here is another show in which pretty, mildly tortured people perform deeds of medical derring-do while trying to figure out how they, and various parts of their individual anatomies, might fit together.
There aren't any particularly wince-inducing moments, but nor are the various grabs for the heartstrings as successful as they are when "Grey's" is at its best. No lows, but no highs, either.
The series opens with the doctors taking a cliff plunge into the inviting ocean, but this is a show where nothing qualifies as a creative leap, much less the sort of dive to merit keeping Off the Map on viewers' radar.
There's obviously a mistake! I watch several shows, and I admit Off the Map took a show or two to grab my attention. I taped the shows because I couldn't depend on being in front of the TV when it came on, but I looked forward to watching. I too watch medical drama, law dramas, etc. I'm no critic except to say that I was really getting into the characters, and now I'll never know how it all turned out. Bo-ooo! Just like America Dreams. What's wrong with good drama? I used to watch NBC, then switched to ABC, now what?
Pretty darned average stuff, but not as horrible as I thought it could be. Seems like I've seen it all before. But there's something about the actress from "Wonderfalls" which seems to give the show some promise. The guy from "Friday Night Lights" needs a better role. I'll watch the next episode while doing some work around the house, and if it doesn't pick up, it'll be gone.
Kind of torn on this. The show is workmanlike and the acting adequate but for some reason the first episode at least felt kind of like "Grey's Of The Jungle" with each of the young doctors - the "new shipment" having a deep dark secret reason for being there. I cna even draw parallels between some of the characters and a similar character on "Grey's Anatomy" - Mina has a lot of Christina about her and Lilly reminds me of Meredith. The actors are adequate given what they're given to work with. There are lots of nit-picky things that I could say about the show but the one that I'm still trying to figure out is why anyone would go to work in a clinic in South America without even a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish (or Portugese in Brazil), and why anyone would hire them for that sort of job without knowing that they could speak even a little Spanish. Other than that it is a pretty typical Shonda Rhimes series and I assume that in due course some of the characters will be sleeping with other characters. That's fine but its been done before and Shonda knows that because she's one of the ones who has done it before.
A better title for this show should be ''Not Another Hospital Drama''. The lines are repetitive, the story is predictable and the geographical descriptions inaccurate. The title ''Off the Map" states that every place south of the United States is indubitably â
This is probably the worst show ever. It assumes that South America is a Jungle, that Quechua is not a language but an indigenous group (Too bad that neither Perú, nor Bolivia or Ecuador look anything like Hawaii, and it is painfully obvious this was filmed there), that all Spanish Speakers sound like they are speaking a second language (in this case they are, and in very different accents) I remembered a particularly delirious episode of Frasier in which Argentina was portrayed as a beach party (Cancun like), but that was a comedy and that portrayal, done with a wink, worked there. It does not work here. In fact, it is highly offensive in this context. I am appalled by the ignorance of people who are ready to accept this portrayal of South America at face value. Are we really that ignorant? The love affair with pseudoscience is also present here (as it is in Private Practice) and it is just as ridiculous. I have watched the first 9 episodes in total disbelief. Personally, I feel insulted by this show. I find no redeeming features in it, and the most that I can hope for is its early cancellation.