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- ABC
- Sep 25, 2017
- ABC
- Sep 25, 2017
Summary Based on the 2013 South Korean series of the name, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) is a surgeon who has autism and savant syndrome who begins working at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital with the support of his mentor Dr. Ira Glassman (Richard Schiff) in this medical drama from David Shore and Daniel Dae Kim.
- ABC
- Sep 25, 2017
- ABC
- Sep 25, 2017
Summary Based on the 2013 South Korean series of the name, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) is a surgeon who has autism and savant syndrome who begins working at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital with the support of his mentor Dr. Ira Glassman (Richard Schiff) in this medical drama from David Shore and Daniel Dae Kim.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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20% Positive
3 Reviews
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73% Mixed
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11 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
53
20% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
73% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Highmore plays his lead role to near-perfection amid all the considerable medical jargon and jockeying for position among his supposedly more enlightened colleagues. The Good Doctor engagingly drops Dr. Shaun in their midst as both a lamb and a lion with a muted roar. The story possibilities are readily apparent on a number of fronts in the best broadcast network medical drama since Hugh Laurie contrastingly bruised his way through House.
Shore has established the boilerplate world, and thanks to his leads, it has potential to evolve. But this first episode leans hard into the sudsy pontificating; hopefully, it’s just opening-night jitters for a show featuring a person with a condition rarely showcased on TV outside of A Very Special Episode.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 134 User Ratings
7.6
79% Positive
106 Ratings
106 Ratings
7% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
13% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 134 User Ratings
7.6
79% Positive
106 Ratings
106 Ratings
7% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
13% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
I'm taking my hat off! What an outstanding performance by Freddie Highmore! I grew up on his films(Charlie and the chocolate factory, The Spiderwick chronicles, Arthur and the minimoys and so on). About a year ago started watching Bates Motel and Freddie was incredible! When I finished it I was very sad and I wanted another tv show with him and boom! There it was, The Good Doctor. Plus David Shore is the creator( I love House so much and wanted medical drama for a long time). Obviously, the rest of the cast are doing a great job as well! The whole cast is amazing, great ideas, rare cases( my mom is a doctor so she loves it and I ask her what that means and she explains it to me like she did when we watched House). I want to congratulate the cast and can't wait for the season 2. Good luck guys!
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SEASON 1
There’s a lot going on here; too much, really. Like so many TV pilots, this one is auditioning for our attention and trying to cram every key character, theme, and backstory into that first tryout. It’s possible that once the show settles in, it could improve. ... Its two leads, Highmore and Schiff, are both excellent and manage to make some very heavy-handed dialogue sound less didactic than it otherwise might.
Shaun improvising surgical procedures with whatever he can find on a TSA conveyer belt, or flashbacks to Shaun’s very difficult childhood, are effective, and promise a solid, if familiar, show to come. But boy oh boy do the scenes where his colleagues debate Shaun’s fitness for the job labor, while also feeling like artifacts from around when Big Bang Theory debuted, if not earlier.
The Good Doctor struggles to balance its tone. In an effort to prevent Shaun from being the butt of its jokes Good Doctor leans too far in the other direction, venturing into mawkishness. ... But still, there are the seeds of a engaging procedural in the pilot.
For fans of the genre, Highmore almost makes The Good Doctor worthwhile, but you need more than one good man to save this messy makeover.
For a show that wants us to respect Shaun’s intelligence, The Good Doctor lacks any respect for viewer intelligence.
An interesting premise and a top-notch performance from Freddie Highmore in the lead role are not enough to make up for the muddled, confusing tone of the series and a set of unmemorable, boilerplate supporting characters. The central premise of a doctor with autism and savant disorder is engaging on its own, so we don't need the tear jerking back story or the boardroom debate over whether Dr. Murphy is fit to be a surgeon. Hopefully the show can find its true tone in time and abandons this two-narrative structure in which we see both the present day story and Shaun's childhood.
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SEASON 1
An interesting show with potential, thought the first episodes I have watched have not yet demonstrated the ability to become an interesting medical drama. Freddie Highmore's portrayal of an autistic/asperger syndrome surgeon is a bit hard to believe. I can accept mild symptoms as a possibility but not the symptoms as presented on this series. Secondly, the medical procedures portrayed are a bit of a stretch and will have the medical community laughing in the aisles. Not even 'Grey's Anatomy' dives into the medical procedure impossibilities that this series writes into the script. 'The Good Doctor' needs a medical script advisor.
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SEASON 1
This show was great in the beginning but the main character is now lost in the drama of everyone else. No longer is he the savant but the guesser. He seems to no longer be the main character. They've allowed this character to be taken advantage of not only by his co-workers but by his own neighbors and he acts more stupid than a high functioning Doctor with autism. Where is his mentor, seriously. Where are the skills that he portrayed so valiantly in the beginning. Probably one more season and it'll be gone.
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SEASON 1
Hamfisted, heavy-handed - whatever turn of phrase you want to use, there's absolutely no doubt the show MEANS well. The issue is the execution - from the 'kick the dog' moments of Freddie Highmore's dad (how else would you know he's a bad guy? Couldn't do it through, y'know, good and balanced writing), to the impassioned (and incredibly unneccesary plot line) of Richard Schiff chewing the scenery with the hospitals board, being used as a vehicle to talk about acceptance in them most "after-school special" way. I want to like this, I really do - David Shore is excellent, and usually his shows are brilliant. But this is just painful to watch. If they dialled it back, removed the sense of self-important gravitas, and injected TINY bit more levity, this could be a truly great show.
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