[Warning: The next accommodates spoilers for Season 4, Episode 2 of The Good Physician. Learn at your personal threat!]
The Good Doctor‘s two-part premiere concluded Monday night time after a second hour noticed the docs of St. Bonaventure carry the COVID-19 pandemic to manageable ranges. The second episode additionally allowed followers to spend a bit of extra time with Dr. Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez), as Claire (Antonia Thomas) imagined her former mentor and almost-boyfriend serving to her monitor down an Military veteran whose canine tags had been discovered within the emporium of private belongings the hospital had acquired within the pandemic. Claire’s journey all through the premiere handled the overwhelming grief and loss the COVID pandemic has triggered the world amidst the chaos and concern.
Having Melendez, who died in the Season 3 finale, return, even when solely in Claire’s thoughts, allowed The Good Physician to indicate how Claire’s personal journey with grief parallels these of her sufferers and their households. It additionally bolstered for followers that whereas Melendez could be “gone,” he’s positively not forgotten throughout the coronary heart of the present.
“It was beautiful to see [Nicholas] and wonderful to have him again,” collection star and govt producer Freddie Highmore instructed TV Information. “On the finish of Season 3, we’re all hoping that this is not the final that we’ll have seen of Dr. Melendez. Actually, I wished extra of that story. And I really feel like extra folks did. It is a beautiful solution to carry him again that is in step with the emotional — the type of character growth and understanding in a deeper means, what Claire goes by means of from her loss.”
Claire just isn’t the one one who had a robust reference to Melendez, and a number of other members of the crew did not get an opportunity to say goodbye to him as they handled the fallout of Season 3’s season ending earthquake. So are there extra individuals who might use a non secular go to from Melendez in Season 4?
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“You by no means know,” Highmore teased. “At the least these first two episodes present that there is a particular risk [for him] to stay part of the present in sure methods, so completely. As we might have mentioned on the finish of Season 3, I believe that also stands as we speak… hopefully, he’ll proceed to be part of [the show] in no matter methods doable.”
For now, the docs and residents at St. Bonaventure are going to attempt to transfer on. Whereas they can not ignore COVID fully, it will not be the central focus shifting ahead within the season and the following massive impediment would be the residents taking over interns and displaying them the ropes. Prepare for Shaun, the mentor.
“That is actually going to be the large problem for him this season — studying to be accountable and take accountability for different folks,” Highmore confirmed. “We have seen him develop and be taught as a surgeon, and get higher at his job as all the opposite residents do. However it’s a totally completely different degree of problem to should now be answerable for others and to show different folks the issues that he himself has realized. I believe we’re all conscious of the truth that Shaun can be excellent at you understand, he has an incredible degree of medical perception, and I believe he’ll be a beautiful instructor in these methods. Maybe the place he’ll wrestle is the extra you understand, private pastoral care that he might want to give to those younger recruits. That can actually be attention-grabbing. It’s actually thrilling to have new folks are available to the present with a with a recent sense of vitality, they usually’re all great folks. And likewise the characters are actually attention-grabbing, so I am excited for everybody to get to satisfy them.”
Good luck to the newbies and Shaun, as a result of we all know that is going to be a journey.
The Good Physician airs Mondays at 10/9c on ABC.
