Speak about miserable!
The Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 2 once more hit approach too near house with its uber-realistic remedy of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There have been brilliant spots, significantly on the finish of the hour, but it surely was robust to get by way of, regardless of the episode’s message of hope.
To be truthful, it is arduous to be a medical drama within the age of COVID.
If the sequence did not deal with the pandemic in any respect, it will really feel ridiculous, and a made-up pandemic that is solved inside the course of an hour could be a slap within the face of all those that have suffered and died from the true COVID.
But scenes of affected person after affected person dying whereas the docs are helpless to do something about it doesn’t make for entertaining tv eiter.
The Good Physician did its greatest to strike a steadiness between tragic and hopeful, but it surely did not at all times get there.
The perfect factor about this storyline, although, was Shaun’s reactions.
Shaun would not cope with modifications in his routine, uncertainty, and human feelings at the most effective of occasions.
So it was pure that the seemingly unending pandemic was inflicting him to soften down in all places. He really did fairly properly, contemplating who he’s.
All you do is inform me new methods my husband could die. Do you even know what you are doing?
Lili
Shaun’s bedside method has at all times been his weak level, and he did not notice how hurtful it was to inform his affected person’s spouse that it was her fault her husband was dying of COVID.
I am positive that girl has mentioned the identical factor to herself time and again, and it in all probability appeared much more true to her when a physician mentioned it.
Nonetheless, Shaun made extra of an effort after his speak with Glassman, demonstrating that he can change his methods when he desires to.
I’ve at all times cherished Shaun and Glassman’s conversations, and this one was no exception.
All of us need it to be over. We’re sick of ourselves and sick of one another or we’re pining for somebody we will not be with and we’re afraid the world won’t ever be the identical once more. I do not know, Shaun. I haven’t got a map for this. The perfect I can do is say be type. Be type to your self and be type to everybody else as a result of what else is there?
Glassman
They each clearly wanted one another.
Glassman was misplaced in a spiral of late evening video video games and arguments with Debbie when he did not totally perceive why she was mad at him, and Shaun did not know easy methods to cope with the uncertainty and confusion of the pandemic.
Glassman’s recommendation to “be type” seemed to be the theme of the night, too, since Morgan’s affected person additionally gave her the identical recommendation.
Talking of which, I used to be anticipating there to be extra drama surrounding the nurse’s sickness and loss of life than there was.
The lady had been a nurse for 40 years, solely to contract COVID from a affected person that Morgan did not notice had the illness.
It would not have made sense responsible Morgan, however I might assume the nurse would have had some kind of emotional response to having gone from nurse to significantly ailing affected person.
As a substitute, she gave Morgan some recommendation, then quietly died.
Perhaps that was the purpose. There have been so many sufferers that died that it simply grew to become routine for the workers to carry up cell telephones in order that family members might say an extended distance goodbye.
That montage with Lim’s sufferers dying definitely steered so.
There was one one who did not get used to everybody dying, and that was Claire.
I am not typically a fan of ghost tales in reasonable dramas.
I do know they are often transferring, and simply as importantly, they offer the actor who performed the deceased character an opportunity to stay a part of the present.
However for probably the most half, I do not get pleasure from conversations the place one particular person is a figment of the opposite’s creativeness or visiting from one other world.
On this case, although, it appeared to have some extent.
Melendez: It is stuff now, it is meaningless, Claire.
Claire: Every of this stuff tells an interrupted story.
Claire wanted closure, not simply from Melendez’s loss of life, but in addition the loss of life of all of the sufferers she was seeing that she could not assist.
So whereas I assumed her quest to search out the canine tag’s house owners was foolish, and so had been all these conversations that happened solely in her head, it made sense ultimately.
That mentioned, I want there’d been extra of a connection between The Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 1 and The Good Physician Season four Episode 2.
For instance, Claire was going by way of that stuff so she might give Affected person Zero’s daughter again a cross her mom at all times wore, however there was no point out of the cross or the daughter.
And what occurred to the man who thought he had a special downside however turned out to have COVID? Was he one of many individuals who died throughout the montage? As a result of if he wasn’t, he simply disappeared.
There have been some storylines that continued: Shaun’s lacking Lea, Glassman’s struggle with Debbie, and Park’s wrestle to remain in contact along with his son.
That final one was probably the most compelling. One of the crucial tough issues about COVID is that households have been separated for months on finish. I’ve family members I have not seen in practically a 12 months, and I am positive that is a reasonably widespread occurence.
I used to be confused when Kellan requested if Park was coming to his commencement social gathering, although. He should not have been having a celebration throughout the pandemic!
And now that Park is cleared to go to Phoenix, is he leaving The Good Physician?
The ending of the hour implied that the pandemic was underneath higher management and that there was extra hope for the long run.
In some methods, it appeared tacked on. After the nurse died, all of the sudden it was three weeks later and issues had been a lot brighter.
I did not thoughts that an excessive amount of, although, as a result of I do not need to sit by way of a whole miserable season of coping with COVID.
Hopefully, now we are able to get on to some extra conventional tales whereas COVID is within the background slightly than overwhelming the hospital.
Your flip, The Good Physician fanatics!
What did you consider the best way The Good Physician dealt with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic throughout the hour, what was your favourite a part of the episode, and what do you hope occurs throughout the remainder of the season?
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