The Good Doctor

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2017
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 133 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 106 out of 133
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 133
  3. Negative: 17 out of 133
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  1. Ededed
    Mar 13, 2018
    4
    Love the premise - Doogie Houser meets Rain Man. As an educator with training in special needs students, the theme of the show is interesting and all too real for this population. Never been to med school, but one would assume they all had psych classes and training in special needs kids, so the overall negative vibe and summary judgment rejection of an autistic savant doctor doesn’t ringLove the premise - Doogie Houser meets Rain Man. As an educator with training in special needs students, the theme of the show is interesting and all too real for this population. Never been to med school, but one would assume they all had psych classes and training in special needs kids, so the overall negative vibe and summary judgment rejection of an autistic savant doctor doesn’t ring true to me. The main character’s back story is over the top as well. Since the ‘80’s there has been too much improvement in the system to not have big time support services available for this family and child protective services monitoring the home if anything seemed off. I could see the hospital trying to put this doctor on a diagnostic team hidden in the background, but to simply refuse to teach the kid would open up any teaching hospital to a nasty lawsuit. Make the kid prove his skills in the operating theater. Help him communicate better with patients and families. That’s what the teaching hospital is there for. Hope the writing team gets smarter about the supporting characters on this show. It’d be a shame to lose a show with promise because the plot and the characters are so one dimensional.

    Addendum: Recent shows are doing a bit better with the supporting cast to the detriment of the main character. Shaun is now less than central to the dynamic of the surgical team and now lost the girl next door - a sub-plot that should have been developed more slowly. It should have taken years for an autistic man to grow close to a neighbor, especially one who has lost so many important people in his life already.

    This show is beginning to feel like it’s settling into a cliche medical drama mode and Shaun is just a quirky minor character. The show is supposed to be about an autistic savant doctor who does amazing things, like in the pilot. Lately he has been wrong as much as he has been correct. Lowering my score until the writers and producers get the focus straightened out.    … Expand
  2. Eliasc
    Oct 30, 2017
    5
    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 portrayedAn 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.… Expand
  3. boidiva02
    Oct 9, 2017
    6
    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 overAn 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.… Expand
  4. 21grams
    Oct 3, 2017
    4
    The good doctor? Or should I say The evil personnel?

    This TV show seriously hurts my intellect, literally. Something that should have been serious doesn't take itself seriously whatsoever. It's more of a comedy, than drama touching serious problems of person with autism. The good doctor is filled with cheap and cheesy tricks to catch attention of typical 'popcorn' viewer. The premise    The good doctor? Or should I say The evil personnel?

    This TV show seriously hurts my intellect, literally. Something that should have been serious doesn't take itself seriously whatsoever. It's more of a comedy, than drama touching serious problems of person with autism. The good doctor is filled with cheap and cheesy tricks to catch attention of typical 'popcorn' viewer. The premise was great, but realization of it is absolutely disgusting.

    I'm not buying it, feels to cheap    … Expand
  5. AkumaJack
    Apr 30, 2019
    4
    The premise is good but they try to stuff to many political agendas into it. It gets tiresome and almost ridicolous after a couple of episodes. Too bad because the main premise of an autistic doctor was intriguing enough. But when you try to raise awarness about:
    Ableism, sexism, racism, trans rights, ecc it gets pretty messy. Hopefully they will stop doing that in season two.
    It's also    The premise is good but they try to stuff to many political agendas into it. It gets tiresome and almost ridicolous after a couple of episodes. Too bad because the main premise of an autistic doctor was intriguing enough. But when you try to raise awarness about:
    Ableism, sexism, racism, trans rights, ecc it gets pretty messy. Hopefully they will stop doing that in season two.
    It's also bad because Shaun quickly becomes just a comprimary with a minor quirk instead of the main protagonist.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#43 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Sep 25, 2017
    50
    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.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Sep 25, 2017
    58
    The various cuts to Shaun’s tragic youth suggest tragedy that the show’s glibness can only render in the broadest strokes; bad dad, kind brother, dead symbolic rabbit. It’s actually a relief when the show separately establishes itself as a sudsy Diet Grey’s Anatomy riff, with British actress Antonia Thomas as an ambitious doctor-who-cares and Nicholas Gonzalez as a McDream-ish surgeon-who-doesn’t.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alex McLevy
    Sep 25, 2017
    67
    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.
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