- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 17, 2012
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No, it's not exactly "House." But it isn't like any other show, either, with its mad mix of moral dilemmas, medical crises, family ties, double-life-living and, y'know, rubouts 'n' stuff.
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Devlin's complex relationship with the gangsters is what elevates The Mob Doctor into something a cut or two above a Grey's Anatomy rip-off.
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While Grace must seek to do right, The Mob Doctor is most compelling when she has to sort out what that is, and also when she has to justify what she does wrong.
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The show should focus less on catty hospital politics and more on the inherently compelling conflict of a person who has good reason to do bad things.
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Despite the frantic and at times clunky initial execution, there are times when The Mob Doctor shows signs of transcending the typical doc-with-something-extra medical procedural.
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A lead character stuck endlessly agonizing over her fate isn't a character we will watch forever, even though Spiro is one of the freshest and brightest stars on TV this season.
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This show almost works, and credit has to go to star Jordana Spiro ("My Boys"), who imbues her Dr. Grace Devlin with equal parts brass and cleverness.
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The Mob Doctor's pilot is stranded between quality cable nuance and broadcast network spoon-feeding.
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At its heart, The Mob Doctor feels more like a by-the-numbers CBS procedural than an "edgy" Fox drama.
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I get the feeling Grace will always do the right thing, which is going to make The Mob Doctor predictable and not all that entertaining.
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Mob Doctor is one of those classically bad concepts that somehow got green-lighted as a series.
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Here's a show descending into self-parody before it even has a self to parody. [14/21 Sep 2012, p.133]
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The pilot is so packed with generic scenes of medical crises and mob muscle-flexing that it feels as if the creators went to a buffet of past series and desperately piled everything they could reach onto the mob doc's plate.
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The most earnestly silly show of the fall.
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There's nothing initially compelling enough to warrant regular visits, much less house calls.
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In Fox's new series, The Mob Doctor, trying to reinvent the wheel has led to a truly flat idea.
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They tried for the tried and true, hoping they'd get "The Sopranos" meets "Grey's Anatomy" while filling the hole "House" left in the schedule. And, like a camel, they ended up with an animal made by committee.
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Unfortunately, beyond the strained concept, it has ridiculous dialogue and ludicrous situations that the best actors in the world couldn't salvage.
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Feisty is one thing, rude is another. But all of that is of a piece with the show's generally lazy approach to storytelling: A couple of supporting characters are cardboard villains, and a subplot about a minor's surgical procedure doesn't make a ton of sense if you know the first thing about medical privacy laws.
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Fox's preposterous organized crime/medical show combo platter The Mob Doctor manages to be silly and sappy.
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As its name indicates, it's half Mob drama, half doctor show, and all terrible.
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An aggressively preposterous mash-up of medical and mob clichés that results in the sort of hack-work melodrama that would defeat even the most brilliant script doctor.
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The two-taste-treats-in-one thing worked for Hostess Ding-Dongs, so maybe Fox figured it would work for this ding-dong of a dud for the masochists in the crowd.
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It's never good news when you start to watch a new show and can't get past quibbling with the whole concept.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 30
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Mixed: 4 out of 30
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Negative: 13 out of 30
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Nov 16, 2012
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Sep 24, 2012
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Jan 24, 2013