The Good Doctor 2017

Episode S04E03

It's getting harder and harder to ignore the Woke nonsense coming from the show. In the first scene of the episode, they have people who are essentially interviewing for a job(New residents looking to get hired by the hospital) talking about their sexual preferences. Why would anyone go: "I graduated from so and so, did so and so projects, and also, I'm gay." Why?

Later Browne and Reznic are having a heated argument and a guy tries to diffuse the situation, so they snap at him for 'mansplaining' after which they forget about their argument.

And then later, they asked the residents an open question and one of them hesitates goes like "Emm...." so the same guy steps in and gives his answer. What do they do? Of course, chastize him for daring to interrupt a woman. Even though the woman didn't say anything besides 'emm' they tell him that "He doesn't always need to be the one to speak first". And who chastised him? Dr. Reznic. A character who has 'do whatever it takes to win" personality and will do anything to advance her career even at others' expense. Suddenly this character cares sees something wrong with being the first to speak, when she did the exact same thing to Claire Browne when they were residents.

Later the senior residents talk about the new residents, they say they want to convince Dr. Lim not to hire the mansplaining guy. Because he's arrogant. Yet they praise another doctor(a woman) who is more opinionated than the mansplaining guy as confident. And that's a plus. So when a guy talks first and gives his opinion, he's a bad doctor, because he's arrogant. Yet when a woman does the same thing, it's good, because she's confident.

Also, can you guess what ethnicity this 'asshole' guy is? Do you really need to guess? It's obvious it's the only white straight male in the resident pool. And of course in the end they did not hire him, because he's 'obnoxious' and 'arrogant'. As if Dr. Mendez wasn't obnoxious and arrogant and as if arrogance isn't a common trait in surgeons.

This is a good show. I'm on S1e13 now. I could imagine as if this is some kind of House M.D prequel. If House was quite a bit less functioning than he was in the show. For me the comparison to House is unavoidable. A quirky anti-social yet brilliant doctor solves rare medical mysteries in original ways each week. There are some differences though. Where House anti-social behavior lies in his somewhat sociopathic tendencies Murphy is autistic and he just can't help it. The show is well-paced and it is entertaining to see Murphy overcome the challenges of being a high functioning autistic doctor.

The only downside I can see about this show is it's trying to inject social justice in some of its episodes. While normally there is nothing wrong with this it gets pretty annoying when this is so obvious you are rolling your eyes in your chair.

For example, In the first episode when the president of the hospital tries to convince the board to hire an autistic doctor he gives a speech about how they should hire him because he's different so that other different people will see they got a shot. We can do better, we need to do better...etc... This is a moving speech, but this isn't the strongest argument to hire Murphy. The strongest argument is that objectively he's an asset. He objectively can do things that are very helpful to surgeons that other surgeons can't do. He has a significant edge over other candidates. And this edge outshines any disadvantages he has. In other words, the argument should have been not "We should hire him because he's different". The argument should have been: "We should hire him because objectively he's the best person for the job."

This is just a minor gripe though this is far from being the only example. I hope the won't get even more forceful with their 'wokeness' so far it's well within the bearable range. Like I said. It's a good show.