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“Doc” on FOX Review by Suzanne 1/10/25

This show has an interesting concept: Amy Larsen, a middle-aged doctor and Chief of Internal Medicine (played by Molly Parker) seems to care more about figuring out medical mysteries at her Midwestern hospital than being nice to patients or co-workers (shades of “House!”); then she gets into a terrible car accident in the rain. When she wakes up, she doesn’t remember the last 8 years of her life. On the one hand, she seems to be a much nicer person, but she also doesn’t remember a lot of bad things that happened, such as her young son’s death, and divorcing her husband, Michael (Omar Metwally) – who’s also her boss. She has to learn all of that and deal with it. She also doesn’t remember that she and her daughter are at odds, or that she’s in love with one of the other doctors, Jake Heller (Jon Ecker), who’s younger and very handsome.

Scott Wolf (“Night Shift,” “Nancy Drew”) has a small role as a doctor that she’s had problems with. He’s clearly supposed to be  incompetent, or worse. When she’s injured, he’s made interim Chief of Internal Medicine, much to his weaselly relief.

I have to admit that, while I find the show intriguing and will keep watching it, I think that Parker was miscast. She’s a very good actress (and she’s been in many movies and shows, so she’s also very experienced), but she seems very bland to me and doesn’t have a ton of chemistry with anyone.  Her character appears to be very unlikable as well (even when we see her nicer version).  The actors around her have much more charisma, in my opinion. Perhaps she will grow on me. I hope so because I enjoy medical dramas.

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Inspired by a true story and based on the hit eponymous Italian drama series, Doc is a new life-affirming medical drama, starring Emmy nominee Molly Parker (House of Cards) as hard-charging, brilliant Chief of Internal Medicine Dr. Amy Larsen, who suffers a brain injury that erases the last eight years of her memory.

After a late-night car crash results in severe head trauma, Amy wakes up from surgery with no recollection of the patients she’s treated, the colleagues she’s crossed and the tragedy that caused her to push almost everyone away. The relief that Amy gets from seeing her family post-accident is fleeting when she learns the incomprehensible – that she and her beloved husband, Dr. Michael Hamda (Omar Metwally, Big Sky, Lisey’s Story) have been divorced for four years. In fact, her entire family is not at all as she remembers them, rocking her foundation to the core.

Amy’s best friend, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Gina Walker (Amirah Vann, A Jazzman’s Blues, How To Get Away With Murder), has little guidance to give her for this new reality since matters of the brain are, even to the experts, still a big mystery. While Gina is hopeful, she does not know if Amy will ever recover her memories. In Amy’s fragile state, Gina must choose carefully what information from the past eight years to reveal to her, scared that too much too soon could prove more harmful than good. This includes her secret romance with Dr. Jake Heller (Jon Ecker, The Watchful Eye, Firefly Lane), since Amy now has no recollection of ever meeting him before, let alone being in a passionate relationship with him. Certain other memories, those close to her believe, would perhaps be too painful to relive and are best left forgotten.

In a fateful irony, that’s the fervent hope for Amy’s colleague, Dr. Richard Miller (guest star Scott Wolf, Nancy Drew, Party of Five), who has now been promoted to take over as Chief of Internal Medicine after Amy’s accident. Richard is desperate for Amy’s memories to never return since she was the only person to uncover his career-ending mistake – another thing she now doesn’t recall. And Richard isn’t alone in relishing Amy’s predicament – her previously contentious and unkind behavior left her with more than a few enemies at the hospital, including Dr. Sonya Maitra (Anya Banerjee, The Blacklist). While she does remember Dr. TJ Coleman (guest star Patrick Walker, Lessons In Chemistry), she does not recall that he became a doctor – nor that it was she who inspired him to do so.

Feeling completely off balance and having to piece together what happened through the prism of other people’s subjective points of view, practicing medicine remains the one constant for Amy, and she is determined to become a doctor again. While she may never get back what she’s lost, Amy knows she’s been given a second chance to do things differently and she will not take that gift for granted.

Doc is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and FOX Entertainment Studios. Barbie Kligman serves as showrunner and executive producer. Hank Steinberg, Erwin Stoff and Judith McCreary are executive producers. Doc is based on the globally acclaimed Italian series, Doc — Nelle tue mani, which was created and is produced by Lux Vide, a Fremantle Company.

Proofread and Edited by Brenda

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