The Good Doctor Season 1 Episode 4 "Pipes" Review

Dr. Neil Melendez and the team have to wade through legal waters when a husband and wife have to make a life-changing decision about their unborn child. Meanwhile, Dr. Shaun Murphy struggles to adjust to his new environment at home and makes a huge step forward with his colleagues.


This was a really interesting and okay episode that did have some great moments to it. I enjoyed all the moments with Dr. Melendez they were very interesting with how he approached this surgery that he had to do where the patient is pregnant but then also has a lot of different sort of heart and blood clotting problems. So they have to figure out how to get this tumor off the unborn baby without killing the mother because of the fact that the mother doesn't want to terminate the pregnancy she's tried for so long to be able to become pregnant that she doesn't want to lose his baby. So how he approached doing the surgery and how all that was done was just really interesting to see. And then all the most with Dr. Murphy were very interesting and great with him understanding his life in San Francisco and him struggling with his apartment that isn't in the best condition and him sort of learning more about how to communicate with people and how to approach people, friends, and stuff was interesting to see because he didn't fully understand. Then I liked the moments with the other doctors trying to understand Dr. Murphy more because he's probably not going anywhere so there's more on how to talk to him and how he reacts to stuff and the doctors try and teach him how to become a better doctor and how to approach people more. Then just overall this was a really interesting and entertaining episode like I said that was so much fun to watch and see what all they did there. 

The Good Doctor Season 1 Episode 3 "Oliver" Review

Dr. Melendez and Dr. Unger discover their patient isn't being completely honest with them; Dr. Browne must learn to communicate with Dr. Murphy as they race back to the hospital with a donated organ.

This was a really interesting and entertaining episode that had a lot of really great moments in it. I really enjoyed all the moments between Dr. Brown and Dr. Murphy where they are transporting the organ and Dr. Murphy thinks that something is wrong with it but he just can't quite figure out what it is. That was just really interesting to see him constantly checking over things trying to figure out what he isn't seeing and then once he finally discovered the problem the whole scene with them stopping in the middle of the road to fix it was really great. And then I just really enjoyed the moments with Dr. Brown trying to figure out a way to talk to Dr. Murphy and her discovering that the best way to talk to him is to not ask him questions because he hates questions. So that was just really entertaining to watch her try and phrase things to not be questions. And then I really loved the moments with Dr. Melendez and him questioning the ideas of why hospitals have these rules and regulations when sometimes they might need to be broken in order to save someone's life and him asking the board to give him the one opportunity to do so. Then the moments with Dr. Andrews was great with him figuring out if he wanted to be a presidential sergeant or great sergeant and him just understanding that sometimes there is a difference and just all those moments with him were really great. And just overall this was a really interesting episode that made me actually excited for the show again because there were so many great moments to it.

The Good Doctor Season 1 Episode 2 "Mount Rushmore" Review

Dr. Shaun Murphy's attention to detail complicates his first day; Dr. Claire Browne learns a valuable lesson about honesty when confronted with a difficult diagnosis for her patient.

This was a really entertaining and interesting episode that was really dedicated to introducing Shaun to the world of surgery and the ER. It was really fun how they had Shaun not realizing that what he was doing was supposed to be really terrible work he just saw it as work that he had to get it done. And it was really interesting how they chose to approach everything with Shawn not wanting to let people go unless he thought that they were fully healthy and he kind of had to go and learn the lesson that you can't prevent every illness for happening you only are supposed to like treat them for right now. And then that was interesting how for the most part that rang true but they did have one person in this episode where Shaun's extra precautious look at everyone actually end up saving her. And it was a little sad and a little disappointing how they had Shaun sort of outcast from the rest of the group because the doctor didn't want him on the team so they decided to sort of sideline him. And then it was disappointing how when Shaun did have a good idea that ends up savings or the main patient one of the other doctors took credit for it. The storyline that followed that moment was also really interesting where the two doctors are talking and one says how taking credit for Shaun's idea is the same as the other doctor taking credit for a successful surgery that she didn't even want to do on the patient. It is also really interesting who is on Shaun's side and who isn't because some are just using Shaun for there own gain and other actually care. Then all the flashback moments were really interesting with seeing more of how Shaun grew up, and the ending flashback scene was sad with Shaun holding on to his dying brother. Then just overall this was a really entertaining episode that did have some great moments to it. 

The Good Doctor Season 1 Episode 1 "Burnt Food" Review

The president of San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital pleads his case to the reluctant board of directors to allow a young doctor with savant syndrome and autism onto their surgical staff.

This was a really entertaining and interesting first episode that did a good job of introducing a lot of the main players in the show as well as showing what life is like for this doctor. It was interesting to see how he interacted with the world and we were shown a bit about how he saw things and how people sort of saw him. Which one scene was my favorite to show how the world treated him where he shows up at the hospital with this boy whose life he just saved and he is telling all the other doctors what he thinks they should do next and they just completely ignore him. And that just really amazed me how they did all that different stuff with this character and how well it was all portrayed with how everyone sort of acted around him and how they talked to him. I also really enjoyed the scene where the doctor is sitting waiting to learn about his future at the hospital and one of the doctors who completely ignored him before came up to him and was really friendly and he ended up asking her which side is the truth is she him friend or not, and just seeing that disconnect between him and others was just really well done. I also really enjoyed all the flashback scenes that help to set up how he got into the position he is in now where it showed things like the fact that he came from a very abusive how that didn't know what to do with him. I also really enjoyed what they did with showing how his mind worked where they did the almost Sherlock thing where they had all these notes and diagrams popping up around him as he thinks through things. And just overall this was a very good first episode and I can't wait to see where they will go from here.