Tonight at 8p, it is Doc’s two-hour season finale, and what an episode it is.
One of their regular renal failure patients comes in, and he is not doing well because he missed a dialysis appointment a week ago. Richard (Scott Wolf) is working on him, but he is distracted because Liz (Conni Miu) filed a complaint against him because he made her blame Amy (Molly Parker) for killing a patient that he did.
As Richard is taking care of the patient, he gets a phone call from his lawyer to go over the complaint. Just as he walks out of the room, his patient codes, and they try to save him, but they are not able to do it.
Amy believes that Richard’s distraction might have led to the patient’s death, so they try to reach his wife to get an autopsy done. However, they cannot get hold of her to tell her what happened.
When the bloodwork seems to clear Richard of any wrongdoing, Amy has another thought about what might have caused his death. And everyone’s worst fear is about to become a reality.
She believes he has the plague, hemorrhagic fever. His wife recently went on a safari in Africa, and Amy fears she brought it back with her. When public health shows up at her house, they find her dead on the floor.
Now that their suspicion is confirmed, Michael (Omar Metwally) has to lock down the floor, and everyone on the sixth floor needs to be tested.
The patients include a 90-year Holocaust survivor (Judd Hirsch), three fraternity brothers who rushed a pledge to the point that he needed to be hospitalized, a sick woman whose protective brother is a reknowned doctor (Blair Underwood), a woman who needs to get home to her mom, Jake’s (Jon Ecker) ex-wife (Samantha Massell), a conspiracy theorist, and several of the staff including Joan (Felicity Huffman).
The clock is ticking, and this variant is not like anything they have ever seen. Its time table is faster than anything they have heard of, and the incubation period is only hours, not weeks.
They have no cure, nor treatment, and one by one, the patients are getting sicker and sicker, and eventually they will start dying, including members of the staff.
All of this is giving Amy memories of what it was like when she was working during COVID, and they start giving her headaches. She is keeping the memories to herself, but how long can she hide them from everyone? It will get harder for her to do so when she winds up testing positive for the plague.
The doctors and nurses, who aren’t sick, are doing everything they can to find a cure, but nothing seems to be working. And what they try might be worse than the plague itself.
How many more people have to die before they can stop this thing, and they all succumb to it? You will have to tune in to find out.
This episode blew me away. Now, I might be biased. I have been obsessed with plagues since I was a little girl. I have read books and watched movies and TV shows about viruses, so I think I have a good take on the subject. And this is one of the best I have ever seen on dealing with a plague. And they did it all in a two-hour event.
My hat is off to everyone who worked on this episode. And I would not be surprised if Judd Hirsch got an Emmy nomination for his performance in it. But then again, Taxi is one of my favorite shows. So, I have a lot of biases.
Tonight at 8p on Fox, get ready for Best Medicine’s season finale. The episode picks up after last week’s shocker.
Glenn (Patch Darragh) tricked the people of Port Wenn into welcoming two Norwegians to their town under the guise that they wanted to become a Sister City. However, they were really there to turn the sister city into a salmon farm. By doing that, it will turn the beautiful lakeside community into an ugly business.
The residents want out of the deal, but a contract was signed, and there is nothing they can do about it. Or can they?
Norwegian, Sigrid Johansen (Erinn Fredin), goes into labor during a meeting, and Martin (Josh Charles) has to deliver the baby right then and there. However, there are complications. Can Martin help her and the baby even though she is refusing his help?
Talking about babies. Louisa (Abigail Spencer) is told that she needs to get pregnant ASAP if she wants to have a baby. However, now that she is single, who will she choose to be her baby daddy? There will be offers.
And then there is Elaine (Cree). She has applied to Juilliard, and we will find out whether she got in.
A lot goes down in the season finale, and I am so happy that we are getting a second season for this year’s best new show. I would have been so sad if this was the last episode because they give us so much. Thus proving that not every medical show has to be all about the medicine. It can also be about the heart.
And I am going to say something that will make people mad at me. But I think Best Medicine is so much better than Doc Martin. Charles makes the character so much more likable than Clunes did. I like Doc Martin, but I just didn’t like him.
Then, at 9p on Doc, Joan (Felicity Huffman) is ready to enjoy her medical retirement. However, it does not last long because she had a coughing fit and was rushed to the hospital.
Amy (Molly Parker) and Richard (Scott Wolf) are assigned to her case. Both have different ideas on how to treat her rapid onset decline due to her Leukemia. They don’t see eye-to-eye on her treatment and diagnosis, and their arguing might lead to her death.
Will they figure out what is wrong with her before they kill her? You will just have to watch to find out.
Plus, we also get to witness Amy finding her balls. And all I have to say to that is, “About freaking time!”
Tonight at 8p on Fox’s Best Medicine, everyone finds out about Louisa (Abigail Spencer) and Martin’s (Josh Charles) kiss from the final seconds of the last episode because Mark (Josh Segarra), her ex-fiancé, told everyone about it.
All they want to do is hide away from everyone, and luckily for them, they will be able to do it. The bad part is that they are able to do it because Martin treats a patient whom he thinks has the Bubonic plague.
The doctor quarantines everyone in his office, and he thinks he has it under control. That is, until someone at The Salty Breeze, where Louisa and his aunt (Annie Potts) are, comes down with it. Now, both locations and Port Wenn are on lockdown.
Did Dr. Best get it right? Because he has a knack for misdiagnosing people.
You will have to tune in for another delightful episode about a big town grumpy doctor living and working in a quaint small town with wacky residents.
So, I have been watching Doc Martin, the British show that this one is based on, and I love seeing the similarities between the two. However, I am worried about Cree because her character only appeared in the first season. I don’t want her to leave the show.
Then at 9p on Fox, it is time for Doc. If you are like me, and were hoping to see how things were going to change now that Joan (Felicity Huffman) resigned!!! Then I have some bad news for you. The show does not address it this week.
Instead, Amy (Molly Parker) and Michael (Omar Metwally) take their daughter, Katie (Charlotte Fountain-Jardim), on a road trip.
On the way to where they are going, Katie wants to stop and visit a place they used to go to as a family, and her brother loved going for walks in the wilderness.
They agree to stop and go for a walk even though it is freezing and the ground is covered with snow.
Along the way, they come across a man who is passed out and near death, and they don’t know why. Since there is no phone signal, they cannot call for help. Therefore, they are all alone to figure out what is wrong with him before he dies. Will they be able to save his life?
Since it is the first time that they have been together for this long as just a family, they get to talk about things. What will they reveal? You are going to have to tune in to find out.
As much as I wanted to know what happens next at the hospital, this episode is so well done that I can wait another week.
Tonight at 8p on Fox, the Doc ordered the Best Medicine, and she delivered, or is it a he! Anyways, you won’t be forgetting either episode anytime soon.
Best Medicine gets things started with the weekly activity that brings the people of Port Wenn together. What is it? The birds migrate to the small oceanside town every year, and the residents spend the weekend watching them fly in for a visit.
And talking about visiting, two elderly sisters come to visit Dr. Best (Josh Charles) because one of them is having stomach pains. But that is not all, she is also having hallucinations. She sees birds that are not there. But why? That is what Martin is going to have to find out. You are going to want to see what happens next. It will definitely cause your jaw to drop.
The sisters are not his only patients this week. Little Petey (Ben Lewis Doherty) thinks he has some new ailments. Is there actually something wrong with him?
Martin will have his work cut out for him. And yes, as you see in the teaser, that is not all…
So after I screened this episode, I started to stream Doc Martin, the UK series that the medical dramedy is based on. And what happened in this episode happened in the OG pilot. In fact, the two share a lot of storylines. And maybe I am biased, but I think the American version does a better job.
So tune in tonight and find out why people are loving this show!
Then at 9p, it is a game changing episode for Doc.
The doctors know there is something wrong with Joan (Felicity Huffman), but they don’t know what. They do know that they don’t want her to operate on any more patients. But when one of her old friends, who only trusts her, comes to the hospital with an emergency, she insists that she is the one who treats him. Amy (Molly Parker) agrees to help her make sure nothing goes wrong. And when she does, she starts having memories of her friend’s diagnosis. Will she remember that she knows what is wrong with Joan?
Richard (Scott Wolf) and T.J. (Patrick Walker) are working on a patient together, and they don’t agree on the treatment to give him. The patient is a celebrity, and Max (Darrin Baker), the hospital CEO, steps in and makes the final decision. Will his decision be the right or wrong one?
You will have to tune in for an episode where the doctors will change their insights on themselves…
It doesn’t take a doctor to tell you that Doc is Fox’s most-watched television show. Therefore, it makes sense that the network took out its prescription pad and ordered a third season. They don’t want a short refill. They want to see 22 episodes from the medical drama.
“Doc has become a true breakout for Fox, delivering our largest scripted multi-platform audience of the season and building remarkable momentum across Fox, Hulu, Netflix, and internationally — earning it another 22-episode order,” said Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network, to Deadline. “That success is a testament to the exceptional creative leadership of Hank Steinberg and Barbie Kligman, our terrific partners at Sony, and the talented Molly Parker, whose deeply nuanced performance gives the series its soul.”
Doc is based on the Italian series Doc – Nelle tue mani, which is loosely based on Dr. Pierdante Piccioni’s real-life story about a car accident that left him with 12 years of memory loss. The American version sees Molly Parker in the title role as Dr. Amy Larsen, who lost 8 years of her memory after a car accident and is trying to get her life and medical license back.
Hopefully, when the show returns next season, Felicity Huffman will not be part of it. She brings Doc down.
Doc airs Tuesdays at 9p after Best Medicine, which was picked up for a second season last week.
Also in television news, The Drew Barrymore Show was picked up for two more seasons today, so the daytime talk show will be around until at least 2028.
