I agree with another reviewer that they've done a good job with Steven Weber's character, Dr. Archer, turning him from a jerk into a more complex, humane doctor. Oliver Platt (Dr. Charles) & Dominic Rains (Dr. Marcel) are still likeable. The show has finally moved on from that glitchy robot-surgery storyline, but now we have what will undoubtedly be a tediously drawn-out storyline about Sharon's husband having Alzheimer's. OTOH, it *is* an issue that many people are dealing with, albeit with many different permutations.
And now I see what they are doing with the introduction of Zola: Get rid of wh!te, ma1e ginger doctor and replace him with a female, ethn!c doctor to be the doctor who's always causing trouble and going too far because he always believes he knows better than anyone else. She was on a crusade against one pharmaceutical company, that 'succeeded' (although not really), so now she's on a crusade against the replacement pharmaceutical company. That storyline also continues, although it is already proving tiresome. As usual, the writers would rather focus more on the 'business' of medicine and less on the actual medicine. All this is typical of the myriad Dick Wolf (a/k/a "the George Soros of TV") shows on the air today.
And now I see what they are doing with the introduction of Zola: Get rid of wh!te, ma1e ginger doctor and replace him with a female, ethn!c doctor to be the doctor who's always causing trouble and going too far because he always believes he knows better than anyone else. She was on a crusade against one pharmaceutical company, that 'succeeded' (although not really), so now she's on a crusade against the replacement pharmaceutical company. That storyline also continues, although it is already proving tiresome. As usual, the writers would rather focus more on the 'business' of medicine and less on the actual medicine. All this is typical of the myriad Dick Wolf (a/k/a "the George Soros of TV") shows on the air today.
