In the third season of Fox’s medical drama Doc, Dr. Amy Larsen is still fighting to get 8 years of her memories back, but she’s also pushing forward.
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She’s rebuilt her medical career to the point where she’s now co-chief resident in internal medicine, and a new-but-familiar face has just gotten hired at Westside.
DOC SEASON 3: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot:
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At a modernized high school production of Romeo & Juliet, one of the teens has a seizure when the shot from a prop gun rings out.
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The Gist: Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker), who is rebuilding her medical career and relationships after a car accident erased the previous eight years of her memory, is finding that pieces of that memory are coming back to her at a faster pace.
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Her friend and neurologist, Dr. Gina Walker (Amirah Vann), sees that her neural pathways are rebuilding themselves at a rapid rate.
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Most of Amy’s memories surround her relationship with her now-ex, Dr. Jake Heller (Jon-Michael Ecker), and how poorly she treated patients and resident Dr. Sonya Maitra (Anya Banerjee).
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Amy and Sonya are in charge of teaching a group of new interns, and the case of the student who had the seizure is a head-scratcher.
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Soon, not only is her teacher coming in as a patient, but most of the classmates who were there are, as well.
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In the meantime, Jake is looking to switch to cardiology from internal medicine, and Dr. Ben Grant (Blair Underwood) comes back to Westside Hospital with a new vision for the surgical department, and designs on taking over as chief.
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What Shows Will It Remind You Of?
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Doc, created by Barbie Kligman, has lots in common with House.
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It’s also based on the Italian series Doc – Nelle tue mani
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The issue we have always had with Doc is that the medical mysteries that come into Westside leave a lot to be desired.
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The medical mystery in the season premiere is slightly better because it’s a bit more involved, though the solution that Amy manages to get to feels a bit contrived in a “let’s connect it to current events” kind of way.
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But the more interesting aspect of the show has always been how Amy struggles to piece together the years that went missing after her accident, and the realization of, frankly, what a jerk she was before that accident.
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It seems that she wants to move on, but her rebuilding memory is betraying that, as is the charming presence of Dr. Grant, with whom Amy seems to have a passionate but checkered past with.
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Those memories aren’t there yet, but it will be interesting to see if they start to come back the more they interact with each other.
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It’s good to see Blair Underwood come back as this season’s “big name” cast member (Scott Wolf in S1, Huffman in S2).
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He’s as charming as ever as Ben Grant.
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This being network TV, there won’t be much, but the show pushes its boundaries as much as it can.
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Dr. Grant thinks back to a voice mail message he left Amy, indicating that “we’ve got big trouble with what we did.”
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While we’re still not a fan of the medical mystery part of Doc, those weekly cases are getting better, and the addition of Underwood should make for an intriguing third season.
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Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie.
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His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.
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