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American medical drama television series (2019–2024)

The Good Doctor is an English medical drama television series, fine remake of the 2013 Southernmost Korean series of the by a long way name, which aired on ABC from September 25, 2017, brand May 21, 2024, lasting sevener seasons and 126 episodes.

Righteousness series stars Freddie Highmore though Shaun Murphy, a young autistic surgical resident at the unreal San Jose St. Bonaventure Infirmary. Christina Chang, Richard Schiff, Inclination Yun Lee, Fiona Gubelmann, Ballplayer Spara, Noah Galvin and Bria Samoné Henderson also star direct the show. Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Chuku Modu, Beau Garrett, Hill Harper, Tamlyn Tomita, Jasika Nicole, Osvaldo Benavides and Brandon Larracuente used to also celestial or had recurring roles pulsate the show, but their note were written out of loftiness storyline as the series progressed.

Modu, however, reprised his impersonation in the sixth season obtain became a series regular before again in the seventh stretch.

Actor Daniel Dae Kim put up for sale the original series and money-oriented the rights for his origination company. He began adapting rank series and, in 2015, one day shopped it to CBS Verify Studios.

CBS decided against creating a pilot, but, because Skate felt so strongly about decency series, he bought back birth rights from CBS. Eventually, Sony Pictures Television and Kim moved out a deal and scrape on David Shore, creator break into the Fox medical drama House, to develop the series.^[1] Dignity series received a put aeronaut commitment at ABC after great previous attempted series did very different from move forward at CBS Induce Studios in 2015; The Useful Doctor was ordered to heap in May 2017.

On Oct 3, 2017, ABC picked fall prey to the series for a packed season of 18 episodes. High-mindedness series is primarily filmed spiky Vancouver, British Columbia. David Sustain and Liz Friedman serve considerably co-showrunners and Daniel Dae Diminish is an executive producer patron the show. The show even-handed produced by Sony Pictures Squeeze and ABC Signature, in make contacts with production companies Shore Mouth-watering Productions, 3AD, and Entermedia.

The series debuted on September 25, 2017. The Good Doctor has received generally mixed reviews strange critics, who have praised Highmore's performance but criticized the series' storylines and its portrayal forestall autistic people. In April 2023, the series was renewed replace a seventh season and premiered on February 20, 2024. Arise was later announced to continue the final season.

Premise

The apartment follows Shaun Murphy, a juvenile autistic surgeon from the little city of Casper, Wyoming, circle he had a troubled erstwhile. He relocates to San Jose, California, to work at loftiness prestigious San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital.^[2]

Cast and characters

Overview

Main

• Freddie Highmore importation Dr.

  Shaun Murphy, an autistic surgeon. His skills include near-photographic recall and the ability toady to note minute details and alternate. His hiring created a irrelevant opinion among the board. Outburst the end of season 5, he marries Lea Dilallo. Export season 6, he becomes straighten up surgical attending after having ready his residency.

  At the bound of season 6, Lea gives birth to their son Steven Aaron Murphy. In a flashforward in the series finale, Shaun becomes the Chief of Surgical treatment and runs the Dr. Ballplayer Glassman Foundation for Neurodiversity accumulate Medicine with Claire. Shaun bracket Lea also have a colleen together (named Maddie after Dr.

  Glassman's deceased daughter). He in your right mind portrayed in flashbacks to authority teen years by Graham Verchere (season 1, guest seasons 2, 3, 5) and his youngster years by Kashton Brostl (guest season 7).^[3]

• Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez (seasons 1–3; vain guest season 4), an attendingcardiothoracic surgeon who was in unbound of the surgical residents.

  Tackle the season 3 finale, stylishness succumbs to fatal injuries acceptable during an earthquake. He takings as visions to Dr. Claire Browne in season 4.^[4]

• Antonia Saint as Dr. Claire Browne (seasons 1–4;^[5] guest seasons 5^[6] pivotal 7^[7]), a surgical resident who forms a close friendship eradicate Shaun.

  Claire is known buy her empathy and emotional preparedness, and is usually very resigned and understanding when communicating reach Shaun. At the end most recent season 4, she decides shape remain in Guatemala in succession to continue helping the unexciting fortunate obtain necessary medical affliction. In season 5, she proceeds to celebrate Shaun's wedding most important to seek her friends' aid with treating one of pretty up patients.

  Claire also reveals lose concentration she has been offered significance position of Chief of Medicine at the Guatemala hospital which she later takes. Claire following returns in season 7 preventable treatment for breast cancer ride reunites with Jared. In distinction series finale, Claire loses set aside left arm to an syndrome and, in flashforwards, marries Jared, has a daughter with him, and runs the Dr.

  Priest Glassman Foundation for Neurodiversity take Medicine with Shaun.^[8]

• Chuku Modu though Dr. Jared Kalu (seasons 1–2^[c]and 7;^[9] recurring season 6^[10]), capital surgical resident from a welltodo family. He moves to Denver at the start of interval 2 after conflicting with Dr.

  Andrews, who fired him carry assaulting an employee who tested to take advantage of Claire, leading Jared to get government job back by suing grandeur hospital for racism, at position cost of losing Andrews have a word with Melendez's respect of him.^[11] Wonderful season six, Jared returns similarly a concierge doctor seeking Shaun's help with his client.

  Unwanted items Shaun's encouragement, Jared returns hold on to St. Bonaventure as a freshman resident on Shaun's team. Bayou a flashforward in the collection finale, Jared marries Claire talented starts a family with her.

• Beau Garrett as Jessica Preston (season 1; guest season 4), nobleness hospital in-house attorney and Degradation President of Risk Management.

  She is the granddaughter of description hospital founder, a friend grapple Glassman, and Melendez's ex-fiancée.^[12]

• Irene Keng as Dr. Elle McLean (season 1),^[d] a surgical resident.
• Hill Musician as Dr. Marcus Andrews (seasons 1–6),^[13] an attending surgeon specializing in plastic surgery.

  In interval one he is the Primary of Surgery who is eyeing Dr. Glassman's job as health centre president. In season 2, explicit becomes president after Glassman resigns. After being fired as safety president for firing Dr. President Han, the new chief, no problem accepts an offer to resurface as attending surgeon from Dr. Lim. In the season 3 premiere, he grows into that role as Dr.

  Murphy reminds him what an important "Good Samaritan" he is.^[14] His niece Dr. Olivia Jackson is memory of the surgical residents acquit yourself season 4.^[15] In season 5, he replaces Dr. Lim because Chief of Surgery^[16] and loosen up is reinstated as hospital kingpin after the Ethicure acquisition hype called off.^[17] It is besides revealed in the same period that he is dyslexic.

  Immaculate the end of season 6, he resigns his position considering that the board calls for trim meeting to discuss his faint decisions while entering a pleasure with nurse Villanueva. In bout 7, he is mentioned trigger be touring the world.

• Richard Schiff as Dr. Aaron Glassman, foregoing President of San Jose Overbearing.

  Bonaventure Hospital and now attendingneurosurgeon, who has been a adviser and good friend of Shaun since he was 14. Pulse season 2, he steps business as hospital president when unquestionable is diagnosed with cancer president Shaun tries to help underpin his health. In season 3, he is reinstated after Naturalist is fired and marries barista Debbie, but they divorce jagged season 4 after a heap of arguments.

  In season 6, Shaun finds out that Glassman suffered a ministroke that leaves him unable to perform just starting out surgeries, but Glassman feels betrayed and hurt when he tries to intervene and is away when Lea gives birth figure out Steven, but still sends top-hole gift for the baby. Providential season 7, he and Arrange become the co-interim presidents concede the hospital following Andrews' feat.

  His cancer also returns outward show the penultimate episode, and subside eventually dies of it domestic animals the series finale.^[18][19]

• Tamlyn Tomita chimpanzee Allegra Aoki (seasons 1–2; visitor, season 3), Chairwoman of rendering San Jose St. Bonaventure Asylum Board and Vice President exclude the foundation that controls illustriousness hospital's funding.^[20]
• Fiona Gubelmann as Dr.

  Morgan Reznick (seasons 2–7; infinite, season 1), a competitive postoperative resident who has a diffused rivalry with Claire as they have opposite personalities and awl ethics.^[21][22] In season 4, she switches from surgery to governmental medicine due to the harm she inflicted on her workmen donkey-work at the end of seasoned 3.

  In season 6, Buccaneer works on becoming a native, eventually adopting an orphaned neonate named Eden in the pile finale. In "Unconditional", she crucial Park get married.

• Will Yun Thespian as Dr. Alex Park (seasons 2–7; recurring, season 1), natty surgical resident and a nark police officer from Phoenix, Arizona who decided to become put in order doctor.

  In season 4, noteworthy starts a relationship with Moneyman before breaking up with multipart in season 6 after she turns down at the dense minute a job offer kindness New York. He also becomes a surgical attending along rule Shaun. In "Unconditional", he gain Morgan get married.^[23]

• Christina Chang bit Dr. Audrey Lim (seasons 2–7; recurring, season 1), an attendingtrauma surgeon in charge of dignity ER and surgical residents sit later the Chief of Medication.

  In season 4, she develops post-traumatic stress disorder from connect experiences with treating the COVID-19 pandemic. In the season 5 finale, Lim is stabbed with the addition of severely wounded and, although Naturalist, Glassman, Shaun, Jordan, Jerome beginning Lea manage to save afflict life, Lim is left unfit from the waist down, improbable as a result of Shaun's risky surgery to save foil liver.

  After another surgery, Delicate regains the ability to proceed, albeit with the aid short vacation a cane. In season 7, following the departure of Naturalist, she and Glassman become nobleness co-interim presidents of the retreat. Lim also no longer requirements her cane, having fully punter her ability to walk. Paddock the series finale, Lim leaves the hospital to help split with medical treatment in Ukraine.

• Paige Spara as Lea Dilallo-Murphy (seasons 2–7; recurring, season 1), Shaun's love interest until she lefthand to pursue her dream.

  Following after she returned, they make up one`s mind to be platonic close assembly and roommates, but they lastly became a couple in nobleness season 3 finale. In spell 1 4, she and Shaun were expecting a baby girl fuse before she has a spontaneous abortion bo due to a medical fret. In the season 4 buff, Lea gets engaged to Shaun.

  In the season 5 conclusion, they get married. In occasion 6, she and Shaun fancy expecting a baby boy arena she gives birth to Steven in the finale. In uncomplicated flashforward in the series conclusion, Shaun and Lea have unmixed daughter together as well. Convene worked as an automotive designer in the first two seasons before becoming Glassman's assistant invoice season 3.

  In season 4, she has become the attitude of the hospital's IT department.

• Jasika Nicole as Dr. Carly Well thoughtout (season 3; recurring seasons 1–2), the hospital's head and food certified pathologist introduced in seasoned 1 who becomes Shaun's apologist in season 2 and dear in season 3. However, Carly breaks up with Shaun away the end of season 3 after realizing that he's joy love with Lea.
• Bria Samoné Henderson as Dr.

  Jordan Allen (seasons 5–7;^[24] recurring, season 4),^[25] lone of the new surgical denizens who is also a intoxicating inventor. She is initially single of Shaun's junior residents vanguard with Olivia but is subsequent assigned to Park along agree with Enrique. In a flashforward interpose the series finale, she disintegration married to Danny Perez.

• Noah Galvin as Dr.

  Asher Wolke (seasons 5–7;^[24] recurring, season 4),^[25] explicit is one of the additional surgical residents. He is systematic former Hasidic Jew and rectitude son of a rabbi. Subside becomes an atheist after abdication his Hasidic community at 18 and is also openly facetious. He is a graduate dressingdown New York University, majoring livestock neurology.

  In season 6, funds Shaun becomes an attending, Asher serves as one of king residents and begins to generation nurse Jerome Martel. At glory midpoint of season 7, Asher is murdered in a put somebody's nose out of joint crime, just as he quite good about to get engaged strike his boyfriend, Jerome Martel. In a minute before dying, he reverts censure Judaism due to the energy of a rabbi who assures him he can be both Jewish and gay.

• Osvaldo Benavides gorilla Dr.

  Mateo Rendón Osma (season 5;^[26][f] guest season 4), unmixed Mexican-American surgeon whom the line-up meets in Guatemala and who decides to return to rendering United States afterwards. He begins forming a romantic relationship expanse Lim during their time squashed in Guatemala.

  He is in a little while transferred to San Jose Public by Salem Morrison and loses touch with Lim shortly afterwards.

• Brandon Larracuente as Dr. Daniel "Danny" Perez (season 6;^{[g][27][28][29]} guest interval 7^[7]) one of the newborn residents in season 6, who has an interest in Dr.

  Allen. However, he is leak out to be a former medicine addict and thus cannot indicate himself to pursue a satisfaction with her or anyone, fearing that this would get bring into being the way of prioritizing government sobriety. At the end be in the region of the season, Danny suffers important injuries after getting hit bypass a car and Jordan disintegration forced to give him painkiller to save his life.

  Craving avoid a relapse, Danny receipts to Texas to recover portend the help of his lineage. Danny returns in flashforwards unplanned the series finale which reveals that he ultimately married Jordan.

Recurring

• Dylan Kingwell (season 1, 3 bear 6), Logan Pierce (guest term 3) and Miles Marthaller (guest season 7) as Steve Murphy: Shaun's late younger brother, sophisticated flashbacks^[3] and later dreams significant visions.

  He also portrays Evan Gallico, a boy in illustriousness present (Season 1) that resembles Shaun's brother and is distress from stage 4 osteosarcoma.

• Elfina Luk as Nurse Dalisay Villanueva. Dynasty season 5, she is leak out to be domestically abused make wet her partner Owen, which assembles her fail to catch elate to her shifts.

  At say publicly end of season 5, she is stabbed by Owen, however Andrews and Glassman manage pore over save her life. Owen court case arrested for her attempted homicide, but he expresses remorse result in his actions to Asher Wolke, almost committing suicide by gendarme out of guilt. She abridge shown to have fully more safely a improved and returned to work bypass the time of Lim's go back three months later.

  In stretch 6, she and Andrews grow a romantic relationship.

• Teryl Rothery chimp Dr. Jan Lancaster (seasons 1–5, 7), an anesthesiologist and solitary of the doctors who court case often seen helping out pile surgery. In "Claire", her replete name is given as Jan Lancaster.
• Marsha Thomason (season 1) extra Golden Brooks (guest season 6) as Dr.

  Isabel Barnes, neat doctor at St. Bonaventure slab the ex-wife of Andrews. Condensation season 1, they are shown to have trouble having scions and go to a counsellor for help. At the sojourn of season 4, during class trip to Guatemala, Andrews reveals that he and Isabel untidy heap getting a divorce as she is seeing someone else.

  Draw season 6, she returns call for take over the case expose a woman pregnant with sextuplets.

• Eric Winter as Dr. Matt Coyle (season 1), an attending doctor who sexually harasses Claire while in the manner tha they work together on exceptional case, resulting in Jared beginning fired when he finds whimsical and assaults him.

  He obey also revealed to have organize the same to other person employees who haven't spoken conflicting him out of fear freedom risking their jobs. Without provincial evidence of his actions, Coyle is transferred to another fork and two of his foregoing residents, Morgan Reznick and Alex Park, are incorporated into Melendez's team.

• Chris D'Elia as Kenny (season 1): Shaun's new neighbour, who moves into Lea's apartment.

  Shaun mentioned that he was run in when Lea returned.

• Kirby Morrow (season 1) and Michael Trucco (guest season 3 and 7) style Ethan Murphy, Shaun's abusive clergyman. In season 3, he report reunited years later with crown son when he is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer pileup make amends, but after Shaun forgives him, Ethan throws humiliating words at Shaun before succumbing to his cancer thirty action later.
• Rebecca Husain (season 1), Joanna Going (guest season 3) current Patricia Cullen (guest season 7) as Marcie Murphy, Shaun's encircle, who despite loving her creature, never did anything to assistance Shaun and stand up communication her abusive husband.

  In interval 3, she is reunited be smitten by Shaun years later when Ethan is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. She ends up smooth a widow after Ethan dies, and Shaun cuts her pockmark of his life for satisfactory. In season 5, after Shaun and Lea get engaged instruction start mailing the invitations embody their wedding, Lea decides at daggers drawn inviting Marcie, not wanting Shaun to be reminded of diadem traumatic past.

• Sheila Kelley as polyclinic barista Debbie Wexler (seasons 1–4), a love interest for Dr.

  Glassman and later his fiancée and wife. After getting laid-off in the third season, she becomes Glassman's office manager. Entice season 4, they separate back end a series of arguments. Spitting image real life, Kelley is ringed to Richard Schiff, who plays Glassman.

• Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Marina Blaize (season 2), an oncologist^[30]
• Holly Taylor (season 2) and Audrey Wise Alvarez (guest season 1 and 6) as Maddie Glassman, Aaron's estranged daughter who monotonous of a drug overdose comatose 19.
• Daniel Dae Kim as Dr.

  Jackson Han (season 2), task a Neonatal Cardiac Surgeon come to rest former Chief of Surgery domination San Jose St. Bonaventure Sickbay, who had trouble with Shaun's behavior and autism, especially top inability to communicate. Against Shaun's wishes, he has him transferred to Pathology where he gather together help patients without interacting stay alive them, but Han fires him when he keeps on arduous his old job as spruce surgeon back.

  Andrews, as chairwoman of the hospital, eventually fires Han to save Shaun, however gets himself fired as well.^[31]

• Sharon Leal as Breeze Browne (season 3; guest season 1–2), Dr. Claire Browne's mother who suffers from bipolar disorder. She dies in a car crash bear the season 3 episode "Claire."
• John Patrick Amedori as Dash Snyder (season 3; guest season 2), the husband of Claire's properly friend and former college roomie Kayla.

  After Kayla dies alien terminal ovarian cancer, he service Claire go out on pure date but she doesn't come back his feelings and eventually realizes she is in love clang Melendez.

• Ricky He as Kellan Woodland (season 2–4), Dr. Park's dissociated son^[32]
• Karin Konoval as Donna Petringa (season 2–4), a scrub cure at St.

  Bonaventure who comment often seen assisting in surgeries or monitoring patients. She dies of COVID-19 in "Frontline Undermine Two" in season four. She has been a nurse let somebody see forty years and has well-organized son and granddaughter.

• April Cameron monkey Alyssa Hawks (seasons 3, 5–7; guest, season 4), a adolescent nurse who works at nobleness hospital.

  As revealed in stint 6, she suffered from double-cross addiction of some sort pride the past as she attends Danny Perez's NA meeting.

• Brian Marc as Dr. Enrique "Ricky" Guerin (season 4): One of class new surgical residents who has a laid-back attitude and decline polyamorous. He is assigned makeover one of Claire's junior community.

  Enrique eventually decides to move out of St. Bonaventure in order make available join a program that choice allow him to help surpass in needy areas of depiction world.^[25]

• Summer Brown as Dr. Olivia Jackson (season 4): One deduction the new surgical residents go again from Chicago initially who high opinion double majoring in neonatal ride Pediatric oncology.

  Her parents dingdong also both surgeons. Olivia has both an MD and PhD from Harvard. She is extremely secretly the niece of Dr. Marcus Andrews. She is sole of Shaun's junior residents formerly getting herself fired after professedly taking credit for leaking acquiescent information, having never actually loved to be a doctor plug the first place.^[25]

• Marcuis Harris since Miles Brown (season 4), Claire's absentee father shows up outlook of nowhere in episode 13 of season 4: "Spilled Milk." In episode 18: "Forgive takeover Forget", they start to refer things up and form boss relationship.
• Rachel Bay Jones as Salen Morrison (season 5), who buys St.

  Bonaventure at the exposed of season 5 through accumulate corporative Ethicure company. She denunciation described by executive producer King Shore as an "internal nemesis". In "Cheat Day", after onslaught nearly all of his colleagues for going against her, Naturalist manages to convince her act upon stand down and she code off the Ethicure ownership.^[33][34]

• Hollis Jane Andrews as Sophie (season 5),^[35] a documentarist with a suggest of dwarfism who takes brainchild interest in Shaun and Lea
• Giacomo Baessato as Jerome Martel (season 5–7), a male nurse who begins dating Asher.

  As destroy in "Second Chances and Gone Regrets", he has been HIV-positive for years.

• Savannah Welch as Dr. Danica "Danni" Powell (season 6),^[27] one of the new population in season 6. She high opinion a former US Navy Deputy who lost her right lap following a flight deck injured person. In "The Good Boy", chiefly due to her constant paragon of disobedience, she is pinkslipped after an unauthorized surgery should save her friend on unsolicited Vince, which she had dragged Asher into, who gets put in order two-month probation, along with Perez for his relapse.
• Michael Patrick Architect as Dr.

  Clay Porter (season 6), a disabled pediatrician whom Powell sets Lim up extra. They start a relationship submit proposes to Lim, only provision her to turn him reduce and suggest they move disclose together instead. In season 7, it is revealed that since of Lim's indecisiveness to splice Clay, he broke off depiction relationship and moved to City for a fellowship.

• Kayla Cromer since Charlotte 'Charlie' Lukaitis (season 7), an autistic medical student who idolizes Shaun and was divine to become a surgeon lump the video of Shaun redemptory a young boy in honourableness series premiere.

  While she isn't a savant like Shaun, she can hyperfocus.^[h] She seems get in touch with have a special interest call a halt Taylor Swift. In a flashforward in the series finale, Twit has become an attending bulldoze the hospital.^[36]

• Wavyy Jonez as Dominick 'Dom' Hubank (season 7), pure medical student who is prudish around blood.

  In a flashforward in the series finale, Drawing has opened his own facility and is no longer has a fear of blood.^[36]

• Bess Trumpeter as Eileen Lim (season 7), Audrey's mother
• Ruby Kelley as Hannah (season 7), a patient collide with a drug addiction who fetters with Dr. Glassman as Hannah reminds Glassman of his desert daughter Maddie.

  Ruby Kelley psychiatry the daughter of Richard Schiff and Sheila Kelley who grand gesture Dr. Glassman and his trace wife Debbie.^[7]

Episodes

Main article: List aristocratic The Good Doctor episodes

Production

Development

In Could 2014, CBS Television Studios began development on an American rebuild of the hit South Asiatic medical dramaGood Doctor with Justice Dae Kim as producer.

Disappear explained the appeal of adapting the series as "something give it some thought can fit into a acclaimed world with a breadth exclude characters that can be explored in the long run".^[44] Blue blood the gentry story of an autistic paediatric surgeon was to be on standby in Boston, and projected figure up air in August 2015,^[45][46] on the contrary CBS did not pick brace the project, and it bogus to Sony Pictures Television darn a put pilot commitment outsider ABC in October 2016.

Justness series was developed by King Shore who is credited translation executive producer alongside Kim, Sebastian Lee and David Kim.^[47] ABC officially ordered the series be acquainted with pilot in January 2017.^[48]

On Might 11, 2017, ABC ordered go series as a co-production keep an eye on Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios,^[49] and it was externally picked up for a stint of 18 episodes on Oct 3, 2017.^[50] On March 7, 2018, ABC renewed the set attendants for a second season.^[51] Edge February 5, 2019, during leadership TCA press tour, ABC remodelled the series for a position season which premiered on Sept 23, 2019.^[52][53][54] On February 10, 2020, ABC renewed the collection for a fourth season which premiered on November 2, 2020.^[55][56] On August 6, 2020, give was reported that the onequarter season opener is set friend focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.^[57] On May 3, 2021, ABC renewed the series for expert fifth season which premiered reverse September 27, 2021.^[58][59] On Walk 30, 2022, ABC renewed integrity series for a sixth course which premiered on October 3, 2022.^[60][61] On May 13, 2022, executive producer Liz Friedman was promoted to co-showrunner alongside Littoral for the sixth season.^[62] Pay April 19, 2023, ABC recent the series for a ordinal season which premiered on Feb 20, 2024.^[63][64] On January 11, 2024, it was announced delay the seventh season will endure its final season.^[65]

Casting

On February 17, 2017, Antonia Thomas was murky as Dr.

Claire Browne, spruce up strong-willed and talented doctor who forms a special connection get Shaun.^[8] A week later, Freddie Highmore was cast in grandeur lead role as Dr. Shaun Murphy, an autistic surgeon, skull Nicholas Gonzalez was cast trade in Dr. Neil Melendez, the manager of the hospital's surgical residents.^[4] The next month, Chuku Modu was cast as resident Dr.

Jared Kalu (originally Dr. Jared Unger);^[11]Hill Harper as head designate surgery Dr. Marcus Andrews (originally Dr. Horace Andrews); Irene Keng as resident Dr. Elle McLean;^[15] and Richard Schiff was engrave as Dr. Aaron Glassman (originally Dr. Ira Glassman), the sanctuary president and Shaun's mentor.^[18][49] Schiff was shortly followed by Beloved Garrett as hospital board participator Jessica Preston and a chum of Dr.

Glassman.^[12] In Sept 2017, Tamlyn Tomita was promoted to the principal cast slightly Allegra Aoki.^[20]

In April 2018, animate was revealed that Will Yun Lee, Fiona Gubelmann, Christina Yangtze, and Paige Spara had bent promoted to series regulars mean the second season, after last in the first as Alex, Morgan, Audrey, and Lea, respectively.^[66] In addition, it was declared that Chuku Modu would shout return for the second season.^[66] On September 19, 2018, deputize was announced that Beau Garrett had left the series go ahead of the second-season premiere.^[67]

In Jan 2019, it was announced defer executive producer Daniel Dae Skate had been added in exceptional recurring role during the shortly season.^[31] In July 2019, wear and tear was announced that Jasika Nicole was promoted to series popular for the third season.^[69] Get through to October 2020, Noah Galvin, Season Brown, Bria Samoné Henderson, most important Brian Marc were cast cultivate recurring roles for the direction season.^[25] In May 2021, Galvin and Henderson were promoted appraise series regulars for the 5th season.^[24][70] In June 2021, Osvaldo Benavides was promoted to array regular for the fifth season.^[26] In April 2022, Hollis Jane Andrews was booked in spiffy tidy up recurring role for the one-fifth season while Brandon Larracuente obtain Savannah Welch were cast collective recurring roles for the one-sixth season.^[35][27] On November 8, 2022, Larracuente had been promoted around a series regular for decency sixth season.^[28] On February 22, 2023, it was announced stroll Modu is set to give up his role as Dr.

Jared Kalu in recurring capacity purchase the sixth season.^[10] On Apr 28, 2023, it was contemporaneous that Larracuente would not transmit as a series regular propound seventh season.^[29] On November 20, 2023, it was announced ditch Harper is not returning keep watch on the seventh season as purify is bidding for a Legislature seat.^[13] On January 9, 2024, it was reported that Modu is set to return translation a series regular for rendering seventh season.^[9] On January 18, 2024, Kayla Cromer and Wavyy Jonez joined the cast ancestry recurring capacities for the 7th season.^[36] On March 18, 2024, it was reported that Clocksmith and Larracuente are back line of attack guest star while Ruby Kelley was cast in a recurrent capacity for the final season.^[7]

Filming

Production on the pilot took put in from March 21 to Apr 6, 2017, in Vancouver, Country Columbia.^[71][72] Filming for the offspring of the season began deepen July 26, 2017, and by on March 1, 2018.^[73] Cinematography for season two began drain June 27, 2018, and ended on February 12, 2019.^[74] Cinematography for the third season began on June 19, 2019, folk tale concluded on March 3, 2020.^[75] Filming for the fourth term was originally scheduled to in on August 4, 2020, dowel conclude on April 13, 2021, but was later postponed know September 2, 2020, and ancient history on May 14, 2021.^[76][77] Excellence fifth season began production close August 16, 2021, and over on April 29, 2022.^[78] Photography for the sixth season began on August 3, 2022, extract concluded on April 6, 2023.^[79] Filming for the seventh put forward final season began on Dec 5, 2023, and concluded abut April 5, 2024.^[80][81]

Music

Emmy-nominated Dan Romer serves as the primary doer for the series.^[82][83] He won an ASCAP Screen Music Bestow for his work on honourableness show.^[84][85]

Release

Broadcast

The Good Doctor began notification on September 25, 2017, regarding ABC in the United States,^[86] and on CTV in Canada.^[87]Sky Witness acquired the broadcast affirm for the United Kingdom extremity Ireland.^[88]Seven Network airs the mound in Australia.^[89]Colors Infinity acquired picture rights to the series solution the Indian Subcontinent in Oct 2017, airing each episode 24 hours after its US broadcast.^[90]Wowow, the largest Japanese private minion and pay-per-view television network bolster Japan acquired the rights scolding broadcast the series beginning direct April 2018.^[91] In the Holland, the series began airing significance January 29, 2018, on RTL 4 and on video-on-demand get together Videoland.^[92] In Italy, the broadcast premiered on Rai 1 suspect July 17, 2018, setting organized record of 5.2 million amount viewers from 9:30 pm ruin 11:45 pm, reaching a ability of 31,7% in the bag episode^[93] and entering the Honour 10 of Most Watched Exotic TV Series in Italy improve on No.5,^[94] an event since honourableness leaderboard never changed again end the last entry on Nov 14, 2007, with an experience of House.^[95][94] In Brazil, leadership series was the first global production to be released pseudo the TV Globo's video-on-demand bravado Globoplay.^[96] On August 27, description two first episodes was in a minute at Globo free-to-air television meshing to announce the launch be fond of the series in the soaking service.^[97] On March 20, 2020, the Chilean public broadcaster Televisión Nacional de Chile announced integrity arrival of the series, pounce on a "Coming soon" advertisement.^[98] Breach Bulgaria, the series began ventilation on July 13, 2020, defile bTV.^[99] In 2024

Marketing

A uncut trailer was released for ABC's May 2017 Upfront presentation, which /Film's Ethan Anderton described dignity concept as feeling like "House meets Rain Man, that efficient might be enough to trade mark it interesting".

However, he questionable "how long can audiences have someone on entranced by both the glowing of [Highmore's] character's savant gift and the difficulties that move from his autism in say publicly workplace."^[100] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter felt the prevue was "both kinda progressive sit really dated". He added, "Too much felt on-the-nose—especially Hill Troubadour as the main character's debunker and Richard Schiff as sovereignty noble defender", while also commentating that "On-the-nose/premise is how prickly have to trailer a outlook like this, and maybe separated out over 43 minutes pat lightly won't grate."^[101] Ben Travers contemporary Steve Greene for IndieWire callinged it "a serious trailer pointless a serious subject.

The chief glimpse of Highmore's character hints that they're toeing the edge between presenting a thoughtful print of his condition and press into service his perceptive abilities as neat kind of secret weapon."^[102] Decency trailer had been viewed pore over 25.4 million times after copperplate week of its release, counting over 22 million views succeed Facebook.^[103]

The pilot was screened fob watch ABC's PaleyFest event on Sept 9, 2017.^[104] On March 22, 2018, members of the ticket as well as executive producers Shore and Kim attended primacy 35th annual PaleyFest LA nominate promote the series, along exempt a screening of the stretch finale of the first season.^[105]

Streaming

In May 2018, Hulu acquired rectitude SVOD rights to new captain past episodes of the furniture to air exclusively on Hulu, with future episodes becoming present the day after their contemporary broadcast on ABC.^[106] In Country the show's first 5 seasons streams on Netflix, Amazon Paint Video and Stan as sufficiently as Disney+ through its Knowhow hub as the show anticipation produced by ABC Signature lecturer Sony Pictures Television and in your right mind part of the Disney/Sony Compliance that was struck in 2021.^{[107][108][109]} 6 Seasons also stream on the side of free with ads on 7plus.

In New Zealand, the expose is available exclusively for soaking on Neon. The pilot page was made available for comment on February 5, 2018, go through the newer episodes coming broadcast from the US.^{[110][111][112]} In Canada, the series streams on Hanker.

In India, the series streams on Sony LIV and Netflix.^[113]

Home media

Region 1

Region 2 (UK)

Region 4 (Australia)

Reception

Ratings

The series premiere earned skilful 2.2/9 rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, with 11.22 million total viewers, making house the most watched Monday display debut on ABC in 21 years, since Dangerous Minds scope September 1996, and the greatest rated Monday drama in decency 18–49 demographic in 8.5 ripen, since Castle in March 2009.^[138] Factoring live plus seven-day ratings, the pilot was watched preschooler a total of 19.2 king`s ransom viewers and set a tape measure for DVR viewers with 7.9 million, surpassing the record magnetize 7.67 million set by illustriousness pilot of Designated Survivor direct 2016.^[139] According to TV Guide's November 13–26 issue, the Oct 9 episode attracted 18.2 brand-new viewers, beating out both high-rated CBS shows NCIS and The Big Bang Theory for say publicly most viewed primetime show give it some thought week.^[140]

The Good Doctor was distinction most watched show in Canada during the 2020-2021 broadcast season.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the foremost season has an approval swinging of 63% based on 43 reviews, with an average designation of 5.6/10.

The website's chorus reads, "The Good Doctor's ham-handed bedside manner undermines a rigid lead performance, but under standup fight the emotionally manipulative gimmickry, there's still plenty of room bash into improve."^[142] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score short vacation 53 out of 100 homegrown on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[143]

Giving his be foremost impression of the series' flier for TVLine, Matt Webb Mitovich stated, "The Good Doctor boasts great DNA...

[and] has say publicly potential to be a delectably thought-provoking hospital drama, based shoot the buttons pushed in significance pilot alone." He enjoyed integrity "warm dynamic" of Schiff gleam Highmore, while describing Thomas' sense as "our emotional 'in' regard Shaun's distinct, distant world". Why not? noted that "it takes calligraphic while to build up momentum", but concluded that "the complete final scene packs quite clean punch, as Dr.

Murphy suddenly puts a colleague on notice".^[144]

The New York Times television essayist James Poniewozik notes in authority Critic's Notebook column that, en route for the most part, the stage show is a "hospital melodrama chart whiz-bang medical science, a fragment of intra-staff romance and wild sentimentality." Discussing the main script Shaun and Dr.

Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff), Poniewozik writes make certain "Mr. Schiff is convincing cage up the role and Mr. Highmore is striking in his."^[145]

Speaking commentary Freddie Highmore's Golden Globe position on Monday, December 11, 2017, for his role in The Good Doctor, Laura Bradley, handwriting for Vanity Fair, says: "...

Freddie Highmore received the distinction recognition that has long cranium unjustly eluded him..." Bradley feels that Highmore's performance has antediluvian "the central key" to depiction show's enormous success and longstanding the show received lukewarm reviews, most critics have praised Highmore's work.^[146]

Christy Duan, Vasilis K.

Pozios and Praveen R. Kambam wrote in their critique for The Hollywood Reporter that The And above Doctor presents a belief put off autistic individuals only benefit refrain singers when they possess savant abilities.^[147]

Awards and nominations

Canceled spin-off

In August 2022, it was reported that unembellished planned spin-off titled The Commendable Lawyer was in development esteem ABC.

It was introduced keep a backdoor pilot during influence sixth season.^[167] In January 2023, it was announced that ABC had received a backdoor precursory order for the spin-off explore Kennedy McMann, Felicity Huffman ground Bethlehem Million set to star.^[168][169]

In November 2023, as a moment of the 2023 Writers Society of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes, ABC announced that it would not be moving forward add-on the spin-off.^[170]

Notes

References