Mob Doctor
Premise: (IMDB)
A young thoracic surgeon (Jordana Spiro)
becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia and is forced to moonlight as a mob
doctor, while also working full time at Chicago's most prominent hospital.
First impression: Mob Doctor has quick dialogue,
witty without being unrealistically smart.
It leaves you with a lot of questions about what has happened to this
family in the past, but rather than making you feel lost, it actually makes you
want to see the next episode.
Cast: Mob Doctor
has a lot of faces that you will recognise - but I would pay you 10$ if you
could name any of them. My
favourite is the male doctor who plays the main character’s love interests, he
is from Friday Night Lights. I loved him in that, however didn’t love him at
all in “Off the Map” which was a really short lived show about doctors in the
wild. I could buy him as a high school kid but I am really not sure I buy him
as a doctor. He seems about 10 years younger than Spiro (in real life is 5
years younger) and he is very dull in comparison to her rule-bending, sarcastic,
“I roll with the mob” personality.
Overall Feel: Mob Doctor is very fast paced and well
written. I was worried that the “Mob” aspect would make it too violent for me
but I found that it was just the right mix of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “the Godfather”
Prediction: I will definitely watch this again. It left
me with the need to find out more about these characters and this
storyline.
I’m uncertain about where
this show is going and that is concerning to me. I find myself wondering how
many favours a doctor can do for a mob kingpin before her “debt” is paid off…
Rating (1=low, 10=high): I give this a 6 out of 10….the
opening scene has her pulling a screwdriver out of a frontal lobe, that in
itself is worth seeing!
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