S4E1

Frontline (1)

The Good Doctor · 2020-11-02 · 43 min

FLICKFEEL

from 25 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Dr. Murphy treats a patient who has an illness that is not only unpredictable in nature, but also unlike anything he or the team has seen before. Dr. Claire Brown continues to work through her grief, still reeling from Dr. Neil Melendez's death.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 25 comments — 12 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 12 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“That ending though, so emotional”
Jclau77▲ 47about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I was crying like a little bitch when Claire had to tell the dead woman's daughter. Absolutely stellar acting. Dr. Andrews in his garage, too. What a gutting scene.”
▲ 30about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Very good episode”
akram104▲ 24about 0–10% inread it ↗
“Powerful, emotional season premiere!”
Topay84▲ 20about 0–15% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Mike Listo
written: David Shore, Liz Friedman

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Nicholas Gonzalez as Dr. Neil Melendez
Beau Garrett as Jessica Preston
Jamillah Ross as Mildred St. Marry
Julianne Christie as Karen Cross
Jerry Wasserman as Walter Flemming
Karin Konoval as Deena Petringa
Ricky He as Kellan Park

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