The Good Doctor
Created by David Shore
Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues. From TMDB
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The series premiere earned a 2.2/9 rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, with 11.22 million total viewers, making it the most watched Monday drama debut on ABC in 21 years, since Dangerous Minds in September 1996, and the highest rated Monday drama in the 18–49 demographic in 8.5 years, since Castle in March 2009. Factoring live plus seven-day ratings, the pilot was watched by a total of 19.2 million viewers and set a record for DVR viewers with 7.9 million, surpassing the record of 7.67 million set by the pilot of Designated Survivor in 2016. According to TV Guide's November 13–26 issue, the October 9 episode attracted 18.2 million viewers, beating out both high-rated CBS shows…
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60 of 179 · most liked firstAutism Speaks and series like The Good Doctor did irreparable damage. No not all autistic folks are savants, no we are not all socially awkward superhumans, we arent all misunderstood geniuses. Being a nonsavant AuDHD means always hearint "you arent autistic, you're just lazy" 🫠
negative · AI labelView post →Just saw another hit piece on the show The Good Doctor supposedly erasing the needs of higher support autistics. FFS. No. The Good Doctor is an autistic person with seriously unmet support needs, AND ALSO high support autistics have seriously unmet needs. It's not a cage match. #neurodiversity
positive · AI labelView post →My name is Kayla Cromer, I am the first actor with autism to play an autistic character in a series regular role on both American cable “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” and American prime time television “The Good Doctor”. I voice Nickelodeon’s first openly autistic animated character Twyla Boogeyman.
neutral · AI labelView post →Man having ASD is like a rollercoaster first you get hyper fixated on something that's now your greatest passion & next you question your existence because you remember that your mom spilled the beans that you have ASD because she was talking about this "autistic show" called THE GOOD DOCTOR 💀
neutral · AI labelView post →it's still wild to me that the creator of House MD created The Good Doctor, that's like making Blazing Saddles and then putting on a minstrel show
negative · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to David Shore, born on this day in 1959 in London, Ontario! As a television writer, he worked on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South. He created the series House, Battle Creek and developed The Good Doctor. He has won an Emmy. 📸 Paul Archuleta
neutral · AI labelView post →People act like it's completely wild that some guy said autistic people are allowed to be racist but we literally have a mainstream TV show (The Good Doctor) that pushes the idea that it's "normal" for autistic people to be transphobic
negative · AI labelView post →Coming SOON! YouTube Members & Patrons will get early access in a couple of days & the premiere will be next week ☺️ A quite deep dive into The Good Doctor: my criticisms of the show AND its critics 👀 Watch this space!
neutral · AI labelView post →You can follow Savant Garde on here now, a podcast hosted by me and @lucyxiv.boontavista.com. Are you interested in representation of neurodivergence in media? Do you like the television show The Good Doctor? If you answered "Yes", and then answered "Oh god, no??", this podcast is for you!
neutral · AI labelView post →youtu.be/lQKYnJI4XWU A new video has arrived, discussing how autism representation is poorly handled in the Good Doctor, and steps the show could have taken to improve its portrayal of an autistic person! Subscribe if you haven't already, almost at 6K!
negative · AI labelView post →Browsing around streaming stuff for horror shows and films it’s so funny to see The Good Doctor (2011) and for a second be like wait the bad autism show with dr han must’ve taken a real turn at some point
negative · AI labelView post →And whenever I see @beatricemorgana.bsky.social, I am reminded of Paige Spara, a wonderful actress, whom I first saw in the show "The Good Doctor". Do you see the similarities?
neutral · AI labelView post →youtu.be/JTjh6kwPXtE Today, let's compare the Good Doctor to the Pitt, and show how vastly each show managed to portray autism with its characters, and what autism rep needs to look like in media going forward. Thanks to ENEBA for sponsoring this video.
neutral · AI labelView post →You know a tv show has the juice when the cult fandom is already guaranteed to exist forever. 20 years from now no one will remember The Good Doctor or Best Medicine or whatever, but there will STILL be people writing and drawing The Pitt ships.
negative · AI labelView post →Sob Pressão | Série da Globo vai ganhar remake por criador de The Good Doctor www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/so...
neutral · AI labelView post →And whenever I see @beatricemorgana.bsky.social, I am reminded of Paige Spara, a wonderful actress, whom I first saw in the show "The Good Doctor". Do you see the similarities?
neutral · AI labelView post →Next video will be about The Good Doctor. My criticisms of the show, & its critics 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →don't think I haven't noticed they followed up a show called The Good Doctor with a show called Best Medicine. I see it. I've clocked it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last week I finally started watching The Good Doctor and last night I was up way too late rage crying at the episode below so I think I'll take a little break from it tonight and soothe my nerves with a thriller or murder mystery 😂
negative · AI labelView post →😱 Have we got a film of the year already in this week's brand new Take? 🎬 An EXORCIST comparison from the Good Doctor bodes pretty well... 👹 Check out Mark's full review of BRING HER BACK + loads more sweet sweet movie goodness in this week's show 🍿 🎧 Listen ➡️ pod.fo/e/301a5d
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like this goes for just about every hobby/interest. Just look at TV. Shows like Succession had a fraction of the viewership of shows like Will Trent or The Good Doctor. But if you're part of a community that critically discusses television, which show are you most likely to talk about?
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright, I've filled out the final 5 spots on the grid because I wasn't sure if anyone was going to get them. 3 of them are concerts, 1 Golden Globes, and 1 episode of The Good Doctor. There you have it, thanks for playing
neutral · AI labelView post →I found the source of today's discourse and ugh, people are really bringing the Twitter brainworms here listen, The Good Doctor is a shitty show and has the worst rendition of autism this side of the Mississippi and it's good and cool to meme on it and make fun of it
negative · AI labelView post →So if you're wondering why TV critics cover every little thing on Succession and have rarely written about The Good Doctor since it debuted, that's why. One show fits the weekly coverage model; the other fits the check-in model. And the latter mode of TV criticism is fading away.
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking for moots with these interests: Cookie Run Sonic Nintendo Creepypasta Cartoon Childhood TV Show. Travelling Interesting into food or stuff. Lofi Music (+ that okay you dont like lofi music. that totally fine with me). Plus, I also love the series of "The Good Doctor". Feel free to follow me
positive · AI labelView post →have i ever told you about @savantgardepod.bsky.social, it's an evil podcast. It's about an autistic ex-wife and OCD ex-husband and every week they watch the Good Doctor and Monk and make fun of them. Mostly the Good Doctor because Monk is a good show. Anyway this episode they mostly talk about cum
negative · AI labelView post →I'm learning a lot about myself and my own autistic experience from @savantgardepod.bsky.social podcast's reviews of the Good Doctor, and given how much I hate that show especially its portrayal of its autistic protagonist, I must resurrect this meme once more
negative · AI labelView post →the show is pretty explicit "they don't cause autism vaccines good." in later seasons they really try to make up for the less woke (transphobic) episodes early on and the show pivots from The Good Doctor to The Woke Doctor and its mostly about surgeons being woke during and after covid
neutral · AI labelView post →The Good Doctor: Facts about the show: 1: The Good Doctor fucking sucks
negative · AI labelView post →The added meta around this makes it next-level ugh, though. Daniel Dae Kim is the man who bought the rights to The Good Doctor from South Korea, and is an EP on the series.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am now caught up on The Pitt and as an autistic person who cares about autistic representation very dearly, Dr. Mel King you have my undying love and support any day and I hope this show runs so much longer than The Good Doctor did
neutral · AI labelView post →The Good Doctor: haha I’m autistic and I am the Goodest Doctor Dr. Mel King from the hit show The Pitt:
neutral · AI labelView post →Im behind in TV shows I'm interested in. I've started watching from the beginning episode, "The Good Doctor". Same outfit that brought us "House MD" - a favorite show. #Autism #Savant #MedicalShow I really like it. Freddie Highmore is a genius actor, director & producer. #Educated
positive · AI labelView post →Freddie Highmore fará nova série do criador de The Good Doctor; saiba tudo www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/fr...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Good Doctor. THE Good Doctor. The GOOD Doctor. The Good DOCTOR. Nope, no matter how you say it that show still sucks.
negative · AI labelView post →this is one of those situations where you just need to know the show and then you know which episode is ~that~ episode Community? AD&D The Office? Scott’s Tots The Good Doctor? every single episode of the good doctor.
neutral · AI labelView post →ABC's The Good Doctor is honestly a show that I have my own mixed feelings for, where I do find myself enjoying a lot of great elements like it's sense of medical drama, thriller, and character development, but I also think that it misrepresents what autism is by treating it like a plot device.
neutral · AI labelView post →Do series count? The Good Doctor is especially shitty
negative · AI labelView post →The Good Doctor is a garbage show that plays into outdated stereotypes about autism
negative · AI labelView post →Watch Lou as 'The Good Doctor' in our new six part series starting Tuesday 11th March at 7pm on youtube.com/rpgeeksdnd.
neutral · AI labelView post →The actual #1 on that TV show list was The Good Doctor but they had to pretend it wasn't because they didn't want to get yelled at by nerds
neutral · AI labelView post →I also suggest the Good Doctor video by Ember Green, which doesn't just blindly slam with bad show is bad, but does examine what works and what doesn't about the depiction and how we could've had it a lot worse...
neutral · AI labelView post →Elisabeth Moss vai estrelar nova série do criador de The Good Doctor www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/el...
neutral · AI labelView post →I've started watching 'The Good Doctor' on Netflix. I do like the central character. Unlike some medical dramas, apart from the very opening of S1, there is surprisingly little time devoted to shenanigans in the on-call room or supplies cupboard 😂.
positive · AI labelView post →Y’know that show that everyone made fun of? The Good Doctor? The “I’m a surgeon” meme? I’m not gonna lie—
neutral · AI labelView post →Juno Dawson has recently been announced as a writer for the upcoming TV series, so on this week’s podcast @drwhonovels.bsky.social presents a special encore edition of our look at Juno’s novel The Good Doctor: tinyurl.com/6hkt59fz Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/4a7fssdk Spotify: tinyurl.com/54djvvup
neutral · AI labelView post →As Juno Dawson has recently been announced as a writer for the upcoming TV series, on this week’s podcast @drwhonovels.bsky.social presents a special encore edition of our look at Juno’s novel The Good Doctor: tinyurl.com/6hkt59fz Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/4a7fssdk Spotify: tinyurl.com/54djvvup
neutral · AI labelView post →Only show I know here is Bones…Should’ve added House, the Good Doctor, and greys anatomy. Make it hard for us lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh booo! I’m not married. I’m fine with that though. Are you watching anything? You should watch some hallmark movies… or a show like The Good Doctor or The Resident.
neutral · AI labelView post →One more thng I have to say before friday: The memes from that shitty ableist show The Good Doctor pisses me off. That show set back autistic representation by 2 fucking decades and it did not help the main was played by a neurotypical actor.
negative · AI labelView post →I decided to watch the first episode of The Good Doctor and I’m confused — when does Jon Pertwee show up?
neutral · AI labelView post →They had the decency to name that other show “The Good Doctor”
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah I watched his video and it is pretty fucking obvious Noah hasn't actually watched the Good Doctor, only getting info about it from the "I am a surgeon" memes he plagiarized Your boy doesn't even acknowledge Shaun isn't the only autistic character in the show
neutral · AI labelView post →which show do you prefer? House M.D The Good Doctor
neutral · AI labelView post →Making fun of an ableist TV show is ableist? (for context, I think The Good Doctor misrepresents autistic people, but I haven't seen much of the show)
negative · AI labelView post →don't get me wrong, The Good Doctor sucks, but Netflix just released a Turkish series called The Tailor that has one of the most offensively bad performances by an actor playing an autistic character that i've ever seen
negative · AI labelView post →Then they said "fuck it let's make a whole show out of it" with The Good Doctor
neutral · AI labelView post →Sort of for the popcorn but it is a bonus for seeing a movie! I've heard of The Good Doctor but to be honest I don't really watch a lot of TV. The Rookie - cop stuff - hmmmmm. One series I have watched recently is The Gilded Age. Same guy who did Downton Abbey. Gossipy, fun, more upbeat than DA.
neutral · AI labelView post →On his most recent autism video where he covers the Good Doctor he claims the show is transphobic and minutes later makes transphobic esque jokes on his own
neutral · AI labelView post →Was just shown clips from The Good Doctor for the first time. I cannot stop laughing. This is THE most disgusting, tasteless and offensive thing I’ve ever seen. It looks like how a TV show would satirize a TV show like this. The ’Springtime For Hitler’ of autism depictions.
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