Carol's Second Act: Pilot
September 26, 2019 7:43 PM - Season 1, Episode 1 - Subscribe
Carol enthusiastically begins her first day as an internal medicine intern, but has a rocky start when she disregards direct orders from her boss in order to help a patient. Also, Carol meets Url Frost, a senior attending physician who may be the ally she needs in her second act. (CBS US broadcast)
Hollywood Reporter review - CBS' workplace sitcom stars Patricia Heaton as a plucky retiree entering the medical field in middle age.
Variety review - Carol’s Second Act” is aiming to be Patricia Heaton’s third, a defining hit series for a performer who’s previously had defining roles in “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “The Middle.” But compared to those shows, built around families whose dynamic informed the shows’ stories, this sitcom has an awful lot of situation. We meet Carol, a medical resident, at the same time her cohort does; they assume, because of her age, that she’s their supervisor, and are instead frustrated and baffled by Carol’s eager, uncynical attitude.
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Hollywood Reporter review - CBS' workplace sitcom stars Patricia Heaton as a plucky retiree entering the medical field in middle age.
Variety review - Carol’s Second Act” is aiming to be Patricia Heaton’s third, a defining hit series for a performer who’s previously had defining roles in “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “The Middle.” But compared to those shows, built around families whose dynamic informed the shows’ stories, this sitcom has an awful lot of situation. We meet Carol, a medical resident, at the same time her cohort does; they assume, because of her age, that she’s their supervisor, and are instead frustrated and baffled by Carol’s eager, uncynical attitude.
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This felt very, very pilot-like to me, and not in a very good way. I think three-camera hospital sitcoms just don't work, because the stakes are never high enough for the medical part, and the conversations and situations are restricted by the format. I like Heaton and the rest of the cast was fine, but it was just....really average to me.
posted by xingcat at 8:06 AM on September 30, 2019
posted by xingcat at 8:06 AM on September 30, 2019
So this is in a world where there is not only no HIPAA, but in fact not even the idea that maybe you shouldn't be yapping about a patient's medical history in any random hallway. Got it.
I don't like the trio of other interns. One is privileged, one is insecure, and one is... both of those things?
The Chief Resident is not John C. McGinley (or at least, she doesn't have the writing behind her that McGinley had), and frankly, even Dr. Cox was a relic of a time long since dead. Chieves-Resident aren't tyrants trying to winnow out the "real" doctors (i.e., the ones with no lives who can work 72-hour shifts) anymore -- they're far more concerned with making sure that doctors aren't, y'know, killing patients.
posted by Etrigan at 1:35 PM on October 2, 2019
I don't like the trio of other interns. One is privileged, one is insecure, and one is... both of those things?
The Chief Resident is not John C. McGinley (or at least, she doesn't have the writing behind her that McGinley had), and frankly, even Dr. Cox was a relic of a time long since dead. Chieves-Resident aren't tyrants trying to winnow out the "real" doctors (i.e., the ones with no lives who can work 72-hour shifts) anymore -- they're far more concerned with making sure that doctors aren't, y'know, killing patients.
posted by Etrigan at 1:35 PM on October 2, 2019
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posted by oh yeah! at 7:52 PM on September 26, 2019 [1 favorite]