Good Sam

The premise seemed interesting, and with Sophia Bush and Jason Issacs at the helm, I thought I'd give it a try. The pace was super slow, the story was as compelling as a hallmark card, and Bush was just not convincing as an ambitious, smart chief of surgery. I don't think I'll continue watching this one.

In the real world related parties (like the father / daughter relationship in this series) would not be working together let alone supervising one by the other. Additionally, the father is too overbearing while his daughter needs to use her position to put him in his place. Watching a father and daughter bicker is not something that makes me want to watch this show on any regular basis.

Halfway through the show and still no doctoring....all we've seen is a female mamby-pamby doctor and ego driven Dad who is blinded by his own self-importance.

Lots of dialogue, emotion, naivety, blah, blah!

While i was never a huge Sophia Bush fan, but i did want her to have success with this show.

The show as a whole seems a repeat of all hospital shows. Romance among colleagues, minimal doctoring as the "side-show" of interpersonal relationships continue. Poor acting on top of it all... a mother who has no hospital responsibilities apart from her daughter.... Maybe this first episode is supposed to set the stage...but it didn't capture my interest.

You can go two ways with a medical show: a serious baseline with comedic touches like House, or a comedic baseline with dramatic touches like Scrubs. Both works. Good Sam is just a tonal mess that turns into soap.

The main character is privileged rich prettygirl, bland as they come. Plays piano and eats dinner in the lab because she's so perfect. She keeps whining abut her "best friend" like she's 14 and not a hospital fellow.

The ensemble diagnostics scenes and walk-and-talks are getting so old now.

Now I know why I don't miss Sophia Bush on Chicago PD. I mean, Is it just me or are television shows that have some minute amount of a story without reaching into absurdity during these Covid television times just not out there when we need them the most? Sorry Sophia Bush, your even worse in this show. Cmon CBS, you can do better!