Good Sam

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.

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!

Wanted to enjoy this - Sophia Bush was a great character in Chicago PD. Here she has neither the gravitas nor the conviction to pull this role off. Some voice coaching could help her to greatly extend her acting range.

The set-up is intriguing - father/daughter conflict around the philosophy of and the actual running of a hospital. The delivery is weak with a series of exaggerated relationship drama befitting a teen show. Sooo many triangles. Father/daughter/mother, son/father/mother, father/daughter/best-friend, protagonist love triangle ... A complete mess of strands overloading the viewer each episode with no safe haven from which to tie it all together.

Dr. Sam Griffith (Sophia Bush) takes over as chief surgeon after her father Dr. Rob 'Griff' Griffith (Jason Isaacs) gets shot in the hospital. It's six months later. Griff wakes up from his coma and wants his job back but Sam is not about to let it go.

There is nobody to root for at the beginning. That is the central issue with this show. Sam is an annoying try-hard. Her dad is a psychopath. Her mom is full of secrets. Non of the other doctors are nice. It's a lot of unlikeable characters. I do grow to accept Sam over time but it's too little and too late. It gets cancelled after 13 episodes.

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.