‘The Good Doctor’ Boss Defends the Show’s Sentimental Tone
Channel: Hollywood Entertainment News
Date: 13/12/2017

Star Freddie Highmore and the show’s executive producers on why the ABC medical series will also feature optimism and joy.
Executive producer David Shore, who had famously created “House,” has shifted to a very different medical drama with ABC’s “The Good Doctor.” “There’s an honest, unabashed emotionality to this show that I think is very refreshing,” said Shore in an interview with Indiewire. “It will make you cry in an unembarrassed way.”
“The Good Doctor” is an American remake of the South Korean drama of the same name by Jaebeom Park. As many fans of k-dramas know, the shows are high on emotion, melodrama, and sometimes even tragedy, and the original series’ first episode, which can be watched for free on DramaFever, is the source of most of the most fraught and sentimental moments in ABC’s adapted pilot — from the abusive childhood and the loss of his pet rabbit and older brother, to surgical resident Shaun Murphy’s (Freddie Highmore) big speech at the end, holding onto a toy scalpel he had received as a child.

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