The first episode feels like it’s trying to take the clash between Griff and Sam seriously, playing up the drama of their rift and setting the whole thing to a piano-heavy classical score that echos Sam’s compulsive tickling of the ivories. Its actual tone, though, is a lot harder to quantify. There’s a lot of near-kissing in elevators and near-kissing in closets, but Good Sam isn’t really a Grey’s Anatomy-style medical soap, though Bush and Hodge have at least some chemistry. And if you’re thinking this hospital needs to refine its rules on nepotism and fraternization, you don’t know the half of it. Of more immediate interest are chief medical officer Vivian (Wendy Crewson), also Sam’s mother, and pre-ordained love interest and director of finances Malcolm (Edwin Hodge). They would have no personalities at all, except that in an effort to establish their respective values in the pilot, Sam goes around telling each of them why they’re great. Marshall), her bland ex (Michael Stahl-David) and less clearly defined Isan (Omar Maskati) and Joey (Davi Santos). That latter step must take some effort because the residents on Good Sam are a generic lot, including Sam’s best friend Lex (Skye P. ![]() It’s no wonder that Griff doesn’t respect Sam, who represents all manner of new-fangled ideas, including replacing Griff’s whiteboard with snazzy tablets, attempting to integrate departments in the hospital and not directly insulting her subordinates. Regardless, Griff’s career is a tribute to the miraculous medical powers of scathing condescension and elevated squinting. ![]() I checked my notes and I don’t remember anything about it, though it involves children, which is a manipulative way to avoid having to be creative. Maybe the case in the second episode ended up being lupus. Spoiler: It’s never lupus, except for maybe the one time it is. There’s no way Wech doesn’t know exactly where he fits into the small screen’s tradition of Sherlockian healers to the point that Griff’s first guess on the pilot’s case of the week is, naturally, lupus. Griff is one of those TV doctors prone to deriding his subordinates and making wild, borderline magical diagnostic leaps. Griff was not designed to follow orders, much less orders from his daughter. Then, in a strangely contrived piece of writing, a shooting in the ER leaves Griff in a coma and when he emerges six months later, Sam has been put in charge of the department. Sam and Griff butt heads about everything, including details of their family relationship, but the hierarchy is clear - Sam is in charge of the residents, but Griff is in charge of everything. But it’s a description that will get viewers in the door for an otherwise tonally inconsistent series whose appeal generally hinges entirely around appealing leads Isaacs and Sophia Bush.īush plays Samantha “Sam” Griffin, heart surgeon at a Michigan hospital working under the watch of her semi-tyrannical father Rob “Griff” Griffin, chief of the department. ![]() Marshall, Michael Stahl-David, Omar Maskati, Davi Santos, Wendy Crewson and Edwin HodgeĬalling Good Sam, CBS‘s new procedural from creator Katie Wech, House with a Daughter is a good recipe for some measure of audience disappointment.
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