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The Good Physician Season 6 Episode 16 was a backdoor pilot for its spinoff, The Good Lawyer. Your entire hour was dedicated to a brand new legislation agency and the lawyer with OCD that Shaun needed to take his case.

This new collection was solely tangentially associated to the unique however was related sufficient to maintain viewers’ consideration.

A lot of the hour was dedicated to introducing the brand new characters and making a parallel scenario to Shaun’s scenario at St. Bonaventure.

Like Shaun, Joni is a neurodivergent particular person whose situation might intervene together with her means to do her job — and her mentor has performed an identical position all through her life as Glassman has for Shaun.

Oddly, Glassman by no means talked about this, though he is identified Janet Stewart for years and depends on her for all his authorized wants.

Glassman: She’s good. She’s good. She’s been useful every time I would like it.
Shaun: What number of instances have you ever been sued?

Since Glassman’s relationship with Janet is strictly skilled, he won’t have been conscious. However I might suppose the 2 would have in contrast notes when Glassman referred Shaun to Janet’s legislation agency!

Janet ought to have been ready for her new consumer’s idiosyncracies, and it could have been the proper time to share her comparable historical past with Glassman.

Glassman was kind of there solely to assist Shaun. He did not attempt to advise him in any means or clarify to Janet the way to deal with Shaun’s insistence that Joni tries his case.

Glassman’s not often shy about attempting to assist Shaun, so it was bizarre how hands-off he was. It might have added one thing to the story for Glassman to place his two cents in, particularly given the parallel between him and Janet.

After all, neither Glassman nor Shaun can be an everyday a part of the forged as soon as The Good Lawyer begins. (ABC has no phrase but on when that can be.)

Janet’s involvement in Joni’s childhood case was meant to be a shock, but it surely felt considerably tacked on. Supposedly, the one purpose she stored Joni on at her agency was that Joni threatened to sue, and Janet did not know Joni thought of her a mentor.

These issues felt incongruous after the reveal that Janet had taken Joni and her sister’s case. Absolutely that previous relationship had one thing to do with why Joni was working for her now!

New reveals all the time have a few of these sorts of plot holes, so they are not a dealbreaker by any stretch of the creativeness.

This story had quite a bit going for it regardless of these hiccups.

One among its greatest elements was the way it depicted Joni’s intrusive ideas. Utilizing a high-volume voiceover whereas everybody else stored speaking within the background was the most effective illustration I’ve ever seen of how most of these ideas can distract and overpower somebody.

Lea: OCD? You imply she’s neat and arranged?
Shaun: No. That’s not OCD.

Shaun dispelled a typical delusion about OCD virtually instantly whereas speaking to Lea, and Joni’s habits and reactions have been sensible for somebody with this dysfunction.

Many viewers solely know OCD by the character of Monk, who mockingly typically acted like he was on the autistic spectrum. Whereas Monk was a groundbreaking present in some ways, Joni’s habits felt like a extra correct depiction of OCD.

Janet was an fascinating character I could not determine whether or not I liked or hated.

Her fixed insistence that Joni could not do the work aggravated me.

She was worse than Dr. Andrews was about Shaun means again when, and that is saying quite a bit!

However I am unable to be the one one who cheered when Janet accepted a superb for contempt to power a squeak out of the opposing counsel’s chair and get Joni unstuck!

Janet stood up for Joni in opposition to a lawyer who was purposely triggering her OCD to sabotage her case, and it virtually made up for her earlier habits.

The chair squeaking problem might have been made a non-issue if anybody had spoken to the decide beforehand. If Joni cannot operate round squeaky chairs, then these sorts of chairs needs to be faraway from the courtroom earlier than she enters it.

After all, that prices cash that courts do not all the time have. However underneath the ADA, Joni is entitled to lodging to assist her do her job.

Conversely, the decide might have dominated that leaning again in squeaky chairs will not be allowed when Joni is in court docket or ordered the lawyer to squeak 3 times. I do not know if a decide can be keen to do this, however once more, Joni is entitled to lodging.

And perhaps if individuals with extreme OCD got them, it could normalize that and different sorts of neurodivergence so that folks would not threat being judged for being completely different.

I’m wondering if we’ll meet Janet’s unseen companions when The Good Lawyer premieres.

Janet stated all of them needed Joni off the case, however who have been they? And the way did she clarify the choice to reverse course and let Joni deal with Shaun’s case in spite of everything?

Lastly, Park’s testimony through the deposition was fascinating. Did he bear in mind telling Shaun to not amputate due to a doable basal spasm, or did he simply suppose he did? It might need gotten in his head if he knew the opposite aspect would declare that.

Park disappeared after giving this testimony. I’d have favored to know extra about his ideas and emotions in regards to the lawsuit and his position in it.

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