User Reviews

May be spoilers below.

Alright, I don't get into all the drama shows that are on. They are just the same stories. But I like to give new things a chance. Thus, I saw this show was coming on and set it on our DVR. Here are my thoughts.

The set looks interesting. Everything had this kind of white, grey look. If this was filmed in Canada that would explain it. Whenever I watch a show from there it has the same color scheme. I dug it.

The girl is working at a hospital. Her dad is the main surgent. Something happens and she is in charge. But he comes back. He does not want to let her be in charge and keeps trying to stand above her and take over whatever she says or does.

The idea seemed interesting I guess but I asked how long that could go on before it gets repetitive. Was there not already a show like this before?

Halfway through the episode it already started to get old. First, the guy isn't in charge and cannot do anything there. He can't do anything with a patient. He can't give orders to any doctors. So why is he? The other doctors start to listen to what he says over his daughter. Why? It makes no sense. They couldn't. He has no say over anything. Then his daughter gets mad. Blah blah blah.

You find out something about a friend of hers later. I just rolled my eyes. It's a bit nuts.

It just seems to me that those of us who have been around long enough to watch years of TV, already know everything that will happen on the show. Is there a point in watching it? I will again. Just to see if it has an interesting take on the same type of story.

I have very little faith that this show will go for more than four seasons. Even going past two would really surprise me.

I gave this a shot because of Sophia Bush (fan from OTH, I never got into the Chicago shows, much to my mother's dismay). I watch a few other medical dramas (the resident, new Amsterdam, the good doctor, Transplant) and at this point I think those are still better (The resident is slipping considerably, and the others have slipped a bit). I think the central storyline is something different- daughter vs father for chief and mom heading up the hospital (divorced and remarried to a man much younger) and so far the peripheral characters are fine- I don't care much about them yet as people (I just finished the 3rd episode) but casting seems good.

Lately, alot of complaints I have seen about shows are they are trying to be too "woke" and diverse. And on a lot of shows I do agree with that because it's forced on the viewer. This does have some of that (younger female that is more open minded and considerate vs "the man" and traditional ways of thinking, the makeup of the class is diverse, biracial relationships, age difference relationships highlighting how women are treated worse after a workplace affair than men, etc etc etc) but it's not quite as pushed in your face as a lot of newer shows.

I am a bit confused though. Chief goes into a coma, his daughter is named his successor. His daughter who is best friends with (and appears used to be part of) the resident class who makes up the doctors we follow... but they wouldn't mass a resident chief of cardiothoracic surgery. Where are the doctors who have finished residency? If Sam was still a resident she wouldn't have even taken her boards yet for cardio so she couldn't become a chief? Even if she did finish her residency and was a few years ahead of the other residents we see. It's unlikely, even with family connections.

I'd like to know more about Sam to make me really care about this fight of hers. And other than family drama where this is going.

It definitely needs to step up its game to contend but it has potential and I'd like for it to get picked up for a season 2!

People here are judging this harshly so I'll ring in with my own review of this.

This is honestly a little more accurate than Grey's Anatomy and that was all sex, sex, sex and sex....... But this a breath of fresh air.

I don't really like these types of medical dramas because they tend to be silly and ridiculous but I found it to be extremely good, especially the conflict.

Apparently there's a doctor who's name is Sam who wants to move to a hospital because she's being put down by her boss, Dr. Griffith.

But it isn't until he's shot we find out it's her DAD.

After presumed dead Sam takes on the role of her dad's position, but her father wakes up after six months and now Sam has to deal with the struggles of proctoring her dad.

The story is actually original for once for a medical drama, and actually showcases life OUTSIDE of the hospital. And isn't like a certain show, I'm looking at you Grey's Anatomy.... Anyways, give it a go with an open mind and don't listen to these people on here.

I watched the entire season, and oh man that's it. Two girls (yes, GIRLS), that are supposed to be HEART SURGEONS, jumping up and down squealing like the nerdiest girl in high school getting asked to prom by the quarterback, because one of them got chosen as Chief of Cardiac Surgery, and this is being deleted from my library. People seem to really like Sophia Bush, but I never watched One Tree Hill or Chicago PD, so I don't know her previous work. In this, she sucks. Her voice is so annoying, and we should be rooting for her character because her father is such a jerk to her, but she manages to be more unlikable than he is. The writing is admittedly abysmal, but I should feel something positive for her. I love Jason Isaacs, but I hope this show is cancelled so he can find a better show. The only likable character on this stupid, unrealistic in any way, show is Caleb. Good Sam is just BAD.

Honestly, the show has it's moments but I don't like the constant infighting between the father and daughter. Basically, the dad was like House (a well known and respected heart surgeon and head of the cardiology dept). He gets shot and ends up in a coma. Meanwhile, his daughter (Sam) is asked to take over the department and the day it becomes official, the dad wakes up. Obviously, he doesn't know it's been 6 months and wants to immediately return to his duties as a surgeon and department head. By law though, he has to go through a proctorship to ensure his skills are still there. The promotion his daughter was taking (department head) is put on hold to see how the dad does. The daughter agrees to proctor her dad but he questions her judgement and undermines her at every level (even in front of the patients). I doubt ANY hospital (or even patients) would put up with 2 doctors fighting over the diagnosis /treatment in front of the patient. Daughter requests tests to see if it's one thing, Dad SAYS it's something else (while the patient sits there looking confused and unsure WHICH doctor to trust). Then you have the rest of the department who are so used to following the dad, they automatically schedule tests and treatment he orders without following up with the daughter (the actual boss at the moment).

Hope it gets better.

& every once in a while, I do! There ARE shining moments throughout the first two episodes. My problem is prob the same as everyone else's will be-he's an ass. & not a fun, funny, lovable ass. An entitled, majorly hatable ass. More than that, if she doesn't tell him to go shove it &/or punch him squarely in the nose VERY soon, goodbye bad Sam.