Doc has a brand new chief, and new sequence common Felicity Huffman debuts as Dr. Joan Ridley, taking on the place, within the second episode of Season 2, airing on Tuesday, September 30 (there was a particular premiere on September 14, and that episode will rerun on September 23). Fox has now launched photographs from “Delusions of Grandeur,” displaying Huffman on the hospital, alongside Molly Parker — Joan was Amy’s mentor — and Omar Metwally, in addition to a take a look at one of many sufferers.
On this episode, Fox teases, “Amy grapples with having recollections whereas treating a mother-to-be with a mysterious situation. Additionally, Dr. Joan Ridley, Amy’s mentor, visits Westside.”
Joan arrives with “her eye on the job,” govt producer Hank Steinberg instructed TV Insider forward of the season. (Previous to the accident that took years of recollections from her, Amy was chief, then Scott Wolf‘s Richard was interim chief.) “Joan is a tricky, old-school feminist, large believer in feminine empowerment and self-made, and a extremely fascinating, eccentric character. She is double boarded in inside medication and surgical procedure and has traveled the world doing Docs With Borders sort of drugs, so she’s been all around the world, she’s extraordinarily adventurous and certain of herself. She’s powerful and exacting on the opposite docs in the same option to how Amy is, however she’s smoother with how she does it. So, she’s a bit extra carrot-and-stick, whereas Amy was form of all stick. Amy realized and watched Joan, however she kind of took the stick half and didn’t take a lot of the carrot half by way of how she labored together with her workers.”
Within the premiere, Amy had reminiscence flashes amidst a hostage scenario. She then determined to enter a sensory deprivation tank in hopes of getting extra.
“It’s a course of, and it’s an fascinating course of. Amy will do issues proactively to attempt to get her recollections again. She is going to instantaneous outcomes. Like the rest, outcomes are usually not all the time instantaneous, and with the mind, you’ll be able to’t dictate, it does. So, I believe she’ll be shocked alongside the way in which to see that possibly she doesn’t keep in mind something initially, however then the mind can shock you once you least anticipate it and go, ‘Right here’s one thing,’” govt producer Barbie Kligman instructed us.
Scroll down to take a look at the photographs from this episode, then tell us what you’re hoping to see from Felicity Huffman’s Joan Ridley within the feedback part.
Doc, Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox