Warning: spoilers are forward for the Season 2 premiere of Doc, known as “Her Coronary heart” and obtainable streaming now with a Hulu subscription.
Doc returned to Fox within the fall 2025 TV schedule to select up nearly precisely the place Season 1 ended within the spring. The second season premiere shortly revealed the fallout of Amy and Michael‘s kiss after Jake witnessed it, after which raised the stakes sky-high with a hostage scenario. Not one of the medical doctors died by the top of the hour, luckily, however it additionally may need spelled the top of the Michael/Amy/Jake love triangle… for now. The amnesiac doctor could have someone new to give attention to on the hospital, with the upcoming arrival of Determined Housewives‘ Felicity Huffman as a physician from her previous.
Because it seems, the kiss within the Season 1 finale wasn’t the beginning of one thing new – and even the rebegin of one thing previous – for Amy and Michael, however Jake witnessing it was sufficient to dishearten him from persevering with to attempt the romance with Amy. Gina was nonetheless upset with Amy at first. Throw in Nora going into labor, a cop turning his daughter’s await a coronary heart transplant right into a hostage scenario, and TJ (new sequence common Patrick Walker) getting shot, and it was no shock that the established order was very completely different by the top of the episode.
The roots of the hostage scenario return to when pre-amnesia Amy talked the daddy out of his daughter getting a coronary heart transplant years earlier, inflicting him to snap in “Her Coronary heart” when it appeared like his daughter had misplaced her probability to get a life-saving surgical procedure. Amy may have communicated higher again within the day, and the amnesia meant that she did not recall immediately why she’d talked him down within the first place. The daughter tragically died regardless of Michael and Jake bending the principles to get the guts, and Amy’s romantic prospects do not appear nice by the point the credit rolled.
That did not appear to trouble her an excessive amount of, nevertheless, as remembering a second from earlier than the accident shifted Amy’s priorities to eager to get better her recollections, mending fences with Gina and taking a dip in a sensory deprivation tank. The stage is now set for the introduction of a brand new character: Dr. Joan Ridley, performed by Felicity Huffman.
Huffman’s casting as a sequence common for Doc Season 2 was confirmed over the summer time by Deadline, with the outlet reporting that Joan is a double board-certified physician of inner medication and surgical procedure. She was Amy’s med faculty professor, and enters the season when Michael recruits her to the place of Chief of Inside Drugs at Westside.
The casting does doubtlessly resolve the issue of Doc wrapping Dr. Richard Miller‘s sketchy subplot on the finish of Season 1 and seemingly chopping Scott Wolf from the ensemble. The actor’s efficiency made Richard’s story one in every of my favorites of Season 1, even whereas Richard himself was not one in every of my favourite characters. Maybe bringing in an actress already well-known for exhibits like Sports activities Night time, Determined Housewives, and (extra just lately) Prison Minds is an indication that the Joan/Amy story will probably be juicy this fall.
The promo for Episode 2 offers the primary have a look at Felicity Huffman as Dr. Joan Ridley, and it appears clear that even when Amy was a standout scholar of hers again within the day, she will not essentially be minimize extra slack than any of the opposite medical doctors on employees. Have a look:
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I take some subject with Sonya telling Amy that she nearly obtained TJ and Jake killed, for the reason that hostage scenario wasn’t actually post-car crash Amy’s fault, however the promo additionally makes it clear that TJ is not simply going to be again on his toes immediately, and Jake within the MRI scanner could point out that his head wound within the premiere was a much bigger deal than it appeared at first. What a time for the employees to fulfill their new Chief of Inside Drugs!
See how Doc adjustments with Felicity Huffman on board with new episodes on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox, following Season 2 of Homicide in a Small City. It’s also possible to revisit earlier episodes streaming on Hulu.