Spoiler alert! This story discusses Physician Odyssey’s March 6 episode, “Shark Assault!” It’s accessible to stream with a Hulu subscription in the event you’re not caught up.
Physician Odyssey has set sail on the 2025 TV schedule, and issues had been unsure as ever between Max, Avery and Tristan once we reunited with the cruise ship’s medical employees on “Shark Assault!” Surprisingly, although, they weren’t the one ones performing surgical procedures after a trio of the titular occasions, with Adrianne Palicki guest-starring as trauma surgeon Brooke Lane. Sparks flew instantly between Brooke and Max — a lot to Avery’s displeasure — and Joshua Jackson mentioned what all of it means as Avery continues to course of her being pregnant.
Joshua Jackson has been channeling his inside Pacey, with Max getting concerned in a throuple of kinds with Avery (Phillipa Soo) and Tristan (Sean Teale). Effectively, “throuple” could be too formal of a phrase, however they’re positively one thing after their threesome led to Avery turning into pregnant with no approach to know which one is the daddy. Additional complicating the matter was Brooke, who adopted a double-amputation surgical procedure by straight-up asking Max to have intercourse along with her. Avery interrupted them (in fact), and Jackson talked to Collider in regards to the tough scenario, saying:
We’re not large on boundaries, private or skilled. We don’t do this right here. [Adrianne Palicki’s] character, Brooke, offers a second voice contained in the medical enviornment on the skilled aspect. Max has been the voice of authority and, although there’s numerous interaction between the entire medical employees, he’s finally the physician. After which, any individual who isn’t just a physician, but additionally has an issue experience, out of the blue steps into this place, and he finds himself in a spot the place he’s being checked.
So Max is threatened by a physician extra certified than him on this shark-related enviornment, and Avery — who known as him out for “surgical procedure flirting with scorching shark physician” — doesn’t like that Brooke clearly needs to take a chunk out of the potential father to her baby.
By the best way, “surgical procedure flirting with scorching shark physician” was my favourite phrase of the episode, and I hope we are able to all discover extra events to make use of it.
As for Brooke, Joshua Jackson continued:
After which, on the non-public aspect, extra in order a foil for Avery, simply having the presence of this seemingly extra co-equal individual to Max on the boat, abruptly, is confronting to her, as she’s attempting to parse by way of all the pieces that’s happening within the relationship dynamics and the being pregnant and her personal private hopes, needs and goals. You drop this character who, unbeknownst to herself, is slightly atomic bomb, into the dynamic of the solid.
I’m unsure how lengthy Brooke the Little Atomic Bomb shall be a complication within the Max-Avery-Tristan triangle, with yet another week of shark enterprise earlier than Angela Bassett boards the ship for the large 9-1-1 crossover. Any means you slice it, although, all the pieces modified for the Odyssey’s medical employees after they realized about Avery’s being pregnant, Joshua Jackson mentioned:
It doesn’t matter what occurs from right here, you possibly can’t actually unring the bell. So, irrespective of the place the story takes us, the essential truth is that the dynamic of this three-pointed relationship has modified forevermore.
The entire scenario was already so wild, I certain wasn’t anticipating one other girl — Adrianne Palicki at that! — exhibiting up as a romantic menace to Avery so quickly. Extra savagery is on the docket for subsequent week’s episode, however will the sharks be the one factor biting? Tune in at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, March 13, on ABC to seek out out.