Warning: spoilers are forward for the second episode of Good Minds Season 2, known as “The Contestant” and out there streaming subsequent day with a Peacock subscription.
Good Minds hit the bottom operating in Season 2 within the 2025 TV schedule, with the premiere ending on a flash ahead that indicators catastrophe on the best way for Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto), the second episode fairly definitively sending off his dad (at the very least for now) after which saying goodbye to his mother inside the partitions of Bronx Normal. Throw within the second flash ahead sequence of the season, and I am left questioning: who’s going to betray him as the brand new episodes meet up with what’s taking place at Hudson Oaks?
Muriel (Donna Murphy) determined to step down from her position as head of Bronx Normal’s Chief Medical Officer so open the door for Carol (Tamberla Perry) to return to the hospital after the board was cut up on whether or not or not she must be allowed again. Carol tried to protest, however Muriel’s thoughts was made up, and neither she nor Oliver had been upset about it. The truth is, Oliver identified that it could be good to have Muriel as his mother and never as his boss.
The twist does not imply that actress Donna Murphy is leaving the present both, as star Zachary Quinto advised TVLine that she’s “all the time round” and “she’ll be again.” I would not be shocked if we simply see much less of her now that she bid her farewell to the hospital, although. At the least Carol can come again!
Whereas Carol’s return looks as if nothing however a optimistic within the current, the flash ahead signifies that maybe she’ll be betraying her pricey pal inside six months. She was the ally Oliver wanted in “The Contestant” when it got here to speaking a affected person out of agreeing to signal on with Dr. Amelia Frederick (Scandal and Prodigal Son alum Bellamy Younger) and the Hudson Oaks facility, which sounded too idyllic for consolation when she described it. (Plus, we noticed the character having Oliver drugged within the Season 2 premiere flash ahead.)
Oliver and Carol appeared to be on the identical web page about encouraging mainly each technique of psychiatric therapy earlier than signing on for inpatient care. So, based mostly on the soar forward in time the place a Carol is encouraging Oliver to signal an necessary doc, it seems that one thing drastic goes to should occur for her to assume this final resort is the most suitable choice for her finest pal.
That mentioned, I am not fully satisfied that we must always interpret that ending as Carol institutionalizing her pal. Oliver was seemingly below the affect of some type of medicine and visibly confused, then Carol enterted the scene and advised him to “go forward” and signal himself in as a result of “it is for the most effective.” May this Carol be a hallucination on account of no matter has occurred to Oliver, or no matter he is on within the sequence?
Dr. Frederick taking a look at Carol places a wrinkle on this concept, however I can not shake off the sight of Oliver wanting so clearly impaired being inspired to signal a doc. If this actually is Carol telling her pal to signal himself right into a facility that he clearly did not assume a lot of within the current storyline, I positive hope Good Minds has a narrative to justify it.
Discover out with new episodes of Season 2 on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, and/or streaming on Tuesdays.