Meet Physician Amy Larsen, an excellent chief of inside medication, who — after struggling an enormous mind harm — is left with no reminiscence of just about a decade of her life. “It’s a implausible premise,” shares Home of Playing cards’ Molly Parker, who stars because the formidable M.D. within the new sequence, which is impressed by true occasions.
“It’s a procedural medical drama, clearly, and has all the weather that we love about that style — high-stakes thriller sicknesses, difficult relationships, and juicy office romances. However at its middle is that this unbelievable state of affairs that this lady is in that might be fully unbelievable if it hadn’t really occurred.”
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When Amy awakens to her new life, she’s shocked to be taught that she’s divorced from her soulmate — plus she’s having a secret love affair with a youthful resident and has turn out to be a girl she doesn’t even acknowledge. “She thinks she has this lovely household. She’s basically this completely happy lady and he or she wakes as much as discover that within the eight years that she doesn’t keep in mind, she’s misplaced all of that and he or she doesn’t know why,” Parker explains, including that whereas the circumstances are tragic, they’re additionally catalysts for change.
“One of many major themes of the present is this concept of second possibilities. She’s not likely given that chance, however she’s given the opportunity to react to her life otherwise, to make totally different choices going ahead, to determine who she needs to be versus reacting to the issues that occur to her.”
All through her 30-year profession, Parker has performed a variety of roles, together with a widow (Deadwood), a politician (Home of Playing cards), and a household matriarch (Netflix’s Misplaced in House remake). However in her first outing as a medical skilled, the actress discovered herself on difficult floor. “I can’t faux to know stuff that I don’t perceive [medically]. I’m simply not good at that,” she says with fun.
“Each one in every of these episodes has this high-stakes second the place the particular person I’m enjoying is aware of precisely what’s happening and what must occur, and it must occur actually shortly. It’s additionally taking place whereas she’s utilizing quite a lot of props, so there’s an unbelievable quantity of fast studying that has to occur. It’s given me an infinite respect for the performers who do this type of work on a regular basis as a result of it’s actually intense.”
Doc, Sequence Premiere, Tuesday, January 7, 9/8c, Fox