Doc has a brand new chief, and new collection 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 have a look at one of many sufferers.
On this episode, Fox teases, “Amy grapples with having reminiscences 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,” government producer Hank Steinberg informed TV Insider forward of the season. (Previous to the accident that took years of reminiscences from her, Amy was chief, then Scott Wolf‘s Richard was interim chief.) “Joan is a troublesome, old-school feminist, massive believer in feminine empowerment and self-made, and a very attention-grabbing, eccentric character. She is double boarded in inside drugs and surgical procedure and has traveled the world doing Docs With Borders sort of medication, so she’s been all around the world, she’s extraordinarily adventurous and positive of herself. She’s powerful and exacting on the opposite docs in an identical approach 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 type of all stick. Amy discovered and watched Joan, however she type of took the stick half and didn’t take a lot of the carrot half when it comes to how she labored together with her employees.”
Within the premiere, Amy had reminiscence flashes amidst a hostage state of affairs. She then determined to enter a sensory deprivation tank in hopes of getting extra.
“It’s a course of, and it’s an attention-grabbing course of. Amy will do issues proactively to attempt to get her reminiscences again. She is going to prompt outcomes. Like anything, outcomes should not all the time prompt, and with the mind, you may’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 whenever you least anticipate it and go, ‘Right here’s one thing,’” government producer Barbie Kligman informed us.
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Doc, Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox
