The Good Doctor Went Full Grey’s Anatomy To Resolve The Bloody Cliffhanger, But Did It Work To Start Season 6?

Spoilers ahead for the Season 6 best of The Good Doctor on ABC, called “Afterparty” and Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy.

As anticipated after how the fifth season finale of The Good Doctor ended, Shaun and Lea’s wedding party was disrupted in the worst method soon after the Season 6 best started. Fans will bear in mind that the spring ending ended with Dr. Lim and Nurse Villaneuva completely stabbed by the nurse’s violent ex, while music blasting at the reception suggested none of the other physicians heard what occurred. It appeared like the significant story to begin Season 6 would be everything about whether they’d make it through, however The Good Doctor rather went complete Grey’s Anatomy with a story that recalled to among the drama’s most renowned arcs. But is a tip of another medical drama an excellent way to begin Season 6? 

Well, thinking about that The Good Doctor ended Season 5 with a scene that totally advised me of NBC’s long-running medical drama ER and I definitely returned for more, any Grey’s resemblances most likely won’t do its fellow ABC series any damage! Last season ended with Owen stabbing Villaneuva off-screen, then stabbing Lim when she stumbled onto the scene. I truthfully believed that was basically completion of the violent part of the story – with Owen as a stabber who would obviously be caught while the majority of the next episode fixated attempting to conserve Lim. How incorrect I was!

So it came as a surprise when Owen got his hands on a weapon and turned the stabbing scenario into an active shooter scenario, and I for one was right away advised of the Grey’s Anatomy two-parter that ended Season 6 with a shooter eliminating his method through what was then called Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. Even now, with Season 19 simply days away from premiering, the shooter arc of Grey’s Anatomy stands apart as one of the most frightening, terrible, and game-changing of the series. If any health center drama consists of a shooter and a lockdown with significant characters separated at crucial minutes, contrasts to Grey’s are inescapable. 

And I would state that The Good Doctor stands quite well to those contrasts. The 2 programs definitely aren’t similar, for all that they both mainly concentrate on cosmetic surgeons. Back in Season 6, Grey’s had a much bigger ensemble than The Good Doctor does, which suggested it might (and did) really exterminate some noteworthy characters to raise the stakes without really getting any of the top-billed gamers. (R.I.P. Percy and Reed, however.) Not even the shooter or Nurse Villanueva – who I undoubtedly believed was a goner back in the Season 5 ending, which you can review streaming with a Hulu subscription – passed away in “Afterparty.” 

The death toll was substantially lower with the shooter on The Good Doctor compared to Grey’s Anatomy, however “Afterparty” did end in a manner that ensured the results would continue to be felt, like they were on Grey’s. Although Lim endured some incredibly dicey minutes throughout her surgical treatments, she awakened to discover herself paralyzed, relatively from the waist down. That exact twist didn’t occur on Grey’s, however the physicians of Seattle Grace Mercy West certainly didn’t simply get rid of their terrible scenario either. 

So, was The Good Doctor’s “Afterparty” a carbon copy of Grey’s Anatomy’s shooter two-parter back in 2009? Definitely not. This was a one-hour best that ended with everyone in the much smaller sized ensemble still alive, while Grey’s was a two-hour occasion with sky-high stakes as quickly as among the physicians was eliminated. Still, the shooter and health center lockdown suggested that my mind right away went to Grey’s, and it was a good idea that The Good Doctor’s best was mostly so strong that the contrasts wear’t do any damage. (Not sure what I think of Lea as a nurse, however.)

See what occurs next on The Good Doctor with brand-new episodes on ABC on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET in the 2022 TV premiere schedule. Shaun appears to have actually prevented any expert repercussions for his breakdown in the OR thanks to how he eventually conserved the day, and the composing appears to be on the wall for Morgan and Park as a couple. I’m simply hoping that Asher captures a break among nowadays!