After seven seasons, 126 episodes and more than one hundred hours of love and healing, The Good Doctor is leaving the screens forever. The young surgeon Shaun Murphy, brilliant but fragile, has left his mark on viewers for his epic of inclusion of human diversity, making visible obese people, LGBTI people, people of various religions, cultures, races and many other identities. It was about normalizing scattered singularities with courage and delicacy and this was done well by this boyish doctor, on the autism spectrum and savant syndrome, similar to the character that Dustin Hoffman played in Rain Man in 1988, until then the most popular autistic person. Perhaps the series has been sliding towards naivety, due to a good nature that collides with the reality of a fierce, conservative and exclusive world.
This militant candor is the other shore of the struggle and utopia that art and books propose, because with blows and laws things change. Freddie Highmore will not be able to free himself from the figure of Shaun, in the same way that Karra Elejalde, as he has confessed, is terribly burdened by his comic role as Koldo in Eight Basque Surnames. Now, the Gasteiztarra is purified with the drama of Second Death, on Movistar+. The profession of doctor is, along with detectives, police officers and lawyers, the most represented on television due to its proximity to the fragility of life and the fight against death. In the end, years have passed and Shaun Murphy has two children and his mentor, faithful friend and effective father, Dr. Glassman, has died, suggesting that The Good Doctor will not be reborn. In the last chapters our Lorena Bernal stars in a short story, quite an honor. And so, between dramas and hospital emergencies, Murphy returns to rest in the memorial of formidable stories.
