The Good Doctor Season 4, Episode 3 takes us to a world post-coronavirus, where things have got back to (relative) normality. This means that San Jose St. Bonaventure has restarted its medical residency program—and The Good Doctor got six new cast members.
In that episode, titled “Newbies,” those six residents were introduced as Dr. Olivia Jackson (played by Summer Brown), Dr. Asher Wolke (Noah Galvin), Dr. Jordan Allen (Bria Henderson), Dr. John Lundberg (Michael Liu), Dr. Enrique Guerin (Brian Marc) and Dr. Will Hooper (Sam Robert Muik).
As in The Good Doctor creator David Shore’s previous show House, however, those six were whittled down to four residents over the course of the episode of the ABC medical drama.
Who those four residents would be, however, was spoiled slightly by a casting announcement made by the ABC medical drama in October which announced four recurring cast members who were joining the show for Season 4.
First, Lundberg took himself out of the race as he did not to work in what he saw as an unprofessional team who talked too much about their personal lives (didn’t he know he was in an ABC medical drama?). Then, Hooper was revealed to be a ringer, who Dr. Audrey Lim (Christina Chang) had made part of the process to see if Dr. Claire Browne (Anthonia Thomas) would be honest and call him out for being an arrogant mansplainer. Spoiler alert: she did.
