5 Fall TV Shows That Are Doomed To Fail

5. The Good Doctor

ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Nurse Jackie - all make the hospital seem like a dramatic, sexy place to be. But when you visit The Good Doctor, you will want to be St. Elsewhere. Okay, dated 80’s reference, but the show feels as dated as Doogie Howser, MD.

Here’s the concept: a young, brilliant surgeon tries to prove that he has what it takes to be a real physician. The twist is, Dr. Shaun Murphy (played by Bates Motel’s Freddie Highmore) isn’t just a genius, he also has autism. While it’s a positive step to feature characters with mental health issues as highly functioning, this show takes things too far, literally taking us into Shaun’s mind to show how he feels when faced with a difficult or tense situation. These cutaways inside his head take you out of the drama, and make your head want to explode with frustration.

Executive Produced by David Shore, who has a strong track record of featuring gifted doctors like Hugh Laurie’s House, the lead character in The Good Doctor suffers from a bad case of being way too good. Not only is Shaun able to use his savant skills to heal the sick, he is able to heal those who didn’t even know they needed healing.

ABC hopes their new ‘genius medical drama’ fares better than CBS's cancelled Pure Genius, though this seems like a clear-cut case of a medical drama that needs to heal thyself before it is cancelled, stat.