anicho01-944-812539
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Normally I love Dr Odyssey for its escapist 1980s soap opera throwback tendencies. However, this is the second episode that leans more towards action adventure meets medical tv show. I don't need the cruise ship edition of Fast and Furious meets shark week.
On top of that, is Phillipa Soo leaving the cast? Outside of two scenes, she barely featured in this episode. Plus, the sudden addition of Adrianna palicki, MD makes me suspicious. Note: Dr Odyssey went out of its way to have a general practitioner, a nurse practitioner and registered nurse all doing complicated surgeries, but this week the show started using Adrienne P's character for anything vaguely surgical. So, are they adding her character or are they swapping out the medical POC characters?
Finally, this week's show has backslid on its progressive charter. Tristan giving the your body your choice speech before hiatus was perfection. Now we get 1980s miscommunication hijinks, with Avery catching Max with another woman. Yawn.
On top of that, is Phillipa Soo leaving the cast? Outside of two scenes, she barely featured in this episode. Plus, the sudden addition of Adrianna palicki, MD makes me suspicious. Note: Dr Odyssey went out of its way to have a general practitioner, a nurse practitioner and registered nurse all doing complicated surgeries, but this week the show started using Adrienne P's character for anything vaguely surgical. So, are they adding her character or are they swapping out the medical POC characters?
Finally, this week's show has backslid on its progressive charter. Tristan giving the your body your choice speech before hiatus was perfection. Now we get 1980s miscommunication hijinks, with Avery catching Max with another woman. Yawn.
Velma is basically what if our bespectacled mystery solving genius were more like '90s style Daria - rocking combat boots, a thigh high mini, a judgy attitude towards everyone and a teenager figuring stuff out, while still being super smart.
Basically, in this version, Velma is just a snarky teenage girl.
When I was a kid watching Scooby-Doo, I always wished the writers flushed out the relationships between Velma and Shaggy and Daphne and Fred. But now that this writing crew is spending more time on feelings, I wish they had spent more time on the ongoing mystery.
If you are a child of the '90s and loved Daria and thought she reflected you, then you will love this, especially if you are a kid of color.
Basically, in this version, Velma is just a snarky teenage girl.
When I was a kid watching Scooby-Doo, I always wished the writers flushed out the relationships between Velma and Shaggy and Daphne and Fred. But now that this writing crew is spending more time on feelings, I wish they had spent more time on the ongoing mystery.
If you are a child of the '90s and loved Daria and thought she reflected you, then you will love this, especially if you are a kid of color.
There are numerous British TV shows like Death in Paradise or Mallorca files where an uptight English person moves to a beautiful tropical location to shake up the status quo. It is about time we had it in reverse where a forward thinking officer from the Caribbean joins mainland forces and shakes up the status quo.
This is well acted and well directed. It has been a couple years since I've seen a show on Brit box/acorn highlighting a young hot male officer with a burning passion for justice (without the cozy mystery spin).
My issue isn't with the directing or acting, as that is all spot on. It is more with the writing. Certain Caucasian writers love creating characters that are fringe hotheads like evil over the top environmentalists or over the top me too followers, and portray lives matter activist as dangerous. Plus, there is always a scene where a minority actor points out the discrepancy but that character is immediately dressed down and humiliated by a higher ranking officer (see the FBI missing series on CBS). Both of these events happened at the 45-minute mark.
I wondered what the point of having a show with a Caribbean officer was if the writers maintain status quo viewpoints. There was another very clumsily done scene where he meets an officer of Indian background, and that person immediately does everything they can to pooh pooh diversity.
So although the acting and directing was well done. Why have diverse characters if you're going to undermine them?
This is well acted and well directed. It has been a couple years since I've seen a show on Brit box/acorn highlighting a young hot male officer with a burning passion for justice (without the cozy mystery spin).
My issue isn't with the directing or acting, as that is all spot on. It is more with the writing. Certain Caucasian writers love creating characters that are fringe hotheads like evil over the top environmentalists or over the top me too followers, and portray lives matter activist as dangerous. Plus, there is always a scene where a minority actor points out the discrepancy but that character is immediately dressed down and humiliated by a higher ranking officer (see the FBI missing series on CBS). Both of these events happened at the 45-minute mark.
I wondered what the point of having a show with a Caribbean officer was if the writers maintain status quo viewpoints. There was another very clumsily done scene where he meets an officer of Indian background, and that person immediately does everything they can to pooh pooh diversity.
So although the acting and directing was well done. Why have diverse characters if you're going to undermine them?