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Brilliant spirit Back for his second season on Monday evening with a case that made Dr Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto) re -examine when a boxer is admitted to the General Bronx for being unable to control his own arm.
Oliver is immediately intrigued by the case of the boxer reached extraterrestrial hand syndrome, even if the case begins to strike much closer to his home that he could have predicted when the patient’s relationship with his father begins to reflect the Oliver. Remember, Oliver was amazed at the end of season 1 to learn that his father was not only alive, but recruited his help to solve his memory problems … or at least he thought.
While Wolf’s team is starting to unravel the case of the week, they diagnose the boxer with a rare neurodegenerative disorder called Corticobasal degeneration – and it must stop boxing before it worsens. It turns out that the boxer’s father knew the diagnosis and hid him for his son to continue with sport. It is an insidious betrayal which, aggravating the thoughts of Muriel (Donna Murphy) according to which the father of Oliver can hold information, to begin to wonder if his own father tells him the truth.
“We were really delighted to make a father-son story, and that’s where [the idea for the episode] Started, “says showrunner Michael Grassi.” This idea of this fighter MMA who lies him, I think, really reflects the story of Wolf, whose father returned and says he is sick. But I think Wolf, through his conversations with Muriel, begins to doubt that his father is really sick … was it his excuse to bring his son back to his life?
Oliver avoids his father at all costs for a large part of the first episode. Dr. Noah Wolf (Mandy Patinkin) stayed with her son while Oliver is looking for answers on his father’s memory loss, which prompted Oliver to sleep mainly in his office in the hospital.
Since he thought that his father had died during most of his life, Oliver works through many family trauma in the first episode and asks for advice from many of his confidants to try to understand how to manage the situation.
“I think that, the push of this relationship is an element of confidence that has been corrupt. Oliver treating the patient and dealing with the Father, it is such reflection to him of what he goes through in his own life, right? How can you rebuild the confidence that has been so dramatically eroded? ” Thought Quinto.
Finally, Oliver makes the decision to go home and confront his father in the hope of moving through interpersonal trauma and building a new base for a relationship. However, when he gets there, his father left.
Add Quinto: “I think it’s just this merry-go-round of unexpected emotional trauma. How will he metabolize this, and how will he keep his head in the game and stay focused on his patients? I think these are the questions that we are starting to really disentangle as the season takes place.”
All this takes place in the context of several other sons of history which will certainly provide intrigue throughout the season. The largest is the flash attackers who tighten the episode, showing Oliver in a psychiatric establishment for hospitalized patients not as a doctor, but as a patient, apparently against his will. The scenes raise more than a few questions about how he has happened, why he is in there and if he will be released by the end of season 2.
Quinto says that seeing Oliver in “A place where we never expect to find him” will present “a huge mystery” to take place during the season.
“I think that in the context of this first episode, you have a big question that is presented, then you start to have a glimpse of an answer at the end, which is this yo-yo of abandonment with which he treated since his childhood and did so much work on himself to try to integrate and reconcile,” said Quinto. “I think that this upheaval, this feeling of emotional instability on which he has no control, and these things continue to happen to him and to happen to him. As the season takes place, we will understand how these things may add a little more a catastrophic event that leads Oliver to the situation we find at the start of the season.”
On this note, Grassi promises: “Over the season, we will continue to disentangle the onion, and there are a few twists and surprises in history, but we are really delighted to explore this new world in which Oliver finds himself, and is clearly not happy to be there when we see it.”
Curiously, these two sons of major history are only scratching the tip of the iceberg during the premiere of season 2.. The public is also presented to two new characters, the mysterious resident of Brian Altemus, Dr. Charlie Porter, and John Stewart’s cynical doctor, Dr Anthony Thorne, which no one seems very well with the Dr. Wolf.
The two are sure to make things happen during the second season, in particular Dr. Porter, who is the first resident to join the Oliver team, just as he was finally starting to develop a relationship with his interns. Charlie’s reasons are still a little clear, and the way he strives with Oliver certainly raises some questions, but he reveals at the end of the episode he specifically asked to be assigned to the Wolf team. Not yet to say if it is a sign of good will or an indication of something harmful in play.
“I do not think that Oliver is used to meeting other people who are so confident in their point of view on things,” said Quinto. “I think that Oliver sees in Charlie something he does not like. Maybe it is because it is something that people might think of Oliver. But, there seems to be something slightly about Charlie … And then I think we are going to know more about it as the season takes place.”
As for Oliver and Anthony, who have probably been colleagues for some time since Dr. Thorne has been a doctor of mid-carrier (even if we have just been presented to him), Grassi says that a large part of the tension of their relationship will revolve around their different philosophies on a secular medical issue: “Do we do a little for many, or a lot?”
We cannot forget Dr. Nichols (Teddy Sears) either, who is apparently on the outings with Oliver always after bailout their appointment for dinner with his father, although there are lights of a potential delight in the first, especially after Josh defends Oliver when the father of the boxer threatens to get his hands on him.
“These are two very complicated, the good.” I don’t want to spoil too much, but the only thing I will say is that and something that will be very clear in narration and stage work, and although these two continue to have friction, because neurologists and neurosurgeons tend to have in hospitals, there is a lot of respect and admiration.
There is no doubt that the first of season 2 created a lot of scenarios to dive. Fortunately, Brilliant spirit At 22 episodes this season to stick the landing, against 13 in season 1.
As for what to expect from the extended season, Grassi says: “I think that allows us to know the patients a little longer. We do a little more serialized scenarios with our patients, as well as our big case of the week.”
Brilliant spirit is broadcast on Monday at 10 p.m. He / PT on NBC.
