The Good Doctor (4×18) Forgive or Forget Review

For our review of the last episode of The Good Doctor, click here.

Synopsis: Shaun and Lea go on a camping trip to distract themselves from their grief over their miscarriage. Meanwhile, Morgan and Park argue about the best course of treatment for their patient. (IMDb)

This latest episode of The Good Doctor was a multi-character subplot check-in of sorts, tackling all the lingering relationship and family drama.

Forgive or Forget began with Browne and her father continuing to reconnect. Their complicated past with him out of the picture most of her life was still an issue that they kept working on. Meanwhile, Murphy and Lea were getting ready for a weekend camping trip. They needed a distraction outside of their comfort zone after their still recent trauma. Glassman startled Debbie but thankfully he made sure her gun was unloaded which upset her even further. Their issues were more than just about the gun and more about his respect for her and her choices. It got too much for her.

The first patient was a young girl named Ava (Nevis Unipan) with nagging issues with vascular malformations that could no longer be ignored by her parents who had consistently put off surgery.  Regardless of what the parents may have believed, complications during the first surgery meant that the girl had to stay at the hospital for more surgery. Another patient found his own treatment for his depression using his own connection using magic mushrooms, causing concern from Reznick. It was working for his depression but his liver and lungs were failing and riddled with lesions. Despite this, he did not want to go back to that dark place. The subsequent disagreements over this case widened the obvious divide between her and Park (Allen noticed and made sure to voice her concerns).

Ava’s further surgery proved more complicated than they thought as the doctors would need to cut out part of her lung. Suffice it to say that her parents would need to get over their own fears and do what’s best for their daughter which ended up for the best (echoing Browne’s relationship with her father which only made her realize that she needed her father in her life). Meanwhile, Reznick turned around on the man’s self-treatment post-surgery. Also, in order for Reznick and Park’s relationship to keep working (like before they moved in together), they would have to keep things professional which she found boring.

Murphy and Lea’s camping trip was off to a bad start once all the camping spots were already taken. They eventually found another spot which wasn’t the most ideal but they made it work but they could only do so much. During a hike, Murphy tripped and dislocated his ankle until it became something more than that while their remote location made finding help difficult. They would have to do it themselves with Murphy coaching Lea or at least until he lost consciousness from blood loss. In the end, Lea seemed to have figured it out as Murphy came back to consciousness. She was still glad they went.

So this concludes our multi-character subplot check-in.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.