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It centers on an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.
20 August 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 September 1985, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
26 October 1976, Cyprus
7 November 1940, Oakland, California, USA
6 March 1968, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
January 19, 2018
It sure feels like an overbaked melodrama filled with stock characters.
January 18, 2018
Something's got to give. And I'm interested just enough in The Resident to see if something soon does.
January 23, 2018
Harrowing medical drama about hospital politics, ethics.
January 19, 2018
A familiar medical show filled with broad strokes and broad characters that might - like "The Orville" and "9-1-1" - bring some viewers to the party too.
January 22, 2018
If all broadcast TV shows are going to be cops, law or medicine, it helps that the new "The Resident"... is, on the basis of its first show, pretty good, with the supporting cast outshining the ostensible star, played by Matt Czuchry.
January 21, 2018
The show doesn't totally abandon being aspirational, while simultaneously trying to carve out enough space to distinguish it from other white-coated network fare.
January 22, 2018
If it doesn't break any new ground in the genre, it efficiently delivers a familiar mix of ethical conundrums and colorful characters, with just enough blood and sex to seem "real" in TV terms.
January 23, 2018
But what we have here is really two shows in one. There's that dark, fascinating portrait of the modern hospital. And then there's the much more standard, dispiritingly regular drama about a cool doctor with eleven o'clock shadow.
January 19, 2018
Perhaps "The Resident" will click with folks disenchanted with medical care. This show's mix of good acting, melodramatic writing and hospital horror could serve that huge audience.
January 21, 2018
If you need to compare it to anything, then compare it to the late ER or the lesser known hit Strong Medicine, but this is not a Grey's Anatomy, nor a The Good Doctor, and that's OK.
