Actor Daniel Dae Kim, born in South Korea but raised in the United States, took advantage of his Korean upbringing to find the ideal content to adapt for the American market. This is how they got hold of the rights to a medical drama whose main attraction was that its protagonist was a surgeon with autism, and this is how one of the great free-to-air television hits of the last decade came out: The good doctor with David Shore as the script and Freddie Highmore in the title role. And, after six seasons on the air, it’s time to expand the franchise with a legal equivalent: The good lawyer.
Next week you can see its pilot episode in the United States, which is part of the sixth season of The good doctor. In the episode with Highmore, Dr. Shaun Murphy will have to face a trial for the decision to amputate a patient’s hand. After seeing that in the firm hired by the hospital there is a lawyer with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he decides to trust her with her future. Kennedy McMann, known for her work on the series Nancy Drew, plays Joni DeGroot, this peculiar lawyer with no experience in court.
David Shore, who had signed House before succeeding again in the hospital genre with The good doctor, is not the only creator of The good lawyer. This time it has Liz Friedman in the same role, who was trained in series like Xena, the warrior princess and who worked with Shore in House, as well as Orange is the new black or Jessica Jones. In one of her main roles, in addition, the spin-off has Felicity Huffman, the actress known for Desperate Housewives and who temporarily fell out of favor for having participated in a network of bribery and fraud at American universities.
Anyone who wants to take a look at the expansion of the universe The good doctor, has the trailer here. On March 13 the episode is broadcast on the American channel ABC, owned by Disney. And it is difficult not to associate this arrival with the international success of Woo, Extraordinary Lawyer on Netflix, the series with Park Eun-bin about an autistic lawyer with Savant syndrome.
