“He’s not Rain Man,” says his main advocate at the prestigious St Bonaventure hospital in an attempt to convince the board that Murphy is hirable and high-functioning. His stream of consciousness speaks the language of anatomy, and when the show’s particularly keen on calling attention to his genius, organs and veins and glands float above his head like illustrations ripped from a med-school textbook. The premise is simple: Shaun Murphy, played by Highmore, is an autistic surgeon with savant syndrome. There’s even talk of an Emmy nod for its star Freddie Highmore, of Bates Motel fame.
It also received a full-season order at ABC after only two episodes and has found a quietly passionate fanbase on Facebook (the show’s official page already boasts over 650,000 likes), where fans praise its depiction of autism and attest that the soapy medical plotlines have reduced them to tears. Yes – “most-watched” is a superlative that’s both widely appropriated and, in the age of multi-platform viewing increasingly irrelevant – but 18.2 million viewers, which The Good Doctor reeled in last week, is nothing to scoff at, especially as it trounces flashier fall debuts like The Orville, The Gifted and Seal Team and runs neck-and-neck with CBS’s Big Bang Theory spinoff Young Sheldon. Last week, after just three episodes, The Good Doctor became the most-watched show on US television, surpassing The Big Bang Theory, which has held that title for quite some time despite running on pseudo-comic fumes.
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