The Good Doctor (TV Series) Carrots (2018) User Reviews

S2.E5 - The Friend Zone [9/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 9/10 · 1 March 2024]

(S2. E5) My Live Reaction / Review for The Good Doctor Season 2 Episode 5 ''Carrots''. The previous episode was good and I gave it a rating of 9/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. So Lea now wants to be just friends with Shaun. Is that why she kissed him before? Lea is more immature than I thought, Shaun deserves someone better than her. I feel bad for the anorexic mom, her health has been damaged from malnutrition. I hope they will find a way to fix this problem. So this guy didn't want his husband to know that he used to be obese? That's so dumb. Shaun keeps trying to find ways to help Dr. Glassman and I like that. Im so glad Dr. Glassman is walking again. So Lea and Shaun will stay together. Shaun is still in the friendzone though which sucks. Overall this episode was good and I enjoyed it. My rating is 9/10.

Frustrating

[lizzilumps · 6/10 · 12 February 2019]

I love this show and overall it was a good episode but I have serious issues about the gastric bypass plot line. It is extremely frustrating when people think that weight loss surgery is the easy way out. I know firsthand that it takes a lot of work to lose weight and even more work to not gain it back. In order to be successful, you need to make serious behavioral changes. The patient kept the weight off for fifteen years. To say that he will gain it all back is unfair and untrue.

So much wrong with this episode

[dosefade19 · 3/10 · 31 May 2022]

I enjoy Good Doctor. Not every episode has been great (a lot of strong man hating and feminist messages in a lot of them) but I digress, it has it's good moments. This episode really bothers me.

Here we have a man who used to be like 370 pounds, had gastric bypass and somehow doesn't want his husband to know he was once obese...

For a medical show, that is a terrible storyline. The husband would be well aware that this guy was once that obese, because guess what? He would have a lot of loose skin. Everyone who gets to that point of obesity never gets to have a "normal" looking body again. They get saggy, loose wrinkly skin. Even if he got surgery to remove the excess skin, he would have scarring everywhere. Do the writers have no idea how extreme weight loss works?

Well take it from someone who was once obese and lost a whole bunch of weight, this is not even close to reality.

I am tired of movies and shows making it out like someone who was obese can just walk away unscathed and have a perfect body. A man who was once 370+ pounds would definitely have noticeable signs of that, and their partner would be well aware of it.

For a positive though, I am also on the spectrum and this show definitely represents that aspect extremely well, (FreddIe Highmore is extremely talented) so props for that at least. This episode is just a bad lemon.

Disappointing episode.

Fathers are irrelevant

[dierregi · 2/10 · 11 August 2021]

Another substandard episode, more a patronizing sermon than anything else. Putting the gastric bypass aside, the attitude of the anorexic woman was a cringeworthy example of current 'woke' attitude.

Anorexic woman claimed to have tried anything and the only motivation to push her to try something else was her son, even if she's married with a caring husband (even too caring, considering...)

While the doctors take her to surgery, both her husband and child stand by her bed and she proclaims her love for her child with exaggerated expressions.

For the husband, not a single word. After all he's just a white guy, therefore second rate and useful only as sperm donor. If it was me, I'd ask for a divorce.