Season 2
🎬 18 Episodes 📅 2018 ⏱ 46 min
A solitary surgeon arrives at a prestigious hospital carrying an invisible weight—a mind that perceives the world differently, yet sees what others cannot. The Good Doctor transforms the skepticism of his colleagues into reverence as each surgery becomes a masterclass in human resilience, proving that connection transcends words. In the quiet intensity of the operating room, a man deemed unable to touch lives saves them with surgical precision and unexpected grace. What emerges is not just medical drama, but a profound meditation on belonging, worth, and the extraordinary hiding within the unremarkable.
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18
Episodes
2018
Year
46
min / ep
13.8
Watch Hours
2/7
Season No.
⭐ 8.4
Best Episode
Ep. 14 · Faces
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🎬 Episodes 18 episodes
1
⭐ 7.8
Hello
Shaun’s proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Dr. Kalu in Dr. Andrews’ crosshairs. Claire tries to overcome Dr. Melendez’s reluctance to do a risky heart operation. Dr. Glassman faces a difficult decision about his health.
🎬 Mike Listo ✍️ Freddie Highmore
2
⭐ 8.1
Middle Ground
As Shaun pushes back against Dr. Melendez in order to treat a gravely ill hospital janitor, Dr. Lim risks a lawsuit to repair a teenage girl’s ritual circumcision. Dr. Glassman exercises demanding oversight in choosing a doctor for his brain surgery.
🎬 Steve Robin ✍️ David Shore
3
⭐ 8.0
36 Hours
Dr. Melendez, Dr. Brown and Dr. Park have given a young married couple two choices about their future: save the wife’s life or their future ability to start a family. Meanwhile, when Dr. Lim has to take care of some personal business, she leaves oversight of the emergency room to Dr. Murphy and Dr. …
🎬 Larry Teng ✍️ Thomas L. Moran
4
⭐ 7.5
Tough Titmouse
Shaun recalls his own past to help an intellectually disabled teenager face separation from his mother, while Claire is put between an injured teenage rock climber and her worried parents. Meanwhile, Glassman’s post-op hallucinations force him to confront a personal tragedy.
🎬 Steven DePaul ✍️ David Hoselton
5
⭐ 7.6
Carrots
When a patient suffering from anorexia can’t gain the necessary weight needed to survive heart surgery, Claire suggests they perform an experimental surgery which Melendez strongly opposes. Shaun worries Glassman’s refusal to walk the hospital floor will keep him from being discharged and tries to p…
🎬 Sharat Raju ✍️ Liz Friedman
6
⭐ 7.6
Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)
Morgan and Shaun’s indecision on how to treat a young violinist who visits the ER with an infected finger could affect her future in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Lim, Claire and Park can’t figure out if their young patient is really ill or looking for attention.
🎬 Tara Nicole Weyr ✍️ Simran Baidwan
7
⭐ 7.8
Hubert
Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Morgan Reznick must contend with two brothers who are bargaining over life and death. Meanwhile, Dr. Claire Brown’s friend who is dying of cancer asks her for something she doesn’t think she can give her; and Dr. Aaron Glassman is dealing with the effects of his treatment.
🎬 Marisol Adler ✍️ David Renaud
8
⭐ 7.9
Stories
Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Audrey Lim and Dr. Claire Brown’s E.R. patient is forced to reveal a secret to her husband after their treatment caused a complication. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Alex Park struggle with a patient whose parents don’t believe in vaccinations.
🎬 Michael Patrick Jann ✍️ Sal Calleros
9
⭐ 7.8
Empathy
Dr. Neil Melendez, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Claire Brown grapple with a patient’s wish to perform an operation that would keep him from acting on his pedophilic urges; and Dr. Shaun Murphy learns a lesson in empathy.
🎬 Joanna Kerns ✍️ Karen Struck
10
⭐ 7.9
Quarantine (1)
Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Alex Park treat two patients who collapse at the local airport and whose symptoms point to an infection that may become airborne. The staff races to contain the infection before it spreads to the rest of the patients in the ER, resulting in a hospital quarantine during the h…
🎬 Mike Listo ✍️ Lloyd Gilyard, Jr.
11
⭐ 7.7
Quarantine (2)
The hospital is still in quarantine as Dr. Shaun Murphy continues to be overwhelmed by the chaos and noise in the emergency room; Dr. Morgan Reznick struggles to keep her patients alive, and Dr. Audrey Lim fights for her life. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Claire Browne must find a way to com…
🎬 Mike Listo ✍️ Simran Baidwan
12
⭐ 8.2
Aftermath
In the aftermath of the quarantine, the staff tries to return to their normal routines. Meanwhile, as Dr. Lim recovers from the virus, she and Dr. Melendez navigate their new personal and working relationship, while Dr. Murphy and Dr. Glassman visit Lea.
🎬 Dawn Wilkinson ✍️ Thomas L. Moran
13
⭐ 7.9
Xin
Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Audrey Lim treat a woman with autism and a delicate brain condition while navigating the complicated relationship she has with her roommate, who is also on the spectrum. Meanwhile, Lea and Shaun are still figuring out their friendship and roommate status.
🎬 David Straiton ✍️ Brian Shin
14
⭐ 8.4
Faces
Dr. Andrews tries to convince a grieving family to donate their teenage daughter’s face to another young girl whose face was horribly disfigured in an accident.
🎬 Allison Liddi-Brown ✍️ David Hoselton
15
⭐ 8.2
Risk and Reward
Shaun’s blunt honesty with a distraught mother of a critically ill newborn baby causes the new chief of Surgery to question keeping him on as a resident.
🎬 Freddie Highmore ✍️ David Renaud
16
⭐ 7.8
Believe
The new chief of surgery, Dr. Jackson Han, believes Dr. Shaun Murphy is a liability more than an asset and works to keep him out of the operating room permanently.
🎬 Alrick Riley ✍️ Karen Struck
17
⭐ 8.3
Breakdown
Dr. Shaun Murphy is desperate to join the team on a dangerous procedure involving a patient’s tumor removal. However, having been removed from the surgery team by Dr. Jackson Han, Shaun must use his talents to help figure out the cause of an infant’s injuries.
🎬 Mike Listo ✍️ Thomas L. Moran
18
⭐ 8.2
Trampoline
As a barroom fight sends Dr. Shaun Murphy to seek treatment at St. Bonaventure’s, Dr. Alex Park and Dr. Audrey Lim disagree over an elderly woman’s post-operative symptoms. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Lim make their romance public, and Dr. Aaron Glassman continues to pursue a relationship w…
🎬 David Shore ✍️ David Shore