Go north, says The Good Doctor star Freddie Highmore. Way north. As Highmore begins to write and direct on the ABC hit, Joe Utichi travels to Vancouver to watch the action unfold on set.
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THE PATH OF EMMY HISTORY IS LITTERED WITH many injustices. Take, for example, Steve Carell’s failure, despite five nominations, to earn a trophy for playing Michael Scott on The Office. Or how about The Wire, which somehow, despite becoming one of the definitive exemplars of peak television, only ever mustered a measly pair of writing nominations over its five seasons on the air? So perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a
Shaun Murphy, a brilliant surgical resident
shock, given that rocky history, that Freddie
with autism, which struck a particularly
Highmore walked away from last year’s
touching chord with a scarcely represented
Emmy season without so much as a nod for
community. As Shaun struggled to find
his turn as Dr. Shaun Murphy on The Good
acceptance with his colleagues at San Jose
Doctor. But, at the risk of over-editorializing,
St. Bonaventure Hospital, the show not only
a shock is how it felt. After all, David Shore’s
shone a light on the challenges faced by
series had become one of ABC’s biggest
people with autism, but also felt like a rare
hits almost instantly, and had drawn
moment of validation for anybody who had
endless praise for Highmore’s turn as Dr.
ever felt unseen or other.
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