
If you're a fan of Seven's American medical drama The Good Doctor, or you're keen to sample Asian television drama, then the original version of The Good Doctor, which aired across South Korean in 2013, may well be of interest.
The American remake, with Freddie Highmore as Shaun Murphy, a young autistic savant training to be a surgeon, has been a ratings success in the US, and you can see how it took the original idea and ran with it.
The pilots are remarkably similar, with Joo Won's Park Shi-on intervening to save a child on the way to his job interview and gaining admittance (as a paediatric specialist) to a doubting medical fraternity. But from the second episode (Viceland is screening back to back instalments) they diverge, in terms of plot, pacing and taste for melodrama. CM