FALL TV EXTRAVAGANZA

THE MOB DOCTOR

** (out of ****)

Much like Guys With Kids, The Mob Doctor has a title so awesomely generic that we already know that we don’t want to watch it before seeing even a single second of it. In case you needed an actual premise, a surgeon has a generic deadbeat brother who owes the generic mob some generic debt. She tells the mob that she will be their generic doctor if they let him out of his debt. The only way this show could be more generic is if someone was watching Bobby’s World in the background. Most of the first episode has less to do with being a mob doctor and more to do with being a doctor, which is awesome, thanks to the dearth of hospital shows in television history. Most of the drama in the first episode, and we can assume the rest of the first and only season, has to do with the lead character, Mobina Doctoress or something, being a bit of an idiotic cunt. You see, Mobina has a very high moral standard, which leads her to run around the hospital fucking anything up that doesn’t exactly gel with her beliefs, law and hospital policy be damned. These are the same moral standards, by the way, that allow her to be the lone provider of mob health insurance, which means she is always following the Hypocritic Oath.  Just another entry in the long list of shows that were thought of by some television exec saying “Well, technically this has never been done before.” Well done, asshole. – RH