Doc on TF1: Is the second season as successful as the first?

After airing from the end of January 17, following the start of the 18th season of Gray’s Anatomy, TF1 continues to offer in the medical series register this Wednesday, June 1, at 9:10 pm, the 2nd season of Doc, the Italian fiction film . An event that breaks all records both in France and in its country of origin.

When it aired on TF1 in January 2021, the series managed to attract more than 4 million viewers, thus becoming the second most watched foreign series on French television in 2021 after Meurtres au paradis. He was also the most popular foreign series on TF1, far ahead of the behemoths The Resident and Good Doctor.

For this occasion, Luca Argentero (Andrea Fanti), Matilde Giolli (Julia Giordano), Sara Lazaro (Agnese Tiberi), Pierpaolo Spollo (Ricardo Bonvegna) and all the others have returned for this new explosion of episodes, again as ambitious as ever.

Like Gray’s Anatomy or Good Doctor, Doc’s screenwriters chose to integrate the Covid Pandemic, which has strongly influenced the medical profession, into this season 2 intrigues. But unlike the series filmed by Ellen Pompeo, whose 17th season was exclusively focused. An epidemic, even if it is sometimes a little disturbing to the viewer, is here before and especially after Kovid.

Thus, the first episode of Season 2 shows the beginnings of a pandemic when doctors were battling a disease that did not yet exist. From the second episode, there is a leap in time to take us to a world where the pandemic is now under control.

A clever way for screenwriters to express the consequences of a pandemic on the medical profession that now has to deal with post-traumatic stress, but also the grief of their loved ones and their colleagues.

And it is the cleverly distilled distillation on the threads of the 16 episodes that removes the veil from the events of the time jump that we gradually realize about the characters influencing the disease. , Which are highly developed. From 1 season.

Whoever says new season, he also says new characters. If (almost) the entire cast of Season 1 returns in Season 2, new doctors will also arrive and make it difficult for Dr. Fant’s team.

The first to join the actress is Alice Arkuria, who plays Dr. Cecilia Tedeski, a doctor specializing in infectious diseases, who will try to take Andrea’s place at the helm of the service. If he’s his rival at work, maybe two former friends he met at university decided to light the fire again.

The second doctor who came in is Dr. Edoardo Valenti, played by Marco Rossetti. He will try to find a place for himself in Dr. Fant’s close team during the episodes, but his tough and tough character (on the verge of autism?) Promises to inflame medical intrigue. Maybe this newcomer will upset some doctors …

If Season 1 revolved mainly around Dr. Andrea Fant and his ability to return to medicine after his accident that caused him to lose his memory, this season 2 explores new issues, now that doubts about Andrea’s intellectual abilities have been removed.

The Internal Medicine Service is now in great danger, which the administration plans to close in order to turn it into an infectious disease service. So Andrea will do anything to save her, even if it is at the risk of her career. Will he go there? The answer in these 2 seasons.

Another major issue: the physical and especially psychological health of various physicians. Between anxiety attacks, rejection of mourning, or even a desire to change careers, the Covid epidemic has profoundly affected physicians at work. So Andrea will have to re-create the ward to provide the best possible care for her patients, but also save the internal medicine ward.

Find the 2nd season of Doc every Wednesday from 9:10 pm on TF1. Season 1 is fully available on Saltწ.