Except there's no murder mystery, just sick patients with diseases that only one doctor can cure. At least, that's how it will probably play out week after week. It has identical graphics to CSI showing all the little buggies in our bodies, and more to come, I assume. And the main character is an eccentric, brilliant, iconoclast, who puts together minute details with his vast grasp of trivia to solve the mysteries of the human body. Just like CSI, his ethnically diverse team includes one white man, one African American man, one white woman, all very loyal and slightly confounded by his genius. And like the old Diagnosis Murder, it takes place mostly in the confines of a hospital. Except DM had a loyal two person ethnically diverse team.
I've seen Hugh Laurie in his English productions and he can submerge himself into a role, he's funny and charismatic. The only Hollywood movie I've seen him in is Stuart Little, where he stuck to the middle class husband act, but was quite appealing and charming in that role. Here, he's gruff and unshaven, with a limp (shades of Dead Zone) and an American accent from...somewhere. Puzzling since as someone else noted, his loyal white employee gets to keep his Aussie accent.
It's a pity the writing is clichéd so far, but for Mr. Laurie's sake, I hope it works out.
I've seen Hugh Laurie in his English productions and he can submerge himself into a role, he's funny and charismatic. The only Hollywood movie I've seen him in is Stuart Little, where he stuck to the middle class husband act, but was quite appealing and charming in that role. Here, he's gruff and unshaven, with a limp (shades of Dead Zone) and an American accent from...somewhere. Puzzling since as someone else noted, his loyal white employee gets to keep his Aussie accent.
It's a pity the writing is clichéd so far, but for Mr. Laurie's sake, I hope it works out.