With Doc season 1 wrapping things up for Richard, the show needs a new villain. Of course, the new chief coming in seems like the perfect person in traditional TV sense, but what about a character we’ve already come to know as the protagonist?
Doc season 2 is in a unique position to make our protagonist the antagonist for a season. After all, it’s not like Dr. Amy Larsen was a likable person at the very beginning of the series, and a lot has happened that makes her a villain.
Amy isn’t afraid to break up a family for her own gain in Doc
Let’s just start with the love triangle that’s formed. Or is it a love square? It’s hard to define this, as there are a couple of potential love interests for Amy. Throughout Doc season 1, she seemed to be leaning toward her ex-husband, who also showed that he had some lingering feelings for her. The problem is Michael is married with a child on the way, and this sets up a love affair storyline.
Affair arcs are always brought in for drama, but this one could bring about a change in Amy’s personality. We know that somehow she went from a kind and caring mother to a cold-hearted surgeon. She focused on the medical problems and not the people, and it would be natural for that to happen again. It could all start with an affair.
I’ll admit that I’ve always judged people who choose to get involved with married men and women. Both the spouse and the affair partner are to blame. Yes, the spouse more than the affair partner, but an affair partner could say no. That’s what Amy should do, but we know that she doesn’t have the best of morals in the relationship department as it is.
She’s secretly sleeping with a subordinate, which would be against hospital policy. All of this sets up Amy’s personality in relationships, making it clear that she would cross the line and become the affair partner with her ex-husband.
Amy wants her memories back in Doc season 2
There’s nothing wrong with Amy wanting to get her memories back, but she could end up going in the wrong direction to do that. From the Doc season 2 trailer, we get to see that Amy is willing to go through treatments to help her get those memories. At the same time, she’s under evaluation (along with everyone else, so it’s not just her being singled out) by the new Chief of Internal Medicine, Dr. Joan Ridley.
In the trailer, Amy says she needs to get back to being the doctor that she was, and that’s a clear sign that it could make her the villain of the story. In fact, it should make her the villain of the story.
The doctor that she was focused on her career and the medical problem. We didn’t really see much of her, but she didn’t really treat the patients as people, and more as just the next case to work on. This detachment can be good or bad, and we need to see the direction Amy could take as she pushes to not only keep her job but to regain her life.
How far is she willing to go? Will she cut corners to do it? The answers to these questions could make her a villain or a hero, and Doc season 2 is in an unusual position to create a polarizing lead character.
Doc season 2 premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 9/8c on FOX.