If at First You Don't Succeed...

At first glance I thought maybe Fox was coming up with the "answer" show to one of the network's greatest hits: "House M. D.", but with strong acting from lead Molly Parker this examination of a doctor's dedication has a lot more heart.

In all those years on the tube, Dr. House never really had to face his inability to relate civilly with other people, be they patients, his superiors, or the wonderful team which he led and verbally abused week after week. But here we have a great doctor with a similar personality problem. The pilot title implies that her partial amnesia gives Molly a chance to take a different road in life, learning the hard way how t behave, yet the medical case she was working on at the time of her accident demonstrates a far more nuanced issue -maybe the "mean" Doc wasn't so bad after all.

So far, and things have just started, Scott Wolf's character is a one-dimensional baddie, but apart from that the show and its characters promise to grow on you. Molly reminds me a lot of Mary McDonnell in her ability to naturally project empathy, a wonderful contrast to her character's "hard-hearted" persona before the accident.