The Good Doctor: Season 2

2018 · 18 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 2 of The Good Doctor

Shaun Murphy remains at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, but now his colleagues start to trust him more. The season focuses on how those relationships improve while Shaun uses his gift to help surgical patients. Cases pit him against Meléndez and Andrews, and other colleagues who don't always share his approach to treating patients. Claire, Lim, Park, Glassman and Morgan Reznick carry much of the storylines, with difficult surgeries, ethical decisions and a hospital quarantine that tests the team.

18episodes

Sep 23, 2018premiered

Mar 11, 2019Latest episode

12.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Hello
Sep 24, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
Shaun’s proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Dr. Kalu in Dr. Andrews’ crosshairs. Claire tries to overcome Dr. Melendez’s reluctance to do a risky heart operation. Dr. Glassman faces a difficult decision about his health.
Directing: Mike Listo · Writing: Freddie Highmore · Starring: Chuku Modu, Ema Mlinar, Raphael Sbarge, Gabrielle Rose
2x02 Middle Ground
Oct 1, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
As Shaun pushes back against Dr. Melendez in order to treat a gravely ill hospital janitor, Dr. Lim risks a lawsuit to repair a teenage girl’s ritual circumcision. Dr. Glassman exercises demanding oversight in choosing a doctor for his brain surgery.
Directing: Steve Robin · Writing: David Shore · Starring: Camille Hyde, Khalilah Joi, Alimi Ballard, Lisa Edelstein
2x03 36 Hours
Oct 8, 2018 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
Dr. Melendez, Dr. Brown and Dr. Park have given a young married couple two choices about their future: save the wife’s life or their future ability to start a family. Meanwhile, when Dr. Lim has to take care of some personal business, she leaves oversight of the emergency room to Dr. Murphy and Dr. Reznick; and Dr. Glassman’s post-op recovery leaves him struggling to get the rest he needs for recovery and also confronting his relationship with his daughter.
Directing: Larry Teng · Writing: Thomas L. Moran · Starring: Liza Lapira, Arjay Smith, David DeSantos, Holly Taylor
2x04 Tough Titmouse
Oct 15, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.5
Shaun recalls his own past to help an intellectually disabled teenager face separation from his mother, while Claire is put between an injured teenage rock climber and her worried parents. Meanwhile, Glassman’s post-op hallucinations force him to confront a personal tragedy.
Directing: Steven DePaul · Writing: David Hoselton · Starring: Graham Verchere, Holly Taylor, Brooke Smith, Lesley Fera
2x05 Carrots
Oct 29, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
When a patient suffering from anorexia can’t gain the necessary weight needed to survive heart surgery, Claire suggests they perform an experimental surgery which Melendez strongly opposes. Shaun worries Glassman’s refusal to walk the hospital floor will keep him from being discharged and tries to persuade him to ambulate. Meanwhile, Shaun and Lea change the terms of their current relationship.
Directing: Sharat Raju · Writing: Liz Friedman · Starring: Bryce Johnson, David James Lewis, Lisa Edelstein, Dan Bucatinsky
2x06 Two-Ply (or Not Two-Ply)
Nov 5, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.6
Morgan and Shaun’s indecision on how to treat a young violinist who visits the ER with an infected finger could affect her future in more ways than one. Meanwhile, Lim, Claire and Park can’t figure out if their young patient is really ill or looking for attention.
Directing: Tara Nicole Weyr · Writing: Simran Baidwan · Starring: Supinder Wraich, Caitlin Carmichael, Chad Willett, Jewel Staite
2x07 Hubert
Nov 12, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Morgan Reznick must contend with two brothers who are bargaining over life and death. Meanwhile, Dr. Claire Brown’s friend who is dying of cancer asks her for something she doesn’t think she can give her; and Dr. Aaron Glassman is dealing with the effects of his treatment.
Directing: Marisol Adler · Writing: David Renaud · Starring: Rachel Boston, Hemky Madera, Gonzalo Menendez, Lisa Edelstein
2x08 Stories
Nov 19, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Audrey Lim and Dr. Claire Brown’s E.R. patient is forced to reveal a secret to her husband after their treatment caused a complication. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Alex Park struggle with a patient whose parents don’t believe in vaccinations.
Directing: Michael Patrick Jann · Writing: Sal Calleros · Starring: Lisa Edelstein, Christine Horn, Elliott Sancrant, Reggie Austin
2x09 Empathy
Nov 26, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
Dr. Neil Melendez, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Claire Brown grapple with a patient’s wish to perform an operation that would keep him from acting on his pedophilic urges; and Dr. Shaun Murphy learns a lesson in empathy.
Directing: Joanna Kerns · Writing: Karen Struck · Starring: Tyler Ritter, Mason Gooding, Madeleine Kelders, Teryl Rothery
2x10 Quarantine (1) Mid-Season Finale
Dec 3, 2018 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Alex Park treat two patients who collapse at the local airport and whose symptoms point to an infection that may become airborne. The staff races to contain the infection before it spreads to the rest of the patients in the ER, resulting in a hospital quarantine during the holidays.
Directing: Mike Listo · Writing: Lloyd Gilyard, Jr., Liz Friedman · Starring: Peter Ciuffa, Veronika Hadravá, Deborah Finkel, Alex Weed
2x11 Quarantine (2)
Jan 14, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
The hospital is still in quarantine as Dr. Shaun Murphy continues to be overwhelmed by the chaos and noise in the emergency room; Dr. Morgan Reznick struggles to keep her patients alive, and Dr. Audrey Lim fights for her life. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Claire Browne must find a way to complete their patient’s bone marrow transplant, despite the quarantine.
Directing: Mike Listo · Writing: Simran Baidwan, Mark Rozeman · Starring: Alex Weed, Camille Guaty, William MacDonald, Patti Allan
2x12 Aftermath
Jan 21, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
In the aftermath of the quarantine, the staff tries to return to their normal routines. Meanwhile, as Dr. Lim recovers from the virus, she and Dr. Melendez navigate their new personal and working relationship, while Dr. Murphy and Dr. Glassman visit Lea.
Directing: Dawn Wilkinson · Writing: Thomas L. Moran · Starring: Garfield Wilson, Cheryl White, Andres Joseph, Ricky He
2x13 Xin
Jan 28, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
Dr. Shaun Murphy, Dr. Morgan Reznick and Dr. Audrey Lim treat a woman with autism and a delicate brain condition while navigating the complicated relationship she has with her roommate, who is also on the spectrum. Meanwhile, Lea and Shaun are still figuring out their friendship and roommate status.
Directing: David Straiton · Writing: Brian Shin · Starring: Vered Blonstein, Alex Plank, Emily Kuroda, Vedette Lim
2x14 Faces
Feb 4, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
Dr. Andrews tries to convince a grieving family to donate their teenage daughter’s face to another young girl whose face was horribly disfigured in an accident.
Directing: Allison Liddi-Brown · Writing: David Hoselton · Starring: Chloe Csengery, Lilli Birdsell, Mo Gaffney, Kurt Evans
2x15 Risk and Reward
Feb 18, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Shaun’s blunt honesty with a distraught mother of a critically ill newborn baby causes the new chief of Surgery to question keeping him on as a resident.
Directing: Freddie Highmore · Writing: Liz Friedman, David Renaud · Starring: Robyn Lively, Ravi Kapoor, Joe Adler, Alison Araya
2x16 Believe
Feb 25, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
The new chief of surgery, Dr. Jackson Han, believes Dr. Shaun Murphy is a liability more than an asset and works to keep him out of the operating room permanently.
Directing: Alrick Riley · Writing: Karen Struck, Sal Calleros · Starring: Jasika Nicole, Spencer Garrett, Kelsey Crane, Diana Pavlovská
2x17 Breakdown
Mar 4, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Dr. Shaun Murphy is desperate to join the team on a dangerous procedure involving a patient’s tumor removal. However, having been removed from the surgery team by Dr. Jackson Han, Shaun must use his talents to help figure out the cause of an infant’s injuries.
Directing: Mike Listo · Writing: Thomas L. Moran, Lloyd Gilyard, Jr. · Starring: Jasika Nicole, Lisa Edelstein, James Immekus, Joy Osmanski
2x18 Trampoline Season Finale
Mar 11, 2019 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
As a barroom fight sends Dr. Shaun Murphy to seek treatment at St. Bonaventure’s, Dr. Alex Park and Dr. Audrey Lim disagree over an elderly woman’s post-operative symptoms. Meanwhile, Dr. Neil Melendez and Dr. Lim make their romance public, and Dr. Aaron Glassman continues to pursue a relationship with a good friend.
Directing: David Shore · Writing: David Shore, David Hoselton, Mark Rozeman · Starring: Jasika Nicole, Gregory Ambrose Calderone, June Squibb, Daniel Dae Kim