Critic’s Score: 4.5 / 5.0
4.5
Deep breaths, everybody.
Good Minds Season 2 Episode 19 is the next-to-last episode of the short-lived medical drama, which suggests it has to start wrapping issues up.
However whereas one story is lastly over, the collection opened a brand new one regardless of how little time stays to develop it.
Good Minds Season 2 Episode 19 Provided a Fascinating Case
The case was top-of-the-line Good Minds has supplied, with an imaginative, frightened, and really in poor health teenager needing mind surgical procedure however unable to tolerate the concept of anesthesia.
It’s so simple to fall into the entice of creating a personality like Finn a caricature. He wasn’t like most younger individuals, nor like most sufferers, and a lesser present would have exploited that.
However Good Minds has by no means been about making individuals act “regular” (no matter meaning) or centering neuronormativity. That’s one of many issues I like greatest and can miss most — this present is about accepting neurodivergence in all its kinds, not turning sufferers into one thing they’re to not make individuals comfy.
I particularly appreciated the best way everybody used Finn’s particular curiosity in writing medieval fantasies to assist preserve him calm and centered in the course of the surgical procedure.
It’s one factor for Wolf to do unorthodox issues like make himself a part of a sick child’s imaginary world, nevertheless it’s one other for Nichols to associate with what seems to him to be a delusion.
Nichols wished to do a conventional surgical procedure. He didn’t suppose Wolf’s plan was protected or prudent, and he was contemplating that greater than the child’s distinctive psychological wants.
So, knighting Finn along with his scalpel earlier than the surgical procedure was greater than an uncommon medical observe. It was Nichols’ tacit acknowledgment that Wolf had the precise thought right here and his try to know and settle for the best way Finn sees the world.
That was one in every of my high ten Nichols scenes, not less than on Good Minds Season 2.
It’s not usually that Nichols is ready to let go of his preconceived notions about what constitutes correct medical observe, so doing so right here was an actual victory for him.
That scene nearly made up for the truth that, with one episode left, Good Minds Season 2 Episode 19 was nonetheless indulging this ridiculous love triangle.
Look, it was one factor when Wolf was so preoccupied along with his father’s reappearance that he stood Nichols up. After all Nichols would contemplate shifting on from somebody who didn’t have room for him in his life.
I’ll by no means forgive Good Minds Season 2 for not following up on that thread correctly, although. They threw that improbable setup within the trash and ruined the primary half of the season.
Anyway, now there may be so little time left that I’ve much less persistence than normal with this Beau/Nichols/Wolf love triangle, and I don’t like these sorts of tales within the first place.
Beau already instructed Nichols that he doesn’t suppose Nichols is dedicated sufficient to him, and Nichols didn’t dispute that he wasn’t certain he beloved Beau.
In my thoughts, that must be the top of that. I imply, who desires to be with somebody who’s half with another person?
If Good Minds wished to pull issues out til the very finish so we will have a candy Nichols/Wolf reunion, that’s wonderful, however take Beau out of the center of it!
Nichols’ battle must be solely with himself. The connection with Beau must be over for good, forcing Nichols to decide on between staying single and admitting his emotions for Wolf.
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Good Minds Season 2 Episode 19 didn’t really feel prefer it constructed on the earlier episode’s developments on this space. It was like Beau’s resolution, and the feast didn’t occur, and Nichols was nonetheless trapped between two guys.
In the meantime, I’m Glad Amelia Fredericks Is Lastly Gone, Even If It Was Rushed
If Good Minds had gotten a 3rd season, Dana’s investigation of Amelia Fredericks would possible have been a front-burner story that left off on a cliffhanger and got here again subsequent 12 months to resolve.
Sadly, that wasn’t to be, so the story needed to be completed nearly as quickly because it started.
That’s why Good Minds Season 2 Episode 19 wrapped up this story and obtained Amelia fired nearly as quickly as Dana started investigating her actions.
It was a little bit of a coincidence that Dr. Adler was fired nearly as quickly as Dana wanted his testimony, and the half the place all that a few of Amelia’s sufferers wanted with a purpose to testify on the report was a mild nudge was positively rushed and unrealistic.
I’d a lot quite Dana had been investigating all season than the flash-forwards we stored getting handled to of Wolf locked up in Hudson Oaks. These sorts of flash-forward mysteries that labored so nicely on This Is Us totally failed right here, leaving viewers confused sufficient to cease watching.
Nonetheless, the rushed conclusion of this story was higher than nothing. Dana demonstrated her potential to face up for sufferers in the best way solely she might, even when this story competed together with her girlfriend randomly breaking apart together with her.
The one wrinkle I didn’t admire was the Sophia reveal.
After on a regular basis invested in establishing that Sophia was a hallucination, Good Minds determined to mimic Watson and have the hallucination develop into an actual individual as nicely.
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Each reveals did this in the course of the penultimate episode, and I don’t get it.
It’s pointless to supply the kind of twist that may very well be a complete season’s arc with one episode to go. Watson had a lackluster collection finale that left me totally disenchanted; please inform me that Good Minds isn’t gearing as much as do the identical factor!
How nicely do you suppose Good Minds Season 2 Episode 19 set issues up for the collection finale?
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Good Minds airs on NBC on Wednesdays at 8/7c and streams on Peacock on Thursdays. The collection finale will air on July 1, 2026.
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