INTENSIVE CARING

Love problems? Family betrayal? Staff issues? When it comes to drama, Season 2 of Brilliant Minds is just what the doctor ordered.

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What is the prognosis for Brilliant Minds, the highly rated medical drama that captivated viewers last season with its mix of brains and heart? All signs for Season 2 suggest things are looking very good.

That's a mighty big promise for the series inspired by real-life British groundbreaker Dr. Oliver Sacks. In the first season’s final hours, a building collapse flooded the fictional Bronx General with patients;

Zachary Quinto’s unconventional neurologist Oliver Wolf learned that his father Noah (Mandy Patinkin), whom he'd been led to believe had died by suicide years earlier, was not only alive but suffering from an undiagnosable neuro issue; and Oliver’s bestie, psychiatrist Carol Pierce (Tamberla Perry), was put on administrative leave due to a mysterious ethical complaint.

Add in the fact that his neurosurgeon beau Josh Nichols (Teddy Sears) was ticked off by Ollie ghosting him right before a big gala to meet up with his dad, and that Wolf's team of interns (Ashleigh LaThrop, Alex MacNicoll, Aury Krebs and Spence Moore II) are caught up in their own Gen Z dramas, and you'd think the stakes were already higher than a salt addict’s blood pressure.