the leading man is my tpye

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Blistering performances.

Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson) is a cold highly successful surgeon at a high price clinic. His ex-wife Anna Paul (Jennifer Ehle) runs a poor clinic and thinks that he's lost his way. The estranged couple run into each other but later, he discovers that she's been dead all along. Her ghost continues to haunt him to be a better man. Rita (Margo Martindale) is his assistant. Dr. Kate Sykora (Rachelle Lefevre) took over Anna's clinic after her death.Generally, it's a medical procedural as Michael learns to be kind. Patrick works well in movies as a complicated leading man, but as a TV lead, he needs a lot more likability. Its premise has some edge but it needs to figure out the tone. The series lasted one year.

This is a decent series, but not brilliant. It's billed as a medical drama with a supernatural twist, but to be honest, the supernatural twist is barely noticeable. The "ghost" only appears about once in each episode and generally for no more than a "chat" with the doctor.All the episode follow a pretty predictable route from start to finish and the characters are very loosely built. I really struggle to "like" any of them if I'm honest because you don't get to know any of them. Add to that, that in todays money orientated world, the story lines of bringing street urchins to the multi million dollar surgery and performing multi trillion dollar operations on them for the price of a smile, are just a little too sickly and unbelievable.I had high hopes for this series, but even though it's very watchable, it is a serious disappointment..

This is without a doubt, the best and most refreshing show on T.V. bar none!!!!!!The acting is superb....especially "Michael" and I hope the show continues with the high quality it has now, with the plots about things happening around the clinic and hospital...no drama queens please...just down to earth plots with the great acting continuing. Please continue with Anna in the scenes, but don't "overdue" it. You don't want it being compared to Ghost Whisperer because it is not like that at all. Keep all the characters you have now as they, in my opinion, are real, diverse and totally believable. I'd like to see some in depth about each of the characters over the season, but please.....keep it real

The centerpiece of this show is Patrick Wilson. Besides being one of the most handsome men ever to step in front of a camera, he has shown real acting ability in films like Hard Candy, Lakeview Terrace, and Little Children. He has done some fine acting in this show as well, and his supporting cast does a good job as well. But that can't make up for repetitiveness and predictability. For several weeks, every episode has featured Dr. Holt saving a poor patient at the clinic and a rich patient at Holt Neuro. (I also can't help but notice the curious epidemiology of neurological conditions in this show's New York; they seem to afflict predominantly teenage daughters of overcontrolling parents.) There are two operation scenes in each episode, and they are almost interchangeable with each other and with every operation scene in every other episode. The show has failed to develop some promising themes from the pilot and the first two episodes. Its focus seems to narrow each week. Among the themes AGM could follow but hasn't yet: At the core of Dr. Holt's being is positivism. He is a deep believer in "the scientific materialist rationalism that is the unofficial religion of America's elite" (as Paul Campos put it). It might be interesting for Anna or Dr. Sykora, or a recurring patent to challenge that belief. This would take more learning and wit than the writers have displayed so far. Another tack would be to follow up on the theme hinted at by AGM's poster art and explore Dr. Holt's as illustrative of the professional white male who feels he has to bear the burden of less gifted and less dedicated folks. Clearly a very risky option. If this is not done with surgical precision, the whole cast could be consigned to the entertainment equivalent of Point Barrow, Alaska, for political reeducation. Less ambitious options include having Dr. Holt lose a patient now and then, in more ambiguous circumstances than infection by rabies or another invariably terminal illness. How about a patient who simply fails to respond, which happens all the time with skilled doctors who treat serious illnesses. Or he loses a patient at Holt Medical because he's treating a patient at the clinic. Or because another surgeon is performing the operation under his supervision. Or he's on vacation with a living girlfriend. Or he makes a mistake and gets sued. His activity at the clinic cuts into Neuro's income, so he has to choose between buying state of the art equipment and cutting staff. He gets a living girlfriend or indeed an interesting non work related friend of any kind. He does something actually or arguably irresponsible and faces down Anna's disappointment. (Like Bernard Show's Donna Anna, he could have been so much wickeder, and the show might be better for it.) Now since I am a big fan of Mr. Wilson's, I will continue to watch the show, at least until it becomes no more fun than a glioma, but I could not blame CBS for nonrenewing AGM. With all his admirable qualities and talents, Wilson has never shown the ability to put a production on "Cruise control." He will either have to do that and yank this show in a more productive direction, find someone who will, or run a big risk of losing his best opportunity to date.