The Mob Doctor

Grace Devlin (Jordana Spiro; My Boys) is an up and coming surgeon who has everything going for her. Unfortunately her brother Nate (Jesse lee Soffer; As The World Turns) has gotten in bad with the mob and Grace is forced to take on the debt to spare her brother.

Michael Rapaport (Special) plays Paul Moretti, the mob boss that owns Grace’s debt and has asked Grace to commit murder by offing a man in witness protection who is in need of surgery. Grace of course refuses, which Moretti is displeased with. To get away from Moretti Grace turns to Constantine (William Forsythe; The Devil‘s Rejects), a retired mobster, who takes out Moretti and vows to protect Grace, but the debt is now transferred to him as he becomes the new mob boss.

The creators of the show made two mistakes. The first, going with FOX. You can usually bet that if you put your show on FOX it’s going to get cancelled, great or not (in this day and age who shuts down a J.J. Abrams production). The second was trying to balance the grit of the underworld with the dramatics of a late night soap opera, which Mob Doctor pretty much is.

You’ve got Grace’s boyfriend (Zach Gilford; Super), that she is forced to lie to on a constant basis, as well as a female rival at the hospital (Jamie Lee Kirchner; Rescue Me). There’s a looming romantic connection between Constantine and Grace’s Mom (Wendy Makkena; Judging Amy), Grace’s ex (James Carpinello; Gangster Squad), though I wont get to much into that, and some recurring characters that have an effect on Grace and Nate’s life dramatically. It’s all drama, drama, drama. Not exactly House and not exactly The Black Donnelley’s. It’s a show all it’s own, but one that seemed unbalanced. Would it have leveled out and been great? I guess we'll never know. Or, you can start your letter campaign to Netflix and ask them to pick it up like they did with Arrested Development, another cancelled FOX show.