Intolerant TV Presents: Brilliant Minds in The North State Journal | Entertainment

At Intolerant TV, we watch each new present on community tv for the autumn season—so that you don’t must. We don’t watch them for lengthy, although. Instead of giving thumbs up/down or a sure variety of stars, we let you know the way lengthy we have been in a position to stand the pilot episode earlier than turning it off.

Hey, it’s Zachary Quinto! We open with him taking a look at his reflection in elevator doorways, which distorts his face and turns it right into a metaphor.

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Not that we'd like any metaphors, as a result of Quinto tells us in the second sentence of the complete present, “I believe you can’t treat a patient without understanding who they really are.”

If you’re nonetheless undecided precisely what this present is about, the third sentence is, “Sometimes, the only course of treatment is breaking the rules.”

See, different medical exhibits would possibly waste time exhibiting you this, however Brilliant Minds simply will get that each one out of the best way by telling. His fourth sentence must be, “There was a patient who we had trouble diagnosing and was about to die,” adopted by “But I figured out what it was and saved them.” Then we might be performed with the pilot episode earlier than the elevator doorways open.

The elevator of exposition reaches its flooring, and Quinto exits, wanting as loopy as he did on Heroes. He sneaks right into a affected person’s room, disguises them and tries to sneak them out of the hospital in a wheelchair. We’re a minute in and we’ve already had an elevator scene and a kidnapping the affected person in disguise scene. All he must do is hook up with somebody in an on-call room, and we’ll have Medical Show Bingo earlier than the opening credit.

The nurses catch him, however Zachary jumps on the elevator and speeds off with the affected person on a bike … as a result of he breaks the principles.

Zachary is bringing the affected person, who was on the Alzheimer’s flooring, to his granddaughter’s wedding ceremony. Because he feels a connection to the man. Because he additionally has some sort of cognitive challenge—he can’t acknowledge faces. How do I do know this? Because one of many nurses tells us outright. You aren’t going to wrestle to interpret this present, is what I’m saying. It’s House with Cliff’s Notes.

I actually ought to have pulled the plug on this earlier than the chilly open ended, however I beloved Zachary Quinto as Sylar and tolerated him as Spock. I additionally beloved House.

Hospital greater ups name Zachary into a gathering to yell at him. He provides one other speech explaining the premise of the present, however they resolve

to fireside him anyway. Twist! Opening credit!

Zachary is at residence—he likes ferns. They’re in every single place, hoarder-style, together with clippings in the fridge. Tamberla Perry exhibits as much as attempt to get him to take a job. The exposition continues to stream sizzling and heavy, together with Tamberla telling us that Zachary likes ferns.

Then Zachary says he can’t take a job at Tamberla’s hospital. “You know why.” And the topic modifications.

This, you’re not telling us? After serving all the things else as much as us in an unappetizing dialogue gruel? We have a flashback to Zachary’s childhood. His father had an analogous drawback, and swimming was vital. Back to current, Zachary is considering this as he swims … in the Hudson River. Okay. I attempted. We’re performed right here.

Time of demise: An extraordinarily beneficiant 12 minutes.