If you follow our reports closely, you will know we are crazy about Doc.
And we are not alone. Breakthrough hit medical dramas are dominating online TV and becoming one of the most successful new series of the year.
The series is coming to an end of its first season, but fortunately, Doc consolidates the surprising 22-episode season two, and we can feel comforted that they know we will spend more time with all these great characters.
One of the characters we are most excited to learn more is TJ Coleman, played by the friendly and charming Patrick Walker.
In Doc Season 1 Episode 9, we finally learn about the history of TJ and Amy, their meeting and how she inspired him to be a doctor.
Sadly, since she returned to the hospital, her actions have hurt Amy’s most loyal, loyal, loyal colleagues and friends, which is Amy’s most loyal, loyal, loyal colleagues and friends, ending with disturbing notes.
After TJ’s father had an unsettling prognosis, TJ felt betrayed after his father chose Amy’s “Hail Mary” treatment program, and now, the future of the Coleman and its relationship surfaced in the air.
TV fanatics are excited to celebrate the season 2 update with Patrick Walker, opening up the events of the emotional plot and discussing the importance of the character to him.
Please enjoy our exclusive interview and don’t forget to show him some love!
Of course, I want to congratulate you on your second season renewal. 22 episodes in this climate are unprecedented!
Yes, thanks a lot. We must be very excited!
At this point, are you surprised by the audience’s ability to receive the show? People really like it.
This is really exciting. You don’t know what happens when you do a project. I’ve been involved in some great projects – my last one was really great.
Before that, I took classes for chemistry courses on Apple TV+ and for Gaslit on Starz. I did Ptolemy Gray’s last few days for Apple TV+. Those have superstars.
Internet TV feels different from streaming. I expect these shows to have a bigger buzz and numbers. And they aren’t that big, but the content is so good, I thought, “It’s okay!” Going forward, I have no expectations. Just do your best job, whatever the numbers are, they will be.
The numbers in this show shocked me. I was like, “Wait, 10 million per episode. What? It’s so crazy!” So it’s a great reception.
What initially attracted you into this project and the role of TJ?
When I first read it, I thought the premise was done well: a doctor who lost eight years of memory in a horrible bedside manner and became essentially a whole new person. It quickly attracted me.
Have the chance to play young TJ – is a first-year resident. The character is attractive because on TV, I’ve seen African American doctors and they’re usually older. There are not many young children who are just starting out.
I was chatting with my girlfriend a few days ago. She said, “Oh no, there are doctors on TV.” I think, yes, but they are not that young.
You are watching someone who is a fighting doctor and then goes straight to the hospital. What he is currently able to do and this age is interesting. I want to be a part of that.
I always joke about how many doctors in this show have their medical license every other episode, but TJ is very structured, disciplined and loves to walk. Did he get that from his father?
Yes, it was definitely what he got from his father, which made him more structured when fighting the doctor and then transitioned to the hospital world. So I think we’ve seen him bend the rules a little, but he’s not breaking anything.
In Doc Season 1 Episode 4, when the army comes in, TJ analyzes the patient, and there is no actual evidence, but he is likely. This possibility is enough to bring the lawsuit to the military.
This moment is like, hey, it doesn’t quite like the truth, but you have to achieve that.
They were confused in the hospital, but I thank him for being very mature and reasonable with the bondage baby. I like its flip.
Yes, I agree. I like it too. I like that.
I am grateful, too. TJ is a very conscious doctor. Like this season, he had those little moments and realized that maybe his black and white mindset wasn’t always the best. For him, be as young as him, sometimes more self-aware than other characters.
Yes, for sure. I agree.
He is also one of Amy’s most trusted allies. But in this episode, we have to understand their history and where they originated. Can you talk about how Amy’s near-death experience changed his life?
Yes. First of all, I think it is very heroic to save another person’s life. What shocks me alone is that there are people in this world who can help you get sick or anyone else live longer.
So amazing. In watching this episode, I feel like even if the young TJ looks at this woman like he looks at him, just like the young TJ is in this dilemma, where he might have the position he might have, he might have been dead. She saved his life.
So watching someone there is able to save his life and be inspired and motivated to change his life because he wants to do it for others.
He wants to be someone else. He wanted to be someone who could help or anything happening near him if there was an emergency on the plane; he wanted to serve in this way and then bring him into the army and become a combat doctor on the ground, able to save the lives of his brother and sister.
In this way, Amy saved his life, which was a little inspiration. This makes him who he is. The really interesting thing to me is that the audience doesn’t even know how many lives he saved on the battlefield before he arrived at the hospital, you know?
So, knowing what he went through and knowing it all came from diving or something, he went to diving/planning the moment and then this woman was just trying to save lives, and I think it really changed his life.
After that, TJ and Amy left things on the nervous notes.
An interesting scene is that TJ attracts his father, who has been seeking advice and things and begging him to trust his expertise and pay attention to his words. But this doesn’t work. We can expect tensions to move forward for the rest of the season between TJ and Amy and even TJ and his father.
Yes. After Doc Season 1 Episode 9, we are in a very demanding position because TJ, like you, said in his defense to his father, “Listen to me. I’m that guy now. I know the answer.”
I am a doctor and know that his father didn’t listen, his father didn’t trust him or his leader. This makes TJ feel extremely underestimated and underestimated, just like years of training, he talks with the most people, even helping him through these moments and now distrusts him. This affected him.
It made him this break him.
Then the man who knew he inspired the journey, he kept going, and why, like the one who helped in the west, was the cause of this rift between him and his father, it was even more painful. It is even more painful to know that these two people are very close to me, and neither of them respect me.
It’s like they neither respect me. They don’t respect who I am or what I say.
All of these things have achieved a huge impact, just TJ’s best mindset after episode 9.
I would love to know what the most challenging aspect of this character is for you.
The most challenging part is that I was a little conscious at first because I played a role of importance and dignity. But being a doctor was fun for me because, I grew up in the South. So the way I speak and do things is not like the doctors I have met on TV.
My initial approach was, “Oh, I have to change the way I speak. I have to speak like everyone else. I want this.” It really bothers me before we start shooting.
Then I talked to my aunt. My aunt is my doctor from Jacksonville, Florida. My sister also wants to work as a doctor in school.
They are both, they are both the sound of the southern bell. They love you. They care about you.
They have a thick southern accent, which has nothing to do with the extent to which they save your life. So I thought, I was like because on TV, everyone was talking or sounding the same, and I thought, hey, all the doctors sounded differently.
No doctor can speak. They are all different. My aunt is a great example.
She is a strong black woman. The process that TJ performs in episode 3 is a floating swan program. My aunt had done the same procedure with patients before. I had the opportunity to talk to her about it…she took me through the program and talked about it.
I learned that my challenge is in what it always should look like. I realized, “Oh no, doctors have all kinds of forms. The most important part is, can you do this work? Can you save your life?”
I love that you can bring this personal style to the series, which inspires your character.
Final Question: Season 2 gets sure, what do you want to explore with your characters in the future? Don’t you want to play? We’ve seen you in a scene with Amy and even Jake.
Yes, I’m looking forward to 22 episodes. This is very helpful because you have more plots focusing on the different characters and different things they are doing.
I’m interested in TJ’s external life and the people he’s outside the hospital. Every scene I did was in the hospital throughout the first season. I don’t believe I’ve done any scenes outside the hospital.
Yes. I’m interested in seeing TJ outside the hospital and what it looks like – the car he drives, the exterior of the apartment and stuff like that. I know that in Doc Season 1 Episode 7, we saw Sonya Maitra’s personal life. It’s sad, but Anya [Banerjee] Kill that, she was amazing.
She did it!
But yes, we saw her at home, in her bedroom and in a restaurant. It’s cool for viewers to see TJ in different ways, even his love life. I know this is an important part of a medical performance and have the opportunity to see the real life of a doctor.
I was also interested in his interactions with other doctors. I didn’t have the chance to spend as many scenes as possible with Amirah Vann and I went through my first season and Omar Metwally, Dr. Michael Hamda!
Yes. I love them very much, too. That was amazing.
I don’t know what the storyline of Season 2 is, but watching TJ get more mature and older and kind of moving forward like most shows is a great opportunity to see where he is going on in his medical journey. I’m glad to be a more evolved TJ.
I’m excited about it, too. This is one of the biggest reasons I not only have about renewals, but also the number of plots we have obtained. We will dig into secondary roles.
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We have edited this interview for length and clarity.
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