‘The Good Doctor’ Season 3 Episode 7 reveals a new side to Dr. Morgan Reznick’s character
Dr. Morgan Reznick is the kind of woman you could love and hate at the same time. She is tough and upfront in her views of others and her bold personality can sometimes come across as offensive to people. But her candidness is also something you cannot ignore.
Just a couple of episodes earlier, we had seen Morgan being too harsh on Dr. Claire Brown and we found it quite inconsiderate, considering Claire had just lost her mother. While Morgan might be trying to be honest and bring Claire to terms with reality, her behavior could have been a little more sympathetic. And with such repeated behavior, we couldn’t help but start disliking Morgan. But episode 7 showed us a 360-degree turn in Morgan’s character, which is quite unexpected for us. If truth be told, Morgan has never evolved as someone who will be easily liked, whether by her colleagues or by the audience. But when the resident doctor showed empathy towards a teenage boy and helped him get through the pre-surgery jitters, we were nothing short of surprised and in awe of her changed personality.
As 15-year-old Charlie is about to get an eye operation, he cannot help but worry if he might go blind. So, before the surgery, he escapes the hospital to fulfill his bucket list, lest he goes blind after the surgery. When Charlie escapes the hospital and Morgan and Claire go after him, they find him watching a game. This makes Claire upset, while Morgan suddenly mellows down and shows empathy to the young boy. She understands what he must be going through and agrees to fulfill his childish wishes. Much to our surprise, we cannot stop admiring this big change in an otherwise harsh, selfish, and entitled woman. Also, the dynamic between Claire and Morgan is also that’s worth mentioning here.
Life as we know it, can be quite funny and surprising when least expected. And Dr. Morgan Reznick is a classic example of such surprises. If we get down to analyzing this big change in her personality, we can easily say that maybe this trait of gentleness is not new but a recessive trait, hiding under her hardened façade. And somehow, seeing the scared teenager, stirred some hidden emotion in her and made her feel what he feels. Somehow she understood Charlie’s pain, his thought process, and his attempts to experience things like a youngster would, before the surgery. Morgan could see where he came from and she perhaps tried to put herself in his shoes. Hence we see a clear role reversal between Claire and Morgan. There was a time when Claire would be sympathetic towards other people’s pains and understand emotions, and Morgan would try to give her a reality check. With little Charlie in the equation, the girls had switched places and Claire appears to be more blunt and harsh, while Morgan is all out there to help Charlie get what he wants. And for some reason, she cannot stop herself from giving into his childish whims.
Furthermore, we also see Morgan go a step further in dealing with Claire’s changed attitude. We have seen Claire undergoing a big change since she lost her mother. And perhaps her lack of empathy and distancing herself from the world has made her edgy. Morgan somehow notices this and gives Claire a dose of her tough love.
Is it possible that Morgan perhaps has some void from her younger days, which she tried to fulfill by making Charlie get what he wants? Or is this really a turnaround of her personality? Or can it also be that she is finally revealing her true self, which has been hiding under the surface of a strong woman, hardened by life?
No matter what the reason, such changes in Morgan are really welcoming and are sure to put her in a whole new light for her audience.
