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In the sixteenth episode of The Good Doctor‘s sixth season, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) will be taking off his lab coat for a while in order to make room for the defenders of law and justice. Steering away from hospital facilities, ABC has released the trailer for the medical drama‘s next episode titled “The Good Lawyer,” which not only takes viewers to the court setting but also serves as an integrated pilot episode for the possible female-led spin-off series.

The planned spin-off will be introduced in the upcoming season of The Good Doctor via a backdoor pilot. Kennedy McMann (Nancy Drew) and Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) will appear as special guests in the upcoming episode, introducing the characters they will play if The Good Lawyer is picked up and given a series order. The trailer shows Higmore’s Shaun trying to obtain legal representation with McMann’s Joni DeGoot, a brilliant young lawyer who is diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Described as a “brilliant, funny, and self-aware lawyer who is relatively new to her prestigious law firm,” her OCD symptoms enable her to focus more intently on details and see things from a different angle, though—of course—not without some negative effects on her personal life. The trailer also highlights Shaun choosing Joni to represent him in the malpractice case he is being sued for, despite Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff) bringing Huffman’s “highly regarded attorney” Janet Stewart to take over the case.

In Episode 15 of the show’s sixth season, Shaun received unfortunate news about being sued for malpractice. Though the details of the case are still unknown, the promo delves deeper, with Shaun putting his faith in Joni. Even

Was that The Good Doctor? There was very little medicine involved in this story.

The Good Doctor Season 6 Episode 16 was a backdoor pilot for its spinoff, The Good Lawyer. The entire hour was devoted to a new law firm and the lawyer with OCD that Shaun wanted to take his case.

This new series was only tangentially related to the original but was relevant enough to keep viewers’ attention.

Most of the hour was devoted to introducing the new characters and creating a parallel situation to Shaun’s situation at St. Bonaventure.

Like Shaun, Joni is a neurodivergent person whose condition may interfere with her ability to do her job — and her mentor has played a similar role throughout her life as Glassman has for Shaun.

Oddly, Glassman never mentioned this, even though he’s known Janet Stewart for years and relies on her for all his legal needs.

Glassman: She’s good. She’s smart. She’s been helpful whenever I need it.
Shaun: How many times have you been sued?

Since Glassman’s relationship with Janet is strictly professional, he might not have been aware. But I’d think the two would have compared notes when Glassman referred Shaun to Janet’s law firm!

Janet should have been prepared for her new client’s idiosyncracies, and it would have been the perfect time to share her similar history with Glassman.

Glassman was more or less there only to support Shaun. He didn’t try to advise him in any way or explain to Janet how to handle Shaun’s insistence that Joni tries his case.

Glassman’s not usually shy about trying to help Shaun, so it was weird how hands-off he was. It would have added something to the story for Glassman to put his