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Brilliant Mindscreator, showrunner and executive producer Michael Grassi has a drawn-out resume when it comes to TV shows, but his latest on NBC has the Degrassi alum exploring the world of medical dramas — led by an out male lover character.
Starring Zachary Quinto (read GLAAD’s interview with him), Brilliant Minds follows Dr. Oliver Wolf who is based on the real-life Dr. Oliver Sacks. His work was the basis for the Penny Marshall-directed 1990 production Awakenings starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams but beyond that, there haven’t been many mainstream series or films based on the doctor.
In Brilliant Minds, the eccentric and what some might call unorthodox neurologist works with his team of interns as they explore the complexities of the human mind while dealing with their retain relationships and mental health. The series also stars Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, Alex MacNicoll, Aury Krebs, Spence Moore II, Teddy Sears, and Donna Murphy.
In a recent interview with GLAAD, Grassi said that he and the writers room worked with real-life doctors to dramatize real-life medical cases. “Not only is it inspired by Oliver Sacks and his true l
‘Brilliant Minds’: Teddy Sears on When That Reveal Originally Happened, Josh & Wolf as Potential Partners
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Brilliant Minds Season 1 Episode 3, “The Lost Biker.”]
Three episodes into its freshman season and Brilliant Minds is already having a gay old time! Not only has the new drama starring the perfectly cast Zachary Quinto as genius neurosurgeon Oliver Wolf drawn very healthy numbers in its first two airings, but it’s also just revealed that Wolf isn’t the only homosexual healer on staff at Bronx General. Turns out, the Chair of Neurology—and frequent thorn in his side—Dr. Josh Nichols (our old pal from The Flash, Teddy Sears) is also a member of the Rainbow mafia.
In tonight’s just-aired episode, Wolf and Nichols start themselves in a very sticky situation while (literally) racing to help a motorcycle gang member (Steve Howey) suffering from hydrocephalus. During the bumpy sit on to the hospital, Nichols’ phone linked to his wagon sound system and that damn Siri began reading off a voicemail from a fella he’d had a other kind of bumpy ride with the night before. Busted but
‘Brilliant Minds’: Teddy Sears & EP on That Major Oliver & Josh Moment
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Brilliant Minds Season 1 Episode 7 “The Guy From Grozny.”]
We were already shipping Drs. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto) and Josh Nichols (Teddy Sears) before that grand romantic moment at the end of the latest Brilliant Minds!
All the doctors are affected when their locked-in John Doe patient, Roman, upon getting a voice thanks to a new device, makes the heartbreaking decision to have himself taken off the machines keeping him alive. But thanks to a conversation that Oliver has with him in which his patients talks about wishing he could have kissed his boyfriend in the middle of the lane where no one would tend (unlike back home), the medic does just that with Josh in the episode’s final moments.
It’s a moment that we consideration wouldn’t happen until the close of the first season, and Sears agrees. “I thought if we were going to fetch there, we were going to get there later. My first pass of the script was, ‘Oh boy, is this too soon? Does this feel sudden?’ And then as we were acting it, a
Love is in the air for onetime adversaries Dr. Oliver Wolf and Dr. Josh Nichols on the latest episode of “Brilliant Minds,” NBC’s new medical drama.
In “The Bloke from Grozny,” which aired Monday and is available for streaming on Peacock, Dr. Wolf (played by Zachary Quinto) shares a emotional kiss with Dr. Nichols (Teddy Sears) following weeks of growing tension between the two men.
“It’s one of the most beautiful scenes of the season,” series creator and showrunner Michael Grassi told HuffPost. “When I created this show, I was excited to possess the opportunity to tell relationship stories in a hospital with a queer protagonist. After we’ve sort of arrange up all our chess pieces, we finally get to do it. This is our opportunity to have a real romantic lead.”
Like most “Brilliant Minds” episodes thus far, “The Man from Grozny” begins with Dr. Wolf trying to find a way to handle an ailing patient ― in this case, a male named Roman (Alex Ozerov-Meyer) who arrives at New York’s Bronx General Hospital with locked-in syndrome, unable to go or speak after a cycling accident.
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After Dr. Wolf and his associates rebuild Roman’s ability to communicate via a brain computer