Doctor Odyssey
Warning : SPOILERS for Doctor Odyssey episode 14.Doctor Odysseyis still finding its footing as a medical melodrama , but instalment 14 ’s biggest twist may be the adjective ’s fully grown fault . Doctor Odysseyfollows a luxury sail shiphelmed by Captain Robert Massey ( Don Johnson ) , specifically focusing on the blotto - crumple medical team of Dr. Max Bankman ( Joshua Jackson ) , Nurse Practitioner Avery Morgan ( Phillipa Soo ) , and Nurse Tristan Silva ( Sean Teale ) . While the triplet attend to absurd emergencies at sea ( and occasionally at scenic ports ) , most ofDoctor Odyssey ’s dramatic event involve Avery , Tristan , and Max themselves . For better or worse , the medical professional are at the epicenter of much everything .
Not all ofDoctor Odyssey ’s aesculapian dramatic event has die swimmingly , alas . Doctor Odysseywas notably absent fromABC ’s list of shows to renewfor the 2025 - 26 season , reportedly due to further examination needed about the creative guidance of the serial . Somehow , there ’s still a prevailingtheory thatDoctor Odysseyis a comatoseness dream , which would translate the worked up storylines useless but at least serve to explain the high - profile celebrity guest stars like Heather ( Shania Twain ) and Craig ( John Stamos ) . Regardless of whether everything has been a delusion , Doctor Odyssey ’s late conclusion regarding Avery ’s maternity plot line sure as shooting feels unreal .
Avery Is Not Pregnant In Doctor Odyssey Twist Explained
Something Else Entirely Presented As The Pregnancy Hormone
Aside from work together , Avery , Tristan , and Max composeDoctor Odyssey ’s passion trigon , which was consummate with a sudden ternary in instalment 6 . concisely thereafter , Avery took a pregnancy mental test , which make out out to be electropositive . For hebdomad , the three clash over whom the forefather was , who the founding father would be , and whether Avery even wanted the infant at all . Doctor Odyssey ’s midseason return confirmed that Avery design to carry the foetus to full term , but installment 14 bring out a small hiccough : Avery ’s positive pregnancy test were due to a cyst , and she was never really going to have a sister .
Doctor Odyssey may be praise for its Latinian language but it has something better to offer than its messy sexual love triangle and even the weird purgatory hypothesis .
The twist was subtly foreshadowed in episode 12 , when Avery suggestedHeather ’s pregnancy inDoctor Odysseymay be the result of an fundamental status that would represent as pregnancy hormones on a test . Ironically , Doctor Odysseyepisode 14 cemented Heather ’s maternity at the same timeAvery ’s gestation turned out to be an phantasy . Avery , Tristan , and Max work the truth and are all collectively stricken by grief for a youngster they were never go to have . After so much build - up and time spent on the plot , I wo n’t lie down : I ’m disappointed inDoctor Odysseyfor write off the pregnancy , too .
Why Avery Not Being Pregnant Is Disappointing
The Storyline Feels Like It Was All For Nothing
Doctor Odyssey ’s knotty love Triangulum has never been its groovy strength , but the fashion the medical play settle Avery ’s pregnancy seemed like such a waste . The love triangle — and , by elongation , the pregnancy — has been the only overarching story throughoutDoctor Odysseyseason 1 . So many scenes were devoted to thinking about the future , quarreling over parenthood , and reexamine life to decide what ’s truly important . Tristan vowing to confront his inebriation and become a better Church Father bod was monumental , just like how deciding to be a female parent and follow up on medical school showed significant development forAvery ’s character inDoctor Odyssey .
There were a million ways for Avery ’s maternity storyline inDoctor Odysseyto end , but to backtrack and make it so that the pregnancy was never even existent is a cop out .
Now that the maternity turned out to be a false alert , all the conflict feel like nothing more than filler . There were a million way for Avery ’s gestation storyline inDoctor Odysseyto end , but to turn back and make it so that the pregnancy was never even genuine is a cop out . look at how quick the false pregnancy was introduced , this humbug of a story has been haunting the characters for the bulk of their macrocosm . EverythingDoctor Odysseyhas shown about Tristan , Max , and Avery has been through the lens of potential parent — for nothing .
How Doctor Odyssey Could Have Better Handled Avery’s Pregnancy Arc
There Were Better Resolutions
Rather than wash their hands of it after half a season of calculation , Doctor Odysseyshould have taken better forethought of Avery and her pseudo - maternity . Everything moved too rapidly , from the reveal to the conflict to the lackluster conclusion . Doctor Odyssey ’s castis far too talented to not be decently utilized . Avery ’s determination could have been a compelling nursing bottle episode dedicated to the intimate workings ofDoctor Odyssey ’s most unpredictable main character rather than a quick reveal in an insignificant aside . Even ifDoctor Odysseywanted to nix the pregnancy plot line , there were better ways to go about it .
Actor
Doctor OdysseyCharacter
Don Johnson
Robert Massey
Joshua Jackson
Max Bankman
Phillipa Soo
Avery Morgan
Sean Teale
Tristan Silva
Marcus Emanuel Mitchell
Spencer Monroe
Jacqueline Toboni
Rosie
Many would argue thatDoctor Odysseyshould never have introduced the gestation plot of ground in the first station , but everything looks unlike in hindsight . Doctor Odysseycould have set up an easy serial finale ( should the show not get renewed ) by let Avery carry out the gestation and deal with the intricate wake of Tristan and Max ’s war maternal instincts . Alternatively , Avery could have fall back the babe due to a number of complications , all of which would ’ve been more believable — and more worth of Phillipa Soo ’s acting — thanDoctor Odysseyepisode 14 ’s simple“Surprise ! There was never a baby ! ”
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