Critics Hate It, but Audiences Love It—and I’m All About This Wild New TV Drama

If you haven’t watched Doc Odd yet, tune in immediately because I foresee the 13-episode season sailing into choppier waters, ones you’ll need to develop sea legs to appreciate. Who knew there were so many hazards on a pleasure cruise? Besides the aforementioned fatality and snapped phallus, the first three episodes contain iodine poisoning, a syphilis outbreak, a copper poisoning and a punctured lung as well as something called “broken-heart syndrome” that feels like a heart attack, suffered by the Captain Robert Massey (Don Johnson).

By the way, Johnson earns my deep appreciation for showing up on set each week to utter straight-faced lines such as “Halloween. The one week where my great vessel becomes a clown car,” and “When I was 18 years old, I worked a clam trawler out of Atlantic City, and ever since then, taffy tastes like broken heart and permanent sunburn.” (Let’s hope two-time Pulitzer finalist, co-creator and show writer Jon Robin Baitz, gets some big checks and awards season love for these gems, too.)