The Good Doctor’s big ratings attributed to its “unabashed yet never maudlin sentimentality”

Entertainment Weekly

"What I love about this show is that it is unapologetically from the heart,” says executive producer Daniel Dae Kim, the former Lost and Hawaii Five-0 star, who has been trying to adapt the South Korean version of The Good Doctor since 2013. “There’s no cynicism in this character. So many leads on television we see these days are antiheroes, (but) Shaun is the anti-antihero.” The show has also received high praise for its “nuanced handling” of autism, which is the result of many hours of research and the  hiring of a consultant who is involved in every stage of the writing process. ALSO: ABC entertainment president had vowed to stop chasing cable-like fare, opting instead for programming “that has hope and optimism and positivity at its core.”