'DOC' HEART-TUGGING BUT UNAMBITIOUS.Byline: David Kronke TV Critic ``There's a whole country of us out there,'' studly studly - Impressive; powerful. Said of code and designs which exhibit both complexity and a virtuoso flair. Has connotations similar to hairy but is more positive in tone. Often in the emphatic "most studly" or as noun-form "studliness". "Smail 3.0's configuration parser is most studly." Montana medic medic: see alfalfa. Clint Cassidy informs one of New York's finest in ``Doc,'' Pax's new family drama about a fish-out-of-water country doctor. He's talking about good-natured, not-terribly-sophisticated folks who live in what Americans living on the coasts dismiss as ``fly-over'' country, and that declaration is this series' rallying cry: There's a nation of viewers out there who don't relate to the glibly glib adj. glib·ber, glib·best 1. a. Performed with a natural, offhand ease: glib conversation. b. hip urbanites who populate most of the network TV landscape, who hunger for old-fashioned, unambiguous good-vs.-evil yarns. ``Doc'' is a medical variation on ``McCloud,'' the Dennis Weaver series about a detective who brought his country wisdom to bear on the New York Police New York Police may refer to:
mullet Any of fewer than 100 species (family Mugilidae) of abundant, commercially valuable schooling fishes found in brackish or fresh waters throughout tropical and temperate regions. , as a lariat-wielding cowboy of a healer whose tight jeans and aw-shucks manner turns hard-bitten New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of women to mush (MultiUser Shared Hallucination) See MUD. 1. (games) MUSH - Multi-User Shared Hallucination. 2. (messaging) MUSH - Mail Users' Shell. , ``Doc'' offers cornpone entertainment in the extreme. (Even the series' press release is overrun with cliches: A Pax executive calls this ``a role Billy Ray Cyrus was born to play.'') In tonight's two-hour pilot, Clint ends up in New York because he met a fancy-pants lady magazine writer; as soon as they reach the Big Apple, all you can wonder is, what did they ever see in each other in the first place? She's an editor at snooty Ultra Elite magazine (just in case you're wondering where this show's prejudices lie); he wanders the city, marveling at teens with blue hair and men in yarmulkes, outsmarting grifters and getting in trouble over the gun rack in his pickup truck. Doc takes a job at a clinic, where he immediately falls out of favor with the prissy, hissably villainous HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, administrator (Ruth Marshall) who prefers that patients die than pay for any treatment. On the other hand, he inspires another doctor at the clinic with his dedication and willingness to make house calls (Doc seems to be the only person at the clinic able to actually help a patient). He befriends an African-American and adopts the orphaned Latino son of a patient his clinic killed off. By the end of tonight's episode, he's swamped with more female patients than Richard Gere in ``Dr. T & the Women.'' This is wholesome, unambitious entertainment for folks who get physically rattled by unexpected plot twists and like saying ``aww'' a lot when they watch TV. That cop's response at Doc's declaration of there being a whole mess of like-minded just-folks like Doc spread throughout this country of ours? ``That's a scary thought.'' ``DOC'' What: Family drama about a small-town doctor relocated in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The stars: Billy Ray Cyrus, Richard Leacock, Tyler Garcia Posey, Andrea Robinson, Derek McGrath. Where: Pax. When: 8 p.m. Sundays. Our rating: Two stars CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Former country heartthrob Billy Ray Cyrus stars in ``Doc,'' premiering tonight on Pax. |
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