‘Physician Odyssey’: Shania Twain Falls for Don Johnson and Performs a ‘Glamma’

Man! I really feel like a “Glamma.”

ABC’s latest Ryan Murphy-produced collection, Physician Odyssey, aired its second episode on Thursday night time and welcomed a brand new crop of passengers aboard for a”Singles Week” cruise. Among the many visitors to embark this episode had been Kim Kardashian’s former assistant Stephanie Suganami, Glee alum Chord Overstreet — whose character attached with nearly everybody on the ship, spreading a nasty case of syphilis within the course of — and none apart from Shania Twain as a glamorous grandmother… therefore the aforementioned nickname.

Twain, who appeared as herself in Netflix’s A Man in Full with Jeff Daniels earlier this 12 months, arrives on the boat alongside her granddaughter and shortly catches the attention of Captain Robert Massey (Don Johnson). The 2 go for a spin on the dance flooring in the course of the welcome night time festivities and — clearly, his dance strikes did impress her a lot — they meet up once more for a romantic sundown dinner. Dangerous information for anybody pondering a cheerful ending is in retailer, nevertheless, as issues shortly go south when Massey keels over throughout dinner. A Twain-wreck, if you’ll.

Whereas all indicators level to the ship captain having skilled a coronary heart assault, Dr. Max Bankman (Joshua Jackson) later reveals that Massey actually is coping with a case of stress cardiomyopathy, a.okay.a. damaged coronary heart syndrome. Like Twain’s character, Massey additionally misplaced his companion and is simply starting to open again as much as the concept of affection once more.

Sadly, the “Any Man of Mine” singer doesn’t get the chance to indicate off her vocal chords as she did in A Man in Full, however the episode does finish along with her character embracing Johnson’s and slyly smiling in a means that makes us assume she might be again for extra.

Outdoors of the Twain of all of it, the present continues to double down on the ludicrousness of a steamy procedural set on a cruise ship. The episode started with three ladies very publicly brawling in a pool over a personality referred to solely as “Jeffrey with ‘That D’” and ended with two migrants who had been separated at sea being reunited — tonally, it was a bit in all places.

The spotlight of the episode needed to be Overstreet’s character having quite a few TV-PG threesomes (is there such a factor?!) and the medical crew on board the Odyssey then having to deal with a roster of cruise ship visitors with penicillin. You’ll by no means have the ability to accuse a Ryan Murphy present of not being somewhat bit bonkers, that’s for positive.

All in all, Physician Odyssey appears to be struggling a bit to search out its footing as a collection, squandering its unimaginable forged members within the meantime. The hope right here is that by the mid-season, we are going to see a cohesive narrative come collectively however for proper now, it appears as if that idea is — as Bobby Darin’s hit tune would say — “Past the Sea.”

Physician Odyssey‘s first two episodes can be found to stream now on Hulu. New episodes air Thursday nights on ABC.