‘Doctor Odyssey’ Episode 3: Human Ken Dolls, Cocaine Nose Jobs, And Gina Gershon

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Maybe the real Odyssey is the plastic surgery procedures we had along the way.

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Doctor Odyssey’ on ABC, About The Medical Staff Of An Upscale Cruise Ship And The Crazy Emergencies That Happen At Sea

In Episode 3 of the increasingly unhinged Doctor Odyssey (“Plastic Surgery Week”), Dr. Max (Joshua Jackson), Avery (Phillipa Soo) and Tristan (Sean Teale) are handed the unique opportunity of treating a cruise ship full of recovering plastic surgery patients, including a human Ken doll, a woman who ices her breast implants scars to the point of frostbite, and another whose newly redesigned nose falls off following a bump of cocaine. So, just another typical week for the medical team on the Odyssey.

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This week’s episode also welcomes notable names like Gina Gershon as an affluent plastic surgery center owner who rents out the boat yearly for her clients, as well as George Lopez alum Constance Marie who plays Tristan’s fickle mother.

Continuing with the theme of the wild and unbelievable, “Plastic Surgery Week” capitalizes on the insanity of a ship full of patients who are each gauzed and bandaged to the high heavens. Not that we’re keeping score but this week’s MVP (most vain patient) would have to go to Pippa (Mikayla Soo-ni Campbell) who got a little carried away with cocaine after going under the knife for a nose job. Unaware that the drug could cause the acetone filler used during her rhinoplasty to dissolve, Pippa experiences a nasal avulsion while lounging at the pool. Translation: Her nose quite literally falls off. Even better, the solution to Pippa’s unique problem is to keep the area covered by a mask evocative of the Phantom’s from Phantom of the Opera .

The episode also brings a human Ken doll (Justin Jedlica) to the ship, only for Avery and Tristan to surprisingly discover that Dr. Max is a major fan of the social media influencer and reality TV star. It doesn’t take long for it to come out that Dr. Max watched Ken — yeah, that’s his name — while he was in the hospital and on a ventilator fighting COVID-19. The pair even had a heart-to-heart moment while in cryotherapy chambers to help assist Ken’s recovery from a pectoral enhancement.

Ultimately, Dr. Max has an emotional moment as he and the team discover Ken collapsed and attempt to revive him, unsuccessfully. It’s a critical moment of pain and learning for the protagonist who later welcomes Ken’s reality TV counterparts — Barbie, Allan and Skipper — to the boat at the end of the episode to collect Ken’s body.

After welcoming Shania Twain and Chord Overstreet on the boat last week, Doctor Odyssey kept up its theme of bringing recognizable actors aboard with Gershon and Marie. Diving head first, Lenore Laurent (Gershon) — who quickly picks a fight with Avery over their beliefs regarding body enhancements — begins a flirtation with Captain Robert Massey (Don Johnson) and sets the record straight on the expectations for the weekend.

While Lenore spars with Avery throughout the episode — even firing her at one point for subordination — the two make amends in the final moments as Lenore thanks her for saving her personal shopper’s life. Remember the aforementioned cruise passenger who iced her boob job incision scars to the point of second and third-degree burns? It was Avery who performed a procedure to remove the dead skin and clean the area to prevent sepsis.

For her own part, Marie plays a patient — both on and off the boat — as she is first seen with drains coming out of her face and later passes out after a serious conversation with her son. As Tristan confronts her over her habit of taking off when he needs her most, she walks away and collapses, leading to the Odyssey medical team making a Huntington’s diagnosis.

It’s another week of fever dream-esque content from Doctor Odyssey , a show that is both hard to watch and hard to look away from. Sorry to report that the series has not made any substantial strides toward becoming one that is worthy of your time, but it does at least seem to be moving in the right direction. With each episode, the tone and quality improves slightly, although it still feels like it’s in a rush to get somewhere.

After an abrupt romantic brush between Avery and Dr. Max in the pilot, followed by an Avery and Tristan kiss in Episode 2 , the show returned to the initial connection in “Plastic Surgery Week.” It’s whiplash-inducing stuff, y’all. It could have been a slow burn to the finish for this clearly meant-to-be couple but the writers feel intent on pushing ahead at full steam.

Doctor Odyssey airs on ABC Thursdays at 9 pm PST and episodes release the next day on Hulu.

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