Zachary Quinto plays a real-life rebellious gay doctor in this new NBC drama & it actually sounds fascinating
House), doctors with autism (The Good Doctor), doctors who are literal children (Doogie Howser, M.D.), and even doctors who are irrepressibly horny for each other (Grey’s Anatomy).And now, with its newest medical drama, NBC asks: What if a doctor was gay?
Oh, and also has face-blindness?Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Okay, we’re maybe being a little facetious… The Zachary Quinto-starring Brilliant Minds is certainly about much more than that.
But its protagonist, Dr. Oliver Wolf, does happen to be openly gay and also suffers from a condition known as prosopagnosia, which impairs his ability to recognize familiar faces.He’s also based on a very real person: The late, influential Dr.
Oliver Sacks, whose work and research has had a huge impact on how the medical world understands and treats neurological disorders.Though Sacks was renowned for his honest and open writing about his work, he remained pretty private for most of his life.
