“Doctor Odyssey” on Disney+: This series is a fun mix of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Dream Ship” – and that’s exactly why you’ll love it

“Doctor Odyssey” with Joshua Jackson is “dream ship” in good

Okay, okay, I'll admit it: My best friend and I talk about Joshua Jackson sometimes. That he looked like PaceyAfter a good 20 years after the end of the series, he still has a place in our series hearts, not least because he bought a boat back then and before Dawson, Joey () and all the small town drama in Capeside just sailed away. He was right! And that's exactly where he's returning to, on a boat. But this time he's got a lot of drama of his own - and please, it's undoubtedly the drama that many seasons are made of. But from the beginning.

That’s what “Doctor Odyssey” is about

Max is the new ship's doctor on the cruise ship “The Odyssey”. That the ship is named after the years-long wandering of the sandal hero Odysseus in the Greek? Free! So Max comes on the “Odyssey”, with Tristan and Avery at his side - both extremely good-looking members of the hospital staff on a really absurd cruise ship, whose captain is also Don Johnson, the father ofand since “Miami Vice” has become an icon in pastels.

It doesn’t matter where exactly the “Odyssey” travels. She leaves Los Angeles and has new illustrious guests on board every week: people recovering from cosmetic surgery, or party and sex-crazy singles, or wellness gurus, or a complete one. That these ship tourists bring a lot of drama with them? Eh, sure. But that they also carry completely rare diseases with them that the medical trio has to take care of at sea? Spectacular! Imagine the rarest caseswould be treated in a small but nice on-board hospital with only two beds, and during breaks the staff would go to the captain's dinner or even go to bed with each other - does that sound like an absolute non-guilty serial pleasure? Sounds like “Doctor Odyssey”!

It's clear from second that Tristan and Max are into Avery. As a viewer, you soon know that Avery is a bit into both of them. However, at the beginning of “Doctor Odyssey” you can’t begin to guess where this will lead. The only thing that is certain is that in the series on Disney+ everyone is setting off for new shores.

And although many of the diseases that Dr. Max and Co. on board have to deal with things that sound completely absurd, but in reality they exist: that someone is sweating blood or because of too muchYou also learn in “Doctor Odyssey” that you have to hand over. And because the entire series takes place on a ship, the actors are at the mercy of completely different forces of nature: the commands “man overboard” and “storm ahead” give Captain Don Johnson a very sonorous aura.

“Doctor Odyssey” is a great series of fun – among other things because the protagonists and the series are written by Ryan Murphy (, “American Horror Story”) don’t take it too seriously. It must be clear to everyone who worked on this series that the medical cases and the setting are absurd, but that precisely because of this and thanks to this truly perfect cast, they have created an escapist scenario that one would only love to slip into in the winter of 2024 want to immerse yourself.

What Dr. Max has experienced everything and why he is completely overqualified as a ship's doctor doesn't matter at all. However, when he begins sentences with “Back then with Doctors Without Borders in Peru…” or “At the beginning of the pandemic in New Haven…”, you know: This is almost absurd.

“Doctor Odyssey”: Who is playing?

Joshua Jackson(“Dawson’s Creek”,) takes on the role of ship's doctor Dr. Max Bankman. Thanks to his biography, Bankman knows what it's like to be a doctor and a patient, and since he committed himself to hedonism after a near-death experience, he lives it out - always in accordance with the Hippocratic oath, of course.

This is one of the reasons why the smart doctor with the gray temples may have had a luxury hospital set up on the “Odyssey”, includedand brass surgical cutlery (I still didn't know that brass surgical cutlery is sterile). Joshua Jackson could be Dr. Max Bankman is also the legitimate successor to Dr. Doug Ross () compete in “ER”, hand on it.

Philip Soo() plays Nurse Avery. She is the tough woman in the trio around Dr. Max and nurse Tristan, she knows when you have to be there, often knows her stuff almost as well as the trained doctor and is at least as smart as Max and Tristan combined. To be fair, the fact that she could wrap both Max and Tristan around her finger and flirt with ship guests at the same time makes her a pretty empowered character.

Sean Tealetakes on the role of the nurse Tristan. Tristan thinks Avery is pretty good, but so does some of the passengers on board - and also women on land, if you believe the stories about him. Tristan is perhaps the 2024 version of a bird-wild sailor who has a swallow in every port.

Don Johnsonultimately controls the story of the “Odyssey” and also its crew: as Captain Robert Massey, he holds his crew together like a loving father. You might not buy the old sea dog at first glance, but he convinces you with his irony and ultimately his nautical maneuvers.

Because “Doctor Odyssey” is such a great mix of hospital and ship drama, there are of course a bunch of prominent guest stars who check in on the ship:, John Stamos, Kelsea Ballerini, Rachel Dratch and Margo Martindale appear in the first few episodes alone.

Of course, the ship, “The Odyssey,” plays a major role in “Doctor Odyssey.” This is a medium-sized cruise ship whose man overboard detectors could desperately use an upgrade. However, the hospital wing, which looks more like a wellness temple than an operating room (again: brass surgical cutlery?!), doesn't need an upgrade.

“Doctor Odyssey”: trailer and start date

“Doctor Odyssey” will run on Disney+ from November 28, 2024, with a new episode appearing every week.

“Doctor Odyssey”: That’s why you should watch the series

Nobody, certainly not Joshua Jackson, Phillipa Soo and Ryan Murphy, wants anyone to take “Doctor Odyssey” that seriously. Maybe otherwise they would all have thought of a different claim than “Big Deck Energy” (in German, by the way, that’s “Ein Doktor für Meer”, which doesn’t even begin to reflect the original tonality).

The fact that each episode is a themed week in which things go haywire on the “Odyssey” speaks for this. The absurdity and uniqueness of the medical diagnoses would be evident in a country hospital (yes, even Gray Sloan Memorial) do not work as well as on a cruise ship - simply because a quarter of the diseases are (highly) contagious.

But every illness and every medical emergency is treated by Dr. Max and Co. sooner or later smiled away or at oneforget. Passengers and crew – they all came to have a good, carefree time on the “Odyssey”. And they invite viewers to simply join in. Our tip: Do it, there has never been a better mix of “Dream Ship”, “Love Boat” and “Grey's Anatomy”!

And clearly, “Doctor Odyssey” is notor– one of those drama series that you can/have to take apart down to the last detail and put it back together again. But “Doctor Odyssey” is fun because the story is sufficiently dramatic, absurd and subtly sexy. You don't have to think about it, you can just go on a cruise. Ahoy!