After seeing the trailers, I had positive expectations of this show and hoped for an emotional charged drama with sensitive insights to after-death spirituality and the living human condition having myself lost my own wife three years past. The brilliant and egotistical surgeon who finds some humanity when he becomes visited by the spirit of his ex-wife held personal connection to me though I envisioned the spiritual contacts to begin a bit more subtly than him supposedly "bumping into his ex" at a restaurant, having dinner with her (do spirits really eat food?) and then carrying on a conversation with her into the night. I found the concept of her appearing anywhere and almost any time to cheapen the emotional aspects of her visitations as I expected her spirit would arrive only in more prominent opportunities to help guide his life in more positive and less self absorbed ways (which see does do) and his contact with her spirit to have far more emotional impact on him than simple the appearance of a "friend" only he can see and talk to. Maybe further episodes will grow on me and disappoint less hopefully.
Review of A Gifted Man
