Drama About American Doctor in The Tropical Forest

OFF THE MAP

Creator: Shonda Rhimes
Director: Randall Zisk
Scenario: Jenna Banks, Mark Fish, Joe Sachs, Christine Boylan

Cast: Martin Henderson, mammie Gummer, Caroline Dhavernas, Valerie Cruz, Rachelle Lavefre

Medical drama that has been entertaining us like Chicago Hope, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, House and Private Practice usually interesting because they have always managed to stir a medical problem, the drama of love and the hospital’s internal politics. To this day, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice Shonda Rhimes is the work of two drama that revolves around a group of doctors they love drama complete with an intricate but fun to follow. But the diseases are shown in a series of rare-especially this series serial House-and not too familiar in our ears. Shortage of medical drama in the eyes of the audience of developing countries is the absence of the better known tropical diseases in the lives of viewers Indonesia and other Asian countries. While the matter of love in this series still holds an unusual grip series: betrayal, friendship, intrigue approached soap drama that often menampillkan impossibility.

When Shonda Rhimes created a new series of Off the Map is a hospital that feels stiff and sterile move into the middle of tropical jungle in a country the middle of nowhere in South America there (read: developing countries). We immediately felt there was something familiar: sweat tropical, beach and blue sea, palm trees waving, dengue fever and various animals that bite arbitrarily.

Berserita on, three young doctors landed at La Clinica Cruz del Sur, this is a clinic which was established a set of idealistic doctor who wants to treat the local population. They are Lily Brenan (Caroline Dhavernas), a young doctor who deliberately leave America because of the pain after her fiance was killed and Mina Minard (Mamie Gummer), a brilliant doctor, cold, and feeling guilty for the wrong diagnosis when he practices in America. The latter is Tommy Fuller (Zach Gilford), a doctor who aspires to be a plastic surgeon and chose practice over there just to enjoy the bodies of women in bikinis and swim at the beach.

These three young doctor reminds the audience on the characters in the serial works of Shonda Rhimes Grey’s Anatomy. Lily Brenan beautiful and full of love reminds us of the character Meredith Grey; Mina Minard Cristina Yang is a mold figure, while Tommy Fuller is a young version of the character Alex Karev.

The senior handsome-handsome and pretty at the clinic is Ben Keeton (Martin Henderson), one of the founders of the clinic that his wife had five years of lying in a coma. Keeton is handsome and it also has a long-haired lover Ryan Clark (Rachel Levefre, known viewers Indonesia through the Twilight movie). With a wife and lover who is still lying beside him, of course, a handsome Keeton became the main gossip in the small clinic. Another senior doctor who is a fierce and obnoxious Otis Cole (Jason George) who also had an affair with Zita Alvarez (Valerie Cruz). Zita is the only physician-blooded Latin America that teach the use of tropical plants as alternative medicine outside of Western medicine.

Problem of medical treatment of West version of course pitted with the belief that local residents prefer to visit traditional healers and using herbs. The young doctor, who strangely did not speak a word of Spanish goods, of course, an advocate of Western-style medicine is very anti-traditional medicine. The senior doctor then just have to educate this point that Western medicine does not have to gontok-quarrel with herbal treatment. They can complement each other.

Just a complementary style creator Shonda Rhimes became outrageous. When the infusion runs out, then just replace the intravenous fluids Keeton doctor with a young head of water. He? Bener nih?

Featured exoticism also was a bit excessive. The female doctors displayed a shower under the waterfall as if they were the angel that was in the shower while waiting Joko Tarub. Expect exotic scene became ridiculous.

Interesting character is actually played by Mina Minard daughter of actress Merryl Streep. Mamie Gummer, like her mother, is a chameleon actress who manages to look as katakter different in every film. He emerged as a unique and nosy lawyer in the leading series of The Good Wife, whereas in the series Off the Map, Mamie Gummer shows the character Mina is really selfish but still managed to gain audience sympathy as he slowly turned into a figure who care for patients .

Various stereotypes of local residents were scattered here and there. Problem shaman, money payments with chicken, about the Latin American man who is always depicted as a handsome man, who suddenly appeared with muscular virility sweat. Why is Shonda Rhimes become so cliché in this series?

If stereotypes and cliches of this series some discarded plot, this series will successfully maintained as’ brother-kakak’nya called Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. But Shonda was too imposing these plots in tropical soils middle of nowhere (a location shooting is actually Hawaii) that. The characters he created was almost a reprint series Grey’s Anatomy character. Unfortunately, very unfortunately. For indeed, the audience Indonesia would have been familiar with the medical drama that takes place in developing countries.