What is the prognosis for Brilliant Minds , the highly rated medical drama that captivated viewers last season with its mix of brains and heart? All signs for Season 2 suggest things are looking very good.

“The stakes are raised for all of our characters in really big ways,” teases showrunner Michael Grassi . “You’ll feel it out of the gate, in our first three episodes especially.”

That’s a mighty big promise for the series inspired by real-life British groundbreaker Dr. Oliver Sacks. In the first season’s final hours, a building collapse flooded the fictional Bronx General with patients; Zachary Quinto ‘s unconventional neurologist Oliver Wolf learned that his father Noah ( Mandy Patinkin ), whom he’d been led to believe had died by suicide years earlier, was not only alive but

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