“Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” might be aimed at kids, but Gen X-ers found a surprising reason to love the show, too: The relatable depiction of the parents, who are—gasp!—their age now.
This time, the genius teen doctor is Lahela ; she’s doing a residency at a hospital on her native Oahu; it’s her mother who’s also a doctor, not her dad, as in the original; said mother is also her boss; and the reason some of Lahela’s colleagues call her “Doogie” is because the show is set in a universe whereexists and they’re noting the parallels between Lahela’s story and the fictional one.
Clara is a high-powered senior member of her hospital’s staff, but Benny never gives any indication that he feels threatened or diminished by her success; we find out early on that Benny already had a big job of his own, and stepped back from his career in finance to spend his time closer to home. Jason Scott Lee expressed similar sentiments when we spoke last week “I think anybody who really is married will know that this is quite a fantasy,” he said. “[There’s] a tone of the show that we have to maintain.”
At the same time, Benny and Clara are mindful of not making their non-genius sons feel like afterthoughts in the family, possibly to a fault. In one Season 1 episode, for example, Lahela struggles to convince Clara to let her drive Steph to Starbucks, while Kai talks his way into getting an old scooter from a neighbor. After he fixes it up, he boasts that he’s “like a doctor, but for scooters,” and gets absolutely no pushback from his parents—including the one who’s a doctor, but for people.
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