Brilliant Minds Chapter 11: The Other Woman. Quick recap: Allison is OK, Jacob and Van fight over Ericka and it seems like winning might the primary motive for both guys, not their deep feelings for Ericka. Carol finally asks Morris for a divorce, and we learn that she had serious postpartum depression. A guy with tics gets surgery to fix them, which causes Oliver Wolf and Josh to discuss whether we should be changing people or changing society to be more inclusive of neurodiversity.

Brilliant Minds Chapter 10: The First Responder. We have two medical mysteries this week, both solved rather quickly. We also learn how much it sucks to have chronic pain. Dr. Carol continues to make poor decisions regarding her stalker. Dr. Kinney finds herself in a love triangle, and we learn that Dr. Dana Dang is gay. 

“The Colorblind Painter,” is clearly inspired by the eponymous chapter from “An Anthropologist on Mars.” Notable additions include: A dead wife, psilocybin and the painter getting his groove back thanks to Dr. Wolf. Meanwhile, Dr. Carol finds herself in a psycho-thriller plot line, and she has no one to blame but herself. Overall Grade: B.  

Brilliant Minds Chapter Seven recap. This midseason episode has it all: Not one, but two gay kisses. A tearjerker of a storyline. And the Mama Wolf fight that’s been brewing for a while now finally bubbles over.

Brilliant Minds Recap and Review Chapter Six: The Girl Who Cried Pregnant

Dr. Oliver Wolf and his interns go back to high school to figure out the root cause of a rash of teenage pseudo-pregnancies.

Brilliant Minds: The Haunted Marine Recap

John Doe has locked in syndrome.

A Marine has PTSD and CPE.

Intern Van comes out as having mirror-touch synesthesia.

Brilliant Minds Recap: Chapter 4, the Blackout Bride

Dr. Wolf does takes a mystery pill in order to solve a potential murder. He also calls in all the interns in the middle of the night for no good reason.

Dr. Wolf vs. Dr. Sacks

Would Dr. Sacks have done drugs? AT WORK?? The answer may surprise you. (yes)

More fun facts: Dr. Oliver Sacks lost at least two entire book manuscripts after writing them!

Recap and review of Chapter Three of Brilliant Minds. We have some major fern symbolism, another hospital freakout and an unauthorized side trip, a cute giggling kid, and a lot of musing on the nature of memory. Also: A fantastic, intense funny scene that the Dr. Nichols and Dr. Wolf stans are going to love. Oh, and a made-up diagnosis for Intern Van.

Brilliant Minds recap, Chapter 2: The disembodied woman

In this universe, everyone watches the WNBA, and a person can lose all proprioception within a few hours.

Brilliant Minds Pilot Episode recap and analysis.

Dr. Wolf is a sexy rogue neurologist. He gets fired from his job for doing the most wonderful thing imaginable. He explains the periodic table of the elements poorly to children. Face blindness (prosopagnosia) is portrayed as seeing blurry faces, which is incorrect. Our medical mystery is instantly solvable by any Psych 101 student as well as people who have caught related episodes of Law and Order SVU, Scrubs, “New Amsterdam,” or “Chicago Med.” Dr. Wolf & Friends, however, are going to take quite a bit longer to figure it out. 

The new NBC show, "Brilliant Minds," stars Zachary Quinto as Oliver Sacks -- or rather, as Oliver Wolf, a brilliant neurologist with prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness. This show is a lot like "House" except that the brilliant doctor isn't being an asshole on purpose, he's doing it because he can't tell people apart.