Kelsea Ballerini Boards ‘Doctor Odyssey’ For Episode 6: Here Comes The Ozempic Bridezilla

By Hope Sloop

You cognize really The Bachelor gets flack for saying each play is “the astir melodramatic play yet.” That is simply a sentiment I find myself echoing play pinch Doctor Odyssey, conscionable substitute “dramatic season” for “unserious episode.”

While Episode 6, “I Always Cry At Weddings,” brought retired impermanent stars for illustration Kelsea Ballerini and Margo Martindale to return portion successful wedding festivities aboard The Odyssey, it besides tackled immoderate incredibly acheronian topics, powerfully contrasted by nan unbelievable quality of nan show.

**Warning, nan pursuing article contains some spoilers for Doctor Odyssey Episode 6 and mentions of suicide**

It takes a batch of courage for a show to extremity an section by showing a threesome involving nan main characteristic trio, only to instantly put up a termination hotline boilerplate connection because they featured a storyline wherever personification takes their ain life. Well, telephone Olivia Rodrigo because it appears that Doctor Odyssey‘s writers and producers person those guts.

While nan section initially looked to beryllium astir a bridezilla (Ballerini) embarking connected a wedding cruise and stopping astatine thing to person nan cleanable day, it quickly turned into a nightmare voyage for Ballerini’s character. Not only does her characteristic suffer from an acute bout of pancreatitis aft doubling up connected her Ozempic dose to shed pounds for nan large day, she besides loses her husband-to-be successful nan process. The groom, Eric (Hudson Oz), commits termination by jumping disconnected nan vessel aft coming to position pinch his activity addiction and nan irreparable harm his actions person caused — we learned earlier successful nan section that he was responsible for helping to dispersed a nasty lawsuit of ringworm. His gruesome decease leaves Ballerini’s characteristic successful a authorities of daze and despair (for a first-time actress, nan tears were beautiful decent) and reconciling pinch her ain infidelity… she was sleeping pinch nan champion man, because, of people she was.

Rick Cosnett and Kelsea Ballerini successful a photograph from ‘Doctor Odyssey’ Episode 6 Disney

Meanwhile, Martindale stars arsenic nan mother of nan bride who finds herself dealing pinch a nasty sunburn aft laying retired successful nan sun connected nan deck. Being a female from South Florida, she thought she was good but her caller antibiotic medicine has made her tegument sun-sensitive.

Side note: Not only person I besides endured a horrific sunburn aft taking doxycycline — nan medicine The Odyssey’s aesculapian squad believes Martindale’s characteristic was connected erstwhile she was burnt — but I besides person dealt pinch pancreatitis. I person to say, some are uniquely unpleasant and I wouldn’t wish them connected my worst enemy. Clearly, the Doctor Odyssey writers are sadists.

Getting backmost to nan show, nan section contains nan accustomed shenanigans aboard nan ship; personification gets injured while getting freaky, Dr. Max (Joshua Jackson), Avery (Phillipa Soo), and Tristan (Sean Teale) build a palpable intersexual tension, and Captain Robert (Don Johnson) is location to enactment arsenic nan guideline for nan crew, albeit concisely this episode.

The 1 cardinal quality betwixt this week and episodes successful erstwhile weeks is that our main characters yet do thing astir nan unspoken sexy vibes successful nan air. That’s right, aft each admitting that a threesome is connected their bucket database — aliases a “good threesome” successful Dr. Max’s lawsuit arsenic he has already taken portion successful 1 — nan 3 aesculapian professionals yet get it connected pinch each other. Honestly, portion of maine afloat believes that executive shaper Ryan Murphy is conscionable seeing really acold he tin push ABC earlier they measurement in. Apparently, we’re not location yet arsenic this section besides features a mates getting stuck during sex, experiencing a very-real and not-at-all funny information known arsenic penis captivus. I wish I was making this up.

As for Tristan, Max, and Avery, I, for one, cannot hold to spot nan messiness that this becomes. I’m judge everyone is going to enactment really cool astir it moving forward, right? There’s surely not going to beryllium immoderate weirdness betwixt them, right? Wrong. A trailer for Episode 7, “Oh, Daddy!” features nan threesome contemplating if it was a one-time point aliases if it should hap again. The short snippet besides teases nan presence of Captain Robert’s brother, played by John Stamos, arsenic good as. Cheyenne Jackson, a Murphy-universe staple.

It’s besides important to statement that Episode 6 began pinch a recap of Dr. Max’s aesculapian history — remember, he astir died from COVID-19 and was moreover successful a coma owed to nan virus. In passing, it seems for illustration an innocuous reference to contented from erstwhile scripts but erstwhile compared to nan contented of this section — peculiarly nan portion astir nan threesome — we can’t thief but wonderment if he is still successful a dream. Especially aft Grotesquerie, Murphy’s FX bid that premiered astir nan aforesaid clip arsenic Doctor Odyssey, revealed its main characteristic to person been successful a coma for nan first 7 episodes. Is Murphy trying to propulsion 1 complete connected america again?

All successful all, Episode 6 of Doctor Odyssey proved to beryllium different chaotic and whacky embarkation, but matched pinch a much somber tone. The termination storyline allows for a juxtaposition that feels oddly realistic successful nan messaging of life’s uncertainty. It didn’t rather onshore for maine because nan reside still felt overseas — spot nan reference supra to nan threesome followed by nan termination hotline telephone number — but I do deliberation it’s a measurement successful nan correct guidance for making nan show little idiosyncratic.

Doctor Odyssey is now streaming connected Hulu. New episodes merchandise connected ABC Thursdays astatine 9 pm.

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