Chicago-Centric TV Series The Mob Doctor Premieres Monday
By Samantha Abernethy in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 13, 2012 7:40PM
The new drama series The Mob Doctor has been filming in and around Chicago, and with a Chicago-centric theme, surely the city will be one of the stars. The Mob Doctor is about a surgeon whose brother owes a debt to the mob. The surgeon, played by Jordana Spiro, has to do some dirty doctoring. You may remember Spiro from her starring role as a sports reporter in that other Chicago-centric show My Boys, which aired on TBS from 2006 to 2010.
Here's a more in-depth explanation from FOX:
DR. GRACE DEVLIN (Jordana Spiro) is a top resident at Chicago’s Roosevelt Medical Center. Smart and self-assured, she’s heralded as one of the country’s most promising young surgeons. But family ties keep her glued to her Southside roots. To pay off her brother’s life-threatening gambling debt, she makes a deal with the devil and agrees to work “off book” for the mafia men she once despised.At the hospital, Grace must deal with emotionally compelling cases - a young woman in need of a heart transplant, a family decimated by a hit-and-run driver, the mass chaos in the wake of an ‘L’ train collision. But in her other vastly different world, she must juggle an onslaught of mob-related demands, including operating in illegal backrooms, treating hit men hiding from the law, performing emergency surgery on a high-end call girl, even saving a juiced-up race horse.
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As Grace tries to heed the demands of these two conflicting worlds - not to mention the needs of her own slightly dysfunctional family - her moral center comes into direct conflict with the very immoral things she’s asked to do. But with nerves of steel and a tough-as-nails exterior, she somehow will manage to make it all work - at least for now.
Watch the trailer and a sneak peek below.