Two of the most popular TV drama genres are medical stories and crime capers, so wouldn't it be a great idea to combine the two? Aired on Fox, The Mob Doctor centers on Grace Devlin (Jordana Spiro), a medical professional who leads a double life as the provider of healthcare services for Chicago mobsters (Devlin has been tapped to repay her brother's debt to the cement shoes crowd). The show displays a penchant for clichés and a sometimes baffling lack of logic, but thanks to its over-the-top bizarre plots and a number of overactive scenery chewers (including Michael Rapaport, Michael Madsen, and especially William Forsythe as the Gotti-esque mob king), each of the 13 episodes compiled here possesses a full-throttle manic power that is able to turn the utterly ridiculous into an entertaining distraction. The Mob Doctor may not have been great television, but it was great fun, and its cancellation after its single 2012-13 season was grim news for devotees of high-camp action shows. Recommended. (P. Hall)
The Mob Doctor: The Complete Series
Sony, 3 discs, 566 min., not rated, DVD: $35.99 Volume 28, Issue 3
The Mob Doctor: The Complete Series
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