SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the season one finale of Doctor Odyssey on ABC.
Doctor Odyssey wrapped its first season Thursday on an upbeat note, especially given the uncertainty over the drama’s future.
As Deadline reported, the series from Ryan Murphy that stars Joshua Jackson, Phillipa Soo and Don Johnson remains on the bubble: it’s not scheduled to return in the fall but no one’s saying it’s canceled. Disney TV Group Chairman Craig Erwich President told Deadline that “Ryan’s really busy. He’s doing a lot with us. 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Nashville, All’s Fair [for Hulu]. So we’re just continuing that creative conversations with him.”
Should Doctor Odyssey remain in port for good, at least it didn’t leave us with unanswered questions in the finale. Soo’s character Avery ended part 2 of “The Wave” by declaring to Jackson’s Max that she did, indeed, love him. But medical school must come first, so they made a plan to stay in each other’s lives — however one can do that while one is attending class and the other is sailing the high seas.
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Tristan (Sean Teale) saw the duo holding hands, so he knew any future with Avery was impossible. But at least he scored a win in the episode by performing his first on-board delivery. An ornery woman named Blair (actress/screenwriter Annie Mumolo) came into the clinic complaining of indigestion but what she really had was a cryptic pregnancy. She ends up giving birth to a girl and naming her Celia after the midwife who helped with the delivery.
And Captain Massey (Johnson) will keep his post on the Odyssey, despite having irked corporate about his decision to return the ship to port after an earthquake triggered a tsunami that almost sunk plans for a beach wedding. But it ended up going off without a hitch! Cue: Despacito!
So will there be a second season of Doctor Odyssey? Disney TV studios President Eric Schrier, whose 20th Television division produces all Murphy series, recently told Deadline that it will be up to the prolific show creator. A final call is expected before the end of June when the options on the cast are set to expire.