Joshua Jackson’s foray into dark drama was never by design. “It wasn’t like I sat down and was like, ‘I’m going to be heavy in my thirties,’” says the star of shows like The Affair, Dr.
Death and Fatal Attraction. “Murder, adultery, drug addiction—I had the whole basket of bad things.” In Doctor Odyssey, Jackson leaves the darkness behind for blue skies and open waters in Ryan Murphy’s weekly leisure cruise that mixes cultural phenomena like Quackers (people obsessed with rubber ducks) with quirky medical mysteries.
To top it off, Dr. Max Bankman and his colleagues quickly get enmeshed in the kind of intra-office intrigue that would have HR departments quaking in their boots.
Audiences are lapping it all up, and so is Jackson: “We have a pretty good time making it, so I’m glad you have a good time watching it.” DEADLINE: I truly associate you with lightness and humor, but your resumé is a long list of dark stuff.
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