EPISODE
SCHEDULE
Carol's Second Act - Season 1
The series follows a resigned teacher named Carol Kenney. Since youth, Carol has dreamed to be a doctor. Subsequent to raising her kids, she starts to look for behind her dream by beginning a training period at the Loyola Memorial Hospital.
19 April 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 September 1956, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
27 September 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 January 1970, Westport, Connecticut, USA
4 November 1990, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 November 1970, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
13 February 1983, Orange County, California, USA
26 November 1966, St. Marc, Haiti
21 February 1955, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
11 January 1982, Hollywood, Florida, USA
September 26, 2019
It's a pretty decent act, and Heaton presents it with the same practiced, self-effacing charm. But the show around her isn't nearly as funny.
September 25, 2019
Even as the show's first half-hour is hit-or-miss, Heaton, at least, justifies her own new act.
September 26, 2019
[Patricia Heaton] shines among a bunch of promising comic actors.
September 26, 2019
The joke-telling isn't particularly sharp - a lot of punchlines revolve around slapstick mischief and the rookies' fear of killing their patients - but Heaton's veteran comic timing and Jalees' sardonic delivery keep the energy afloat
September 03, 2019
Heaton nails the role because she's had so much practice at this, but "Carol's Second Act" does her - and the trope - one better, by ever-so-slightly inverting our Heaton expectations.
September 25, 2019
Comes down a little too hard on the ageism, plus illness is a difficult backdrop for comedy. Still the likability of Patricia Heaton shines through and should make this another long running sitcom for her.
September 26, 2019
[Patricia Heaton] has earned enough goodwill to carry her fans past the rougher patches in a genial but otherwise ordinary workplace comedy.
September 27, 2019
Carol's Second Act could use more punchlines and less impassioned wisdom.
September 25, 2019
Literally nothing jells in this ham-handed first half-hour, and it may already be too late for full-blown emergency surgery. Still, Carol's Second Act could well get a decent tune-in due to [Patricia] Heaton's mere presence.
September 27, 2019
Patricia Heaton's one of the few stars that can make a show better by sheer force of will.