Playing Doctor – IMDb

In NBC’s new fall series Brilliant Minds , Zachary Quinto, best known as the stoic Dr. Spock on Star Trek, gets a little more emotional as Dr. Oliver Wolf, an unconventional neurologist based on real-life British pioneer Dr. Oliver Sacks. “Oliver Sacks dedicated his life to destigmatizing mental illness,” notes executive producer Michael Grassi (Riverdale). “And I think this show takes things that are invisible or scary and people who are having really interesting conversations and debates and arguments and talking about things that feel urgent.” In the opener, Wolf settles into his new job as an attending physician at Bronx General Hospital, where he’s brought in by his good friend Dr. Carol Pierce (Tamberla Perry of All American: Homecoming) to work with a team of interns in the institution’s general neurology unit. A …