By skyforbes 
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Brilliant Minds Season 2, Episode 4.
The chief issue with Brilliant Minds Season 1 was that it didn’t stand out enough compared to other “brilliant but unorthodox doctor” shows. The NBC series took too long to develop its characters and ideas beyond what people had seen before, but it eventually got there. Season 2, Episode 4, “Lady Liberty” feels like it’s going in reverse.
The strength of the episode again is its guest star — this week it’s Jane Krakowski, and the viewers who recall her bubbly role on Ally McBeal will be stunned to see her Brilliant Minds character so subdued. Krakowski plays one of Bronx General’s biggest donors, Arianna Burnett, who’s been diagnosed with dementia. The hospital can’t afford to lose her financial backing, so interim chief Dr. Josh Nichols asks Dr. Oliver Wolf and Dr. Carol Pierce to check in on Arianna. Krakowski is the perfect person to play a character breaking out of her shell, as it turns out that Arianna doesn’t have dementia; she’s a natural thrill-seeker, for better and for worse.
Yet so much of “Lady Liberty” feels either predictable or stunted. The spiel Nichols gives Wolf about needing to rein his department in could have been lifted out of House or other shows like…
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