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'Transplant': TV Review

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NBC's Transplant, a very Canadian drama transplanted to American TV in this temporarily anemic programming moment, is the story of a Syrian refugee working in a Toronto emergency room.

That doctor, you see, is the transplant. Period and full-stop. Had Transplant been developed for American TV, you can safely guarantee that not only would he be a Syrian refugee, but his medical specialty would be transplant surgery.

Yes, it's a hat-on-a-hat, but it's also another attempted layer. Simplicity, it turns out, is the biggest thing Transplant has going for it.

It's not a hugely innovative or adventurous medical drama, but it plays the familiar beats solidly. What the series, created by Joseph Kay, understands is that if you have a good character.

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