Brilliant Minds—and we—are in luck! The show added Eric Dane as a guest star for an upcoming episode that’s sure to touch our hearts like no other. Do you to know all the details? Read on!
According to Variety, Dane will appear in Season 2, episode 9 and he will play Matthew. Matthew is a heroic firefighter who struggles to share his ALS diagnosis with his family. It’s a storyline that Dane can relate to. He announced this year that he was diagnosed with ALS and started using a wheelchair not long ago.
If you’re wondering what ALS is, as Variety summarized in the same report, “it’s a neurodegenerative disease that gradually paralyzes the body. The disease destroys the nerve cells that control muscle movement. ALS causes patients to lose their ability to speak, walk, and breathe.”
And we need to say that, if there’s a show that fits something so hard, it’s Brilliant Minds. The show will handle it with the sensitivity it deserves. It will touch our hearts and do justice to Dane’s experience. The series has never shied away from addressing thorny issues and not-so-happy endings. Episode 5 is proof of that. Plus, the show has a distinct approach to healing patients. For this series, it’s not just about healing their bodies, but something more.
Oliver and the rest of the team give each patient what they need in their lives, even if their bodies won’t respond, as we saw in Season 1, Episode 7. So yeah, we can’t wait to see how they help Matthew! And you?
Brilliant Minds Season 2 airs on Mondays at 10 pm ET on NBC.
