Show of the week: A Young Doctor’s Notebook
A casting director couldn’t do any better than score both Harry Potter and Don Draper.
A casting director couldn’t do any better than score both Harry Potter and Don Draper. Daniel Radcliffe (Potter) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men’s Draper) generate real chemistry in this multipart adaptation of a series of darkly comic stories by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita). Both actors play versions of the same country doctor: Radcliffe is a greenhorn who’s regularly visited by the wizened opiate addict he becomes. A British import, the series has only four episodes in its first season, but more are on the way. Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 10 p.m., Ovation
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