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Pure Genius

  • TV-14
  • 2016–2017
  • 1 season
  • Drama
  • 6.5

Tech giant. Medical pioneer.

A young Silicon Valley tech-titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, new school approach to medicine.

Episodes

13 episodes
  1. 1Pilot

    43 minOct 27, 2016

    Silicon Valley tech titan James Bell enlists Dr. Walter Wallace, an exceptional veteran surgeon with a controversial past, to run his state-of-the-art hospital with an ultramodern approach to medicine.

  2. 2It's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Silk Surgery

    43 minNov 3, 2016

    Malik and Zoe don't see eye to eye when it comes to using a revolutionary procedure involving spider silk to save a boy's crushed legs versus the safer route of amputation. Elsewhere, James, Walter and Talaikha care for a young woman in desperate need of a liver transplant who, to their surprise, is reluctant to accept a donation from her estranged father.

  3. 3You Must Remember This

    43 minNov 10, 2016

    James wants to treat a police officer who suffered a brain injury in a car crash and lost all of his memories with a cutting-edge method to recode his brain; at the same time, an obese woman is given an appetite suppression sensor; and Zoe tries to erase security footage of her kiss with Malik.

  4. 4Not Your Grandmother's Robotic Surgery

    43 minNov 17, 2016

    When James' beloved elementary school teacher is diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, he tries to employ a risky robotic surgery to save her, an approach with which Walter disagrees. Also, a military veteran blinded in combat and riddled with guilt refuses Zoe and Talikha's high-tech treatment that could restore his vision.

  5. 5Fire and Ice

    43 minNov 24, 2016

    James convinces a hockey player with a severe spinal injury to undergo risky surgery that could enable him to walk again. Also, James invites Walter’s wife, FDA executive Julianna Wallace, to Bunker Hill to persuade her to approve a new skin bio-printing trial.

  6. 6Bunker Hill, We Have a Problem

    43 minDec 1, 2016

    Walter and the Bunker Hill surgeons must perfect a revolutionary remote surgery when someone on the International Space Station needs an emergency procedure.

  7. 7A Bunker Hill Christmas

    43 minDec 8, 2016

    When a young leukemia patient comes to Bunker Hill in need of a miracle, James hopes a new t-cell cancer treatment will save her life, as her optimism inspires him to become a better person.

  8. 8Around the World in Eight Kidneys

    43 minDec 15, 2016

    James and the Bunker Hill surgeons attempt to make medical history with the largest chain of internationally paired kidney donations ever, comprised of eight simultaneous organ transplants and 16 surgeries.

  9. 9Grace

    43 minJan 1, 2017

    When a young man comes to Bunker Hill ravaged by a drug-resistant strain of HIV, James attempts a radical anti-viral treatment. Also, Walter must work quickly when his daughter’s best friend contracts a fatal flesh-eating bacteria, and James makes a connection with Louis Keating’s nurse.

  10. 10Hero Worship

    43 minJan 5, 2017

    When a woman arrives at Bunker Hill with a mysterious lung ailment, James is conflicted after he connects other respiratory cases in her area to possible contamination from a microchip factory owned by his hero, tech guru Douglas Prescott.

  11. 11Touch and Go

    43 minJan 12, 2017

    James and Zoe work to help a teenage girl with a rare skin blistering disorder, employing radical treatments to heal her skin in time for her to attend her school prom. Also, as Louis Keating’s GSS condition gets worse, James is tempted to use his experimental cure to save him.

  12. 12I Got This

    43 minJan 19, 2017

    Talaikha and Malik treat Georgia Ray, one of the world’s biggest pop stars and friend of James’s, for laryngeal cancer, but when gold particles and microsurgery reveal more cancer than expected, they incur the singer’s wrath when her vocal chords and career are threatened.

  13. 13Lift Me Up

    43 minJan 26, 2017

    Angie tries to target her mother’s illness using radical nanobot technology, but she looks to Scott for help when her mother prefers using traditional methods. Also, when a graffiti artist with a clotting disorder falls from a bridge, Walter, Malik and Zoe attempt to use suspended animation to stop his internal bleeding.

Where to watch Pure Genius

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Series cast

Dermot MulroneyDr. Walter Wallace13 episodes
Augustus PrewJames Bell13 episodes
Odette AnnableDr. Zoe Brockett13 episodes
Reshma ShettyDr. Talaikha Channarayapatra13 episodes
Aaron JenningsDr. Malik Verlaine13 episodes
Ward HortonDr. Scott Strauss13 episodes
Brenda SongAngie Cheng13 episodes
Drew FonteiroDigitalist2 episodes
Guilford AdamsWill1 episode
Jade PettyjohnMadeline Sorenson1 episode
Cesili WilliamsAstrid Pierre1 episode
Lulu BrudSkylar Stevens1 episode
Jessica GarzaLydia1 episode
Sloane Morgan SiegelEvan Coleman1 episode
Justin H. MinEugene1 episode
Leslie L. MillerBH Ambassador (as Leslie Miller)1 episode
JazzmunGloria1 episode
Phillip PhillipsSelf1 episode

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