“The Resident” has been quite honest about it’s mission to “pull back the curtain” of the medical industry since before it even premiered — often using that exact expression to describe the Matt Czuchry-led Fox drama’s premise in promo materials.
And it followed through on that promise in its first season, with a finale that saw Dr. Lane Hunter (Melina Kanakaredes) — a well-respected oncologist at Atlanta’s fictional Chastain Park Memorial — arrested for committing insurance fraud by giving both sick and cancer-free patients radical levels of chemotherapy.
Now that the medical drama is entering its second season, showrunner Todd Harthan tells TheWrap the series is ready to turn the defibrillator up to 11 and shock viewers with even more dastardly doctor plot points.