The Resident (2018)
The Resident is a 2018 drama series created by Roshan Sethi and Amy Holden Jones. It stars Matt Czuchry, Manish Dayal and Bruce Greenwood.
On his first day at Atlanta's Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, an idealistic young doctor gets a hard education from a senior resident who is brilliant, blunt, and openly impatient with hospital politics. The Fox drama follows the staff through cases that double as arguments about how modern medicine actually runs: billing, egos, liability, and the gap between patient care and the bottom line. Set in Georgia and built around the pressures of a busy hospital, it keeps a critical eye on the healthcare industry while delivering the fast pace and personal stakes of a medical procedural.
Quick answers
What is The Resident about?
On his first day at Atlanta's Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, an idealistic young doctor gets a hard education from a senior resident who is brilliant, blunt, and openly impatient with hospital politics. The Fox drama follows the staff through cases that double as arguments about how modern medicine actually runs: billing, egos, liability, and the gap between patient care and the bottom line. Set in Georgia and built around the pressures of a busy hospital, it keeps a critical eye on the healthcare industry while delivering the fast pace and personal stakes of a medical procedural.
When was The Resident released?
The Resident was released on 21 January 2018.
How many episodes does The Resident have?
The Resident has 107 episodes across 6 seasons.
Who made The Resident?
The Resident was created by Roshan Sethi, Amy Holden Jones and Hayley Schore.
Where can I watch The Resident?
The Resident is available on Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch The Resident
Stream: Disney+, Hulu, Netflix
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Official site
Cast
- Matt Czuchry as Conrad Hawkins
- Manish Dayal as Devon Pravesh
- Bruce Greenwood as Randolph Bell
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner as AJ Austin
- Tasso Feldman as Irving Feldman
- Emily VanCamp as Nicolette Nevin
- Jane Leeves as Kit Voss
- Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mina Okafor
- Denitra Isler as Ellen Hundley
- Jessica Miesel as Jessica Moore
- Vince Foster as Paul Chu
- Jessica Lucas as Billie Sutton
Similar series
Explore The Resident guides
The Resident in our writing
- Companion guide: Medical Drama
A few thoughts on The Resident
Fans of high-pressure institutional drama will find kinship in the manga Umizaru, which throws rescue divers into life-and-death calls under the same kind of bureaucratic strain. On screen, Grey's Anatomy and House chase the same mix of medical crisis and workplace friction, trading Chastain's system critique for their own bedside intensity.
Busy hospital ensembles balancing trauma against messy private lives
The Resident throws an idealistic young doctor into a busy Atlanta hospital and the tangled lives of its staff. These ensemble dramas run the same crowded corridors, balancing trauma cases against romance, rivalry and burnout, from the interns of Grey's Anatomy to the old guard of St. Elsewhere and Chicago Hope.
The brilliant, blunt doctor who trusts judgment over rules
The senior resident schooling Chastain's new arrival is brilliant, blunt and openly done with hospital politics. These shows build around that gifted maverick, the physician who trusts their own instinct over the rulebook, whether cracking the undiagnosable or dragging a whole hospital toward doing the right thing.
Recent medical dramas that indict the healthcare business
The Resident keeps a sharp eye on billing, liability and the gap between patient care and the bottom line. These recent medical dramas share that critical edge, following overworked staff who fight the institution as often as the illness, from a strained emergency ward to a full-blown malpractice reckoning.
Medicine practiced across other eras and places
Strip The Resident back and it is about people practicing medicine under real pressure. These dramas move that pressure to other times and places, from a frontier doctor in the old West and a court physician in imperial Korea to a small hospital serving rural India.