Doctor Boss Is My Baby Daddy
starring: KIRBY ELLWOOD & MARC HERRMANN
Med intern Molly’s one-night stand becomes complicated when she learns she’s pregnant, and the father is her new boss, Dr Graham. As their secret spreads, rivals emerge trying to keep them apart.
REVIEW
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This is such a frustrating vertical.
On the one hand you have Marc Herrmann in full gentle hearthrob mode which will make you go weak at the knees, Kirby Ellwood with a stunning scene where she cries when someone cares about her for the first time and Augustine De Beaumont channelling Christian Slater.
On the other side you have some thoroughly repellent writing in the script, which makes me slightly disappointed in myself that I watched this all the way through.
I do not need to repeatedly watch characters knowingly attack a pregnant woman, with a broom, beating her, shoving her, and pushing her over. I can just about manage it once in a vertical for a storyline. It is non stop here.
Add in the viciousness of Gloria's words, the fact the 'family' are using Molly all along and it is too much.
As well as being horrible to watch it is unbelievable.
I'm sorry but Kirby Ellwood is kick ass and I was just waiting for Molly to come out swinging and take them all down. Gloria should have been fired at the first instance.
It is all just schlock writing and does a total disservice to the fact that you have people here trying to tell a decent love story.
Marc Herrmann really should be on the big screen, he is so versatile from action star to crazed killer to Captain Green Flag here.
And he has some lovely moments with Kirby Ellwood such as the scene where Molly cries. That was gentle and real, and caught my breath. More of this please.
But then these brilliant actors are given inane voice overs. I can tell what Graham is thinking because Marc is a brilliant actor, I don't need a voice over telling me. Basically I have a brain as an audience.
Although I did doubt that having watched all of this. That's what I am looking for in a vertical afterwards. How do I feel? I want to feel better.
Not disappointed in myself and frustrated for the cast and crew that they are working with such a problematic script.
💖 Top swoonworthy moment:
There are sparks of a gorgeous love story here as Graham is all in from the beginning, and Marc Herrmann is in full gentle heartthrob and considerate partner mode, which is hard to resist - but we never see why he falls for Molly. And the lost childhood love trope doesn’t add anything here.
🦹🏼♂️ Top villain award:
The villains here: Deborah, Gloria and Bri Ana are written appallingly. They are disgusting and vicious and one note. Thoroughly repellent and uncomfortable to watch. Good writing can achieve the drama and stakes without resorting to this nastiness, which must be miserable to have to play as an actress.
😂 Comedy gold:
The villain that works best is Brian, and that is because he leans into the comedy, all thoughts are about his influencer career, and panic that his money maker (his face/nose) has been broken. Plus Augustin De Beaumont seems to be channelling Christian Slater, it is there in the voice and eyes and that is no bad thing.
🎺 Unsung hero:
I mainly felt for poor Dr Simpson who gets dragged into the hideous scheming at the end.
✍🏼 DETAILS
2025
Available on ReelShort
