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    Joshua Jackson is in "love" with a spooky fan theory about his new 'Doctor Odyssey' TV series

    The 'Dawson's Creek' actor, 46, plays Dr Max Bankman on the show - a medic on board a luxury cruise ship - where the staff "works hard and plays harder" according to a blurb for the programme


    Fans have filled the web with a theory the doctor never recovered from a bout of Covid he suffered in the pilot, and he is really stuck in limbo between the worlds of the living and dead - with many believing the ship on which he's travelling is heaven, which they think is where he is ultimately headed.

    Joshua told TVLine: "I love this theory. I cannot tell you what goes on inside the mind of (series co-creator) Ryan Murphy, but we also had a similar theory operating on set. Only Ryan Murphy knows.

    "I have appreciated the Internet sleuths' work on it and I think it's great."

    The show also stars Don Johnson, Phillipa Soo, and Sean Teale, and Joshua has said it is meant purely as escapism.

    He has said about the series: "Our mission statement is to be enjoying ourselves at all times so that the audience can have an hour in the week where they can just sit back and enjoy.

    "It's supposed to be a one-hour vacation every week.

    "You come aboard this boat as the medical cases happen, but also life happens, and by the end of the hour, hopefully you laughed, maybe even cried, and you go back into your week feeling just a little bit more relaxed for having gone on a nice cruise with us."

    He added to The Wrap about how his character focuses on joy after getting Covid: "Speaking of that specific character beat, it's both a specific reason why he's doing the thing that he's doing.

    "But I think it's also, in Ryan's eyes, a metaphor for where we've all have been. "Nobody got out untouched by Covid, and whether you were in a pod with other people, whether you were isolated, whether you got it early, whether you got it late or God forbid you lost somebody - we all have gone through this radical and, just to use therapy speak, traumatic event collectively together. I don't know anybody who didn't, at some point during that, reassess their life."

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