Doctor Odyssey Has Us Seeing Double — And Doubling Down On Our Fever Dream Theory

How can we stop sleuthing when Doctor Odyssey is feeding us such blatant Fever Dream clues?!

In case you're new here, TVLine's Fever Dream Theory goes like this: Dr. Max Bankman never recovered from COVID, and The Odyssey isn't a ship at all — it's heaven, beckoning Max to cross over to the other side. (Though by now, you probably know all the ins and outs of our conspiracy, like the importance of Doctor Odyssey's death sequences, recent clues delivered during Shania Twain's second guest-stint and how Joshua Jackson argues the 9-1-1 crossover could fit into a possible hallucination.)

And now, we can officially enter Episode 15 into evidence. In a remarkable twist, Max disembarks the boat and visits his twin brother on land, who turns out to be a less adventurous version of Max. The man is married, with a couple of kids — twins, of course — and lives in a picture-perfect neighborhood. He's not the freewheeling, nomadic doctor heroically rescuing shark attack victims by day and frolicking in the sheets with his coworkers by night; he's the picture of domesticity.

And everything about Max's voyage looks too good to be true. He has somehow hailed a pristine yellow taxi cab in this middle-of-nowhere, nameless town. (As a girl from suburban Wisconsin, I find it hard to believe he was even able to find a cab like that in a place like this and wouldn't instead arrive in an Uber driver's dented Subaru.)

Then he rolls up to his brother's house: It's the perfect storybook abode — not too big, nor too small. It's got the manicured front lawn, the white picket fence and the bright red front door. It looks like a dream, the fantasy of a globe-trotting man who fears that his choices thus far may amount to a life unfulfilled.

So what if the entire journey — and the twin himself! — is all imagined? I mean, what better way for your subconscious to address your own life choices than by conjuring an identical twin living a completely different life? Through his twin (aka his own alter ego), Max is able to explore an alternative lifestyle, see how his world could change if he decided to stop sowing his seed all over the sea and finally settle down.

And Episode 15 dropped other small clues to support our theory, like when Max's sister-in-law delivers the now-banal catchphrase: the boat "looks like heaven." And later, when Avery is seen reading a book titled 10 Medical Women Pioneers — only a man could dream up a title as hum-drum and obvious as that!

So what's your take: Does Episode 15 reinforce TVLines's Fever Dream Theory? Or does it dry up on land?