Ben Whishaw’s remarkable new series hits a raw nerve, writes JoyPress.
When Adam finally comes out, she snipes, “I’ve watched you pull your pants down at far too many children’s birthday parties to be fazed by one of your outbursts.”
A scene in the first episode perfectly encapsulates the quirky tone of the series. Having fallen asleep in his car, Adam encounters a pregnant woman outside the hospital. Still dressed in his civilian clothes, he peeks under her dress and finds that she is so ready to give birth that the baby’s hand is sticking out of her vagina. Adam leads her on a panicky, madcap journey through the back halls of the hospital. “Are you a real doctor?” she whimpers.
Adam spends his 90-hour work weeks elbow-deep in innards. He’s constantly having to slice open abdomens and pull out infants. Sometimes he’ll get to push a prolapsed uterus back in. So he’s bone-tired and short-tempered when he’s called in for a shift during his best friend’s bachelor party and, as a result, makes a terrible error that will haunt him for the remainder of the season.sometimes feels like a howl of despair beneath its quippy veneer.
The recipient of much of his callousness is Shruti , a young student doctor he is supposed to be mentoring on the obstetrics and gynecology rotation—the “brats and twats” ward, as he calls it. Trudging through grueling hours of appointments and surgeries while also studying to pass her upcoming exam, Shruti struggles to retain her empathy. She doesn’t always succeed, and she hates herself for it.
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