This Is Going to Hurt (2022)

Watchseries; I enjoyed this, with some reservations.

Its not a patch on the book - it is a different thing, feels different. The book is laugh out loud funny, I barely laughed watching this. What came across as humour in the book came across as very dark sarcasm here.

That said, its watchable. I enjoyed it, mostly. Some of the characters are well formed and played well.

Ben Whishaw's character is interesting but surely too downbeat for people to want to be around him at all?

Its very dark, with a few shards of light keeping it bearable. Theres not an awful lot of hope - everyone is at their wits end with no sign of things getting better.

Probably the best thing I've seen on BBC for quite some time.

I enjoyed this, with some reservations.

Its not a patch on the book - it is a different thing, feels different. The book is laugh out loud funny, I barely laughed watching this. What came across as humour in the book came across as very dark sarcasm here.

That said, its watchable. I enjoyed it, mostly. Some of the characters are well formed and played well.

Ben Whishaw's character is interesting but surely too downbeat for people to want to be around him at all?

Its very dark, with a few shards of light keeping it bearable. Theres not an awful lot of hope - everyone is at their wits end with no sign of things getting better.

Probably the best thing I've seen on BBC for quite some time.

This Is Going to Hurt watchseries. I really needed a break from all those Grey's anatomy, Chicago med, and so on movies, full of brilliant doctors, funny, smart and very fresh after so many hours of work that I was tired (but not them), and still had plenty of time for various complex romances. I must confess that I envied their horse level hard work management.

Oh well, Adam is like us, and this is so refreshing!

I was hoping when I read this book that it would be serialised but also that it wouldn't lose anything in the process.

I needn't have worried the script is as sharp as a scalpel and expertly delivered by a superb team.

You wouldn't want to be squeamish though.

Thoroughly recommended.

And pretty much flawless. Everything rings painfully true, but unlike with so many fact-based dramas, there's a real story here, as well as a damning indictment of healthcare underfunding and worker exploitation. With both the BBC and the NHS under threat from the relentless force of impersonal stupidity that is the Tory Party, it's good to see the one so passionately and brilliantly speak out for the other. Performances are universally excellent, characters are exceptionally well-rounded and complex and the lacerating hellishness of it all is leavened, for us and just about for them, with precisely the right degree of darkly acid humour.

That's a masterpiece. I don't remember when any tv show left me speechless(episode 6-7), I am watching a lot tho. The cast is genius, black humor weaving with drama twists are just brilliant.

Excellent cast and the writing is very good. Funny and also some very sad moments. It doesn't seem like Adam had a lot of guidance from the consultants, he too was learning and he in turn was teaching the SHOs. "See one, do one, teach one." Other TV series show the midwives delivering the babies and everything seems "perfect", they are well edited.

The scene in episode 4 when Adam's been called to A&E is very good, well acted by all. Breaking the 4th wall usually bothers me, like in the series "Annika", but it's appropriate in this series and works.