Episode #1.1
- Episode aired Jun 2, 2022
- 46m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
704
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Junior Doctor Adam juggles his personal life with his hectic job on the labour ward. In the chaos of the ward, he makes his first big mistake.Junior Doctor Adam juggles his personal life with his hectic job on the labour ward. In the chaos of the ward, he makes his first big mistake.Junior Doctor Adam juggles his personal life with his hectic job on the labour ward. In the chaos of the ward, he makes his first big mistake.
Tom Durant Pritchard
- Greg
- (as Tom Durant-Pritchard)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe racist patient (Callie) who Dr Kay attends to early in the episode, and her mother accompanying her, are played by real life mother and daughter Alice Bailey Johnson and Marion Bailey.
- GoofsThe story is set in 2006. The phone Dr Kay is using is a Nokia N95, this was not released until March 2007.
- ConnectionsReferences Doctor Who (2005)
- SoundtracksNobody But Me
written by O'Kelly Isley / Ronald Isley / Rudolph Isley
performed by the Human Beinz
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Episode 1
From the opening scenes of This Is Going to Hurt. I guessed writer Adam Kay had to be a doctor. The show is meant to be semi autobiographical.
It had the chaotic and dark humour of a previous BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest shown in the mid 1990s. That was written by Jed Mercurio.
So I look forward to a series from Kay about bent coppers in the 2030s!
The first episode opens with Junior Doctor Adam Kay (Ben Whishaw) waking up in his car. He is so tired he crashed out in his car at the hospital car park.
Before he gets inside the hospital he comes across a heavily pregnant woman who needs an emergency caesarean. They get on the maintenance lift.
It is clear the staff are overworked, the hospital is under resourced. The patients are demanding.
Shruti is a trainee doctor who no one has taken time to train up.
Adam manages to safely deliver the baby whose arm was already sticking out. In such a frenzied environment, he might not always be so lucky.
The first episode ends with Adam leaving a stag do early to work another shift due to staff shortages. Only to find out that a pregnancy has gone wrong, he had sent the mother home without doing a blood test.
Luckily for Adam, the consultant surgeon covers up for him. Recognising that Adam is indeed a conscientious and hard worker.
I liked the first episode and I liked shows such as Cardiac Arrest and St Elsewhere. There is a lot of fourth wall breaking and it has a good balance of black comedy and drama.
Ben Whishaw is very good as Dr Kay trying to balance his hectic work life and his personal life with his boyfriend.
The episode does not shy away from the frustrations of hospital life. Dr Kay suspects a patient is racist and is admonished for calling them out on it. Only for the patient to later let rip when Shruti helps deliver the baby.
It had the chaotic and dark humour of a previous BBC medical drama Cardiac Arrest shown in the mid 1990s. That was written by Jed Mercurio.
So I look forward to a series from Kay about bent coppers in the 2030s!
The first episode opens with Junior Doctor Adam Kay (Ben Whishaw) waking up in his car. He is so tired he crashed out in his car at the hospital car park.
Before he gets inside the hospital he comes across a heavily pregnant woman who needs an emergency caesarean. They get on the maintenance lift.
It is clear the staff are overworked, the hospital is under resourced. The patients are demanding.
Shruti is a trainee doctor who no one has taken time to train up.
Adam manages to safely deliver the baby whose arm was already sticking out. In such a frenzied environment, he might not always be so lucky.
The first episode ends with Adam leaving a stag do early to work another shift due to staff shortages. Only to find out that a pregnancy has gone wrong, he had sent the mother home without doing a blood test.
Luckily for Adam, the consultant surgeon covers up for him. Recognising that Adam is indeed a conscientious and hard worker.
I liked the first episode and I liked shows such as Cardiac Arrest and St Elsewhere. There is a lot of fourth wall breaking and it has a good balance of black comedy and drama.
Ben Whishaw is very good as Dr Kay trying to balance his hectic work life and his personal life with his boyfriend.
The episode does not shy away from the frustrations of hospital life. Dr Kay suspects a patient is racist and is admonished for calling them out on it. Only for the patient to later let rip when Shruti helps deliver the baby.
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- Prismark10
- Mar 30, 2022
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- Ealing Hospital, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Greater London, England, UK(hospital exterior)
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