{"id":36827,"date":"2022-06-04T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stream-it-or-skip-it\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:40:47","slug":"stream-it-or-skip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stream-it-or-skip-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream It Or Skip It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most medical dramas have their funny, or at least humorous, moments. That’s mainly because the relentless grind of problems, sickness and death needs to be alleviated at some point, both in fiction and real life. But the best of the genre know how to balance the silly with the tragic, the witty with the difficult. Not many shows have achieved that balance, but a new BBC series now streaming on AMC + might have done just that.<\/em><\/p>\n Opening Shot:<\/strong> We see a man asleep, with his mouth open. As the camera twirls around him, we see that the man is sleeping in his car di lui.<\/p>\n The Gist:<\/strong> Adam Kay (Ben Whishaw) has been sleeping in his car since his girlfriend booted him out of their home. He works as a registrar in the labor ward of a NHS hospital in London; in other words, he’s a resident training to be an OBGYN (which he tells the camera is known as \u201cbrats and twats\u201d using the Brit pronunciation of the second word). He marks off the days he’s been working on a pad in his locker di lui; the goal is to become consultant – the equivalent of a money-making attending physician. The year is 2006.<\/p>\n As much as he grouses about his job, he’s pretty good at it, and he cares about his patients, like when he sees a woman in labor outside the hospital and takes her on a service elevator when he sees that the umbilical cord is in prolapse . His street clothes covered in blood and placenta after an emergency C-section, he rents his umpteenth set of scrubs from the machine. He’s frustrated with a young and timid resident named Shruti (Ambika Mod), but he also encourages her to \u201cwatch one, do one, teach one\u201d when it comes to a forceps birth and other procedures. But he also seems to be constantly in hot water with consulting doctor, Mr. Lockhart (Alex Jennings), who seems to regret making him an acting registrar.<\/p>\n Adam is stressed enough about the job, but his life is also in disarray. Even though he’s the best man for the wedding of his friend Greg (Tom Durant Pritchard), and he’s constantly hounded by texts and emails about Greg’s stag party, he’s pretty much given up on planning it. He’s also in a relationship with a guy named Harry (Rory Fleck Byrne) but is completely in the closet about it; when they arrive at the stag party, they let go of each others’ hands, for instance.<\/p>\n Mr. Lockhart calls the already exhausted Adam and asks him to cover an overnight shift for a registrar that’s called in sick. To get out of the stag party, he volunteers. He encounters a patient that he sent home earlier in the day for what seemed like a minor complaint (she thought her taste buds di lei were spots). But when he has to do an emergency C-section and deliver her 25-week-old fetus, something goes very wrong.<\/p>\n