"Painsnail!"
Okay, I admit it: I've been sucked back in.
I am enjoying it, but it's a different kind of enjoyment this time around. The bits that irritated me about the last series still irritate me (doctors all white, male and sweary-in-patients'-faces, nurses (almost) all white, female and emotionally baggagey) - and, this time around, there's the ER problem of explaining why, in a quick-rotation training system, the same junior doctors are still hanging around the same place. The whole 'Jamie training to be a registrar' plot strand is farcical: in Real Life, it's not his lack of schmoozing or poor golf handicap which would count against him, but his restricted range of medical experience...
Still, the female leads are all still likeable, and the aspects I liked most of all - the irreverent black humour and refreshing minimum of breast-beating self-sacrifice - are all present and correct. I'm liking the soap. |
