Kay lets this all play out as a Catch-22-style dark comedy, mixing in just enough absurd detail to make it bearable to watch the emotional toll the job takes on Adam and Shruti.
He gets paired with a junior doctor named Shruti (Ambika Mod), whom he initially takes for an idiot, but who turns out to be just as overwhelmed by the never-ending workload and bureaucracy, only without a mentor to teach her how to mitigate any of it. Over the course of the early episodes, we realize that no one Adam works with knows he’s gay, not because he is exactly in the closet, but because he shares nothing of his personal life with them, just as he refuses to tell Harry anything but the most cursory, innocuous details of a job that so often feels like a waking nightmare. It’s just a moment - which is all that Whishaw needs to sell the notion that Adam does care about the job but struggles to remember the good parts of it due to the overwhelming challenges of the rest of it. He has so many things to do, but he lets his gaze linger on them as if he needs the image to stay in his head long enough to motivate him through the rest of his shift.
This leads to something akin to an action sequence (or, at least, a very good ER set piece) that includes Adam and Andrea having to leap off a paternoster elevator in motion, and Adam and Andrea sharing a gurney so he can keep her baby from coming out the wrong way before they make it to an operating room.Ī few scenes later, Adam stands in the OB-GYN ward, trying to adjust to the usual chaos, and he spots Andrea holding the healthy baby he helped deliver. He finds a woman named Andrea in labor outside the wrong entrance to the building - and, worse, realizes that her delivery is in the midst of going awry. He is overworked and underpaid, introduced sleeping in his car in the hospital parking lot because he was too tired to make it home to his boyfriend Harry (Rory Fleck Byrne).
Adam Kay (who has spent the last decade as a British TV writer, including penning all the episodes of this series), This Is Going to Hurt follows the fictionalized Adam through a few very rough months in 2006.
But the primary antihero of the series turns out to be the UK’s National Health Service, which on the one hand provides free medical care to all who need it, and on the other does so via a relentless, precarious infrastructure that can turn providers like Adam into exhausted shells of humanity who are only barely capable of caring for themselves, never mind others.ħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Timeīased on a memoir of the same name by the real Dr. Gregory House, the general sentiment surely was, many times over.)Īdam is, indeed, guilty of a hazardous self-regard - and is played by Ben Whishaw, who is always so convincing as this type of smug jerk that it’s a wonder he’s also the voice of Paddington. (If that exact sentence was never said to Dr. Ordinarily, this is the kind of sentiment hurled at the protagonist of a modern antihero drama, or at least the main character of a slightly complex network procedural. Adam Kay, the British obstetrician at the center of the UK limited series This Is Going to Hurt. That’s Beren of Beren of Lúthien,” he asserts.“You think that you are the cleverest person in the room, and that makes you dangerous,” a colleague tells Dr. Now, we know it couldn’t be Finrod who died saving Beren killing a werewolf with his bare hands and then he died in the dark. Although it looks either one is going to survive or we have yet another original character because Galadriel does indeed have a living brother. “Maybe it’s her brothers, the ones that all end up dead prior to the Second Age. “Does that sound like Tolkien or modern bulls***? I’m not say elves weren’t capable of bullying little girls, even one that’s going to be the most powerful of all of them, one that is royalty.” Galadriel getting bullied,” Buechler continues. And I’m not saying there isn’t one here, but it’s preceded by, and this is the very first scene, Galadrial getting bullied.” You remember Peter Jackson’s epic prologue prior to The Lord of the Rings that breaks down very succinctly what happens in the second age, and hell, even the prologue to The Hobbit is pretty good. He begins, “I’m not gonna spoil the whole plot of the first episode, but I’ll tell you right now how the episode starts. RELATED: The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Showrunners Admit They Don’t Have The Rights To The Silmarillion Or Unfinished Tales