The Edgy Casualty/British E.R. show
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shallownessCardiac Arrest - 1.2 Doctors and Nurses
Still shocked by the weird aspect ratio (although that’s partly because it’s been a while since I rewatched the first episode) and they continued to do the weird tilting close-up of the girl who’s meant to represent young Claire (even though those looked like 90s, i.e. contemporary, kids.) There were also rough bits productionwise throughout the ep, like the way the music came in along with Betencourt, or where the sound level dipped, and sometimes the tonal shifts were rough.
But the look at the sexism (the female patient thinking the doctor was a nurse because she was a woman! But so much worse than that – I won’t cite it all) and how gender and professional roles and respect/disrespect played out among doctors (mainly male) and nurses (mainly female) was on point. (Depressingly, too little has changed.) And things got further complicated by pranking as punishment. As I was disgusted by Dirty Hands Raj and he’d really messed up by faking the MRSA infection, the prank on him was one thing, and he took it in good spirits. The prank on the anaesthesiologist where Claire used sex to put him in a humiliating position after he’d, as she’d witnessed and said, sexually assaulted a nurse, who didn’t want to report it because she’d seen a colleague get punished in similar circumstances – in the moment it felt like a victory, but it really wasn’t, was it?
I loved Claire for 95% of this episode, and while the suggestion of her having something with Betencourt is in character, and has something to do with her alpha female self being attracted to alpha males, I didn’t get the appeal myself.
Andrew is still overpromising to weeping relatives, and was a pushover nine times out of 10. (As Claire said logically enough, he shouldn’t be doing stuff he hadn’t been trained for, and while, yeah, being polite to the nurses was a good thing, he was getting taken advantage of by the sister.)
All the gushing blood with the last patient went beyond my tolerance levels. But from what I could see from behind a cushion, the unrealistic way they shot the dash to try to see where he was bleeding from and then to surgery worked.
Still shocked by the weird aspect ratio (although that’s partly because it’s been a while since I rewatched the first episode) and they continued to do the weird tilting close-up of the girl who’s meant to represent young Claire (even though those looked like 90s, i.e. contemporary, kids.) There were also rough bits productionwise throughout the ep, like the way the music came in along with Betencourt, or where the sound level dipped, and sometimes the tonal shifts were rough.
But the look at the sexism (the female patient thinking the doctor was a nurse because she was a woman! But so much worse than that – I won’t cite it all) and how gender and professional roles and respect/disrespect played out among doctors (mainly male) and nurses (mainly female) was on point. (Depressingly, too little has changed.) And things got further complicated by pranking as punishment. As I was disgusted by Dirty Hands Raj and he’d really messed up by faking the MRSA infection, the prank on him was one thing, and he took it in good spirits. The prank on the anaesthesiologist where Claire used sex to put him in a humiliating position after he’d, as she’d witnessed and said, sexually assaulted a nurse, who didn’t want to report it because she’d seen a colleague get punished in similar circumstances – in the moment it felt like a victory, but it really wasn’t, was it?
I loved Claire for 95% of this episode, and while the suggestion of her having something with Betencourt is in character, and has something to do with her alpha female self being attracted to alpha males, I didn’t get the appeal myself.
Andrew is still overpromising to weeping relatives, and was a pushover nine times out of 10. (As Claire said logically enough, he shouldn’t be doing stuff he hadn’t been trained for, and while, yeah, being polite to the nurses was a good thing, he was getting taken advantage of by the sister.)
All the gushing blood with the last patient went beyond my tolerance levels. But from what I could see from behind a cushion, the unrealistic way they shot the dash to try to see where he was bleeding from and then to surgery worked.
