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PseudoBadger · 14/05/2013 20:01

I'm sorry but does anyone else just piss themselves during the trailer when Eve Whatserface says "I need a man as strong as I am" and the man says "where on earth will you find one of those?"
Cringeworthy cliche central...

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PipsWife · 14/05/2013 22:42

As a nurse I just thought here we go another drama showing nurses going above and beyond!! making me feel bad for doing my job and just going home!

But as a TV programme just easy watching and I did like her dancing silly to her husband at the beginning but how does he come back from sleeping with her colleague!! Shock

PipsWife · 14/05/2013 22:43

Boyfriend not husband! As he was going to propose.... Doh Smile

HazeltheMcWitch · 14/05/2013 22:47

He shagged her colleague? Blimey, I must have been out of the room for only a couple of mins, and I totally missed that.

Yup, I too thought it was mawkish shite (and I hated the 'strong woman' trailer), although I carried on watching it, but seemingly missed a key plot point. Obvs she should be with Scottish nurse, who should be in more things.

Pregnant lady was Keeley in Homefront, according to IMDB.
Series writer/originator was Lucy Gannon, who did Peak Practice as well as Soldier Soldier, Bramwell.

HazeltheMcWitch · 14/05/2013 22:48

Which colleague, btw?

NeverKnowinglyUnderstood · 14/05/2013 22:49

Hmm, I thought it was good...

although i am not a nurse... showing that although she tried her best and did a brilliant job for the family with the old man, she still ended up being called a cow/bitch... cant remember which.

also showed that by going over and beyond the call of duty means that your whole life can fall apart... perhaps people will understand more that a balance is required of our health professionals as well as office workers.

bonnieslilsister · 14/05/2013 22:55

hazel he slept with the blond haired colleague who had forgotten a clinic of patients

PacificDogwood · 14/05/2013 22:56

"A good turn never goes unpunished" - yep, had that at work within the last week...

He shagged the slim blonde one, Hazel, was shown at the very end as he hung up the phone and she was in the background.

So, ok, she was birthing partner to the pregnant lady. She also new her boyfriend was likely to propose on their date. She was dolled up to the nines. I am not sure what choice I'd've made Grin. How how I'd've communicated what I was going to do to lovaboy.
OTOH, she should clearly LTB before she gets hitched to him because he just doesn't understand how Her Job Is Her Life and Her Vocation and her Patients Will Always And Forever Come First.

ggirl · 14/05/2013 23:06

I think i would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't a community nurse...couldn't help thinking how unrealistic it was.

tis only a drama though and it was ok, not riveting

HazeltheMcWitch · 14/05/2013 23:06

Ah, the blondie - thanks both!

Horsemad · 14/05/2013 23:12

Thanks Hazel - don't remember Homefront, so not sure where I've seen her before.

Spo · 15/05/2013 00:14

Did I miss them explaining why the ( really drippy) pregnant woman had NO friends or family she could call...y know instead of random nurse she'd just met (and do they really give their personal mobile to all patients? )

iliketea · 15/05/2013 07:28

Oh good god we most definitely do not give out our mobile numbers to patients (not even work mobile numbers where I work - too many issues arise when someone is off etc)

BoffinMum · 15/05/2013 11:56

TBH if I ended up being a birthing partner unexpectedly, when other things had been planned, I would ask DH to come around the hospital and I would pop in and out to give him some attention too. I think he would understand about the whole soldier's wife thing.

It's the fact that she effectively abandons him that is so thoughtless. Like locking him out the house accidentally and so on. She needs some kind of major intervention from her friends.

BoffinMum · 15/05/2013 12:00

She was a major drip, the woman in labour, and anyway, normally midwives would be really lovely and supportive if an absent soldier's wife with a sick daughter ended up in labour, so her presence wasn't really necessary in terms of what would have happened in RL.

I went into labour whilst in A and E with one of my other kids, who had been knocked off his bike by a car, and everyone was so sympathetic, so lovely, they couldn't do enough (luckily labour stopped very rapidly, but I tell you something, we have never seen a top A and E doctor so quickly for anything EVER! Talk about red carpet treatment!)

member · 15/05/2013 14:05

The birthing woman actually had a midwife with her throughout the labour & not just at the pushing part so no need for Frankie to be there. She'd stepped in to monitor elevated BP on behalf of the community midwives - don't understand why the pg wasn't handed back after the initial check.

Completely rubbish really but s'pose might watch it if I want something non-taxing...

SpanishFly · 15/05/2013 18:48

I liked it once it got going. The first half was all too clichéd and "oooh isn't she brilliant and a maverick" type of thing. You know, forcing the viewer to love her, which served to do the opposite.

It was also ridiculous how she knocked back a glass of wine then got her car keys to drive to her party.

And why oh why does she have to speed everywhere in her car? Seems completely pointless

sailorsgal · 15/05/2013 20:55

What was the song she was dancing around to?

Horsemad · 15/05/2013 21:23

Think it was All About Tonight by Pixie Lott. Good song!

sailorsgal · 15/05/2013 21:29

Great! Thanks.:-)

lirael · 15/05/2013 21:29

I've just decided not to bother to watch it on I player on the strength of this thread!

Horsemad · 15/05/2013 21:32

Watch, but be prepared for some unrealistic bits!!

mrswobblebottom · 15/05/2013 22:38

Reminded me of Where the heart is with Pam Ferris and Sarah Lancashire. Peggy was always soooo wise and caring until they killed her off, I was distraught!

MrsPoglesWood · 15/05/2013 23:01

I quite liked it, I think it might be improve as it goes along. But then again I will watch anything that has Dean Lennox Kelly in it :-)

I saw him a couple of years back in M&S when he was filming up here. He gave me a lovely smile and a wink when he clocked I recognised him. I swooned Grin

waikikamookau · 16/05/2013 19:17

that was SO terrible,
she was a district nurse, why was she with the pregnant woman for a start?
just so unrealistic.
it should be an early sunday evening or afternoon tv. not prime time 9 oclock

VenusStarr · 16/05/2013 19:18

I'm catching up on this now and thought there would be a thread on here! Grin

I do think its quite unrealistic, I'm just at the point when the child has a cardiac arrest and she puts her back in the car but you can hear sirens Hmm it's actually making me quite angry that she is disregarding her own safety and her colleagues to 'do the right thing'. And the thing with the old man, he isn't safe in his own home, I actually said out loud that she can't promise to keep him at home when his condition is deteriorating. Sometimes healthcare professionals have to make difficult decisions but she's trying too hard to please everyone. Grr.

Definitely a Sunday evening drama.