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This Is Going To Hurt
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Painfully funny, heartbreakingly honest – welcome to the weird world of an NHS labour ward. Ben Whishaw stars in Adam Kay's raw, ridiculous rollercoaster diary of a doctor’s life.
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7 Episodes
Episode #1.1
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Junior doctor Adam juggles his personal life with his hectic job on the labour ward. In the chaos of the ward, he makes his first big mistake.
Episode 2
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Episode 2
Still reeling from his mistake, Adam becomes increasingly difficult to be around. While he clashes with a colleague over a patient, he tries to make amends at home.
Episode 3
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Episode 3
Adam and Shruti struggle to help vulnerable patients, while a politician visiting the ward makes everyone’s lives harder. Adam makes some big steps in his personal life.
Episode 4
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Episode 4
Adam’s mistake comes back to haunt him, and he tries desperately to dig himself out of trouble. Shruti is excited to find a promising new mentor.
Episode 5
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Episode 5
It’s the day of Adam’s engagement party, but his work stress is becoming increasingly overwhelming. Shruti tries a new tack, but doesn’t get the outcome she hoped.
Episode 6
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Episode 6
Heartbroken Adam does his first shift at a posh private hospital and finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Shruti has a challenging night shift on the NHS Ward.
Episode 7
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Episode 7
A grieving Adam faces a tribunal over his malpractice, and is no longer sure if he can go on in medicine. Reconnecting with Harry, he tries to decide where his future lies.
Cast of Miniseries
Ben Whishaw
Adam Kay
Ambika Mod
Shruti Acharya
Rory Fleck-Byrne
Harry
Michele Austin
Tracy
Alex Jennings
Lockhart
Tom Durant-Pritchard
Greg
Ashley McGuire
Houghton
Harriet Walter
Veronique
Kadiff Kirwan
Julian
Miniseries Reviews
Pajiba
Dustin Rowles
It's a remarkable series not just for what it says but for how it says it, but most of all, for how it so effectively highlights the real human stakes involved in medicine.
The Young Folks
Phylecia Miller
Hopefully, This is Going to Hurt will get more people to talk about our utterly broken institutions so we can finally do something about it before it is too late.
The Daily Beast
Kevin Fallon
The vibes of This Is Going to Hurt are bleak. But they're also riveting.
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
This Is Going to Hurt is likely more accurate and more wrenching than most medical dramas that have aired on TV. But that doesn't mean that it's seeing the fullness of what's wrong with women's health care.
New York Post
Michael Starr
It's akin to watching an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" or "Chicago Med" or "New Amsterdam" or "The Resident" et al., only spread out over seven episodes instead of a 44-minute storyline.
TV Insider
Matt Roush
It's setting a sardonic tone of gallows humor that helps amuse the viewer amid the barrage of graphic medical crises and heartbreak that tests the doctors' resolve.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
What we have here is a show that resists any clinical appraisal. But it is engaging, witty and intelligently caustic.
TIME Magazine
Judy Berman
Hurt is the best medical drama in years because, instead of celebrating idealized superhuman doctors, it observes how broken systems force real doctors to attempt superhuman feats.
NPR
Linda Holmes
Reinvigorating the medical drama is a tall order, but Kay's flair for gallows humor, which comes through in his memoir, and the stellar performances from Whishaw and Mod especially, make it work.
ABC News
Peter Travers
The talent of Ben Whishaw shines on its highest beams in this medical series about Adam Kay, who left his career as a junior doctor in obstetrics at a London hospital to fictionalize his life into a comedy of shocking gravity. You'll laugh till it hurts.
Vanity Fair
Joy Press
This is Going to Hurt sometimes feels like a howl of despair beneath its quippy veneer. Luckily, the howler is played by Whishaw, who has practically has a PhD in playing fragile characters.
Failed Critics
Tony Black
Quite simply, one of the finest depictions of the NHS we have perhaps ever seen on screen.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
One of the best medical dramas to hit the small screen in years.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It's smart, funny, touching and above all human and compassionate.
Paste Magazine
Shane Ryan
It is, in a word, spectacular; different from the book, as it needed to be, but every bit as effective in conveying the central theme while still being hugely funny and hugely watchable.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
A sometimes relentless, exhausting, but fascinating ride.
Rolling Stone
Alan Sepinwall
It's been a while since TV has had a great hospital drama. This Is Going to Hurt definitely qualifies.
Edge Media Network
Frank J. Avella
Whishaw is wickedly funny, and anchors this traumatically sweet series.
The Playlist
Lauren Coates
Unflinchingly honest, disparagingly relatable, and undeniably funny, "This is Going to Hurt" is a much-needed examination of the NHS and the trials of working in medicine.
USA Today
Kelly Lawler
Whishaw's innate charm and wit keep the tone from becoming too depressing.
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