![]() ![]() 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.īased 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. “You think that you are the cleverest person in the room, and that makes you dangerous,” a colleague tells Dr. ![]()
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