*SPOILERS!!!!*Season 1-3: LOVE IT! Season 4: HATE IT!!What the heck happened?!?! They ruined this series. By the time I was into Season 4, I realized completely different people probably wrote it - or if they are the same people, they all got brain injuries. I don't know which and I'm too disgusted with the whole thing to look that up.As time went by, I became more and more disgusted with the protagonist, Eleanor Bramwell. She made some really stupid decisions and didn't learn from them. She lost her charm for me - I was more interested in her father and step mother by Season 4 than by her - and they disappeared completely. I don't understand why they wrote so much heartache caused by her. Poor Dr. Marsham! A completely decent fellow, honorable and smart and responsible and - well, I LIKED that relationship. Why kill it? They could have written ANYTHING happening. And all that unprotected sex and the big crisis is a pregnancy. REALLY?!?! She's a physician at a time when there were very few women doctors and ALL of their battles were uphill, she knows everything about how pregnancies occur, they had very primitive birth control, and she's UPSET that she got knocked up?!?! Oh man - that really ticked me off. She KNEW that a pregnancy would be a career-ending scandal. I spent 13 years in university and a few more in internships myself. There is NO WAY I would do something that stupid if it could destroy a couple of decades of schooling and training.On the medical side of things, it was remarkable to me that they showed so little in the way of the mortality rate from surgery at that time. It was a terrible, agonizing death. Opening up people's bodies and sticking your bare hands in there is NOT always helpful. It would have been realistic to have some of those sorts of things going on.But most of all, it's not a good idea to write a protagonist whom people like in the beginning and despise at the end. Reading some of these reviews - and looking at what people are saying on Netflix - I'm impressed with how much people dislike the way the show ended and dislike the protagonist. This series should be required viewing for film majors.

The series started out interesting but very uneven in quality, until (as many other reviewers have also written) the last 2 episodes. These comprise all of season 4, unaccountably, and are nearly twice the length at an hour and 41 minutes as the episodes in seasons 1-3. Season 4 is a debacle.The main character, as written, is a flawed, sometimes impulsive but usually charming woman with a good brain and heart. But all through the series, Eleanor Bramwell's behavior is inconsistent, almost as if the scripts are written by various strangers and in isolation of each other and the character arc. Bramwell's personality is all over the map; selfless yet narcissistic, practical yet silly, gracious yet unspeakably rude and insulting, prudent yet idiotic. However, it was absolutely incredible that any of the other characters in the series could tolerate or forgive the sanctimonious, hypocritical and selfish person she is in the last 2 episodes . Essentially, she goes rogue, morally, ethically and temperamentally. In a show about the difficulties faced by intelligent, professional women of the time, I was quite shocked when one of the characters suggests that she is unhinged not because she is ill, but because she is pregnant! Clearly, something was going on behind the scenes of this series which resulted in such a blunt, clumsy and ridiculous "end" to the story. I'd love to know what it was!

turn of the century London....a thrift infirmary treating patients with the diseases and scourges of the day....graphic depictions of 19th century medical practices, including operations, amputations, etc... a beautiful lady doctor with a heart of gold and a stubborn streak...YES PLEASE....MAY I HAVE SOME MORE! I'd jump off a ladder if there was a chance I'd get treatment from Jemma Redgrave. I can look at her all day.I've got to stop watching shows like this. It only makes it harder in real life...finding real women to compare to the likes of Eleanor Bramwell

I have followed "Bramwell" since I started watching the mini-series on PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" a few years ago. The depiction of a female doctor in Victorian England is very entertaining and groundbreaking. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in period drama or the history of medical practice.