The successful and well off cast as baddies while the perpetrators barely get a mention. It's rubbish.

Frankly this scared the Hell out of me, in a way very few movies or television programmes have ever done in my life. Amazingly this is achieved with no blood, no violence, no swearing, just pure alienation from normally. In many ways in this respect, and methodology, it is very similar to the movie "Funny Games" which IS the scariest movie I have ever seen.We tend to assume that people are generally all the same. Sure we all have our personal idiosyncrasies but at our core we share a common concept of logic and operate according to well defined rules of human engagement. In Trauma we see the simple terror of encountering someone who has his own rules, who will not, cannot, engage in life according to the rules we live by. We realise just how absolutely powerless we are. After all, how do you reason with someone who has no reason? If that were not enough in its own right we see how the various "human rights" based initiatives introduced over the last couple of decades actually encourage this type of behaviour by encouraging "victimhood". Like John Allerton's Hospital, all institutions now have processes and procedures are in place to help loonies like this extract their pound of flesh from well meaning, if sometimes imperfect, people when things don't go quite according to plan.I see many people have rated Trauma badly because they saw it as being unrealistic and Dan as not behaving normally. I can sympathise with that view because in the first 10 minutes I felt that way myself. I assumed Dan was supposed to be a normal person and consequently within minutes I was rolling my eyes, to the extent that I toyed with turning it off. Then the penny dropped and I realised that the WHOLE POINT is that Dan is NOT a normal person, he is insane, and that is what makes Trauma so terrifying. Just how do you deal with someone whose mind works with a different set of rules? It is like coming to the table expecting to play chess only to find your opponent is playing poker. Dan is obviously extremely clever in his way, but it is his way, and not our way. The acting throughout is superb by all parties, the storyline, scripting and dialog are superb and yes, totally realistic for a story whose main character is an insane person. It is by far the best in a dense clump of recent British Television series, most of which are inconsistent at best and riddled with flaws at worst. It has elements of Liar in that it features an irrational person relentlessly seeking harassing someone for something of which there is no evidence actually occurred, and elements of Doctor Foster, which also features a protagonist who quite frankly borderline insane in her quest for revenge. Importantly, at 3 episodes, it does not outstay its welcome or dilute its impact with irrelevant sub-stories.To the writer and producers of Trauma - bravo and keep them coming.

I had to watch this through to the end, only because I was incredulous that anything this bad could be made. The script is hilarious for all the wrong reasons, it's clunky and sometimes sounds like it was written by an utter moron. John Simm has hit an all time low, his character is an annoying, cliched, unrealistic, unlikable idiot, who somehow seems to read people better than a psychiatrist. It's so cripplingly awful that it seems hard to believe they didn't shelve it. Pointless, painful to watch, artless, drivel. Don't waste your time.

Writer Mike Bartlett is an acclaimed writer for the theatre and hit ratings gold for his BBC series Doctor Foster.For this three part ITV series, Bartlett concentrates on the melodrama and the medical profession.A young boy is stabbed, a dedicated surgeon who is on call tries to save him. His distraught dad seems to be upset that the surgeon did not come back in five minutes to give him an update on his son's progress as promised. The dad walks in into the operating theatre while the medical staff are working on him. (He could had contaminated his own son with an infection.)When the son dies at the operating table. The dad launches a vendetta against the surgeon and his family but not against the perpetrator and his family.This includes getting a job at the hospital cafe to distract the surgeon, which he does successfully as the surgeon is now on edge. The dad walks into meetings that discuss hospital deaths even though he is not surgical staff. The dad uses social media to find out and get close to the surgeon''s family and threatens the surgeon's wife and daughter with a knife, because the dad is envious of the surgeon's lifestyle and wants him to admit that he made a mistake when treating his son.John Simm and Adrian Lester are fine actors but this was tosh. Simm's character might had work worries, then his son died but he was a psychopath. He showed no interest in the person who killed his son. Although not highlighted in the script, but the way he was envious of the surgeon's life choices he came across as a racist to me.The surgeon's family were not too bright inviting a stranger to their house.