I didn't watch this when it first aired but watched it recently. I was expecting a drama based on deceipt reading the summary but it's so much more. The story you can read in the synopsis so won't go into detail about that. For me this was an excellent drama with a good script, excellent acting and intense medical sequences that left me on the edge of my seat. The intensity builds throughout the four parts and keeps you budding for the protagonist even though she is morally corrupt. A good watch and I hope to see more of the lead actress Jodie Whittaker in the future Enjoy.

I'm not sure which series you peeps were watching but I had to comment. I haven't reviewed much recently but this series forced a reversal.It's excellent. Exactly what I expect from a British series. None of the stupid slick production without substance of the American series but down to earth, with just enough medical drama to supplement the excellent characters. This is seriously good.I binged watched it and analyzed my mood before this review to eliminate emotional subjectivity. I seriously doubt a second series will be as good but I am waiting for it.

OK, this series has just finished last night in the UK, and I decided to wait until then before I did this review. It was also because initially I'd avoided watching the series because of a perceived scaremongering agenda it had, but ultimately I decided to give it a go, in part of the fact Jodie Whittaker is about to take over as the lead of one of my favourite shows, Doctor Who, I'd thought I'd watch it to see. In this story, a nurse, Cath Hardacre, is fired by the NHS after whistleblowing. Afterwards, she deals the CV of her best friend, Allison Sutton - a doctor who is leaving for New Zealand - and goes to work in a hospital in Scotland.And boy, does this series get so much of it wrong. The entire problem with the series is that it's wrong-headed in its approach to the main character of Cath - she is committing a clearly wrong crime, but the plot and the characters, and by extension the writer, do so very little to condemn her, that the mind is made up before the halfway point of the first episode. She's a very hard character to pin down - in the space of one episode, she goes through so many changes in mind that sadly Whittaker doesn't seem able to really pull off at all, that I cannot say ANYTHING about what she's like except that she's...actually, I can't. But if you think that's bad - try the other characters who proved me right about the scaremongering that happens. You have Dr. Bridget Raine, played by Sharon Small who gives a legitimately good performance - she's kind of like the dark mirror to Cath, as she's an experienced doctor who is dangerous, as she drinks on the job, but there's kind of hidden tragedy about her performance, which gives her nuance that's kind of missing with everyone else in the cast. You have Euan Elliot who plays the new boss of Cath, who is kind of a "Doctor McDreamy" type, but also is very idiotic in protecting her when he finds out the truth. Then there are other characters like Mona and Charlie, who are the cute couple that develop, but also is written quite bizarre with random mood swings.Generally, the series is quite interesting when it's not focused on the insane lie that Cath is getting away with, and actually focuses on the others - honestly, if this had been Andy (Elliot) trying to run a hospital amidst infighting and the stresses that entales, it may have been interesting. Because whilst I dismiss a lot of the characters, they were likable, up until the last episode when they kind of fail, but they were fun: when they were written so, I liked watching them, particually Charlie and Mona. Hell, give a series of those two, but do it properly.Also, one thing I can say is that there's a legitimate tension during the operating scenes within the episodes. It takes a very humanist approach to those, in that they're not fully fleshed people, but they don't need to be for you to care about them, and that there's a potential the Cath could make a mistake given her not proper training. But it f***s it up by having her solve almost all of these events with near to no problem. The series writes Cath as being both overly clever, and incredibly stupid at the same time, as she really comes very close to being busted.When the series does reign itself back, and just focuses on the running of a hospital, it is good. In fact, the middle two episodes are fantastic, for this. But when it chooses to focus on Cath, it falls apart, especially in the end in which a person - BECAUSE of her lies - is killed horribly and tragically, and in the very next scene - the last of the show - is her being promoted and walking around like Conor McGregor after a win...seriously?When I was watching this series, I realised that the rise of Cath was very similar to rise of Louis Bloom, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, in the movie Nightcrawler; both have recently lost jobs, find a way into a new one, slowly work their way up whilst being careful to stay ahead of the competition, end up killing the person closest to them to cover up for themselves, and ends with them in the position they've always wanted. The problem with this is that we all knew Lou was a psychopath whose actions are consistent throughout, whom when he said "My problem isn't I don't understand people, it's that I don't like them" meant it - Cath says "I'm doing this for my daughter", then immediately does a lot for herself, who thinks about doing the right thing, then immediately does the wrong, who threatens someone, then immediately takes it back, repeat that last one, and then threatens someone else, then immediately takes it back. The fact that Whittaker is only just convincing in this role is another thing that hampers the series - it's not a bullseye, but it hits the board, which in a way makes it so much more frustrating.Ultimately, I do approve of the technical prowess with shooting the surgery scenes and a few characters prior to the last episode. The morals are all screwed up, but that's a given. I'd rather not see a series 2 of this, although I have heard words of it, but I would like to see a spin off where Charlie and Mona get married and go to a new hospital to have their own adventures. Just my opinion, make it what you will.

An excellent show with a stellar cast, however I can't help but think how similar the plot is in many aspects to John Collee's " A Paper Mask" where a hospital orderly in this case assumes the identity of his best mate, a recently qualified doctor and who perishes in a motor accident. The impersonator goes on to leave a train wreck of a hospital behind. Throughout the book and as I imagine it will be throughout this TV series, you are left wondering when they are going to be uncovered and also with whom they share their secret, generally a lover.