Ben Whishaw's BBC doctor program "This Is Going to Hurt" streams in America Thursday, June 2, 2022.

No one? I just started watching. It's good.

He's beautiful.

Maybe I'll try it again. I gave it one episode. His character talks to the camera, which is a turnoff, and it's weirdly shot with a dirty blue tint over everything, like it was filmed through an aquarium.

There's some naked Whishaw in the first ep for those interested.

Just tried another AMC+ show, "Cooper's Bar" (a vehicle for Rhea Seahorn), and it's absolutely awful.

[quote]There's some naked Whishaw in the first ep for those interested.

Just ass. Dong-free zone (so far).

I'm going to wait until all episodes are available and then subscribe to AMC+ for a free trial to watch this.

I finished this show recently and absolutely loved it. Funny and extremely heartbreaking. Whishaw, in my opinion, is one of the most talented out gay actors working today.

Love Ben, also binged on the whole series via a pirate site months ago. Four stars.

We already subscribe to HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+ and resisted subscribing to Sundance but finally did to watch this show. Excellent, funny, caustic and ultimately very sad. Whishaw's brilliant.

Damn, I keep putting this one off and then forgetting about it. I'll start it today.

Will there be a second season?

r10 Still waiting for the decision.

I loved the first episode but was waiting to binge it in some way that didn’t involve signing up for yet another streaming service.

This is on my list to watch. Another season of Good Omens is being filmed. I really loved that.

Here's a link to a twitter thread on Adam Kay, the author of "This Is Going to Hurt."

[quote] When (Adam) Kay came out to his parents while at university, they told him it was just a phase. Marrying a woman, he writes, “wasn’t a case of hiding who I really was, but rather celebrating that I had finally become the person society wanted me to be.”

I don’t think it needs a second season, it’s pretty close to perfect as is.

The book was okay; it was more a series of pithy one liners rather than a coherent story. But I did get a better understanding of the grueling life of a junior doctor.

There was an article about Kay and on paper, he should be an interesting guy, but he just seems so...unlikable. He kind of admits that, but you just get the sense that if you knew him in real life, he'd seem like a sarcastic tool rather than a funny person

Finished it yesterday, binged the hell out of it. One of the best shows I've seen in ages, great writing and such compelling characters. Ben's hair is a marvel; what exactly did he do in a previous life to deserve such luscious hair? Imagine a guy with his hair and Aidan Turner's beard. I came a little just typing that out.

Had no idea Kay was gay, I thought they just bent the character for TV to make the show seem more modern.

The character of Shruti is not in the book.

A couple of (junior) doctors have reactions to all of the episodes on YouTube, I found them to be a great supplementary material to the show. To see what's changed since 2006 and what hasn't and so on.

Also this cutie. He's in psychiatry these days, but used to work in A&E.

[quote]There was an article about Kay and on paper, he should be an interesting guy, but he just seems so...unlikable. He kind of admits that, but you just get the sense that if you knew him in real life, he'd seem like a sarcastic tool rather than a funny person

He's a very unpleasant man. I work in the NHS and know a lot of midwives and they all said the same thing - he's a typical misogynist who doesn't like women very much, and they can't understand why he specialised in obstetrics. Unfortunately there's a lot of male obstetricians who fall into that category.

There have been so many maternity care scandals in the UK that when it aired may women found it quite upsetting to watch.

In other words, exactly what would happen should a DLer become an obstetrician.

[quote]He's a very unpleasant man. I work in the NHS and know a lot of midwives and they all said the same thing - he's a typical misogynist who doesn't like women very much, and they can't understand why he specialised in obstetrics. Unfortunately there's a lot of male obstetricians who fall into that category.

I'm sure he's an asshole, but the hothouse flower that wrote that article is too precious for this world. Doctors and nurses make tasteless jokes about patients all the time, and the only reason he's only talking about women's bodies exclusively is because that's what he treats. I guarantee you if he was a urologist or colorectal surgeon, he'd be saying the same things about peen and assholes.

My father was a surgeon and he once admitted to me they tell jokes while they're operating on people and joke about the patients. It's a way of keeping their emotional distance.

Joe Locke will be coming to take Whishaw's career one day.

Joe Locke? Don't make me laugh, he doesn't have the range!

I've been quasi-binging the series, and really enjoying.

Biggest surprise was the reveal that Adam is a bottom.

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[quote]British comedian reveals he was raped in a sauna when he went on a trip to New Zealand to cheat on his wife with a man - and his attacker 'thanked' him afterwards

r27 I think he's vers, his ex in the show at one point mentions Adam's cock up his arse.

[quote]Biggest surprise was the reveal that Adam is a bottom.

My biggest surprise was that Adam married a woman. Nothing in the show foreshadowed that.

R31 The show seems to take a lot of liberties and isn't 100% true to his life.