Ben Whishaw hospital drama ‘This Is Going to Hurt’ takes a dark turn: review
nypost.comBen Whishaw (“A Very English Scandal,” “Fargo”) and premieres June 2 on AMC+ and Sundance Now. It’s adapted from British writer Adam Kay’s bestselling book, based on the diaries he kept during his six-year career as a physician in the UK specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.
Kay also wrote the series, which meanders along before taking a brutally dark “didn’t see that one coming” turn later on. It’s 2006 when we meet Dr.
Adam Kay (Whishaw), the chief resident in obstetrics/gynecology working for the National Health Service in an understaffed, underfunded, chaotic London hospital worlds apart from its upscale, very expensive counterpart private clinics.
He’s rail-thin, dour and perpetually exhausted — working nearly every hour of every day — with little time for a social life, impacting his two-year relationship with the more outgoing Harry Muir (Rory Fleck Byrne, who looks like a young Roger Daltrey).
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