Both Charlie’s future dead wives on one shift-seems portentous
Clive drinking on duty, Charlie smoking in Crash, Baz taking uppers because she was a dirty stop out-you didn’t get that on ER
When Charlie gets Baz into bed he has the most hideous pastel bed linen and I think it’s the same house he had all the time
Ewart is obsessed with his Walkman and it’s oddly pure
Megan’s hysterectomy, Baz’s sluttish tendencies, Duffy’s rape, Charlie casually asking teenage girls about their periods-we were not squeamish about women’s bodies and I am HERE FOR IT
Patient stories are quite something-often no build up and no resolution-woman comes in with baby she kidnapped, it’s dead, no further plot. Kid drinks poppers and dies as you do. Suicidal woman hates her baby, crack on. A lot of people who had been thrown out of mental hospitals basically hanging round reception which would be very truth in television for the time. Surgeon’s friend sexually abusing his son-Charlie made the surgeon confront him: we never get an outcome.
Nobody uses Duffy’s first name in any context until she’s raped. Even then it’s in passing. She has a family of cats living under her sink and is obsessed with star signs, her matronly ball breaker era is still a way off.
Not sure if Kuba is a racist stereotype or I just missed the joke.
Any discussions?