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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastJun 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This is a mixture of both [Grey's Anatomy & Scrubs], and is filmed with a lot of style and creativity. But it also accomplishes something that those series do not: it actually feels real. ... The show is also not only bleak. In fact, it’s incredibly funny. Whishaw's natural dry wit punctuates every encounter. ... It’s a really special show.
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Jun 1, 2022
May 27, 2022
Season 1 Review:
I’m glad I saw it, for its riveting story, for its stellar performances, and for delivering the honesty that Adam is holding inside himself. Like some of the best of TV, it shows how institutions and the complex problems embedded in them can rob even the best among us of our souls.
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Radio TimesMay 5, 2022
Jun 2, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Bitingly funny, searingly sad, and fully educational—how can you beat that combination? If you’re like me, you’ll blaze through the seven episodes and find yourself wishing for more. Perhaps what we should wish for, instead, is that this series serves as a blueprint. If you want to entertain, raise awareness, and create a piece of lasting art while you’re there, look no further: this is how it’s done.
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Jun 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This is Going to Hurt sometimes feels like a howl of despair beneath its quippy veneer. Luckily, the howler is played by Whishaw, who has practically has a PhD in playing fragile characters. ... This remarkable gyne-comedy takes us inside a broken system and offers a chilling glimpse of the real stakes in the reproductive rights conversation.
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Jun 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Hurt is the best medical drama in years. ... If it gets a bit preachy about this stuff, by the final few episodes, at least its critique is a trenchant one that’s rarely articulated on TV. The argument only hits as hard as it does because it’s grounded in the struggles of distinctive, authentic characters—not just Adam, but also Shruti, Tracy, Harry.
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Jun 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The talent of Ben Whishaw shines on its highest beams in this mesmerizing medical series about Adam Kay, who left his career as a junior doctor in obstetrics and gynecology at a London hospital to fictionalize his life into a comedy of shocking gravity. You’ll laugh till it hurts.
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Jun 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It all reaches satisfying — if usually bittersweet and sometimes downright tragic — closure by the end, even as there is clearly much more to be done with this world, and this main character, should Kay and Whishaw be interested. It’s been a while since TV has had a great hospital drama. This Is Going to Hurt definitely qualifies.
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RogerEbert.comMay 31, 2022
Season 1 Review:
With sharp editing and writing, the series balances both the intensity of the workplace with character development. ... [Ben Whishaw’s vivid, electric performance is] such an insightful performance that it doesn't need the fourth-wall breaking edge the series also gives him, which feels like a "Fleabag"-inspired approach not fully realized by this production.
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The GuardianMay 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
This Is Going to Hurt is full of images and scenes that you’ll hope to forget, but, more unexpectedly, it also retains the two most difficult aspects of the book (and those, incidentally, that remain with the reader long after the foreign-objects-up-orifices anecdotage has faded). The first is the fatigue, and the fathomless stupidities, injustices and lack of resources that cause it.
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The PlaylistJun 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Its comedic undertones allow for some of the more far-fetched moments, and the sometimes clunky writing can be forgiven by the stellar cast — not one of whom puts a foot wrong. Unflinchingly honest, disparagingly relatable, and undeniably funny, “This is Going to Hurt” is a much-needed examination of the NHS and the trials of working in medicine.
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