Ernest P Shackleton
One Too Many
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It strikes me as The Knick light, so I agree with you in that aspect. Morphine addiction. Abusive, manic, brilliant doctor. An African-American with more knowledge and skill than the whites will admit or allow to use. An innocent nurse who forms a special relationship with the brilliant doctor. It's rather strange how often it parallels The Knick. I've been trying to figure out if there are simply a limited number of situations in which to work from that period and within medicine; if everyone in the TV industry is just lazy as all get out; if the similarities are known and intentional, as if PBS ordered a light version of The Knick."Mercy Street" - Kinda like "Downton Abbey" lite as it follows the other. Not GREAT but not entirely awful. Lots of cardboard characters, brutal slavers, kind, wonderful whites... not a lot of greys... The requisite "evil" nurse and martinet doctor. Morphine addiction easily licked in a couple of weeks. Hopefully it'll get a little more interesting as time goes on.
*fixed, 'cause one of the sentences made no sense
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