This Is Going To Hurt
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 2022
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Comedy drama series based on Adam Kay's book about his time as a junior doctor. Also features Ben Whishaw, Ambika Mod, Alex Jennings, Rory Fleck Byrne, Michele Austin and more.
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This Is Going To Hurt, BBC One review
Ben Whishaw is supremely nuanced as the screen alter ego of obstetrician Adam Kay.
David Nice, The Arts Desk, 15th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt review
The tone chops so violently between light and shade that sometimes it forgets to take the viewer with it, but Whishaw effectively embodies the bloodshot-eyed desperation of a macho-hours work culture where every slip can mean life or death.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 13th February 2022Mums slam This Is Going To Hurt for 'dangerous, misogynistic' views on birth
The BBC's new show This Is Going To Hurt has come under fire from women on social media who aren't happy with the way women's pain while giving birth is presented in the adaptation.
Julia Banim, The Mirror, 13th February 2022What medical shows get right and wrong
New BBC series This is Going To Hurt depicts the exhausting life of a British doctor with dark comedy. And it might be the most realistic hospital drama yet, writes Richard Fisher.
Richard Fisher, BBC, 10th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt was very eye-popping and I did really enjoy it
The combination of gallows humour and bloody gore is not the most shocking and disturbing thing about this series though. No, what really strikes you is that it is set in 2006, long before Brexit, Covid and our current Tory overlords began doing their stuff. I mean, if NHS staff and patients had it this tough back then...
Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 10th February 2022What frontline doctors think about This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay's adaptation of his medical memoir has great reviews. But how accurate is its bloody, barmy vision of life in the NHS trenches?
Alex Diggins, The Telegraph, 10th February 2022Ambika Mod is "pretty confident" she could do a C-section IRL
And why This Is Going To Hurt is unlike any like other medical dramas you've seen before.
Asyia Iftikhar, Bustle, 9th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt, review
Ben Whishaw delivers in warts-and-all portrait of our chaotic NHS.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 9th February 2022NHS workers aren't heroes - they're people who deserve much better
The BBC's adaptation of Adam Kay's memoir This Is Going To Hurt is a rousing defence of an NHS in the face of forces that seem bent on its eradication, writes Louis Chilton.
Louis Chilton, The Independent, 9th February 2022This Is Going To Hurt gets more viewers than the Brit Awards
This Is Going To Hurt got off to a strong start in the ratings last night, attracting 3.2million viewers to BBC One, beating the Brits hosted by Mo Gilligan which got 2.7million, down 30% from the 3.9million who watched last year's ceremony, hosted by Jack Whitehall.
Chortle, 9th February 2022