This started off as an interesting medical drama with a quirky lead who has autism but is a very skilled physician.
That story has run its course and by this season the show is a pretty standard hospital soap with an ensemble cast.
The two major themes of this week were institutional racism and gender reassignment.
These are complex issues requiring intelligent & sensitive writing if they are to avoid preachiness or shallow clichés.
Sadly the writers have neither of these to hand so we are bludgeoned instead.
That story has run its course and by this season the show is a pretty standard hospital soap with an ensemble cast.
The two major themes of this week were institutional racism and gender reassignment.
These are complex issues requiring intelligent & sensitive writing if they are to avoid preachiness or shallow clichés.
Sadly the writers have neither of these to hand so we are bludgeoned instead.