Season 1, Episode 4
Date of release: August 30, 2024 (Netflix)
Written by: Carlos Ruano, Pablo Paiz
Directed by: David Pinillos
”The public likes painting me as the rebellious doctor. Nothing sexy about my nerd persona.”
Because Patricia and Biel knew each other when she came in as a patient in the first episode, I thought that this sexy show starring sexy actors would deal with a relationship between a young resident doctor and an aging president of Valencia with breast cancer. But with time, Patricia's story developed more with Nestor as her romantic interest in mind, although there is more room and air in having her be the stepping stone in Nestor's career than be his love interest. After all, Patricia is the villain in the story who wants to privatize healthcare, and Nestor is the leader among physicians who want to prevent that from happening, so the two couldn't stand in each other's way any more. That makes for an interesting romance arc (if they are destined to get together), but the political story is more intriguing than the romance right now.
And while it's a bit of a shame that Patricia and Biel won't be an item, I can understand why it didn't happen. Biel already has a girl at his side, even though Jesica still needs to learn that she has more to ”enjoy” with him than with Lluis, who is too busy thinking about the potential that his son is a follower of the Brock Allen Turner way of raping young women. Biel and Jesica fit together a lot more – he is having his emotions under control, and she needs someone who is accepting to swim in her stormy ocean of emotions after Rodri's suicide. Plus, the two served the show's first no-underwear sex scene. And here I thought that it would only depict naked booties, but this episode also had naked boobies. Yay!
So, the strike has begun, and it could not have been told less excitingly. Considering how it's the big premise of the show, I'm surprised that it was handled in a minimalistic way. Nestor calls for a strike, almost every doctor and nurse agrees (except for May, who wasn't allowed to explain why she didn't want a strike), and suddenly, the hospital is striking, with the episode not even going into what it means to lay down work this important, and what the chaos entails when an emergency department in a metropolitan area suddenly closes down. The show wanted to tell a political story with the strike, but forgot to include the political angle of the story. Quite noticeably, too, since Patricia, as the only political character of the show, was “hidden” in the operating room to take care of her breast cancer, and could not react to the fact that the hospital was going on strike.
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| When the hospital is short on doctors, you have to do procedures right in front of the elevator. |
