Season 1, Episode 8 (Season Finale)
Date of release: August 30, 2024
Written by: Carlos Ruano
Directed by: David Pinillos
”What happened to the generators?”
“They're broken.”
“But they just underwent maintenance.”
“Yes, but with all the cuts, we had to choose between the X-ray machine and the generators.”
I'm sure that one of the members of the hospital's administrative board, who gets a couple hundred thousand a year for sitting in an office all day and night, could have swung for the generators, right? Naah, this is a world filled with greedy executives, there is never any money for the people below them.
The level of drama in this show can be a little too much at times. The whole cancer situation Patricia is going through; the baby and separation drama of May and Rocio that now includes a missing, possibly kidnapped, infant; Jesica stabbed by a patient that reminds me a little too much of ER and how Lucy Knight had to say goodbye to the audience; and all the relationship crap that keeps filling the show and is starting to lose my interest because of how over-the-top it has been written as of late. I'm almost glad this was the season finale, so that I can get some distance from the show and re-evaluate how I'm going to perceive it.
What made the episode win was that it focused a lot more on the medicine, even if a rainstorm had to serve as the plot device to get the emergency department into chaos. But watching two simultaneous operations happening without power was quite entertaining. If only this show, which bills itself as a medical drama, could have been a little more about the medical drama, instead of the relationship issues, I would have been happy throughout.
But I have issues with the characters, and just like in a slasher horror with shallow victims for the killer to feed on, there are a few I wish would make way for new and better characters. One of them is Quique, whose dangerous romance with Oscar has dominated his character arc and put his job as a doctor to the sidelines. He could have easily been stabbed by the suicidal patient, instead of Jesica, who was the only character I really liked because of the heartbreak she received in the second episode, while also being the central figure in a love triangle.
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| Life can't be that great for sudden single mother May. |
