Well, yes... and Quantum Leap was a more accurate exploration of the possibilities of travelling in time and space than Mr Benn...
And please don't mention TLC again, some of us are still recovering from that. 
Getting On - Series 2 Page 2
Hey! Mr Benn is *exactly* how time travel is!
I like this a lot. It's very funny. I don't think it's supposed to be social commentary is it? Merely a character comedy set in a hospital.
For what it's worth, Mrs Dan was in hospital recently and the doctors didn't know what the f**k they were doing; were constantly contradicting each other and none of the staff seemed to know what was going on. She came back with a massive bag of drugs and no firm diagnosis of what was wrong. They also shoved her in a geriatric ward as there were no beds anywhere in neurology (no gerontophile gags please).
In that respect, this was pretty much a documentary of that experience with regards futility and incompetence. At least Jo Brand's Kim is funny.
Dan
A lacklustre episode very light on laughs. Hope it'll turn around soon but this series just isn't clicking like the first.
Quote: Mark @ November 1 2010, 11:40 AM GMTWhether or not it's that 'realistic', I think it must be a more accurate portrayal than we have seen before? Green Wing...far from accurate based on what I've seen of the inside of hospitals.
What, don't you have camels at your hospitals, Mark? Weirdo.
Quote: shaggy292 @ November 3 2010, 1:00 PM GMTWhat, don't you have camels at your hospitals, Mark? Weirdo.
Ha! I forgot about that. I'll have to re-watch Green Wing again when things are less busy.
Anyway, yeah, Getting On - still beautifully written and acted. Not often laugh-out-loud funny, but I don't think that's necessarily its aim.
I could very happily watch it every day.
I enjoyed the first series and it's a decent sitcom, it just doesn't get me going "I can't wait for the next episode" so I probably will give the rest a break as there is quite a lot of good telly on, IMO.
Best episode of the series so far. Setting it during the night shift gave it more focus.
I liked it a bit less this week, I don't like change! But still brilliant.
A nice episode. I liked the Icing the Cake stuff and the ominous hints about Dr Pippa's future. And the sweet wrappers in the envelope were weirdly poignant. Still not as focussed or funny as the first series, mind.
Poor Pippa.
Poor everyone actually. Except Brand's character, she always seems to have quite a happy home life.
Nevermind poor Pippa, she cost that poor nurse her only chance of property!
True. But that nurse is mental.
I'm finding it excrutiatingly funny, and realistic in some ways. The 'Icing on the Cake' initiative was typical - flip charts, meaningless buzz-words, awkward silences - it reminded me of a 'Pursuing Perfection' course I once had to attend as a psychiatric nurse. (Needless to say, we're still pursuing it avidly six years later).
I didn't spot it at first due to the wobbly camera, but I had to smile when I noticed that throughout the row about the flat reference, Den was wearing a tabard with 'Do Not Disturb' printed on the back. Red tabards were introduced on our ward a few months ago, supposedly to deter doctors from interrupting the medication round. That'll be the day!
Kim got interrupted every time she tried to do something. From a nurse's perspective, it was spot on!
I loved Pippa ending up wearing the sticker to cover the dirty spot on her top. 