When he appeared on our screens in November 2018,
Hippocrates
overwhelmed us with his realism without the slightest hint of glamor, his surgical precision, his visceral strength, which revealed the difficulties of the French healthcare system and the priesthood of caregivers.
Oracle of the coming thunderstorms, the series opened with a tropical virus that forced those in charge of the internal medicine department to quarantine themselves and leave the reins to their interns, Chloe, Alyson, Hugo and Arben.
Science fiction, we imagined, naive at the time!
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Thomas Lilti: "With this season, I wanted to tell the hospital in difficulty"
This second season may have been long overdue, but it is no quarter.
Narratively.
Psychologically.
Thomas Lilti, assisted by his co-scriptwriters Anaïs Carpita and Claude Le Pape, exercises a powerful and devastating gift of pythia and parable.
These eight episodes are focused on a few days of February 2020, in the midst of a cold snap.
The unit of time and place - the hospital - grabs like
24 Heures chrono
and immerses itself in the cadences
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