In an interesting coincidence and with almost cosmic timing, the series "It's going to hurt" was released at the same time as the publication of the doctor's assault incident at the HMO in Jerusalem last week.
On the face of it and in a rather dismal way, this was another classic case of a patient or family member of one, taking liberties with the body of a professional therapist, but this time it was the doctor who came out with his hand on the top (quite literally).
This provoked a particularly ridiculous discourse on social media about the proportionality of the attacked doctor's reaction, which during the incident turned from a man forced to defend himself into a boxer who consumes his anger, but does not need a degree in psychology to understand the frustration of those who chose to sin for a moment.
Cases of assault by doctors are one phenomenon in a large and deep sea of bizarre incidents that take place in hospitals - themselves an ex-territory of panic, stress, boredom, neon lights and urgency alongside bureaucracy.
This says quite a bit about the dismal state of public medicine in Israel (and not only in it, as we will see immediately), but also sheds light on the mental state of those engaged in the craft.
Those who two years ago, at the height of the plague, were nicknamed "angels in white" (what color are angels usually coming from? Panta orange?), But in practice these are more "hospital green interns".
With touches of red blood.
Or in burgundy, according to "It's Hurting," the new medical drama from the British BBC and American AMC (airing on HOT and yes), unlike any other medical series you've watched.
Adam is a young doctor in the maternity ward of a hospital in the UK and his life, well, they are total chaos.
Like other doctors and interns of his age and status, he too tries to balance (and fails miserably) between the demanding role he has assigned to himself and the few social lives he still has left.
He is cynical, witty, sharp-tongued and quick-reacting, even if this often complicates him in most cases, and some would argue that with the qualities of charisma and sarcasm he squirts like blood splatter in the corridors of the hospital where he works, he should have intended a life in comedy rather than therapy.
Specialize in green.
"It's going to hurt,"
And this is exactly what Adam Kay, the author of the book on which the new drama is based, also thought, who in 2010 decided to disappoint his parents, resign from his job as a specialist doctor and move on to try to make strangers laugh on stage.
The book he wrote about his adventures and surrealistic experiences within the walls of the hospital became the subject of a book that came out in 2017, became a bestseller, won a host of compliments, praise and awards and finally also won the 8-episode television adaptation we are now dealing with.
Those of you who have already linked the names of the main character in the series to the author's name of the novel on which it is based are quick-witted and sharper than others, but they are certainly not honed like Adam, the sweeping main character of this television delight, played by Ben and Jesus ("Fargo").
If you were a screenwriter who asks a young student about the thing that drives the character's life in the script he is working on and what its overarching goal is, it is likely that the answer you would get regarding Dr. Adam's is "sleep." The novice doctor's life runs between sleep sessions - and it does not matter if these took place in the musty house or in the front seat of a battered vehicle - one that did not even start, left the hospital parking lot and made its way to that silly house - because the driver fell asleep the second he met in a soft seat This is exactly how we meet a man who daydreams about a temporary loss of consciousness while trying to manage between those who have experienced a real one, and motherhood in different stressful situations. And a wardrobe adorned with bloodstains.
But a person's greatest enemy is himself, mainly due to his ability to complicate himself in a variety of sensitive situations in the first place, even before she enters the equation of his tongue that is too fast and lacks its absolute tact.
The predation that is the torment of the young intern is accompanied by an equally wonderful soundtrack, which brings together Florence and the Machine, the chemical Brothers, the Libertines, Huberfonic, Radiohead, was Yahweh, Chili Gonzalez and Jarvis Cocker.
Zahal could easily have been another dramatic-comedy hospital series from the mythical "Chicago Hop" or even the mythological "ER", had it not been for its rich TV language. True, the fourth wall has long since been broken on your screen, long before That the honed politician Frank Underwood gave his viewers a first-person political interpretation in the late "House of Cards."
But this scripted prank still works when done correctly and with the right wink speed.
In this case, it happens when a person notices a baby's hand sticking out of a mother's body kneeling to give birth outside the hospital.
On the one hand, a difficult show and a situation in which nothing is really funny.
But somehow when she ranges through the thoughts of the attending physician directly to the viewers, the balance between the comic and the tragic creates a scene that is hard to take your eyes off.
Funny and heartbreaking.
"It's going to hurt," Photo: No credit
This is a thin rope to walk on when it comes to a series that deals with life, their metaphorical absence and of course death as a backdrop to the real plot, and "It Goes to Hurt" excels at doing so without losing its balance.
She is just as funny and intelligent as she is heartbreaking at precise moments, especially in those that remind us that most of the dialogical flashes of the characters here, each of whom - and not just the hospitalized ones, suffer in her own way, are mostly a repression and coping mechanism. .
Even his personal life is in a state of advanced decay, as is his expatriate partner's expiring patience (Pan Fact: Adam Kay, the author of the books, is gay himself, whose partner, James Farrell, is a producer in "Game of Thrones").
Think about it the next time you wait for hours in a medical institution, get angry at what you perceive as disrespecting your condition, or go about directing your helplessness at someone trying to help you.
Think about it and remember that he, too, is, after all, a human being.
"It's going to hurt," yes, HOT.
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