![]() ![]() Series 2 takes a dive with the arrival of the ghastly Jacqui but is kept afloat by, again, rugby, Lancashire and Ferris By series 3 we are heading down the slope at pace with characters being ludicrously transformed into effectively different people unsupported by any dramatic logic Jacqui, sadly, not being transformed key plots turning on aspects of business life about whose rudiments the writers are plainly totally ignorant ( as they are about everything: "I was fly-half at Cambridge - I was in the Blues" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) and a complete absence of any humour to balance the awfulness. Series 1 is just about watchable due to Lancashire, Ferris, and the rugby sub-plot. But no: what we get is a soap and we pay for our modest pleasures with banal cliché-ridden scripts ( the highest count of "we are always here for you" in any drama I can recall ) dreary, moronic teenagers dominating the screen with their tedious sex-lives endless homilies about how great it is up north and rapidly decreasing plausibility with nurses going everywhere in pairs and only dealing with one patient per day. At last, I thought, I can enjoy the delicious Sarah Lancashire in something that is not truly awful ( such as Last Tango in Halifax or the indescribably horrendous Happy Valley ) and with the lovely Pam Ferris involved it might actually be positively good. The first episode raises high hopes that we are going to get interesting stories based around the work of district nurses responding to medical situations and their moral and social consequences. ![]()
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