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A Young Doctor's Notebook
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Anyone else see this? Daniel Radcliffe stars as an inexperienced Russian doctor in Tsarist Russia.
Interesting, and occasionally funny, although I'm not sure about the bits where he interacts with his older self (Jon Hamm,
a real casting coup :cool: ).
Interesting, and occasionally funny, although I'm not sure about the bits where he interacts with his older self (Jon Hamm,
a real casting coup :cool: ).
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....But I don't want to know....;)
Not sure about the tooth/jaw extraction....:eek:
have wanted to be a patient back then- they wore no gloves or masks during an operation and Radcliffe's character was actually smoking near the operating table at one point!
I wonder why the soldiers are interviewing Hamm's
character in the flashbacks. Is he in trouble with the
secret police? :eek:
Isn't it to do with him being a junkie and falsifying prescriptions to obtain morphine? Although, there's probably a bit more to it than that.
bit where he suddenly changed sides after hearing the soldiers outside were
Bolesheviks.
Wonder why the older Doctor is riding the rails though?
aristocrat? Don't think this will end well....
I thought he was married to the nurse.
Nope. He was just having sex with her to pass the time.
So far this series isn't as strong as the first one was. Does anyone agree? But I do have to say the glimpse into the Russian civil war is fascinating.
The older Doctor certainly seems ashamed of his younger
self's actions. Remember when he said "I'm sure I spent
ages next to Pelageya" when his younger self spent
almost no time next to her?
Re Pelageya: in the story is she supposed to be so much older than him? I checked and the actress is 45, Daniel R is 24. Or is the character supposed to be younger, as the Young Doctor was worried she might be pregnant?
Still, it is all a bit surreal anyway, so maybe it's not supposed to make sense!
I'm not as impressed with this series. The frame story with the older doctor isn't as gripping. The stories with the younger doctor aren't as striking as the portrait of isolation in the first series and the younger doctor's descent into morphine addiction.