Ben Whishaw Medical Dramedy 'This is Going to Hurt' to Stream on AMC+
Admittedly, many American Anglophiles likely have a rather idyllic conception of Britain's National Health Service. It's true, the NHS is probably a model for the kind of open-door health system that many of us wish we had here in the United States, but because we often view it through a pair of rose-colored glasses whose lenses are the literal width of an ocean, it's easy to ignore the problems in that same system and the way it is breaking down for both the people that work in it and those they serve.
This is a lot to say that some might find the coming limited series This is Going to Hurt more than a bit shocking when it arrives on streaming services AMC+ and Sundance Now in June.
Based on Adam Kay's bestselling 2017 memoir of the same name and gleaned from the diaries he scribbled during his own residency, it's a brutally honest recollection of the trials and struggles of medical professionals in an industry plagued by limited resources, budget cuts, and staffing shortages. Created, written, and produced by Kay himself, the series "rejoices in the laugh-out-loud highs, while pulling no punches in its depiction of the gut-wrenching lows of life on a gynecology and obstetrics ward.
