This Is Going to Hurt
This Is Going to Hurt Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
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About
"Comedy as coping mechanism, dressed as a hospital drama"
Adapted from a real obstetrician's memoir, the show follows an overworked junior doctor navigating the chaos of an NHS labor ward, where exhaustion, dark humor, and life-or-death stakes collide nightly. It moves briskly, often laugh-out-loud funny in one scene and gutting in the next, using that whiplash to make a genuine point about burnout in medicine. Carried by a magnetic lead performance, it feels intimate and specific rather than glossy, less a hospital procedural than a confession about what the job actually costs the people doing it.
the lead performance turning exhaustion and gallows humor into something genuinely moving.
you find sustained medical distress or bleak workplace burnout hard to sit through.
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All Seasons

| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 8.1 | 872 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 7.8 | 660 | 44 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode #1.3 | 8.1 | 633 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Episode #1.4 | 8.1 | 599 | 44 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Episode #1.5 | 8.0 | 595 | 46 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Episode #1.6 | 9.1 | 832 | 44 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Episode #1.7 | 8.4 | 600 | 46 min |