The good things first: I really like the intro clip and the colorful cast. The general setting is original enough to be intriguing, too.
The bad things: If you've seen one episode you've basically seen all there is to discover! The plot of all episodes is practically the same: Hankmed visits an eccentric patient having a near death experience. Hank saves the patient MacGyver style. The stubborn patient doesn't follow Hank's instructions and gets itself in repeating trouble, keeping Hank busy for the duration of the whole episode. Some boring love cr*p is happening in the background between the other characters, but that's pretty much it.
I think the biggest problem is the characters (except Hank) are not given anything to do. They do not develop, the relations between them are stuck since episode 1. And the characters do not have room to break out of the stereotype roles they are given to play. This is a shame, since I sense great potential in some of the actors. Anastasia Griffith especially, (she plays Dr. Emily Peck), she does a hell of a lot from the little the script allows her, further I really like Paulo Costanzo (Hank's brother), though the writers are especially mean to him, not giving him anything to work with, but the role of the silly clown that everybody likes. I was long skeptical about Jill Flint's (Jill Casey's) acting skills, but I'm starting to like her after a pretty good emotional scene between her and Hank in an early episode of season 3.
I didn't want to comment the typical American flair of the show, but I think it's a part of the problem. This is a feel-good show, everybody is smiling all the time, the characters are stereotypical and very cartoonesque and the dynamic of the plot is very shallow, since everything always turns out good in the end. This style of show-writing isn't interesting: the characters are unnatural, dishonest and boring and so is the whole show
The bad things: If you've seen one episode you've basically seen all there is to discover! The plot of all episodes is practically the same: Hankmed visits an eccentric patient having a near death experience. Hank saves the patient MacGyver style. The stubborn patient doesn't follow Hank's instructions and gets itself in repeating trouble, keeping Hank busy for the duration of the whole episode. Some boring love cr*p is happening in the background between the other characters, but that's pretty much it.
I think the biggest problem is the characters (except Hank) are not given anything to do. They do not develop, the relations between them are stuck since episode 1. And the characters do not have room to break out of the stereotype roles they are given to play. This is a shame, since I sense great potential in some of the actors. Anastasia Griffith especially, (she plays Dr. Emily Peck), she does a hell of a lot from the little the script allows her, further I really like Paulo Costanzo (Hank's brother), though the writers are especially mean to him, not giving him anything to work with, but the role of the silly clown that everybody likes. I was long skeptical about Jill Flint's (Jill Casey's) acting skills, but I'm starting to like her after a pretty good emotional scene between her and Hank in an early episode of season 3.
I didn't want to comment the typical American flair of the show, but I think it's a part of the problem. This is a feel-good show, everybody is smiling all the time, the characters are stereotypical and very cartoonesque and the dynamic of the plot is very shallow, since everything always turns out good in the end. This style of show-writing isn't interesting: the characters are unnatural, dishonest and boring and so is the whole show