During most of the 3rd season most of the action is supposed to happen in the Belfast Hospital, with always the same emergency doctor and the same nurse...
Is it an Irish think ? Work 24 hours a day ?
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Haha. Very funny! Thx
shareStop exaggerating. The nurse and doctor only work 22 hours a day and why would they show us those mundane other 2 hours anyway. Just like the huge police presence guarding the room of the sexually depraved serial killer who is not even cuffed to the bed. Rest assured, they are there, they just don't show them.
shareSome hospitals run a 14 hour shift pattern. We don't really know if it's day or night in the icu. I did question this too however as I am a nnurse. Depending on how many days were supposed to have passed it coupe be plausible that the had the same nurse every time we seen him.
I think it is called drama,it not real life.
Why do people go on about Ireland when talking about Belfast? surely more than half the population of Northern Ireland don't think they are Irish?
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I'm a Scot and I'm very much British (as is the majority of the country given the vote we had to try and put an end to all this nonsense in 2014)
Also on the "half the population of Nothern Ireland" point...
They might describe themselves as British before being Irish but I don't think they'd deny Irish-ness in them.
Same as my position of being a Scot. I'm proud to be Scottish. I just don't see it over-riding being part of Britain like the rest of the majority of the country.
Me too. I'm a proud Scot and British, they are not mutually exclusive.
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I am Scottish as well and I know that the majority of us in Scotland,who are not all Scottish,voted to remain part of the UK.
Likewise when the question has been asked the result in Northern Ireland has always been that the majority of people want to remain British.
Seems to me that the idea of Irishness has been hijacked by the nationalist community and loyalists in Northern Ireland are less likely to describe themselves as Irish than their like would have done years ago?
Yeah, I reckon that's the case. The extreme nationalists still willing to wage a war while the sane people want to get on with life have made people consider just how "Irish" they want to be.
I know people from the Protestant community in Ireland who (consider themselves to be British but) are happy to be called Irish but make the distinction if required.
People from both sides are far more keen to move on with their lives than would have been the case in the past too I reckon.
The problem is that the series is renown for it's detail and accuracy to procedure- witness the ER surgery in episode 1 this season and the meticulousness of the investigation and case building. They throw out that to have a ridiculous situation where the only nurse caring for him is a dead ringer for his victims (pun intended). Add in leaving his victim across the room and no police presence within sight. Drama or no drama it's stupid to lose your credibility that way. This season (only done 3 episodes) is looking more and more like Fonzie's putting on the skis.
sharebff426, totally understand your point. The investigative and interrogation procedures were laughable at best. Stella would have been thrown off the case after it was discovered she slept with the detective who was killed. As for her detection and interrogation skills, definitely "Keystone Kop." Sad, because this series did start off well.
shareAnd one public defender. Katie's solicitor is Sarah Kay's friend/colleague. Is this not some kind of conflict of interest?
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There are three hospitals in belfast, but only two have A&E departments.
shareI thought about this, too. In reality, they would take criminal and victim to separate hospitals, I think. No way would they have them in the same ICU. That was done for drama's sake.
I liked this season. I think it was easier to follow than the first two. I guess in the first two so many of the victims looked similar I would lose track of who was who.
As to the hospital, I liked the ER doctor. And with all the detailed medical stuff I kept thinking this was Chicago Med goes to Belfast!
I liked the show for the most part but the way they handled the hospital scenes really bugged me.
In the first place, yeah, having the same doctor for every single character. Are there no other sick/injured people in the hospital for him to care for? Don't they have more than one doctor? I mean I suppose it's technically possible that the same doctor could, coincidentally, have been the one to treat all the characters, from Spector with his gunshot wounds to Stella with a simple cut on her face. But it beggars belief more with each character, because it's so unlikely.
Secondly, putting the murderer and his victim practically within sight of each other. Seriously? I was expecting Stella or someone to bring up the insanity of doing that. Hospitals are supposed to care for their patients. Do they not care about the fact that the woman is traumatized and that her seeing the guy who kidnapped her right there practically in front of her face in the same hospital could terrify her and cause her to freak the fuck out?
And thirdly, the fact that there was virtually no police presence at all to keep an eye on the guy, nor any effort to restrain him. Sure, he was injured, and probably couldn't have done anything the first few days after waking up, but he recovered pretty fast. He should have been restrained and had cops there to stand guard over him. There was one cop who was shown a few times but she wasn't even in the room; she was outside the room and her only duty was to prevent Katie or others from getting in, not to make sure Spector didn't pull anything. Had he decided to strangle his nurse, that cop would have been utterly oblivious and could do nothing about it.
Which brings me to point four: the fact that his nurse looked exactly like all his victims, the sort of woman he targets. Why not have a large, strong male nurse take care of him? Why a woman half his size who's clearly the type he's drawn to and has murdered multiple times?
I love the show, I do. It was a great show. But the hospital stuff was just plain ridiculous.