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It was far fetched but mildly entertaining. But I found the end unsatisfying and actually rather unpleasant.

I didn't thin either of the characters were very sympathetic and I question whether a grieving father would care about the very comfortable lifestyle of the surgeon and his family. I thought the implication that he was also driven by envy was, in such tragic circumstances, an insult to less well off people.

As someone else said, I think it was a device to examine issues around power,money and status and the lack of it and I thought it was clumsily handled.

I didn't like Collateral that much either (it got good reviews) but it might get better.

By the way, why was it unbelievable that the father didn't make mention of the surgeon being black? Why would he?

Well, watched all three episodes tonight, back to back. I am probably easily pleased, but it wasn't as bad as I had been led to believe after reading these posts. Yes, very far fetched at times, but then aren't all recent dramas?

Eloethan It has been my experience that when a person is in extremis their normal constraints evaporate and they then add sweary words and racist/sexist/ageist/sizest words to any insults directed at their 'enemy'.

I quite enjoyed this (only quite) but found the character of Dan (the father) hugely irritating. Surely he would be more obsessed about who stabbed his son rather than obsessed with the surgeon. I know the stabbing was resolved, but even so I found his hounding of the surgeon really annoying. So much of it seemed based on envy.
In spite of that I did watch all of it. I thought all the actors were good.

Granny23 I agree that some people don a veneer of so-called "political correctness" (I hate that term) in order to go along with the prevailing social mores, but when under pressure they revert to type

What I don't accept is that every working class father (and class was a pivotal theme in this drama) in the situation depicted would be a closet racist and that grief and anger would give vent to that racism. I am hopeful that a fair number of people would see the colour of the consultant's skin to be totally irrelevant, even if his skills and honesty were called into question, but, given your comment, perhaps I'm being naive.

I just watched the first episode and couldn't believe that any Trama unit would be as deserted as that one was. All those empty corridors and rooms and an operating theatre where the public could just walk in?

Just watching this. That daughter is just plain stupid. She wants to be a doctor.

That was really good. I guessed there would be a knife threats but the ending was great.

Yes the way relatives wander into clinical areas is not believable. But the general idea was good. No sensible daughter would have invited the father into the house. The psychiatrist should have stopped straight away when she realised who the patient was. Not talk to him. If a scriptwriter is making a serious drama they should keep it realistic.

I watched all three episodes last night and honestly don’t know why I bothered.

I don't think the father was envious, he felt a failure , lost his job,then son is murdered, grief does awful things to the mind. Bursting into the op theatre was over the top.