trauma

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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 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.

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'.

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?

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?

I thought the truth the surgeon was hiding from the father, “for his own good”, might be that his very delicate micro-surgery went to pot when he was distracted by a ranting intruder bursting into the sterile operating theatre demanding to know what was going on!

I didn't watch it, the trailer advertising it put me off. Seems as if I might have been right?

I think the writer was trying to write a fable about the Haves and the Have nots. He did not succeed. This was no 'Cathy come home' or 'The full Monty'. The 'characters', changed character from scene to scene.

Is/was it just me who found it unbelievable, that at no time did the Father make any reference to the fact that the Surgeon was Black?

Well after defending it so heartily it fizzled out into a nothing ending oh dear what a dissointin* ending AGAINB

It’s fiction not factual supernanny

I know we're supposed to suspend our disbelief, but there were holes in the plot you could drive an emergency ambulance through.... How did the father gain access to a locked operating theatre (when the trauma consultant had to press a button to unlock the door to exit)? Why didn't the consultant tell him the reason he didn't come back in 'five minutes' was because he (and several other people) was trying to save his son? Why hasn't someone asked the parents why they aren't remotely interested in who stabbed their son? How did the father know to enter the lecture theatre at exactly the time the consultant and co. were discussing his son's case? I lost interest at this point only to have my husband insist on telling me the rest of the plot of episode 2 this morning (in excruciating detail and with even more bonkers loopholes). Give me Shetland anyday (notwithstanding vigilantes!)...

Switched it off three quarters of way through - load of c--p!
And I'm no prude, but is it necessary to refer to sex by the Anglo Saxon term in every programme now.

I agree, tonight's was so far fetched.

I m really enjoying this one perhaps I m a simple person.although I found some of it far fetched at least the story had a ring of truth unlike that silly girlfriends that was so far fetched it was like a grins fairy tale
I’m looking forward to the final one tomorrow

Started watching the 2nd part of this series and have just turned it off as it is so far fetched!!!

I am just in awe of a DH who can fix a television, silverlining. My old man thinks that anything can be mended by a firm tap with a hammer, so we'd have been out buying a new one this afternoon.

It was a let down so won't bother to watch rest.

I agree with what has been said re Trauma and a lot of it is not credible but it was easy watching, I could hear and understand what was said so I will watch it again tonight.

Agree Maggie may. Having grumbled may well watch on Catch up later,not tonight. DH is out a couple of evenings and he's not bothered.Sort of want to know the outcome.Gave up onto the other drama Next of kin recently though so will depend what else is on.I don't watch any of the soaps ,and thEuropean sooty lines can be bonkers,so how bad can it be ?!