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I love medical/hospital dramas and was hooked on "Nurse Jackie" back in the day, so I was excited when I started watching this one, but not for long. After a few episodes I got tired of the main character's face, which takes 90 % of the screen time, and the whole concept of a Jesus like figure walking the hospital's hallways followed by disciples and preaching all the time with a hipster's naiveté. On top, the script writers had to overload this, already unrealistic figure with a terminal desease and a pregnant wife! This is too much and the family happiness scenes, which seem to be taken straight from some detergent comercial, were even more annoying than the ones in the hospital, where a super hero Max participates in every medical procedure (what is his field or specialty anyway? He seems to be an expert in all of them), solves any administrative problem by either dismissing it or offering some absurd way out, and, does the HR work by firing or hiring anybody he pleases at any moment.

In fact, most of the doctors in this series are around 30 years old (like they graduated from medical school just yesterday), but they occupy chairs, deans positions and perform super complicated surgeries - all the merits doctors and scientists usually have after being in the field at least for a couple of decades. You need experience to get there!

The script is full of cliche twists which makes plots' developments very predictable. I wish this show didn't have a main character, but rather multiple protagonists who's lives intercross in this hospital. There are many films and series based on this type of narrative structure. And there are characters in this show which have potential but don't get much development since we have to see the spiritual leader and a super hero Max dominating almost every single scene...

I was perplexed by the fact that Netflix even considered these "short films" for showing to the general public!! This is a bunch of home video footage, which lacks everything what cinema must have. No narrative, no message, no editing, no decent camera work, no creativity, and no acting! The domesticity of some sequences made me uncomfortable at times. People are making much better videos on youtube. This is an embarrassment for a short film genre:( And these videos say nothing about what this pandemic has been for all of us.

Turned off after 20 min. So bad it is...The actors are overacting, the plot is not engaging at all, the settings are unrealistic and the special effects are very annoying. How can people seriously make such films? Waste of money and viewers attention...