James Croot17:50, May 01 2021
Nurses begins streaming on TVNZ OnDemand at midday on April 30.
REVIEW: Just when you thought there was no more room for North American medical dramas, Canada gets in on the act. We’ve already had the Ontario hospital system thoroughly examined by Syrian refugee Dr Bashir “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq) in the entertaining
Transplant and now joining it (as well as old south-of-the-border favourites
Grey’s Anatomy and
Nurses. As the title helpfully suggests, it follows the trials and tribulations of a group of frontline caregivers at the fictional St Jude’s Hospital. In typical medical soap fashion, we initially meet our central quintet on their first day. After the predictable jibes from ER veterans about them being “fresh meat”, our nervous five are given a pep talk by charge nurse Sinead O’Rourke (Cathy White), which is both inspiring and sobering. Comparing them to the “rock star” interns starting on the same day, she say