Rent Trauma (2018)
3.0 of 5 from 61 ratings
2h 18min
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- Synopsis:
From multi award-winning playwright and dramatist Mike Bartlett, creator of smash hit 'Doctor Foster', this tense psychological thriller centres on two fathers, Jon and Dan, whose very different lives collide when Dan's teenage son is stabbed and tragically dies while under the care of trauma consultant Jon. Devastated, heartbroken and pushed to the edge, Dan, a father struggling to make ends meet, believes Jon is responsible for his son's death. As Dan strives for justice, he begins to unpick the fabric of Jon's distinctly contrasting life as a high-achieving surgeon with a beautiful home and family, all while his own life unravels in the wake of his son's killing. Intricate and compelling, 'Trauma' questions what makes a man good and explores what happens when the very institutions established to protect us, and those who represent them, let us down. - Actors:
- Adrian Lester, John Simm, Lyndsey Marshal, Jemima Rooper, Jade Anouka, Albie Marber, Raffiella Chapman, James Gasson, Mia Rodgers, Hara Yannas, India Lewis, Sally Scott, Calvin Dean, Steven Elder, Phillipa Peak, Rowena King, Oscar Morgan, Jon Ewart, Michael Shaeffer, Roger Barclay
- Directors:
- Marc Evans
- Producers:
- Catherine Oldfield
- Writers:
- Mike Bartlett
- Studio:
- ITV
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
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Malpractice Vs smear campaign - Trauma review by LN
Why has no one reviewed this? If nothing else it would surely be in total indignation and disbelief that ITV sanctioned this.
The writer is also responsible for the series with Suranne Jones called DOCTOR FOSTER (which was miles better than this absolutely objectionable load of drivel) even if it did have the titular character acting at times in some very smug, weird and unprofessional ways.
Simm and Lester are normally fine actors but right from the word "go" I just hated Simms' character. What's up with the guy? He's suddenly unhinged by grief after his son is stabbed in a street brawl but irrationally he blames the doctor (not even any of the many other medical staff seen clustered around the patient in Resus in A&E) who tried to save him, not once seeming to apportion any blame back to the stabber!
I had to replay one scene a couple of times to satisfy myself that there wasn't anything else I missed and even halfway through the first episode (until I turned it off in disgust) I was wondering where this was all going? Luckily I found that out reading other reviews on IMDb and other sites and the concensus was much the same. Really, for most reviewers, it was like a big shout out...How dare you try to make a drama with this loony premise? It's like someone hates the medical profession and wants to smear it's reputation ! Of course it ain't perfect but medical personnel do the best they can and they take a lot of flack from selfish idiots like Simm who don't listen and while they're so busy being objectionable and entitled, go off on a tangent, preferring to shift blame, via kneejerk reactions, onto anyone else in the firing line. Equally Lester's doctor came down to being a wimp. This became nothing at all to do with competence but all to do with jealousy and a distinct class envy that boils up and overflows.
Apparently in the later episodes both men go on to do completely loony things because the doctor becomes unhinged by the unhinged - but I couldn't hang on that long. Nope, took it out of the dvd player and sent it back. I rarely give up on films as I feel I'm somehow maligning it and maybe I just don't "get" the plot, but this one really deserves a big fat zero.
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