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Television

The medical equivalent of The Responder: BBC1's This is Going to Hurt reviewed

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

This is Going to Hurt; Cheaters

BBC1

According to the makers, This is Going to Hurt is intended as ‘a love letter to the national health service’. If so, however, it’s certainly not a soppy one. Few non-British people who watch it will, I suspect, find themselves wishing they had an NHS of their own — where the mission statement could easily read: ‘We Aim to Muddle Through Somehow, Despite Everything.’

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