Halibut
01-11-2015, 06:15 AM
A few people on other thread recommended this to watch on Netflix, so perhaps there's enough interest in a discussion.
We started watching last year, and maybe catching up on 2-3 episodes a week isn't the best, because I've started getting both irritated by and impatient with Martin. Luisa, too, but more Martin. It just seems like this season there aren't as many funny or gently whimsical scenes -- it's all marital misery all the time.
I like Joe and his bumbling sincerity and Ruth's no-nonsense intelligence.
Bert needs a new storyline, because his never-ending money troubles are getting tiresome as well.
I can hand-wave a lot of the medical stuff because the show is insistent on making everything "quaint" instead of "accurate," but the doc often seems to be practicing 19th century medicine, with patients crammed into his poorly-stocked examining room with no gowns or a nurse or anything. Most of his diagnoses involve a quick discussion, followed by an amazing deduction out of nowhere. I realize that's the premise of the entire show -- that Martin is a brilliant diagnostician but emotionally ill-equipped to interact with patients -- however it has become rote now.
I'm going to see the thing through to the end to find out what happens, but I wish the tone hadn't turned so serious in the later seasons.
We started watching last year, and maybe catching up on 2-3 episodes a week isn't the best, because I've started getting both irritated by and impatient with Martin. Luisa, too, but more Martin. It just seems like this season there aren't as many funny or gently whimsical scenes -- it's all marital misery all the time.
I like Joe and his bumbling sincerity and Ruth's no-nonsense intelligence.
Bert needs a new storyline, because his never-ending money troubles are getting tiresome as well.
I can hand-wave a lot of the medical stuff because the show is insistent on making everything "quaint" instead of "accurate," but the doc often seems to be practicing 19th century medicine, with patients crammed into his poorly-stocked examining room with no gowns or a nurse or anything. Most of his diagnoses involve a quick discussion, followed by an amazing deduction out of nowhere. I realize that's the premise of the entire show -- that Martin is a brilliant diagnostician but emotionally ill-equipped to interact with patients -- however it has become rote now.
I'm going to see the thing through to the end to find out what happens, but I wish the tone hadn't turned so serious in the later seasons.