Comments on: Nurses, Nurses Everywhere http://www.thecriticalcondition.com/2009/06/05/nurses/ Awesome Reviews of Movies, Music, and TV Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:53:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Michael http://www.thecriticalcondition.com/2009/06/05/nurses/comment-page-1/#comment-5403 Michael Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:14:26 +0000 http://www.thecriticalcondition.com/?p=1670#comment-5403 I tie the new nursing shows together with "Mental," a fantasy about a renegade doctor who breaks the rules because he . . cares. It's pure pop-culture compensatory fantasy. A nation that jails more of its citizens than any other Western democracy, where racism and lawyer incompetence and idiot juries and the farcical "drug war" put the wrong people in jail at alarming rates watches what on TV? Why, crime show after crime show in which the cops are always honest, the criminals always in need of legal punishment, and the legal system awash in brilliant, dedicated professionals. With the economy crashing, most of us are more afraid than ever of illness in a world seemingly run by big pharmaceuticals: more treatments than ever for more illnesses than ever, none of which anyone can afford. The health care system doesn't care, so what will we watch on TV? Beautiful, caring medical professionals. We want to live in TV. I tie the new nursing shows together with “Mental,” a fantasy about a renegade doctor who breaks the rules because he . . cares. It’s pure pop-culture compensatory fantasy. A nation that jails more of its citizens than any other Western democracy, where racism and lawyer incompetence and idiot juries and the farcical “drug war” put the wrong people in jail at alarming rates watches what on TV? Why, crime show after crime show in which the cops are always honest, the criminals always in need of legal punishment, and the legal system awash in brilliant, dedicated professionals. With the economy crashing, most of us are more afraid than ever of illness in a world seemingly run by big pharmaceuticals: more treatments than ever for more illnesses than ever, none of which anyone can afford. The health care system doesn’t care, so what will we watch on TV? Beautiful, caring medical professionals. We want to live in TV.

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