Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

maz underscore 'Bodies' is a realistic and riveting medical drama set around the gynecological and labor ward staff of a London hospital.Personally, I haven't been this taken with a British drama series in years, or any drama series for that matter. A medical drama is especially hard to do. To balance the medical procedures with the lives of the hospital staff is a very difficult thing to achieve.'Bodies' not only uses realistic medical situations and procedures to keep you watching, but also uses the personal and professional relationships between the doctors and nurses. Both of which will make you want to come back over and over again.The characters aren't black and white, they have layers and the audience finds them selves responding to them differently at different times. The acting is absolutely perfect, most notably Max Beasley and Neve McIntosh as the torrid lovers Rob and Donna, Patrick Baladi as the enigmatic Dr. Hurley and of course the wonderful Keith Allen as Mr. Whitman. The direction is flawless and the cinematography is edgy and poignant, using a hand held camera and lots of close ups.Despite the odd cringe worthy medical scene, this show really is worth watching. I'm waiting for the DVD to come out in Australia so I can watch it all over again.

annemik We are watching this BBC drama now and have two more episodes to go. It is excellent! Max Beesley is superb and the series itself is compelling if a bit on the "oh my God, I can't believe they are showing that on TV" side. It is a very realistic portrayal of an intern or new resident in a private British hospital. The attitudes of the management and some of the staff are inexplicable and I hope they are an exaggeration of fact. The sex scenes are more explicit then anything I've ever seen on regular cable in the U.S. and it is better than ER at making the surgeries realistic - definitely not for the squeamish. Although very disturbing, it is worth watching. Every minute is filled with intensity.

thesnowleopard I liked the first three episodes, even though I thought that some of the criticisms of the book on the Amazon.uk site were valid--that Mercurio is overly bitter about his experiences, that the book works best for non-medics who don't have a clue what life in a hospital is really like and that Mercurio's descriptions of how and why senior doctors make the decisions that they do are less than realistic because he never went further than being a junior doctor. And then there's the sex, which seemed especially unlikely considering how much energy you *don't* have in that kind of job. I suspect that reflected more something that Mercurio wished he had done back in his own career than what he actually did. I also felt that, while Mercurio was trying to show a different view of doctors, he in fact reinforced the idea that doctors are somehow separate beings making awful, terrible decisions so that everyone else doesn't have to--including, apparently, nurses, medical technicians, paramedics or any other medical professionals. In reality, the latter groups have far more actual contact with patients than doctors ever do. The show reminded me of a medical version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous exchange with Ernest Hemingway about rich people: "Doctors aren't like us, you know." "Yes, they have more money."But what really made the show jump the shark for me was when they sectioned the female anaesthesiologist on a psych ward for blowing the whistle on a surgeon. I suppose it was inevitable that a strain of misogyny would show up in this series, considering that it's written by a man about a Maternity ward. Until very recently, male obstetricians and gynaecologists have had such an appalling record for woman- hating that women usually prefer another woman for a GYN, even if she treats them as badly as the female junior doctor does in "Bodies". However, the sectioning was a bit much. You can't just do that, not even for the usual 30 days. If you could, the NHS would not be wrestling with the bad publicity of having seen several dangerously mentally ill people engage in random murders over the past few years--at least one of them after walking off a closed ward with no resistance from medical staff. Staff are not even allowed to use mechanical restraints on out-of-control psych patients in the UK. So, the author's assumption that you could just lock up a respected MD for reporting a colleague is, at best, obsolete and at worst, laughable.

bigfatpig There is another series coming of Bodies later this year I believe. i too wondered why it was on BBC2 and not BBC1 and apparently it's too graphic for BBC1. It is scary but it was indeed written by a real doctor, I read an interview and he said everything on there is true. I think the writing is brilliant and the acting is too. Especially Max Beesley. I haven't heard or read one criticism about this drama, its by far the best medical drama on TV because it is shot as though it's a documentary. And being written by someone actually in the profession makes it spot on. I would recommend this to anyone, except the squeamish - the prosthetics are superb.