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Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia — Dropped After Episode 2
The series tackles an extraordinarily complex subject: the relationship between medicine, money, and power.
To explore it, we're introduced to a brilliant, arrogant, insubordinate surgeon who despises hospital hierarchies and whose surgical techniques are apparently always more advanced and superior to everyone else's.
Think Dr. House, but with all the charisma of a wet sock.
And then comes the glorious scene: our heroine snatches a wheelchair away from an elderly cancer patient without even knowing whether the man can walk.
His crime? Being a multimillionaire.
An incredibly complex debate about medical ethics is reduced, in a single scene, to a simplistic battle between good and evil, with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop.
And we're actually supposed to applaud the doctor!
When characters sacrifice narrative credibility just to make absolutely sure the audience knows who the bad guy is, the entire story loses its dramatic and argumentative weight.
And here's what's particularly ridiculous about Doctor X: in its desperate attempt to portray the protagonist as morally superior, the script has her commit a morally questionable act.
Talk about a contradiction!
A surgeon so extraordinarily gifted that she can determine who needs a wheelchair simply by looking at their bank account.
Garbage.
To explore it, we're introduced to a brilliant, arrogant, insubordinate surgeon who despises hospital hierarchies and whose surgical techniques are apparently always more advanced and superior to everyone else's.
Think Dr. House, but with all the charisma of a wet sock.
And then comes the glorious scene: our heroine snatches a wheelchair away from an elderly cancer patient without even knowing whether the man can walk.
His crime? Being a multimillionaire.
An incredibly complex debate about medical ethics is reduced, in a single scene, to a simplistic battle between good and evil, with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop.
And we're actually supposed to applaud the doctor!
When characters sacrifice narrative credibility just to make absolutely sure the audience knows who the bad guy is, the entire story loses its dramatic and argumentative weight.
And here's what's particularly ridiculous about Doctor X: in its desperate attempt to portray the protagonist as morally superior, the script has her commit a morally questionable act.
Talk about a contradiction!
A surgeon so extraordinarily gifted that she can determine who needs a wheelchair simply by looking at their bank account.
Garbage.
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