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Getting On

2009 • BBC
4.9
20 reviews
15
Rating
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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 Episode 1
7/8/09
Ward B4 is a world of slips, trips and hips, where health care is at its least glamorous. Sister Den Flixter, Nurse Kim Wilde and Dr Pippa Moore assemble for ward round. The daily grind of new admissions and discharges has begun, but Hilary Loftus, the new male modern matron, has just started work and an unsavoury stool sample and a dead patient give him cause for concern.
2 Episode 2
7/15/09
Pippa is preparing her research paper and Den and Kim deal with a male referral, but it is problem patient Ivy who dominates the day. Aggressive and deeply unpleasant, she sets a chain reaction in motion that sees Hilary in tears and Kim in trouble. Elsewhere on the ward, life and death continues as normal, but with the MRSA statistics up it seems another crisis is just around the corner.
3 Episode 3
7/22/09
The legacy of the Ivy fight has left a problem; Hilary has accused Kim of making an inappropriate remark during the fight - she called him a fat nance - and is insisting on disciplinary action. Kim has called in her union rep to defend her. The meeting does little to sort out the mess.

About this show

Getting On takes its subject matter - care of the elderly - and gets to the heart, the hips, and the bowels of it. Funny, tough, compassionate, refreshingly un-PC, and with pathos, this is the story of one ward, in one hospital, in one overlooked corner of the modern health service. But although status isn't high, moral questions ping in from all corners. It's a long way from Holby, and at lot closer to most people's experiences. Everyone has an elderly relative, parent, grandparent, and messy choices are order of the day. Getting On is gritty, fast paced, and reflects the realities of a much-neglected world.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
20 reviews
Paul Spoor
December 26, 2016
The kind of dry, small scale comedy that is hilarious in the hands of these actors. Brilliant.
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Mirco “Beakerbeetle” Scaramucci
May 29, 2016
Sublimely funny and outrageous. Keeps the viewer hooked and in need of more.
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James Harden
May 29, 2018
Fantastic, well written and hilarious
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