This was a frustrating watch. Aside from being yet another Netflix series that was twice as long as it should have been, there were so many illogical or nonsensical bits which added up to a very exasperating watch.
I'm not familiar with the Danish healthcare system, but given Netflix is an international platform a lot of context was missing. For an ER, not a lot seemed to be going on. Except heart attacks. Why did no one question why everyone was dying of heart attacks and nothing else, especially heart attacks in non cardiac patients? Why are the patients in rooms by themselves? Why are the nurses ordering doctors about? Why is there a handwritten "death log" in the break room?!
The biggest frustration had to be when Arne died and the "logical" explanation for the drugs in his system was that he got up from his sick bed, entered the medicine room, knew and found the correct drugs, went back to his bed, administered them and then got rid of the vials, and then died. With no one seeing any of it. Surely, even if anyone was supposed to believe that, you then put safeguards in place so patients can't just help themselves to drugs when they feel like it? You don't just shrug your shoulders and think never mind and carry on exactly as before?!!!
I didn't understand why Pernille was shunned by her colleagues at the end. Surely you would shun your colleague who was killing people, not the one who stopped it? And why was she just going back to work heavily pregnant? What had she been doing for the intervening months (apart from making a baby)? And why not use your phone video to record Christine- if the concern was that no one would believe her if she reported her concerns to management why would they believe her when she claims to have witnessed it and produced evidence in a bin?!! Why couldn't she send an anonymous email- this was very recent history with modern technology available? The whole ending was rushed. It was like no one knew which character to focus on so we didn't get the whole story of any of them.
If this wasn't a true story I'd put these issues down to poor writing and editing. Maybe some of this was just really poor real-life practice and reflects the true events as they happened, maybe the producers took a lot of dramatic license because they needed four episodes? Either way, it made me that bit extra grateful for the beurocracy and safeguards that are annoying but essential to protect us...
I'm not familiar with the Danish healthcare system, but given Netflix is an international platform a lot of context was missing. For an ER, not a lot seemed to be going on. Except heart attacks. Why did no one question why everyone was dying of heart attacks and nothing else, especially heart attacks in non cardiac patients? Why are the patients in rooms by themselves? Why are the nurses ordering doctors about? Why is there a handwritten "death log" in the break room?!
The biggest frustration had to be when Arne died and the "logical" explanation for the drugs in his system was that he got up from his sick bed, entered the medicine room, knew and found the correct drugs, went back to his bed, administered them and then got rid of the vials, and then died. With no one seeing any of it. Surely, even if anyone was supposed to believe that, you then put safeguards in place so patients can't just help themselves to drugs when they feel like it? You don't just shrug your shoulders and think never mind and carry on exactly as before?!!!
I didn't understand why Pernille was shunned by her colleagues at the end. Surely you would shun your colleague who was killing people, not the one who stopped it? And why was she just going back to work heavily pregnant? What had she been doing for the intervening months (apart from making a baby)? And why not use your phone video to record Christine- if the concern was that no one would believe her if she reported her concerns to management why would they believe her when she claims to have witnessed it and produced evidence in a bin?!! Why couldn't she send an anonymous email- this was very recent history with modern technology available? The whole ending was rushed. It was like no one knew which character to focus on so we didn't get the whole story of any of them.
If this wasn't a true story I'd put these issues down to poor writing and editing. Maybe some of this was just really poor real-life practice and reflects the true events as they happened, maybe the producers took a lot of dramatic license because they needed four episodes? Either way, it made me that bit extra grateful for the beurocracy and safeguards that are annoying but essential to protect us...