Prescription for Love (2019 TV Movie)
1/10
Needed much better writing
4 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was awful. Another movie where the male lead is spineless and obtuse, the female lead is a wimp. He first doesn't recognize a woman he supposedly likes, the very next time he sees her, though it is only a day or two later. She was soooo special - but he can't remember what she looked like or sounded like? Then she's bullied by other nurses (they don't explain why, and Cinderella story or not - those nurses wouldnt have been nurses if their personalites were that awful). She is too spineless - for not standing up for herself - to him or to the bullies at work.

This was extremely unrealistic in too many ways: doctors don't decide who the "head nurse" is. That is soooo 1950's. There are nursing administrators who do that. The nasty nurse at the party was a coworker, not her boss, so would have had no authority to fire her. And to fire her at a party, after only accusing her of gold-digging, would have opened the hospital up for a wrongful termination lawsuit - she wasn't fired for cause. Let's not forget about the good doctor not recognizing her the next time he sees her after the elevator incident - cell phone flashlights are bright enough to see by - so no reason he wouldnt have figured out who she was right away. She wasn't even wearing glasses or a mask in the elevator...

Not sure why Hallmark writers like to make nurse protagonists look so pathetic. What do they have against nurses? Would have been better if she stood up for herself a bit and made the good doctor do a bit more groveling. This was very senseless and drawn out, with a very unlikable male lead. Wouldn't recommend even for a one time watch....
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