This Is Going to Hurt ~

SERIES PREMIERE

Labor pains work both ways in a harrowing limited-series tragicomedy starring Emmy winner Ben Whishaw as Dr. Adam Kay, an overworked and emotionally stressed ob/gyn. The series is based on Kay’s memoir about life in a hospital maternity ward within the U.K.’s National Health Service. “Ah, the fragrant air of underfunding,” he quips during one of many asides to the camera, setting a sardonic tone of gallows humor that helps amuse the viewer amid the barrage of graphic medical crises and heartbreak that tests the doctors’ resolve