Nurses has a lot of the same creative team as Rookie Blue (also known as Copper) and Saving Hope, and much like those series, Nurses is a character driven series that happens to have a high stress "series worthy" profession as the backdrop/setting. Now admittedly, I have no idea what hospitals in Canada are like, but I definitely understand why US viewers are screaming about how unrealistic this is in terms of the job setting, especially when medical dramas are a dime a dozen and obviously there are plenty to choose from. If you're expecting Grey's Anatomy or Chicago Med but with nurses as the focal point, you won't find that here. However, if you want more of a, I hate to use 'soap opera', but a character drama about 5 newbie nurses, plus those they work with directly, that's mostly focused on their individual problems/struggles while both on/off the clock in what is apparently a very small more intimate hospital, then you might like this one.
I will say it took me about 3 or 4 episodes before I started to get invested in any of the main cast, and yes, I still have a hard time with the amount of on the clock free time all these people seem to have, but overall it's not quite as bad as all the 1 reviews lead me to believe. I am a bit disappointed that the one lesbian relationship seems to have zero chemistry so far and comes off more like a need to check a diversity box than because the writers had any good story ideas for those characters, which is a bummer since that's what piqued my interest in this show initially. Hopefully they do more as the series goes on, but as of the start of season 1 episode 6, those are the least developed characters.
I will say it took me about 3 or 4 episodes before I started to get invested in any of the main cast, and yes, I still have a hard time with the amount of on the clock free time all these people seem to have, but overall it's not quite as bad as all the 1 reviews lead me to believe. I am a bit disappointed that the one lesbian relationship seems to have zero chemistry so far and comes off more like a need to check a diversity box than because the writers had any good story ideas for those characters, which is a bummer since that's what piqued my interest in this show initially. Hopefully they do more as the series goes on, but as of the start of season 1 episode 6, those are the least developed characters.
