TMC
07-21-2022, 08:36 PM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/07/20/just-the-vitals-brief-thoughts-on-nurses-season-two/
Thoughts: In its first annual retooling, Nurses drops two regulars from its freshman season — its funniest (Jeff Altman) and its most humanizing (Florence Stanley) — replacing them with another male orderly, who is even more secondary than Carlos Lacamara’s Paco, and a big comic force who significantly alters the course of the series, adding a higher-concept wrinkle to this low-concept design, thereby pivoting focus away from the nurses and what is suggested to be its intended premise. The latter is David Rasche’s Jack, a corrupt businessman who’s sentenced to community service at the hospital — a gaudy, hard-to-believe arrangement that requires some leaps in logic and also ushers in a comedically bolder, less literally realistic ethos, where slapstick is more common. This makes the show funnier, and in terms of comedy, Season Two is a significant improvement over its predecessor.
Thoughts: In its first annual retooling, Nurses drops two regulars from its freshman season — its funniest (Jeff Altman) and its most humanizing (Florence Stanley) — replacing them with another male orderly, who is even more secondary than Carlos Lacamara’s Paco, and a big comic force who significantly alters the course of the series, adding a higher-concept wrinkle to this low-concept design, thereby pivoting focus away from the nurses and what is suggested to be its intended premise. The latter is David Rasche’s Jack, a corrupt businessman who’s sentenced to community service at the hospital — a gaudy, hard-to-believe arrangement that requires some leaps in logic and also ushers in a comedically bolder, less literally realistic ethos, where slapstick is more common. This makes the show funnier, and in terms of comedy, Season Two is a significant improvement over its predecessor.