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This September (2010)
Really horrible, like a train wreck!
And, like a train wreck, I just keep watching it. It's true that the Scottish landscapes are lovely, but in nearly every other respect, this is just dreadful. The plot is simultaneously predictable and ludicrous. One man discovers he has a love child he didn't know about? Wow, that was so shocking, let's do it again! Charles Dance is a fine actor, and there are a few others in here that know their business, but so many others are--I almost said "dreadful" again, but there must be some other adjectives to describe this dreck. With the many, many choices of things to watch from so many different venues, I beg you: watch something else. Anything else!
Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
Unintentionally funny for outdated medical drama
Though this is a serviceable drama about a young doctor, the medical details are ludicrous--in the pre-CPR days, Kildare massages the back of a girl thought to be dead, instructing an onlooker to hold a mirror to her mouth to see if she's breathing. Eventually she does--after 15 or 20 minutes--without a suggestion of possible brain damage. Then the troubled girl is put into the hospital, tries to kill herself a second time, is saved by Kildare again, and then promptly diagnosed (apparently without any observation) by the resident psychiatric expert as schizophrenic. "But wait," I'm saying to myself at home, "she hasn't shown any symptoms of schizophrenia"--not even 1938-era understanding of schizophrenia.
Fortunately young and earnest Dr. Kildare is able to protest this diagnosis and rapidly discover the real reason she's tried to commit suicide--which he debunks, leading all to a happy conclusion and no further cause for concern. Uh huh, it was all a misunderstanding and everything will be rosy henceforth--the formerly suicidal girl pops out of bed and falls into her fiancé's arms, all smiles.
Right.