This Italian medical drama was a little gem. Every character's backstory is full of surprises, and even the lowliest intern has many layers. It is sometimes a little bit soapy, but mostly it is full of heart and watching the characters interact makes for great drama. They are more family than colleagues, in a way that reminded me a little bit of Code Black or 9-1-1. Both the cases of the week and the seasonal arc were compelling. I enjoyed all 16 episodes, but especially the one with Ricardo's backstory (episode 8, very touching, and truly added to the rest of the season). I'm looking forward to season 2.
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linounettematha1 March 2021
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ferretti-paolo-121 November 2020Beautiful DOC. Nice stories, good soundtrack and actors. I suggest to everyone to watch this TV series.
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I'm not sure why this show has a rating of 6.5, it's actually very well made.
Getting the back stories on all the characters is great and lets the viewer get an insight into them.
Each episode deals with various patients and a particular member of staff.
It doesn't hurt that Milan, where it's set is spectacular! -
snoopythebest20 November 2020Really nice show from real story! Very good actors and soundtrack
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pnovalet12 December 2020I recommend. A nice story, looking forward for next episode
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fionawood-7907629 June 2021Highly recommended. The cast are brilliant, the story lines are interwoven in a very clever way, brilliant writers as they illuminate the human condition. The medical terminology is advanced and case studies accurate Thoroughly entertaining best doc show yet.
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bavoko18 March 2022Beautiful and moving TV series, however the couple Andrea and Giulia should be together because they have a lot of chemistry, I hope the authors put them together.
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bigrenz127 September 2021This is inherently predictable, soppy, cheesy and yet, I couldn't stop watching! It does get repetitive and it is quite tame but I enjoy Italian shows. Ricardo's back story is the best ep imo. The premise is a good one and probably why I stuck it out.
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denikenny17 May 2022Once we started Season One we followed on with the 2nd series and now have withdrawal. The lead Doc's acting was excellent and he showed so much emotion as did all the other Doctors. Every episode had us eagerly awaiting for the next even though things did not go as predicted and hoped for. Hope they do another series but the final one seemed to wrap everything up nicely so hope the Producers do decide to give us more in the future.
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flopunturero24 December 2021This is a very predictable but entertaining show. Seems like they took the Grey's Anatomy and House recipes and blend it into an Italian mixture. Acting is not great but not terrible and Milan as a stage is the best character of them all.
I must say, though, that the one unbearable thing here is the music. They picked the worst song in the history of music and that is the ONLY song they play from the start of the show until the very last episode!!! I was about to start watching it on mute. Awful! -
mosquitobite7 July 2021Sweet series with enough solid human drama to offset the not so credible aspects
He is gorgeous
Got to like all the characters and really missed it when it finished and how nice, something to watch without OTT sex and violence.
Good watch with maybe your teens for discussion about relationships grief illness goodness etc. -
muratmihcioglu21 January 2022I began watching this on the day it first aired on Rai1. And to date, missed only one night (two episodes, that is). Much as I have been holding myself for long, after past week's opening of Season 2, nothing can stop me from laying it bare while laughing out loud.
Okay, so... The premise derives from an actual experience by an Italian medic. He was in a coma for over a decade. Then wakes up, finds things have changed in the world. Even Michael Jackson has died. But most importantly, his wife is no longer his wife. Water has run under the bridge. Can he be trusted as a medic still? Nope. He cannot remember his past self well, but is informed that he was mightily disliked. But now that life is starting anew, his overall humor and bits and pieces of his attitude show signs of change. Given a chance at the same hospital where he once directed colleagues, he is now an aide. But that won't stop him from uncovering what kind of a conspiracy had led to his attempted murder by the father of a patient.
I won't even get into how much of the basic, strong premise holds up after the first half of the first season. Nor will I care to point strongly at the fact that 80% of what the episodal stories of this series follow the path of House, MD.
Nope, I won't even focus too much on why and how a medic would go about his whole day with a huge smile on his face, more like neglecting the actual challenges of life than attempting to pump up hope.
Guess what, I won't even rate this series. Because whatever score I would give would be unjust on some front. You can give it a 10 with respect to how entertaining it is. Or you can give it 1 (the lowest on IMDb) for how terribly certain medical facts have been used in attempts to build up drama. The scientific details may be true, but the storylines are so far from being realistic that... Well, y'know what... Forget it.
What I will focus on is only the 1st episode of the 2nd season. Because the level of "who cares!" in the foremost element of that key episode speaks volumes about this series.
Now, the writers have decided to somehow integrate the Covid pandemic into thair narrative. They could not have done that in the 1st season as more than half the episodes were shot back when the pandemic began, and the episodes shot later under Covid measures were simply following the already constructed story arcs.
Good... Let's see how they have decided to tackle the issue of Covid without soaking the whole show in those horrors people have already been tired of seeing in the news.
So, they decide to dedicate this S2E1 to how the pandemic unfolded (in Milan, Italy!) in its early days, only to then fast-forward to a "near future" where "Covid still exists but not as the major issue it once was".
Wow, actually that's clever. I liked it. This way, they can embed into the flow of the show how the pandemic started, and then keep on with "business as usual" as Luca Argentero (who plays "Dottore Housetti") can keep thinking out of the box to tackle mysterious cases. That is, while the politics behind hospital management and relationships between the team of good-looking medics can keep our interest alive, knowing one medic has deceased during the pandemic.
To be honest, the "solution" to address Covid without getting lost in it was really smart. But HOW they executed it was... Well, I had to do a face palm while looking at the TV screen, because I was kind of ashamed on behalf of whoever wrote those dialogues!
First quarter of 2020: The Housetti/Argentero character (our hero) reads newspapers and follows social media. And learns of "Covid19" (pay attention to that particular name!) So, when a patient with mysterious symptoms arrives, he tells his colleagues (other medics!) that it could be "Covid19".
And they ask Housetti: "Covid19? What IS that?"
And he explains: "It is a brand new virus that emerged from China recently!"
I felt like peeing when I heard that. The show even exceeded the level of becoming a parody of itself. They expected viewers to believe that, in the early times of the pandemic, ONLY ONE MEDIC in a major hospital in Milan KNEW OF what was going on in China! Ignore all the professional networks and curiosities - those other doctors had even NO CLUE on what TV news, incoming and outgoing passengers, even ordinary people on the streets had been paying attention to!
So, it was ONLY Argentero/Housetti that LEARNED OF the existence of a mysterious, brand-new virus FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA!
Ooooh, and that is not even the punchline: Considering ALL of Italy was under lockdown several weeks BEFORE the name "Covid19" was given to this virus, he had to be gathering information from the FUTURE in order to "inform" his colleagues on what was going on. Because THAT was the name he used as he literally "educated" others!
I was on social media while watching this, and felt the need to post out with the relevant hashtag how extremely dumb the episode was. It looked unbelieveable to me that, merely 21 months after the horror began and struck hard Italy, an Italian show could extend and misuse the dramatic wiggle room for "make-believe" to such lengths.
Honestly, I was expecting the fan base of the series to revolt in anger as they were made to witness not only the most unrealistic, but also the most careless and incoherent coverage a fiction could provide for those early days of Covid.
And guess what: No one seemed to care!
That's it! That is exactly why I cannot rate this show. It is beyond my comprehension of "what the public wants or accepts".
If I were a writer for that show and if that brilliant idea of using only the early days of Covid (to rapidly fast-forward to a near future) was what I had to work with, I would care about what pointers to use. I'd make it coherent with how it actually unfolded. Because it was not only very possible to do so, but would also help build-up the drama in an honest, respectful way.
They messed it up ridiculously, yet no one even cared!
"Okay, I give up" I said to myself. I tried to "accept" it as it was, and kept on watching. And you know what happened? In the 2nd episode, as we were witnessing that "near future" where "Covid has not totally disappeared but its emergency has", no one in the hospital was wearing a mask. Not the medics, not the orderlies, not the patients. No one.
So, their imagination of the "post-Covid world" was one in which not even hospitals would require masks, social distancing or anything else.
Sure, they have to show the faces of those good-looking medics. That is what matters the most for the show. But still... Come on!... At least, implant some sort of a made-up "explanation" as to how the whole world could switch back to "the old normal".
What happened? Did the virus get "eradicated"? Not only THAT virus, but the potential threat of ANY viral infections that might bring forth new pandemics is also off the table???
I checked the relevant social media posts and saw to my (this time not so big) surprise that, again, no one cared.
"DOC - Nelle tue mani" is top-notch entertainment! Because it makes sure that NO ONE CARES about coherence, realism, logic or any other non-impulsive thing.
It is just about the immediate reactions our lizard brains would give to moving pictures on a screen, and it reigns in its own realm.
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finnerss-218-24885524 November 2021Shameful, really shameful.
The performances make Jim Carrey in his Mask days look conservative by comparison and not a minute goes by before something predictable happens.
I tried to watch and like the show, trusting that some of the reviews could be a good indication of a good find, but it's easy to see most of those reviews either come from Italian people trying to upvote their own industry, or from friends of the staff or cast.
This show shouldn't even be streaming in primevideo, it's a waste of space. -
fenovaesvolpini29 October 2021Watching the show you can find a lot of Resemblances with the american show. The first part of episodes, best friend like Wilson and the special gift to solve medical problems. Even the script in some deseases is the same, like the radiation on the machine . The good partes are: gorgeous cast, dinamic situations and good soundtrack. Worth watching!
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aspmotta29 July 2021Romance, drama, family, deep human values throughout the whole show. How can someone not like this? Made me question my career choice.
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danilomello2016 February 2022If this is not at least an 8, I don't know what is. Great writing, acting and directing. Just found out about it on Amazon and I can't stop watching. After House M. D, this is my favorite medical tv show.
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fioresi10 March 2024Italians show they can really make tv series the right way! Giulia and Agnese are fantastic! Argentero has a very challenging role playing Dr. Fanti, the main character, but he performs best. I also like this is a family show, with some sex, but never explicit, something one can watch with children and actually gives some ethical topics to discuss, which are quite interesting. Added value: this is inspired by a true story, though the authors make an effort to change the main lines. I truly enjoyed all the episodes so far (season 1), I agree, they are a bit soapy, but who does not like that when watching a tv series?
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I simply love this show. It is a medical drama set in Italy with excellent acting, writing and characters. A show free of woke agendas, gender politics and so on. Much better than most garbage nowadays.
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silviojsantos-8755028 August 2021Film to keep in the heart. An example of a life lesson.
Filme para guardar no coração. Uma exemplo de lição de vida. -
lesimmeublesef18 July 2021My wife and I can't wait to see each episode. We simply love it all.