The Resident (TV Series, Fox 2018)

Dead on arrival. I watched the pilot episode and from the start was in dislike mode. The first scene is in an OR where a basic appendectomy gets botched by a surgeon (Bruce Greenwood) with shaky hands and a surgical team busy taking photos. After the patient dies they start conspiring to cover it up. That's how you want to start your series? Ok, I figured once we got past the credits we'd get to the characters who would contrast this bit of slime. Ummm, no. We meet Dr. Conrad Hawkins (Matt Czuchry) who meets a first year resident with offensive questions and arrogance. The whole hospital is filled with this. Another doctor who doesn't want to have to talk to the families of those she's operated on goes around the waiting area quickly telling each group something like he's fine, or in recovery but the worst was the last where she just says he's dead. Too much callousness in these characters. Even the patients aren't winners. There's just nothing positive here. I mean yes some realism is good. But damn there is some light in realism as well. If my life was on the line and this was the only hospital I could go to, I'd stay home and die peacefully.