9/3/16 A Young Doctor's Notebook And Other Stories? (Netflix)

    Some people whine that there is nothing good on TV nowadays, I say these people are dullards with small brains.  Look around, TV no longer controls programming.  Netflix consistently is putting out stuff as good as HBO once did.  All the puritanical BS is holding back the big three or four TV stations.  Let's face it, life is not pretty and clean.  When we get pissed and stub out toe, we don't say "aw darn it!"  We say FUCK! and we mean it.  Netflix programming also allows them to play with the time and length of the seasons, apparently.
    Boy recommended this show "A Young Doctor's Notebook..." and I kept avoiding it because he watches some silly stuff sometimes, but this show was good.  It focuses on a young doctor played by Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe.  It is set in Russia, back around 1917 and war has broken out but they are mostly out in the middle of nowhere, or as they said "you took a two day train out to the middle of nowhere and then added a 3 day trek past nowhere."  The young doctor has support of a nurse who worships the last doctor who left their hospital, a mid-wife who becomes his love interest or sex partner, and an assistant who is rather peculiar, the Feldsher.
    As a doctor, he has shown up and is bragging to any who will hear him about scoring perfect 5's in all 15 sections of his medical exams, and in short time it appears he is doing good work, but being in such isolated conditions, he eventually finds a way to kill the boredom and he becomes addicted to morphine.  Jon Hamm plays the doctor role in the future, and he is in an office surrounded by soldiers, where he picks up one of the notebooks and we go with him to see a young Doctor.  From this point, the older and younger doctor are together in most every scene, the older talking to the younger version of himself, but he is unable to change anything, he is merely recollecting.
    There is a lot of dark humor, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm are great, The Feldsher, played by Adam Godley is funny in his own way.  We get to see Daniel Radcliffe totally different from the hero of Harry Potter.  Here, once his addiction takes on, he cares about nothing but morphine. 
    The beauty of the series is that it is short.  There are two seasons and each one only has four episodes, and each episode is 20 minutes long.  Instead of feeling overwhelmed, it leaves you feeling like they should have made a couple more episodes.