" It should surprise no one that what the show provides is far from a documentary record of nursing in the 1950s and 1960s, and really more a contemporary fantasy about important and meaningful work then."
It’s not a surprise so much as it is an anachronistic mash-up of modern 21st century social theory presented in the context of a well-researched and exquisitely-detailed setting of British fashion, technology, and current events from the late 1950s and early 1960s.