Green Wing

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I checked out the first episode on Hulu the other day.

Ugh.

I still don't know what I saw.

It was like someone spilled a box of jokes, and that's how we got them. Random, utterly disconnected humor. There was humor. Of a sort.

Not a well-put-together venture at all. Scenes too short, no continuity. No flow.

You've got to stick with it. At first, I thought WTF? This totally isn't working. The second episode improves and by the third you hit your stride. To me, the disconnectedness puts you more in Caroline Todd's place as a new comer to this crazy ass hospital where nothing makes sense. You can imagine her disequilibrium, and you experience it via the editing of the video.

In a behind the scenes bit I saw they explained the sped up camera. They taped in a working hospital and if a non performer walked through the set, they'd crank up the speed and the person would effectively disappear.

There were a lot of clever production elements, and the character development was very thorough.