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The series follows the lives of Dr. Jenna James, Nurse Dawn, Nurse DiDi, and supervising nurse Patsy De La Serda at a down-at-the-heels hospital in California as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.
HBO's new series Getting On is sad and frequently disgusting... If that's not a sufficiently strong endorsement, we should point out that it's also one of the funniest and most moving shows to come out this year.
Get ready to laugh and cry with this touching new comedy about a dysfunctional team of nurses and doctors caring for aging patients in a hospital's extended-care wing.
It's that sort of moment - where the absurdity of the hospital's rules meets with what should be an everyday occurrence and turns it into chaos - that Getting On does well.
This bleak depiction of hospital work locates the show about two degrees south of St. Elsewhere. And yet, after I finished the first three episodes, I realized I was hooked; I wanted more.
It's almost as impossible to believe, without seeing it, that such a show could be both very funny and occasionally uplifting without ever resorting to cheap sentimentality. But it is.
Getting old -- or "getting on" for the purposes of the title -- is nothing to look forward to here. But discovering a new series of such unexpectedly high caliber is good reason to celebrate.
While Getting On will likely resonate with people who work in hospitals and all the office politics that go into it, anyone else will want to scrub it off of them as soon as it ends.