Series “sick Berlin” – Professor Brinkmann would get burnout

The calm in the eye of the storm is known to be deceptive. When Ben Weber starts the service in his overcrowded emergency ambulance after dancing club night on a cocktail of various drugs and saves a life before collapse, there is suddenly silence. It is the silence in the head of the accommodated doctor when he soon does not only hang on the drip. But it is also the silence in the elevator that Weber’s new superiors drove down to a workplace, whose noise levels reminded of war rather than hospital.

Therefore, all of the hospital allows everyone to call only “sick Berlin”. At least at the bottom of his rescue site, chaos, noise, tumult and hustle and bustle at best if the eight divider of the same name occasionally withdraws into the inner central figures. Otherwise there is the same mess from the first to the last moment of this stirring series as in the health system as a whole. Not the only reason why she could write TV history.

Produced by Violet Pictures with Real Film for Appletv+ and ZDFneo, which inherited the project after the withdrawal of Sky from the German-language fiction, “sick Berlin” dares to be tremendous: a medical series in white, lard-free therapy dinment, which tells everyday life on the medical front as exhaustively as it is, but not in Ehorgt before George Clooney’s “Emergency Room”. Unlike there, the directors Alex Schaad and Fabian Möhrke rarely boil the script of the English emergency doctor Samuel Jefferson.

Otherwise there is the same mess from the first to the last moment of this stirring series as in the health system as a whole.

Her ensemble is already ensuring this: Slavko Popadić as Borderliner Ben Weber and Haley Louise Jones. As her commissioner Kurt, who met the Kampusch-Keller madness of the Netflix World Success “Dear Child” in 2023 with agitated equanimity, her character Suzanna Parker usually remains calm in the chaos of Neukölln emergency room. Shortly after moving from a profitable Munich geriatrics to the deficit capital hospital, the new head of ward moves into a broom chamber to scream. Back in the turmoil, however, she switches to autopilot and thus occupies what her whole college marks: enormous stress resilience.

However, it is also needed bitterly. And when the cynical director Beck (Peter Lohmeyer) welcomes his rescue center manager between routine operations and firing injuries with the sentence that he had “more of a stomach” than Dr. Parker’s start of service is expected to show her new team immediately why: from the experienced caretaker Bruno (Robert Nickisch) to the long -serving ward doctor Dr. Ertan (Şafak Şengül) experiences the new primary disregard. And it is by no means better by organizational restructuring with an internal determination.

As someone »Dr. Parker “In the evening in the organization chart with” piss off you “, her first day also seems to be the last. Fortunately, the series not only has a part, but eight. Which is why the unpleasant boss engraved the title and names in the slate and names and reappears at the beginning of the second episode to make “sick Berlin” the best of what the genre away from the ZDF gear series “Push” has produced in this country. Thanks to imagination like »Dr. Kleist “in fantasy houses such as” Klinik am Alex “with fantasy goals like” Doctor’s Diary “is finally considered to be somewhat authentic in the German -speaking region of the 21st century.

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With “sick Berlin” now plausibly played, filmed, equipped truthfulness in the genre. Finally, the German hospital in the heart of the city is reminiscent of 46 years after the Czech “Hospital on the edge of the city” helped to make TV medicine, at least internally, at least internally. Raised in the externally overgrown SEZ from GDR times Apple stacks the problems there like real emergency rooms sick: lack of personnel, lack of personnel, conversation of competence, stimulants, as well as seriously injured, homeless, simulants and an IT that is even more strike than BVG employees. Professor Brinkmann would not have survived here.

Dr. Parker, so much is revealed, holds out the short eight hours of streaming of a feverishly photographed real fiction, which hardly gets to the point as well as the start of the fourth episode: behind a curtain awaits Dr. Parker her boss there with a cake, candles and “happy birthday” in the choir. So all the best order in half -time series? Nevertheless. Seconds later, she wakes up from her daydream in the night -gray day -to -day life of a sustainable entertainment series that raises her genre to the next higher level. Was also time.

Available on Apple TV+ (in one year on ZDFneo)