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Getting On (US) - Season 1
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.
18 June 1947, Fajardo, Puerto Rico
23 September 1947, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
11 December 1942, New York City, New York, USA
7 November 1931, Bucyrus, Ohio, USA
6 November 1929, Vandalia, Illinois, USA
December 09, 2013
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.
November 22, 2013
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.
November 25, 2013
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.
November 25, 2013
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.
November 25, 2013
If you like comedy with more cringes than chuckles, Getting On could be for you.
November 18, 2013
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.
November 22, 2013
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.
November 22, 2013
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.
December 05, 2013
It's one of the most highly unlikely excellent shows I've seen.
November 25, 2013
For all the chaos here, filmed in drab monotone, Getting On looks like it has the potential to be sardonically funny.