Jed Mercurio's Bodies is back, and this time it's just getting a one-week lead in on BBC Three before the whole country gets it. (I've said many times before that running the whole series on a digital-only channel, with just a BBC One/Two repeat a few weeks/months later, removes all the heat of the publicity for the second showing).
Broadcasting issues aside, it's more of what we've come to know and love. If you're pregnant just now, you probably should avoid the first episode. Actually, if you're of a nervous disposition, you might want to avoid the entire series. I note that next week it's BBC Two outing is scheduled up against the end of Casualty on BBC One. Um, this really is going to be a shock to the system for the average Casualty viewer. Within the first couple of mintutes, we've had some excrutiatingly nasty things vividly depicted on screen involving a non-forthcoming placenta following a birth. Full marks to the special effects people.
As usual, it's politics as much as individual cases, with the inept Roger Hurley (Patrick Baladi from The Office) being given cases beyond his ability by the bitter and twisted Tony Whitman (Keith Allen). Meanwhile our hero, Rob Lake (Max Beesley) is trying to quit while having an affair with Donna Rix (Neve McIntosh).
I'm just surprised that Hat Trick have missed a trick in not releasing a DVD of the first series in the run-up to this second one. Great stuff.