#s15e7

Is it just me, or does every medical and domestic situation seem to be extremely high stakes this season?

Beryl needs to earn some money, so she's going to be Geoffrey's secretary? Why can't she be a midwife? What am I missing?

So it's not just hospital doctors who are a bunch of insensitive dudnderheads: some of the nurses are no great bargain, either.

For whom, exactly, does Threapwood work? For the NHS itself?

it was excellent how they had the waitress force dee to recognize her personhood by saying her name, thereby serving as a mirror for dee and the general dehumanization/sidelining women have experienced throughout the show. and when the waitress finally makes the effort to help dee, dee just perpetuates the shitty dynamic and uses the opportunity to keep another woman down to better her own situation. and all this is after the waitress happened to get dee's role on the tv show without even trying, because the waitress isn't constantly trying to overcompensate for everything because she doesn't have a group of men constantly belittling and overlooking her. she's been screwed over by the gang plenty of times, but she's not in the gang. she's free in a way dee isn't, and it's so interesting how they used this scene to explore that.