imurf The successful and well off cast as baddies while the perpetrators barely get a mention. It's rubbish.

p-seed-889-188469 Frankly this scared the Hell out of me, in a way very few movies or television programmes have ever done in my life. Amazingly this is achieved with no blood, no violence, no swearing, just pure alienation from normally. In many ways in this respect, and methodology, it is very similar to the movie "Funny Games" which IS the scariest movie I have ever seen.We tend to assume that people are generally all the same. Sure we all have our personal idiosyncrasies but at our core we share a common concept of logic and operate according to well defined rules of human engagement. In Trauma we see the simple terror of encountering someone who has his own rules, who will not, cannot, engage in life according to the rules we live by. We realise just how absolutely powerless we are. After all, how do you reason with someone who has no reason? If that were not enough in its own right we see how the various "human rights" based initiatives introduced over the last couple of decades actually encourage this type of behaviour by encouraging "victimhood". Like John Allerton's Hospital, all institutions now have processes and procedures are in place to help loonies like this extract their pound of flesh from well meaning, if sometimes imperfect, people when things don't go quite according to plan.I see many people have rated Trauma badly because they saw it as being unrealistic and Dan as not behaving normally. I can sympathise with that view because in the first 10 minutes I felt that way myself. I assumed Dan was supposed to be a normal person and consequently within minutes I was rolling my eyes, to the extent that I toyed with turning it off. Then the penny dropped and I realised that the WHOLE POINT is that Dan is NOT a normal person, he is insane, and that is what makes Trauma so terrifying. Just how do you deal with someone whose mind works with a different set of rules? It is like coming to the table expecting to play chess only to find your opponent is playing poker. Dan is obviously extremely clever in his way, but it is his way, and not our way. The acting throughout is superb by all parties, the storyline, scripting and dialog are superb and yes, totally realistic for a story whose main character is an insane person. It is by far the best in a dense clump of recent British Television series, most of which are inconsistent at best and riddled with flaws at worst. It has elements of Liar in that it features an irrational person relentlessly seeking harassing someone for something of which there is no evidence actually occurred, and elements of Doctor Foster, which also features a protagonist who quite frankly borderline insane in her quest for revenge. Importantly, at 3 episodes, it does not outstay its welcome or dilute its impact with irrelevant sub-stories.To the writer and producers of Trauma - bravo and keep them coming.

jmccartaig John Simm (Bowker) spent the time searching for the truth whilst constantly lying. I think he should confront the person who is guilty of telling him he could act. The one star is for the house in which the surgeon lived.

dflanagan-41317 Totally unrealistic and annoying. Why doesn't the father blame the person who actually killed his son? How does he get into the operating theatre? Unless it turns out the surgeon was blind drunk then he was just doing his job and if he was then it would just be too predictable. Not sure where this show has to go.I had no sympathy for the father which is a big failing for the show. Weird that itv would spend so much time promoting it. That's how far they've fallen.