Monroe - Series 2

The medical drama returns, despite the 18 month gap in narrative, it works to make it feel that I can just settle back into investing in the characters.

I like how Sarah Parish's character, Jenny Bremmer, throughout the series had a good amount of character development where Bremmer learns to become more emotionally able with her partner Lawrence Shepherd and also more sympathetic with her patients. The central character Gabriel Monroe, portrayed by James Nesbitt, also developed well with him having to deal with causing damage to a patient's brain during an operation which worsens their condition.

Furthermore, in general the operations and the way the series tells of the background of the guest characters, are done in a very stylish and effective manner. It was also good how the cardiac centred stories were shown in an equal amount to the neurosurgery ones. Also the operation themselves and how they are done are just remarkable, such as when they have to stop a patient's heart in order to transplant it and when a patient is awake during the operation on their brain.

Parish and Nesbitt both give great performances as do the rest of the main cast. Tracy-Ann Oberman as Lizzie Clapham and Neil Pearson as Alistair Gillespie are great additions to the cast. The list of guest cast is vast and full of very good performances. It's been a very good series and it would be interesting to see how another series, if there is one, would develop.