![]() ![]() In the book he's a young guy, around the Doctor's age, and quite competent at his job as compared to the older and rather eccentric version of the series. Flanderization: The Feldsher in the TV series.Ditzy Genius: The Young Doctor is fresh out of medical school and totally reliant on his textbooks.Both the nurses also qualify, particularly Pelageya. Deadpan Snarker: Both Doctors, especially the Older Doctor.Nika can tolerate the former, but the latter occasionally causes problems. ![]() Or have much understanding of contemporary medical science. Cloud Cuckoo Lander: The Feldsher does not seem to live on this planet.British Brevity: 2 series of 4 episodes each.Black Comedy: The series is very funny, but only if you find jokes about deprivation, stupidity, horrible disease, and severe addiction humorous.Beard of Sorrow: Nika grows a stubble in Series 1 as the depths of addiction and despair lead him to lose the will to attend to his hygiene.Annoying Patient: From Nika's perspective, nearly all of them, since hardly any of them will take his modern medical advice.Always Someone Better: The hospital staff heap nothing but praise on the memory of Nika's predecessor Leopold Leopoldovich.The older doctor will often appear in the main setting to critique his younger version or reminisce on the events taking place. Jon Hamm plays an older version of the doctor living in Moscow 16 years after the main events of the show, dealing with an investigation by Stalin's police. There he deals with his own staff, syphilis, the shadow of the former doctor, more syphilis, Bolsheviks, white star nobles, syphilis, very dumb peasants, pickled sprats, morphine addiction, syphilis, and the huge mortality rates of the Russian people.ĭaniel Radcliffe plays the doctor in the main setting of the story. Vladimir "Nika" Bomgard, with nearly perfect scores from his medical college being given his first assignment, a hospital in the middle of nowhere Russia. Set in Russia in the 1910's and 1930's it is the story of the young Dr. Based on the semiautobigraphical short story collection of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov. A British dark comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, originally broadcast on Sky Arts. ![]()
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