The idea that Elizabeth would be frowned upon for not wearing a black dress as she's in mourning, the description of the patient's dinner and his couple of pints and the nurses still wearing the little white hats. Its so ridiculous I don't know how Alex Kingston kept a straight face!
Posted Dec 31, 2021, 1:51 PM UTC
Yup, every time. It’s like they watched Mary Poppins as their primary research for England.
I truly hate when US shows have episodes in the UK (usually London), they often seem to run with wild stereotypes. So needless to say those scenes make me cringe. Nice to see the old black trains though (I always called them Diesel trains as a kid).
Like in Bones with those 2 UK based episodes, so cringe all around.
Yes! I watched those again recently and find them so painful to get through.
Or when they say the usual "if it wasnt/werent for us you would be speaking german" Oh boy, poor americans
I'm not even a Brit and I laughed so hard when I watched it 😂 I mean c'mon!🤣🤣
I never understood why the doctor was such a dick to Elizabeth
I suppose just to give her more motivation to go back to Chicago! It wasn't very believable, Elizabeth wasn't in the US just because of Mark, she'd decided to stay there before they were even together. I think maybe they just wanted a trip to London?
I’m not from London but I’ve visited the city and I thought it was weird that Elizabeth was walking towards Westminster and Big Ben at the start of the day but then appeared to work at a hospital that overlooked the Tower Bridge and Tower of London. I didn’t these landmarks were particularly close together.
I thought the black dress thing was a joke not a serious gripe?
I do like that they at least filmed in London. It was so rare for network TV shows to leave the US for filming.
English people are so stuffy on American TV compared to real life.
Yeah, that never sat right with me. I know it's been 20 years, but I think it was ridiculous even then. Also the way they made fun of her for describing a patient as male rather than a man...it'snot at all unusual, docs are aware of the Americanisms, and even from an old school consultant it would barely raise an eyebrow.
I once even triangulated where the scenes were filmed in which Elizabeth was standing on the roof of the hospital with her father. It's now the roof of a Tesco. Understandable that they couldn't film in a real hospital but it's hilarious that they apparently just had to have the tower & tower bridge in the background.
Yeah I also thought it was weird how they had Elizabeth adopt so many Americanisms in a way that didn’t feel like normal acclimatisation. I can’t remember exact examples now, but so many times I thought, “Hmm no an English person would never say that.” And was surprised that Alex Kingston didn’t flag it during filming haha