Monroe

Overview

Monroe is a brilliant and unusual neurosurgeon. A flawed genius who never lets anyone forget his flaws or his genius. Each episode will feature one compelling story of the week about life or death situations. The drama will focus on the way in which a serious injury or disease cuts across the lives of everyone involved, from hospital staff to patients to relatives. And how that group become, in an intense few days, a reluctant dysfunctional family united by hopes, fears and grief. At the centre of this stands Monroe, his trainees, his anaesthetist and his poker school - and his female colleague, heart surgeon, Jenny Bremner, who has contempt for his cockiness. The series will tell heightened emotional stories and be shot through with dark humour and portray the pressures and pleasures of high-end surgery in a modern urban hospital.

Episodes

Episode 1

S01E01 Episode 1

March 10, 2011 9.0 46 min
At work, Monroe has the courage to perform cutting-edge brain surgery but at home, he is afraid to admit that his life is falling apart. When Alison Bannister is admitted with a brain tumour, Monroe...
Episode 2

S01E02 Episode 2

March 17, 2011 8.0 46 min
As Monroe struggles to accept the fact that his wife Anna has left him, he throws himself into work and tries to pretend that his life is not in freefall. Can he find the courage...
Episode 3

S01E03 Episode 3

March 24, 2011 7.0 46 min
A former soldier is admitted to the hospital with a blood clot in his brain and Monroe controversially decides against surgery. Bremner is tempted to break her own rule about remaining detached from her patients,...
Episode 4

S01E04 Episode 4

March 31, 2011 8.0 46 min
Monroe finds that 'civilised divorce' is much harder than he had imagined and his attempts to enter the world of dating seem doomed to failure. At the hospital, Monroe tries to persuade an epileptic man...
Episode 5

S01E05 Episode 5

April 7, 2011 8.0 46 min
Monroe has to confront the prospect of operating on a colleague when registrar Sally Fortune collapses. Bremner reaches a decision about her relationship with Shepherd, and Monroe helps his estranged wife Anna build a new...
Episode 6

S01E06 Episode 6

April 14, 2011 9.0 46 min
When a 13-year-old girl is admitted to hospital after a road accident, Monroe believes there is little chance of saving her and an operation could leave her severely damaged. However, her father begs him to...

Cast

James Nesbitt
James Nesbitt
Gabriel Monroe
Sarah Parish
Sarah Parish
Tom Riley
Tom Riley
Susan Lynch
Susan Lynch
Phoebe Dynevor
Phoebe Dynevor

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