TV series

Maternal

2023 · 1 season

A grounded, emotionally honest look at the exhausting juggle of frontline hospital work and new motherhood, tense but warm.

Overview: Maryam, a Paediatric Registrar, Catherine, a General and Trauma Surgeon, and Helen, a Registrar in Acute Medicine, each attempt to balance their increasingly demanding jobs in post-pandemic frontline medicine with their lives as new mothers.
How it feels: Tense, earnest, warm and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Work, parenthood, identity, friendship
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: work
parenthood
identity
friendship
healing
Places: hospital
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild