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Title: The Lady's Abscess (22 Aug 2017)
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| Episode credited cast: | |||
| Tom Basden | ... | John | |
| Mathew Baynton | ... | William | |
| Elizabeth Counsell | ... | Lady Neilson-Toy | |
| Rupert Everett | ... | Dr. Hendrick | |
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Matt Harrop | ... | Condemned Man |
| Robin Hooper | ... | Mr. Bradbury | |
| Rory Kinnear | ... | Robert | |
| Lydia Leonard | ... | Caroline | |
| Geoffrey McGivern | ... | Landlord | |
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Michael Mears | ... | Robert's Staff |
| Andrew Scott | ... | Charles Dickens | |
| Milly Thomas | ... | Florence Nightingale | |
Caroline is entranced by Charles Dickens and gains an invitation to dinner with him, accompanied by William. He is impressed by her interest in social reform but his drug-induced lechery ends her adoration of him. Meanwhile Robert is annoyed when Dr Hendrick endorses volunteer Florence Nightingale, who lectures him on hygiene and fresh air. When the two of them are called upon to treat a wealthy dowager he sets out to frame her whilst John has cause to regret taking on a street urchin as his apprentice. Written by don @ minifie-1
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A marked improvement from a disappointing opening episode. Although I think I failed to laugh even once at the second episode.
Andrew Scott guest stars as Charles Dickens, writer, social reformer and a hypocritical lecher who tries it on while in a drug induced haze with Caroline Lessing.
Dr Lessing meanwhile is annoyed by new enthusiastic volunteer Florence Nightingale who is a believer in fresh and being hygienic. He spots an opportunity to get rid of her when a wealthy patient has an abscess in her buttocks.
There are some moments which just failed to fly like when Dickens interrogates William on various characters in his books.