A couple of nights ago the DrsC watched the pilot of Rush, a new TV series on the USA cable network. The character Rush is a physician, a concierge doctor to society's sleazy rich.
The series breaks unsavory new ground for a non-movie channel series. A recurring character is his drug dealer. Rush treats low-life patients, collaborates with a street gang, hears and makes explicit sexual references, uses weed and coke on-camera, does meatball surgery at gunpoint, and more.
Rush is a walk on the big-money wild side, Los Angeles style. The women are pretty, the men are ugly, and the pace is frenetic. Rush is to Royal Pains, what NCIS Los Angeles is to NCIS, a West Coast spin-off with a SoCal clientele.
The other DrC thinks it plows the same ground as Breaking Bad - it's compelling and ugly too. My reaction - Rush has the same horrid fascination as a serious injury car accident; it may develop an audience. That audience may include the DrsC.
