A gripping new drama from the writers who created Line Of Duty took ITV1 viewers on a rollercoaster on Sunday night as audiences took a while to warm to the main character - before a twist ending changed people's minds entirely.
Malpractice, set and filmed in Leeds, kicked off on ITV1 on Sunday night. The fictional drama follows A&E doctor at a West Yorkshire hospital Lucinda Edwards.
The drama centres around the death of a patient in A&E following an overdose.
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But there seems to be more to it than first meets the eye and the plot thickens as Lucinda, played by Niamh Algar, is investigated for possible malpractice over the death.
As viewers saw Dr Edwards exchange a series of texts with a mysterious 'Rose', she meets a man in the park to tell him that she's going to have to 'come clean' to investigators about what really happened that night - and soon after he ends up hit and presumably killed by a car.
It turns out, then, that there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
At first, ITV1 viewers weren't keen on Niamh's frosty and sharp edged portrayal of Dr Lucinda Edwards as she snapped at junior doctors on the ward and forced a student doctor to undertake a lumbar puncture on a child against her will.
@says_roy said: "I really couldn’t give a s*** what happens to her. Not a likeable character at all. #Malpractice"
@rozzy67 said: "#Malpractice This senior A&E doctor is a really unlikable character! Utter b**** with zero bedside manner"
@eveleyn_obahor said: "Why is she being so horrible"
@sschiavo123 said: "That young female doctor is doing my f**** head in #Malpractice"
@TVSpiv said: "Linking #malpractice & #LineOfDuty is more of a malpractice than this drivel. Impossible to like the lead character, suits interrogation felt like a contrived cookie cutter from LoD but with no medical background to give the interrogators gravitas. Needs Liverpool pathway"
But others seemed to take to them much better following the big twist ending, drawing comparisons to Line Of Duty.
@_laurajones0 said: "Lucinda and Oscar are already so iconic as characters, this is how you do a drama, this is lod level"
@theyneedmusic said: "ITV providing another character to fall in love with. This show has me hooked already!!"
@blue_laur11 said: "Message to the writers of #Malpractice thank you this show is fantastic !!. Wow what a first episode of #Malpractice I’m that excited I can’t even text properly so much drama."
@andygibsonTV said: "That was brilliant. Can't wait for the next appointment."
@csrizzoli said: "Omg what an episode, absolutely gripped! Thank you to whoever wrote #Malpractice i cant wait for the next episode now wow! Whats going to happen to Lucinda now that she pushed rob into the road and hes been knocked down?"
Malpractice is back next Sunday on ITV1, or available to stream in full on catch up service ITVX now.
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