This British medical drama set in an underfunded and understaffed rural hospital on the coast of Southern India continues with Dr. Ruby Walker (Amrita Acharia), a London doctor doing her internship in a country that is foreign to her despite her Indian ancestry, taking on greater responsibilities, and Dr. Lydia Fonseca (Amanda Redman), the practical administrator and head doctor, keeping the enterprise running. The show touches on poverty, local suspicions regarding Western medicine, and the culture of tourism and often arrogant Western visitors, but otherwise this is a light drama. There are stories of romance, both Ruby's no-strings situation with the local bar owner (Neil Morrissey) and Ruby's growing relationship with the handsome but aloof Dr. Gabriel Varma (James Floyd), and of family, as Ruby meets the father who abandoned her as an infant. Philip Jackson, who played the widower husband of a dying woman who chose to spend her last days in India, returns to grieve the love of his life. Compiling all six episodes from the 2018 second season, extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)
The Good Karma Hospital: Series 2
RLJ, 2 discs, 288 min., not rated, DVD: $39.99 Volume 33, Issue 6
The Good Karma Hospital: Series 2
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