Trust Me review: Jodie Whittaker’s drama is a medical marvel

The series sees the new Doctor Who pose as a real doctor in an Edinburgh hospital
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Toby Earle8 August 2017

You can run but you can’t hide from Jodie Whittaker at the moment.

Unless you’ve been living on Mars for the past few weeks (or travelling through space and time in a Tardis), you will know she has been cast as the next Doctor Who, the first woman to take the lead role in the sci-fi series’ 54-year history.

It’s an appointment that has generated controversy in some quarters, though you can’t help but think that this four-part drama will benefit from Whittaker’s name being in the news.

In fact, the cynics out there may even suggest that the Doctor Who announcement was timed to give Trust Me as much publicity as possible.

The Venus and Broadchurch star plays a doctor of a different type here. Well, sort of. Cath Hardacre is the kind of nurse you would want to take care of you — she’s both compassionate and very good at her job.

However, after turning whistleblower she has found it impossible to land a new position.

With a young daughter to support, Cath takes a desperate step — she steals the identity of a friend who happens to be a senior doctor and joins the staff of an Edinburgh hospital. But can she really escape the demons from her past?

We’ll find out in due course, but with a desperate alcoholic ex (played with gusto by Blake Harrison) on her trail, you get the impression that Cath’s story won’t end with her living happily ever after — a trip into the unknown in an unreliable spacecraft seems far more appealing than the fate that may be awaiting her…

Trust Me airs on August 8 at 9pm on BBC One.

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