The story of British-Asian junior doctor Ruby Walker who arrives at the run-down Good Karma Hospital to join a dedicated team of over-worked medics. Run by a gloriously eccentric Englishwoman, Lydia Fonseca, this under-funded but creatively resourceful cottage hospital is the beating heart of the local community. It’s much more than just a medical outpost - it’s a home.
CreatorDan Sefton
Episode 1
Feb 5, 2017
A junior doctor becomes disillusioned with her life and decides to leave the UK. She heads for South India hoping to make a fresh start, and finds a new home working in an under-resourced and over-worked cottage hospital run by an eccentric English ex-pat.
Episode 2
Feb 12, 2017
The team race against the clock to treat a local snake catcher.
Episode 3
Feb 19, 2017
As Holi festival fever hits The Good Karma Hospital, an abandoned baby strikes a personal chord with Ruby. Meanwhile, Lydia is reacquainted with an aging ex-pat artist, whose alternative life choices may be about to catch up with him.
Episode 4
Feb 26, 2017
On the day that he is attending a lavish Indian wedding, Ram clashes with Lydia when a medical case gets personal. Meanwhile, as Ruby treats a patient from the UK whose story doesn't quite add up, she's left questioning where she truly belongs.
Episode 5
Mar 5, 2017
Lydia and Ruby visit a convent to make a seemingly miraculous diagnosis, but Lydia's interference in the destiny of a young nun backfires bringing Lydia and Ruby to blows. Meanwhile, Maggie and Paul join local pilgrims trekking through the jungle - is Maggie searching for her own miracle?
Episode 6
Mar 12, 2017
As the first monsoon rains arrive, tensions run high between Lydia and Ruby leading Ruby to make a shock decision. Meanwhile, Maggie's health is rapidly declining, and with her daughter insisting on returning to the UK, will Maggie be granted her dying wish to stay in India?
Peter McGinn
@narrator56
This is one of those British family-safe shows that for me started way back in the Jurassic Period with All Creatures Great and Small and continued on with many similar offerings. They are known as Dramadies, I think, comedy-dramas I mean similar in style, not plot or characters necessarily. Lark Rise to Candleford and Call the Midwife also come to mind. I think they sometimes ran on Sunday nights. (I am in the U.S. so I am not an authority on them.) The episodes for this kind of program tend to follow a sort of formula. In this show, for example, Lily usually encounters a medical decision early in each episode that is questioned or even overridden, and the subplot of whether she is right or wrong plays out throughout the episode. And there is usually another subplot, a character with medical and/or personal issues that also play out as each episode moves along. But there is a lot more to the show than this. If you like the characters, which I do, the subplots following their lives plays greatly into you wanting to keep coming back. I watch different types of dramas that might include extreme tension and drama and spotty violence, but it is a comfort sometimes to take a break with a show like this. There is a stumbling romance that plays out which is, for me at least, less interesting because it is more predictable, but that might prove to be a bright spot for other viewers. So if you only watch the Breaking Bad or Broadchurch sort of programming you will want to give this a miss, but for stress relieving old fashioned entertainment, settle in for The Good Karma Hospital.
