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* CanadaEh: This has several up-and-coming Canadian actors, and EstablishingShot footage is of Toronto, plus it makes references to Medicare (a name for the Canadian healthcare system as a whole) and the accents are as Torontonian as you can get.
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''Nurses'' is a Canadian MedicalDrama that premiered on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in 2020. The series focuses on the lives of five rookie nurses--Grace Knight, Wolf Burke, Ashley Collins, Nazneen "Naz" Khan, and Keon Colby--beginning their new job at the (fictional) St. Mary's Hospital in downtown UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. Two seasons have aired.

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''Nurses'' is a Canadian MedicalDrama that premiered on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in 2020. The series focuses on the lives of five rookie nurses--Grace Knight, Wolf Burke, Ashley Collins, Nazneen "Naz" Khan, and Keon Colby--beginning their new job at the (fictional) St. Mary's Hospital in downtown UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. Two seasons have aired.
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* HospitalHottie: While the cast is overall very attractive, Naz's good looks are mentioned multiple times in-universe in just the first episode. This initially causes some of the other nurses to be dismissive of her and giving her nicknames like "Princess".
** Ironically, one of main teaser ads for the show depicted the main cast [[PowerWalk Power Walking]] down a hospital hallway to the Ed Sheeran song ''Beautiful People'' with the ad ending on the line "we are not beautiful"... as the attractive cast smouldered for a final glamour shot.

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* HospitalHottie: While the cast is overall very attractive, Naz's good looks are mentioned multiple times in-universe in just the first episode. This initially causes some of the other nurses to be dismissive of her and giving her nicknames like "Princess".
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"Princess". Ironically, one of main teaser ads for the show depicted the main cast [[PowerWalk Power Walking]] doing a TeamPowerWalk down a hospital hallway to the Ed Sheeran song ''Beautiful People'' with the ad ending on the line "we are not beautiful"... as the attractive cast smouldered for a final glamour shot.
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''Nurses'' is a Canadian MedicalDrama that premiered on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in 2020. The series focuses on the lives of five rookie nurses--Grace Knight, Wolf Burke, Ashley Collins, Nazneen "Naz" Khan, and Keon Colby--beginning their new job at the (fictional) St. Mary's Hospital in downtown UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. The show is airing the second season as of June 2021.

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''Nurses'' is a Canadian MedicalDrama that premiered on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in 2020. The series focuses on the lives of five rookie nurses--Grace Knight, Wolf Burke, Ashley Collins, Nazneen "Naz" Khan, and Keon Colby--beginning their new job at the (fictional) St. Mary's Hospital in downtown UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. The show is airing the second season as of June 2021.
Two seasons have aired.
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* OutnumberedSibling: Keon mentions he's the only male in his family's generation, his siblings and cousins being all girls.
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* ArtisticLicense: This was one reason the show got negative reviews in its first season, due to the nature of the series, with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief being one of the things people said it went too far with because of believability issues around nursing. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment It proved controversial]].

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* ArtisticLicense: This was one reason the show got negative reviews in its first season, due to the nature of the series, with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief being one of the things people said it went too far with because of believability issues around nursing. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment It proved controversial]].controversial.
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It's not the same as the 1990s medical sitcom of the same name that was aired by NBC from 1991 to 1994.

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It's not the same as [[Series/Nurses1991 the 1990s medical sitcom of the same name name]] that was aired by NBC from 1991 to 1994.
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* ArtisticLicense: This was one reason the show got negative reviews in its first season, due to the nature of the series, with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief being one of the things people said it went too far with because of believability issues around nursing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment It proved controversial]].

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* ArtisticLicense: This was one reason the show got negative reviews in its first season, due to the nature of the series, with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief being one of the things people said it went too far with because of believability issues around nursing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment It proved controversial]].

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The show has also aired on NBC since December 7, 2020 due to lack of available drama shows to air on the channel during anti-COVID-19 lockdowns.

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The show has also aired on NBC since December 7, 2020 due to lack of available drama shows to air on the channel during anti-COVID-19 [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] lockdowns.



* ArtisticLicense: This was a major reason the show got a lot of negative reviews, due to the nature of the series, with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief being one of the things people said it went too far with because of believability issues around nursing.

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* ArtisticLicense: This was a major one reason the show got a lot of negative reviews, reviews in its first season, due to the nature of the series, with WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief being one of the things people said it went too far with because of believability issues around nursing.nursing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment It proved controversial]].



* BritishBrevity: The series has one season of ten episodes (although it's actually ''nine'' due to a banned episode about Judaism), making this a fairly short season.

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* BritishBrevity: The series has one season of ten episodes (although it's actually ''nine'' due to a banned episode about Judaism), making this a fairly short season. The second season also has 10 episodes too.



** The van attack in the first episode takes place at SAI College, a downtown arts college, an obvious stand in for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCAD_University OCAD University]].

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** The van attack in the first episode takes place at SAI College, a downtown arts college, an obvious stand in stand-in for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCAD_University OCAD University]].University]].
* {{Filler}}: Averted, as although medical dramas often have a filler episode or two, every episode proves relevant to the StoryArc in some way, and also the limited ten episodes a series helps avoid this.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she's an empathic and suportive friend and a competent nurse, Ashley is shown to be BrutallyHonest, contemptuous and judgemental, particularly towards Grace in episode 1 and 2 when she confronts her about her decision-making and abilities as a nurse bringing up Grace being fired from City General OR after a patient nearly died on the table. She eats her words when Grace reveals [[spoiler: "there was a hand down (her) pants"]] during the surgery. Ashley later becomes TheConfidant for Grace and the two end the first season as friends.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though she's an empathic and suportive friend and a competent nurse, Ashley is shown to be BrutallyHonest, contemptuous [[BrutallyHonest tell the truth even if no-one wants to hear it]], [[SnarkKnight contemptuous]] and judgemental, particularly towards Grace in episode 1 and 2 when she confronts her about her decision-making and abilities as a nurse bringing up Grace being fired from City General OR after a patient nearly died on the table. She eats her words when Grace reveals [[spoiler: "there was a hand down (her) pants"]] during the surgery. But, due to CharacterDevelopment, Ashley later becomes TheConfidant for Grace and the two end the first season as friends.



* MamaBear: Sinead.
* TheMistress: In Season 1, Grace is having an affair with Kabir her ex-boyfriend from college knowing he's engaged. She breaks it off, realizing she was only using him for comfort and that it's not working for her anymore.

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* MamaBear: Sinead.
* TheMistress: In Season 1, Grace is having an affair with Kabir Kabir, her ex-boyfriend from college knowing he's engaged. She breaks it off, realizing that she was only using him for comfort and that it's not working for her anymore.



* PlatonicLifePartners: Wolf and Ashley.



* ScaryBlackMan: Damian Saunders.
* ShipTease:
** Grace and Dr. Evan Wallace.
** Keon and Dr. Vanessa Banks.



* StatusQuoIsGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. While it ''is'' a MedicalDrama, it's not the kind where things change with a ''major'' WhamEpisode causing irreversible changes to the status quo, but the team will ''always'' be back together in some form.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. While it ''is'' a MedicalDrama, it's not it is the kind where things change with a ''major'' WhamEpisode causing irreversible changes to the status quo, but the status quo of the same team will ''always'' be back working together is in some form.play.



* TheTopicOfCancer: Wolf has leukemia, having been diagnosed since [[LittlestCancerPatient he was twelve]].
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* CanadaEh: This has several up-and-coming Canadian actors, and EstablishingShot footage is of Toronto, plus it makes references to Medicare, a Canadian equivalent of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the accents are as Torontonian as you can get.

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* CanadaEh: This has several up-and-coming Canadian actors, and EstablishingShot footage is of Toronto, plus it makes references to Medicare, a Medicare (a name for the Canadian equivalent of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) healthcare system as a whole) and the accents are as Torontonian as you can get.

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