The head nurse, southern belle and preacher have charisma, but they do not play likable characters and so it's hard to become interested in them. But the most troubling and completely obvious problem with this series is that there is so much interpersonal conflict, between mothers and sons, daughters and mothers, nurses and doctors, slaves and non-slaves, etc., etc., that you can only wonder how on earth did ANYONE survive that war, much less any other war. Nothing is heartwarming. No relationships or personalities seem real. The fact that the new head nurse even remotely decided to stay in that God forsaken hospital is a total mystery and beyond comprehension. The writers used every conceivable human conflict they could imagine and have loaded every episode with it....only to leave the viewer exhausted and wondering how on earth we made it this far.
Review of Mercy Street
