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UK hospitals have been excellent in my experience, though I’ve obviously only seen some of them.
Plus, although our system is very different from America in theory, our government has, for decades (especially under the Conservative Party), been undermining the NHS through cuts, market-based policy decisions and creeping attempts at privatisation.
If the NHS was supported the way it deserves to be, it would be even better than it already is.
Fair enough. As I said at the start, it was just the impression I had - evidently not the case :-)
I don’t think that’s true though - these are the IMDb ratings, which remain open, and didn’t exist when the episodes came out.
Indeed but I’m questioning the scores themselves in S1 and S2. Put it this way, I didn’t think that those seasons were considered almost as good as most the next 8, I would have expected them to be mostly in the 6.8-7.2 range.
Fair enough - I’m not as familiar with the earliest seasons, so it was more the impression I had than a definite opinion :-)
Maybe the last episode before a season break or something?
For anyone wondering the top rated episodes here, all at 9.2 are:
S5E2 Cape Feare
S6E6 Treehouse of Horror V
S6E25 Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One
S8E2 You Only Move Twice
And just as I was finishing that, I noticed that one episode has a 9.3, d’oh!
S8E23 Homer’s Enemy
I’m not disputing that The Simpsons declined in quality, but I do kind of question the high scores for the first season or two.
I’m not a superfan or anything, but my perception of the show was that it took 3 or 4 seasons to really get good?
Fair points. And, of course, I’ve never been in a US hospital, so they may be like Xanadu in comparison :-)