If you want a drama to accurately represent and inform viewers about mental illness, then this is not for you. If you want reasonable characters and complex dialogue, then this is not for you. If you want mature characters who are expected to act their age, then this is not for you. If you enjoy a watered-down and amateur screenplay about human interactions that also deals with mental issues, and tries to hide its flaws with pretentious moralizing, occasional comic relief, and a flurry of needless romance, then this is right up your alley!

Although the shows has a stellar start with interesting safety facts and quirks about working in a psychiatric facility, that is about the extent of where the facts regarding mental illness are informative. At one instance, the show briefly mentions the scientific and physical (neurochemical/anatomical) explanations for mental illnesses, but very soon after, it completely dispels or forgets the physical and tries to mainly attribute the cause to societal pressures and injustices. In other words, it is the overbearing mother, the despotic manager, or the predatory capitalistic society that is causing our mental health crisis. And the universal remedy is that people just need to take their meds and have others accept them; or, for those suffering from severe OCD, fall in love and be cured! This is a completely naive picture that an introductory course in psychiatry will quickly dispel. To make matters worse, the "prescriptions" aren't scientifically backed advice but are seemingly a mixture of the writer's dogmatisms, sociological assumptions, and attempts at psychoanalysis. The patients become the victims of the overused trope: "society is the problem." Therefore, society must change; not the patients. Once their external environment changes, the patients, too, will magically begin to improve. Quite ironically, like the situation with the overbearing mother, the drama reeks of victim mentality and a denial of the victim's actual condition.

What this drama portrays for the "mentally ill" are those who have had their worldviews, ambitions, goals, and desires destroyed by societal pressures. Then, it throws in various mental illnesses ad-hoc. These situations may describe some cases, as traumatic experiences can trigger underlying issues or make one more susceptible to developing underlying conditions, but the environment is rarely the cause. The environment does not force your physical make-up to change and leave you in an inelastic, neurochemically impaired state which is predominantly the situation for patients who require long term stays at a psychiatric ward. The mentally ill aren't exclusive to members of society who have had difficult and restricted lives or those who have failed at their chances for glory. They exist for all types of people and can happen to anyone, anytime: with or without reason, poor or rich, successful or unsuccessful, sociable or reclusive, physically fit or unfit, etc. Like, seriously. What will the writer claim was the catalyst for John Nash's schizophrenia and psychosis? Too much success? For possessing too much mathematical prowess? Or, Robin William's depression? Too great of a comedian? For possessing too much fame and wit?

Beside the mental illness stuff, the drama is quite over-the-top and immature; it constantly establishes a sense of brooding for rather very shallow perspectives. The first 2 episodes seem to set the tone for the remainder of the drama, so if that's your cup of tea then go for it. It clearly wasn't mine which is why I had to drop.