Just curious. If so - what do you think?
Full disclosure: I work for a company that supports fertility specialist doctors, but neither I nor my company have involvement with the show itself. But since it portrays an area of care that my company deals with, I am interested in how the general public views the show.
So again - what do you think?
I can’t speak from personal experience, but my wife as deemed it “definitely DVRworthy”.
Full disclosure – we’ve had fertility issues ourselves…my wife had uterine reconstruction surgery last November, and we’re expecting our first child next month. She’s very active on an expectant mother message board, and Inconceivable has become a hit with a majority of the members there.
I haven’t seen it. I also haven’t seen a single review of the show that wasn’t awful.
I haven’t seen it, but I imagined a show featuring Wally Shaw voicing his amazement at a serious of Ripleys-like news stories.
Inconceivable!
I watched the first episode. I won’t watch it again.
While I’m all for helping couples conceive, two of the characters in the show had children without having a man in their life, and the child is growing up without a father. In fact, the little boy seemed rather forlorn that his father couldn’t be there to watch him play Little League. To me, this speaks to one of the horrible aspects of single parenthood*, the perception that fathers are dispensible.
The fact that the receptionist wanted to adopt the abandoned baby and that “she already had a daycare picked out” just curled my hair. Why have a child if you’re not going to take care of it, especially a newborn?
I wasn’t impressed.
*Yes, I know there are myriad reasons a mother may be raising a child alone. I’m speaking of those who consciously have a child simply because the clock is ticking, and do not understand that daddies are as vital to a child as mommies. YMMV, my .02 only, feel free to disregard.
Ugh. Awful.
The RE promising the woman that he would get her pregnant? I think that was supposed to be a moving scene, but I wanted to take away his license.
And the scene where the social worker told the mother that her healthy mixed-race infant would end up in foster care because no one would want to adopt him had many of my adoptive parent acquaintances upset.
Thanks for the input. It sounds like the folks that like it - and besides Hal I have heard from others - it is because they see some of the emotional issues dealing with fertility that they can relate to.
of those that don’t like it - and you appear to be in the majority - would you say it is “content” or “execution” or both that you really don’t like? Meaning: is it the topics themselves - ivylass you clearly don’t like some of the topics being portrayed, for instance - or is it the actors and plots. In other words, if the plots were handled better and done by different actors, would this type of show work?
I ask mainly because in my role at my company, we struggle with how to present fertility issue to the public in a way that increases visibility without turning people off. As a marketing guy, I want to listen to the public.
Thanks.
You keep using that word.
I do not think this show means what you think it means.
As someone who has been through this myself, I found it all so unrealistic. One review of the show I read suggested that it’s a West Coast/East Coast thing – that clinics on the West Coast are more inclined to be “out there” like the show. Any thoughts?
Call me a broken record, but I still can’t get over the fact that a doctor would promise a woman she’d get pregnant and we’re supposed to be touched. She’s emotionally drained after all the treatment ups and downs, and IMHO he should be exploring with her whether continuing treatment remains the right approach for her, or at least giving her time to mourn before urging her to immediately jump on to yet another rollercoaster. On my first RE visit, our doctor encouraged us to really think before we started treatment at all, and encouraged us to look into whether adoption or foster-adopt would be better fits for us. I have always respected that, especially since I know people who have nearly lost their houses as well as a decade of their lives in the endless pursuit of treatment.
I don’t think we’re necessarily supposed to be touched. The whole drama of this show is based on the doctors’ fallibility and the patients’ emotional investment. Geez, we’re only two episodes into it and how many outright errors, moral/ethical problems, and heartbreaks have we seen? It’s what the show’s about.
So why aren’t you impressed? You’re on the same page as the writers. When mom gives her son the intake polaroid of his father, he asks “Is this all you’ve got?” and she replies, “It was all I needed at the time.” We are meant to infer that in the present moment, the boy himself needs something more.
It seems to me that some people don’t like it because its premise depends on using fertility treatment as a source of controversy. I think we can expect these contrasts to be in fairly broad strokes. So long as they don’t go all Godsend and only present one distorted side of the issue, I’m happy.
Lily - I know of no clear differences between West Coast and East Coast fertility specialists. To my knowledge there are solid, excellent practitioners and those that are…less solid and excellent on both coasts and in between.
Larry - there is truth to what you say. They are certainly using the fertility setting to tee up some controversial moments. The MD’s I know for the most part are put off - while some of the situations have happened, they are extreme exceptions.
article from the Seattle Times where fertility clinic workers hated the show.
For them, it seems to be a combination of the content and execution. One even says “her only hope is that the show is so far from reality no one will think it’s an accurate depiction of life in a fertility clinic.” Or in other words, this isn’t how you want to increase visibility
It would seem that not enough anyones have been watching. AP NewsNBC said this Friday’s airing of the new fertility clinic drama, “Inconceivable,” was being yanked in favor of a “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” rerun. It’s not officially a cancellation, but given that only 4.5 million people saw “Inconceivable” last week, its prospects are dim.
The writing was very mediocre. The only part I liked was the gay guy following around the pregnant woman. But the dialogue is flat and I don’t care all that much about the characters.