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I realized yesterday that my favorite daydream television program (or mini series more likely - or film, I guess it wouldn't really work well in a straight up New Adventure Every Week format) that will never be true follows the adventures and hard work of an epidemiologist in a somewhat alternate world, pre-germ theory.
The epidemiologist is played by Lucy Liu. There are montages that show coherent patterns slowly taking shape on maps as Our Hero follows police reports and obituaries and medical bulletins day by day, charting the flow of disease and death.
She wins, obviously. She identifies the vector and figures out how to stop more people getting sick even though she doesn't sufficient information to form a full theory of etiology.
CCH Pounder plays her mentor, a practical local GP who is also coroner for her district. They have awesome conversations about work! There is practical advice!
There is a woman who runs a bakery next door, played by I dunno who, who Our Hero buys her bread from who is sympathetic and interested and obviously has a crush but I suspect it never goes anywhere because Our Hero is wedded to her work and also aromantic. If this were a series Bakery Woman would eventually find a nice woman to fall in requited love with and they would get together and Our Hero would be happy for them.
There are shots of slanting sunlight and Our Hero's occasional sidekick is a young man who works as an architect and does a lot of public design especially for hospitals and places. They met when he consulted her on a quarantine ward he'd been commissioned to redo, and now she occasionally hauls him out of bed and makes him help her with her footwork. They trade expertise! He defers to her on medical questions and a running joke his utter hatred for the design of the major courthouse in town. He claims its horrible and inconvenient and hideous and the roof is all wrong and it will fall in within fifty years and then everyone will die. Possibly this is a relatively new building and he has this hissy spitty rivalry thing going with whoever designed it? (Who may or may not know he exists.)
Anyway. Like I said. It'll never happen, but I like to turn it over in my head when I'm trying to get to sleep. It's comforting and sometimes I wind up dreaming about medical geography and sewer design.
The epidemiologist is played by Lucy Liu. There are montages that show coherent patterns slowly taking shape on maps as Our Hero follows police reports and obituaries and medical bulletins day by day, charting the flow of disease and death.
She wins, obviously. She identifies the vector and figures out how to stop more people getting sick even though she doesn't sufficient information to form a full theory of etiology.
CCH Pounder plays her mentor, a practical local GP who is also coroner for her district. They have awesome conversations about work! There is practical advice!
There is a woman who runs a bakery next door, played by I dunno who, who Our Hero buys her bread from who is sympathetic and interested and obviously has a crush but I suspect it never goes anywhere because Our Hero is wedded to her work and also aromantic. If this were a series Bakery Woman would eventually find a nice woman to fall in requited love with and they would get together and Our Hero would be happy for them.
There are shots of slanting sunlight and Our Hero's occasional sidekick is a young man who works as an architect and does a lot of public design especially for hospitals and places. They met when he consulted her on a quarantine ward he'd been commissioned to redo, and now she occasionally hauls him out of bed and makes him help her with her footwork. They trade expertise! He defers to her on medical questions and a running joke his utter hatred for the design of the major courthouse in town. He claims its horrible and inconvenient and hideous and the roof is all wrong and it will fall in within fifty years and then everyone will die. Possibly this is a relatively new building and he has this hissy spitty rivalry thing going with whoever designed it? (Who may or may not know he exists.)
Anyway. Like I said. It'll never happen, but I like to turn it over in my head when I'm trying to get to sleep. It's comforting and sometimes I wind up dreaming about medical geography and sewer design.
