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 overbearing 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) issues about mental illnesses, but by the very next scene, it completely dispels or forgets the physical and tries to mainly attribute the cause to mostly or solely 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 a 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, magically begin to improve.

The drama reeks of victim mentality. It is constantly upbraided by passive aggressive characters, and the writer's constant virtue signaling, as if it's profound knowledge, becomes nauseating very quickly. 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 may describe various cases, as traumatic experiences can trigger underlying issues or make one more susceptible to developing mental illness, but the environment is rarely the cause. Someone down on his luck can experience bouts of depression without suffering from clinical depression. Someone may find difficulty trying to focus due to a stressful environment without suffering from ADHD. Someone may lapse into a fit of rage without suffering from anger management. Unique experiences can naturally cause you to react outside of your control especially if you are unfamiliar to them, but they do not force your physical make-up to change and leave you in an inelastic, neurochemically impaired state. Consequently, traumatic experiences do not describe all cases of mental illnesses, and especially for ones requiring long-term stays at a psychiatric ward.

The mentally ill isn'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?