Penpusher
Posted: 2020-06-28T12:07:29+10:00 In:

When conscripted into a brutal war, a team of army doctors must use laughter to stave off their own insanity, in order to save as many lives as they can.

Had a go at writing one for an episodic sitcom: M*A*S*H

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    1. Penpusher
      This answer was edited.

      I think on reflection I’d make this specifically about the Hawkeye character, perhaps framing him as angry or self-righteous, or hedonistic. Maybe impulse-driven.

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    2. Singularity

      A team of skilled but idiosyncratic medical personnel struggle to save lives while coping with the carnage, chaos and absurdities of the Korean War.
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      The long running TV series (1972-1983) portrayed a watered down and pasteurized version of the wild and crazy characters of the hit movie “MASH” (1970). (MASH is an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital). The movie was adapted from a novel based upon the experiences of the author as an army surgeon doctor in the Korean War.

      The movie and TV series owed their popularity to the parallels between the carnage, chaos and absurdities of the Korean War and those of the Vietnam War which was tearing the social and political fabric of the United States at the time at time the movie came out. As Edna St. Vincent Milay put it, “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another — it’s one damn thing over and over.”

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