Samantha Beckinsale as a recently widowed wife is just weird and unconvincing. Anita Dobson as the mother is very unsympathetic. But Eddie Marsan as a fellow patient is aggressive and horrible. Matthew Cottle is basically playing Martin from Game On (no surprise, the two series overlapped) which might have worked if he'd had the right kind of characters around him. But even taking its setting aside, too many of the characters are odd and unpleasant and weird. The concept of long-term patients in a hospital also peaked in the 70s with Only When I Laugh and the Carry On films. But Goodnight Sweetheart combined the present with the past and had a more interesting and unique concept than Get Well Soon. It's possible it was made a decade or so too late: the "wartime sitcom" probably had its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s with Dad's Army and others, possibly to as late as the early nineties with Goodnight Sweetheart. The main weakness is the characters, none of whom are very likeable or funny. Get Well Soon has a strong cast but very weak writing.
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