Byouin no Naoshi Kata Doctor Arihara no Chousen Episodes 1+2

Byouin no Naoshi Kata Doctor Arihara no Chousen is a jdorama about a doctor (Koizumi Kotaro) and a banker (Takashima Masanobu) who team up to try to save the hospital that Koizumi's dad founded which has been horribly mismanaged.

Koizumi Kotaro's character is a stupid idiot who would rather talk about stems when Konishi Manami is giving him the cat smile and Takashima Masanobu wants to get out of this hospital business and get back to his banking career path.

The first episode bored the hell out of me especially with the 1 and 1/2 hour runtime and generic acting and directing. I'm starting to believe that Koizumi Kotaro is not a good of an actor but rather had a good run of really good scripts.

This is suppose to be an underdog style story but they don't feel like underdogs. The hospital got into trouble because management was incompetent and corrupt and let things get so bad for for long. The hospital just needs to be run in a normal way and the two episodes have not made me want to continue.

The only interesting character is Takashima Masanobu's banker because he is a reluctant main character trying to convince the medical staff he knows more about running a business than they do.

Byouin no Naoshi Kata Doctor Arihara no Chousen just feels so tired and uninspiring. Very meh from me. If you want a hospital management show, watch the more entertaining Doctors or even Shiroi Kyoto. Speaking of which, I did not finish watching last year's version. Hard to muster interest to finish when there's the near perfect 2003 version.