Marina/Esther 1×01 – screenshot edition
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“Dr. Malosti, time to wake up – we need to get the new show on the road!” – With an attractive woman over thirty leaning in the doorframe? A pleasure!
…Why not pick the best of HC for a good start? Attractive female doctor + bike + motorcycle helmet. Fine, it doesn’t quite live up to Maca, but they get points for trying!
Esther, during operation “finding a doctor to love”. Well, she doesn’t know she’s on that operation, yet, but she will run into it later today…
Introducing Terry Teresa, furthermore referred to as the Head of Gossip Central:
“Hey Teresa… no doctor arrived for me yet?”
Speaking of which…
…behold the velvet jacket and its lesbian superpowers:
Unfortuantely, it also causes nosebleed in kids. Doesn’t make the new pediatrician any less gorgeous, though. Lucky kid!
Hands! Hands!
First encounter:
Marina: borde (Rrrr!)
Esther: borde, too. (RRrrr, too!)
…and you don’t know it yet, but yes: seven more episodes, and you will kiss her. Desperately. As if your life depended on it.
For now, Esther waltzes off into the sunset, eh, the next corridor.
Marina: not amused. New job starts with aggravating nurse. Too bad she is cute.
Onto the next nurse:
“Hello, I’m the new pediatrician.”
“The battle is on, Ms. Arrogant Aristocrat.” (that should be a synonym for hot, btw. At least in my dictionary.)
QED: the first RHPS. (Random Hot Pediatrician Shot)
Points to those who find another (or two) sexy similarities with Hospital Central *coughlunarcough*
“Me, devouring nurses for breakfast? Never… well, unless they ask nicely…”
“Gossip Central calling all stations, Lesbian Alert. I repeat, Lesbian Alert!”
Meanwhile, meet Ettore. Who should have watched “The Graduate” before taking on this post.
Hello, Mrs. Robinson…
Count your lucky stars, Ettore!
Hellooooooooooo, Mrs. Robinson!
“Oh God, there’s two of them…”
“So, apart from being Cougar Town, we also have many options for femslash…”
“…did I mention nearly unlimited options of femslash?”
Definitely unlimited options of femsl… well, perhaps there are limits.
“Wait, if that wasn’t the new nurse I dressed down, who was that arrogant lady with the velvet jacket?” – Oops…
Uh-oh…
Gulp.
Marina. This is what real “dressing someone down” looks like. Tearing through the nursing staff, one nurse at a time. It’s always the same nurse, though.
Esther, affected. – Understandably though. Arrogant pediatricians => hot, very (see Hospital Central for further reference)
Ah, and another case of “I do so not like you at all”. – Yeah, right.
Meanwhile, one child Marina was looking after disappears (Dario, Malosti’s foster son). The nursing staff takes that as an invitation to tear into Marina in return.
The new pediatrician gets rave reviews from the “under five” crowd, though. The hotness factor might be lost on them… but not on us.
It turns out that some people are actually couples despite all visible bickering… meet Sergio, chief of the Love Boat, eh, Morandini Hospital. And Giulia, Head Nurse. Good taste in men, bad taste in husbands. (also, we learn right away in this first episode what the elevators at TdU are good for. And I don’t mean transporting the ill.)
Another couple: Esther and Aldo. Worse bickering. Worse taste in men.
But the successor is already watching. And uses her chance to set the quarreling lovebirds straight about attention to duty at the workplace. Marina, enjoying keeping nurses on their feet a little too much, perhaps…?
On a different note, did I already mention that the possibilities for femslash on this show are approaching the fathomless? (filmed behind bars! They have to be lesbians!)
The news that his foster son, Dario, has waken up from uncosciousness sends Sexy Grumpy (aka Malosti) straight into the arms on a equally joyful Gandini. Momentary truce before the next argument in the middle of an operation.
Marina. Mad. A girl she is treating shows signs of poisoning, and who prepped the IV? None other than her least favorite nurse, Esther.
Esther is primarily worried about the girl, though, and shocked by her supposed mistake.
Marina, still mad, decides to take it to the next level: the chief’s office. Who comments on Marina’s habit to go at the nursing staff. Particularly at Esther, who runs out in tears while Marina practices her arrogant scowl, which doesn’t really need any practice.
The first episode ends as it started: hot doctor, motorcycle helmet. You gotta love a show that has got its priorities straight!
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“Too bad she is cute.” HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that cracked me up literally!!!!! EXCELLENT job Anik, congrats!!!!!
Excellent 1×01 review, I like your version best. Thanks Nordie.
“seven more episodes, and you will kiss her. Desperately. As if your life depended on it.”
we didn’t know at the time how much our OWN lives depend now on it and its continuation…
Wonderful pics, Anik! Million thanks again!
“Definitely unlimited options of femsl… well, perhaps there are limits.” awww, don’t be so cruel with zizzi76, she can be even cute sometimes!
Thanks Anik for the screenshot edition of the first episode, i was waiting for that!
I’m grinning like a fool!!every time you write tons of memorable quotes!!thanks a lot, it’s fantastic as always
@Data7: of course zizzi76 is cute… and don’t forget those legs!!
I merely meant to say that the chemistry between Esther and Teresa is more “buddies” than “femslash” for me – it’s a limit I would respect.