First things first: learn from my mistake, and DO NOT binge watch Hospital Playlist. I know you, binge-watchers. I am you. As soon as you've got a grip on the plot and you've figured out your favourite storylines, you've got one finger hovering over the 10-second-skip button. Because who has the time to spend a full day watching doctors going about their daily lives, occasionally stopping to sing in their wee garage band? Not me. You watch the friends-to-lovers, the highly competent doctors goofing around with each other, the occasional patient success story, skippity skip through the 'boring' bits. You finish the final episode and it's okay, great, maybe, but isn't there something missing? Why?

Because Hospital Playlist is not the show for that. Hospital Playlist is a show that washes over you, slowly, until you feel completely assimilated into the environment, until the characters are your old med school buddies (yes, even though you studied English Lit). It is a show whose magic lies in the littlest interactions, the characters built up through seemingly irrelevant dialogues with patients and colleagues. It is a show that reminds you there is good in the world, despite everything. That people are still kind, despite everything. Not because of any thrilling plot or grand love story, but through the genuine love and kindness expressed by just about every character in the show.

Hospital Playlist is a rare show which leaves you wanting to be a better person. To hold your loved ones a little tighter, not out of fear but out of gratitude; gratitude that you get to be alive as you are, just laughing and eating and breathing by their side. Hospital Playlist reminds us that life's not about the big things. It's about love. About giving and receiving and giving some more. No matter how bad things can sometimes seem, Hospital Playlist tells us that as long as you have your people, your kindness for others, your love for the world, well, that's a pretty good life indeed.