I will watch the second season of the Green Wing with care. I will not continue to watch something that offends me as much as the last episode of the season.

"Green Wing" had me rolling around on the floor in paroxysms - only wish they had been with Dr Statham........

Green Wing is a hilarious sitcom/drama set in the crazy ward - Green Wing. The characters although seeming intelligent have a fantastic way of behaving childishly, eg, Guy and Mac who constantly try to better each other and scatty Dr. Todd who seems to create disaster wherever or Martin who just can't get it right and even Sue White the unsympathetic staff counsellor.

Green Wing is simply the best thing I have seen on the television. Ever. (And I thought nothing could beat Black Books!) You either get it or you don't - and people that don't, you don't know what you're missing.

At first I thought, 'how on earth is this going to work with about ten main characters? We'll never get to know any of them properly.' How wrong I was - every character develops wonderfully during the series, and the hour-long episodes meant that there was space for the main storyline to run as well as throwing in a few scenes that admittedly added nothing to the plot but were wonderfully funny (examples: the clapping game in the operating theatre and the spinning round on the swivel chairs). There's also a pleasant mix of people that have a few odd traits but you can sort of identify with and imagine really existing (like Mac or Caroline) and those that are obviously blown out of proportion to hilarious extremes (like Sue White or Dr Alan). Not to mention that you get both brilliant physical comedy from characters like Martin, Sue and Alan and also sharp witty dialogue scenes, often between Mac and Guy.

Despite the surreality, you find yourself really caring about what's happening to the characters and having strong opinions about them - you want to throw things at Guy, you want to give Martin a hug and tell him everything's going to be alright, you desperately want to see Mac and Caroline getting together and you feel a sort of agonising pity for Alan when Joanna finally tells him it's over. Plus the cliffhanger ending was genius - there's now no way I could possibly not watch the next series, because I need to find out how they're all going to get out of that ambulance, and how Mac is going to get out of going to Sheffield.

There's also the fact that I would happily watch Julian Rhind-Tutt reading out the telephone directory, let alone stabbing people with scalpels and being generally hilarious.

Some of the highlights of the series have to be -
*The Mac/Guy fight and its conclusion with the awkward hug
*Sue White dancing to her ringtones
*The 'Funkee!' 'Funkeh!' scene
*Mac and Guy constantly trying to get one over on the other, resulting in Guy eating coffee, them headbutting signs, and Guy sleeping with his mother (before finding out she's his mother, you understand)
*Alan trying to abduct Joanna - "What kind of a masked kidnapper are you?" "One that's loathe to contravene the local bylaws, actually!"
*Mac's waxing an owl line
*The 'she's my smoo too' charades scene
*Martin's 'see you in Zurich face'

I could go on and on.

Green Wing is without doubt the TV treat of 2004. There was not one moment when I didn't have a smile on my face due to the fab acting and mannerisms of a fresh and unweathered cast. It filled the space that Friends had left and deserves to sweep the board at the comedy awards - it is quite simply good fun and is very, very funny.

Green Wing - This is the best comedy ever (maybe a bit generous), the characters were original, the storyline moved fast, and they could actually be related to!! - shame on me. Great comedy, can't wait for it to come out on DVD!!!

Green Wing has come on to the British Comedy circuit quite quietly, but made a huge impact. The amount of hits to Green Wing related sites has been phenomenal and it shows that we Brits can contend with the Americans, for once. The more I watch it, the more intrigued I become not only with the characters, but the clever use of cameras and time warping. As an amatuer comedy writer, it is inspirational to see something as wacky but as tantalising as this. The background humour is what you must look for, the comedy isn't always in frontal view! It may be fair to say that some episodes were overly long and the cross cutting between different narratives too much, but the classic 'will they won't they' situation worked well and drew many people to their own conclusions in the characters themselves. For example, is Sue White jealous of Caroline having Mac or Mac having Caroline? As we found in the first episode, Sue touches Caroline's bum and kisses her at her party and her office later, adding to a mystery that surounds the character.

Overall, Green Wing will easily attract more viewers with the second series on the way and the first will live on, if DVD's are scheduled for release. People who haven't seen the first? Get going! You won't be disappointed!

I think Green Wing is absolutely hilarious, it annoys me when people compare it to scrubs, because I love that two, and they are both completely different. I love the story between Mac and Caroline, (but don't see why everyone loves him!) I think Green Wing is absolutely hilarious and I love it because of the insanity of the characters!!

When I first saw the ads for this tv program I expected a Smack The Pony style sketch show. How wrong was I.
The Green Wing is a strange kind of Soap/Drama/Comedy thing that just works on all levels.
The cast are fabulous, Mark Heap as Dr Statham is just fantastic, although his character is essentially an unlikeable prat, the way Heap plays him you just have to feel for the guy. Genius.
Everyone else is brilliant to, from the gorgeous Tamsin Greig as Dr Todd to the maestro Stene Mangram as Guy.
I can't praise the programme highly enough, its the funniest thing I have seen for a long long time.
Also despite some ctisisms of it I believe the style of filming, the slow/fast motion scenes really make the show stand out and add something to make it truely unique. Anyone who says that the filming made them feel sick must faint if they ever move slightly fast.
GENIUS. Watch it and buy the DVD, (if there is one) you won't regret it.

Green Wing - Such a fast pace with visual and spoken gags at a quick-fire pace. A true gem. I have just watched the last in the series and can't wait for series two. The best thing since the League of Gentleman.

Green Wing - I have never laughed so loudly for so long at a TV programme since Spaced and Black Books. The humour is right up my street with the crazy antics of both the men and the women characters - namely Mark Heap and the crazy Scottish lady! C4 have come up with a winner and I hope it will continue. I am eagerly awaiting to see how the Guy/Mac/Caroline love triangle will work out as well as what happens to the rest of the team as they are all as equally captivating. I hope to be first in line when the DVD comes out (please - with loads of outtakes!!) and I look forward to seeing the next episode. Green Wing is what television has been crying out for and certainly makes a refreshing change from Friends repeats!

Green Wing's mix of offbeat and overtly random humour is a breath of fresh air for Friday night television which has gone decidly stale over the last 6 months or so. However, it is not what carries the show. The characters are what stand out the most, with impressive performances from some of Britain's up and coming comic stars, I feel that as each week goes by I am complled to see how their complex lives unravel. In terms of dark humour I have to say that it is nearly on a par with recent successes of the genre, such as Little Britain and The League of Gentlemen, although slightly lighter than the latter. Perhaps the only thing that lets it down is its increasing dependency to rely on the ever prominent "love triangle" story to carry the episode, when it is by far one of the weaker stories followed in the show but this is a minor annoyance and certainly not something that makes me enjoy the show any less. This is undeniably an alternative favourite of mine and I'm pretty sure that the characters will stay with me long after the show last airs.

Green Wing - By using off-beat comedy as its primary means of humour not everything you see/hear will be necessarily 'in your face' type of humour (i.e. instant). I would agree that it will be a personal preference thing - you either get it or you don't, so I am not surprised that the reviews which have been posted, both here and elsewhere, have been so polarised.
Also, using humour references in an original way. How many blokes would have genuinely understood the 'Pink Bunny' storey of Sue White [Michelle Gomez] and Dr. Mac? That line of enquiry was written so that it could have gone a number of different ways and it still managed to finish on a tantalisingly frustrating 'nearly got him' closing line. "Look-out Mr. Bunny...".
For a bloke, it is interesting to see a female take on things (values/frustrations/ambitions), however slanted and unrepresetative they may be. Even the competitive streak between Dr. Mac and Guy on, well, everything, would enable most (honest) blokes to identify with that to some extent. Plenty of references for the Ladies to enjoy their own area(s) of humour in a suitably 'coded-language' sort of way too. Q: How does that rating scheme of Dr. Guy's really work anyway? When the Ladies hear about it they are offended / they hear the score and are then mildly flattered when one is allocated the highest score and devastated when the female co-worker gets a higher rating. Aren't women just as competitive but just on different things ?
Institutional humour will always bring-out the best and worst of what humans have to offer. It is a contained environment giving us a snap-shot of how they work. It's just a representative of real life, i.e., why well-written observational humour is generally so successful. We just see and agree with what matters to us. Humans just tend to be more subjective. Observation is a highly selective activity which makes our enjoyment, or otherwise, of this programme such an individual matter.

Green Wing - A brilliant quality comedy show, perfect for Friday nights, that got me hooked after the first show. This is one of the best comedy sketch shows/soaps - things I've seen in ages. The cast is brilliant, and their characters and their antics make me laugh out loud every time. Please keep it going, it makes Friday nights worth staying in for. Will a DVD of the series be out?

Green Wing - An acquired taste: at first it seemes just bits of Smack the Pony but now the characters are coming forward. The comedy is brilliant.

Green Wing is such an amazingly fantastic program! I've been watching it from day one, and have loved it from the start. People who think that this is a substitute for Smack the Pony or Scrubs should banish these thoughts and take it for what it is - a hilarious sketch show with some very arty/classy technical manoeuvres.

No character is underused or badly portrayed, and last night's house-warming proved that these actors can provide not only comedy, but heart-meltingly tantalizing acting.

People who don't like this show either have no sense of humour, don't understand it, or need a good beating (preferably with a waxed owl).

Kementari

Green Wing - I am an international student from the States studying in Scotland. Every Friday nite me and my flatmates get together and watch Green Wing. I love it - the humor is wonderful, and you can always expect a "what the..." in every episode...the guy sucking toes, it's brilliant. Thank you Channel Four for not letting British television be terrible.

When Friends ended, I watched repeats. When Will & Grace started up again, I was curious. With Green Wing I was utterly fascinated, but only after I'd seen it. I expected the worst, was bored, and watched it probably because the remote control wasn't working. The little ads were funny and heightened the appetite, but I certainly wasn't expecting this clever, sidesplitting, no doubt spine-cracking masterpiece. Each alluring actor and actress had their own brilliant moments only to bundle them all together to make one fifty-minute moment that began in inquisitiveness and ended in a grin that won't go away.

The characters and their links together weren't obvious to begin with, but were creations that didn't need to be obvious - they deserved viewers that tried to figure them out. The random character designs that sprawled themselves about the place were not only handsomely-done but no doubt a breakthrough in what >you< think humour is.

Humour isn't evident jokes ending in an appreciative chuckle; it isn't a silly, hyperactive idiot prancing around in a monkey costume; it isn't a string of sex jokes and filthy puns. Humour varies from person to person, and from what I've found, no one can agree on what humour really "is". But by watching Green Wing I've easily discovered that you don't need common humorous grounds with the rest of the viewers, because they're probably just experimenting with "the rubbish one sees on television nowadays".

Actually, Green Wing isn't so much humorous as it is... precious. Don't break it.