What is Netflix’s The Good Nurse about?
The Good Nurse is Netflix’s upcoming crime drama. But it’s not a piece of fiction. It’s based on a true story of a nurse who turned out to be a serial killer who killed many patients until they were caught.
Considering how popular other true crime documentaries, shows, and movies like Unsolved Mysteries, Sins of the Mother, Dahmer, and Making A Murderer have been on Netflix, this one is sure to be popular as well.
It also helps that it has an all-star cast with Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne, and Noah Emmerich. Jessica Chastain has never been bad in a movie ever! The movie also stars Nnamdi Asomugha, Kim Dickens, Devyn McDowell, Ajay Naidu, and Andrew James Bleidner.
The film is not only based on a true story, it’s also based on the book, The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber.
What is Netflix’s The Good Nurse about?
The Good Nurse tells the story of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who was arrested for the deaths of almost 30 patients. It also follows his friend and fellow nurse Amy Loughren who, after a series of mysterious deaths, must figure out what’s going on. Unfortunately, it points to her friend and she must reckon with what he’s done.
Charlie came into Amy’s life when she needed him most. She’s suffering from a heart condition, is a single mother, and struggles to help all her patients in the ICU. When he arrives, she feels like she finally has someone to confide in. That is until she realizes he’s killing their patients and she must get to the truth.
Cullen’s career took place over 16 years and in nine different hospitals. He was suspected of wrongdoing at these hospitals, but he was either fired or allowed to resign though still able to get a job in another hospital. It took Amy Loughren reporting Cullen to finally stop him.
The Good Nurse comes to Netflix on Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022.
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