What is The Resident about?
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
The Resident (2018)
A tough senior resident reveals the gritty, intimate realities of modern medicine to an idealistic young doctor.
Suspenseful and earnest. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
The Resident parents guide
No surprises for a TV-14: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Three questions
- How gory is The Resident?
- Light gore and some violence.
- What is The Resident rated, and is it OK for kids?
- A gentle TV-14: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Cast and crew
Created byRoshan Sethi, Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore
StarringMatt Czuchry, Manish Dayal, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Jessica Lucas, Bruce Greenwood, Anuja Joshi
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