Providence TV Show

Providence is a touching TV drama show about a doctor who returns to her roots and discovers greater happiness in her hometown. Dr. Sydney Hansen is a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills who is successful and wealthy. She travels back to her childhood neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, where she encounters a slower pace of life and reexamines her priorities. After deciding to settle down, and switch her medical practice to that of family practice she explores issues like her family and romance within the setting of Providence.

The theme is a common one that has been seen many times. It is the story of the city-slicker who finds comfort in the intimacy of small-town life. It is a story of the comforts of the big city, wealth, and fame being unable to compare to the love of family and the closeness of sincere friends instead of the insincerity of a faster paced life. Another theme is that of the prodigal returning home, though in this case, the doctor has not committed any great sins needing forgivingness upon her return home, but just seeks to return to the comfort of family. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing that the show fits some well known themes so fully, because it is often the details that make a show succeed or fail. Providence is a TV show that certainly appeals to a particular audience with its feel-good storyline, but giving that audience what they like is a good thing; the rest can just keep looking.