Apple TV plays host to some of the most addictive shows on streaming. From the mind-bending must-watch madness of Severance and Pluribus to heartfelt comedy drama in Shrinkingand Ted Lasso, there is something for everyone on the streamer. This week, the first season of one of Apple TV’s most bingeable thrillers is officially coming to an end, and it’s sure to be explosive. The show in question is Imperfect Women, and the finale premieres on Wednesday, April 29.
The upcoming Episode 8, “The Bridge,” is directed by Jet Wilkinson and penned by series creator Annie Weisman and Kay Oyegun. Following the many twists and turns in the first seven episodes of this psychological thriller, Kerry Washington‘s Eleanor and Elisabeth Moss‘s Mary are ready to risk everything to expose the truth following a huge discovery, but will their risk pay off? Joining the talented Washington and Moss in a stacked ensemble for Imperfect Women are Kate Mara, Corey Stoll, Joel Kinnaman, Sandrine Holt, Wilson Bethel, Rome Flynn, Ana Ortiz, Leslie Odom Jr., Sherri Saum, and Keith Carradine.
Ahead of the season finale, Imperfect Women has just hit a streaming milestone, officially passing 40 consecutive days on the Apple TV charts in the U.S. The series currently ranks in fourth place, outperforming a selection of hit shows, including Paul Rutman‘s British crime thriller Criminal Record, the sci-fi series For All Mankind, and the #MeToo drama The Morning Show. Ahead of Imperfect Women in the charts are Monarch: Legacy of Monstersin third, Margo’s Got Money Troublesin second, and the Jon Hamm-led Your Friends and Neighborsin first place.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
‘Imperfect Women’ Has Earned Mixed Reviews
Although the show continues to rival the very best on the Apple TV streaming charts, Imperfect Women has proved less than impressive when it comes to critical response. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the show has earned a disappointing 46% score, with a lack of imagination and narrative inconsistencies frustrating critics. In her review for Collider, Carly Lane agreed with this consensus, writing, “Within the overall scope of Apple TV’s thriller offerings, Imperfect Women falls squarely in the middle.” However, Lane did praise the show’s performances, especially from its main cast.
Imperfect Women Season 1is streaming on Apple TV and will come to an end on April 29. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
