Watching Doctor-X reminds me of the 1990 movie "Before the Strike"

I enjoyed it back then, but... it was a movie with many flaws.
....I can let it slide if we consider it through the lens of its era..
But the Doctor-X 5.18 and medical strike episodes.... even though 35 years
have passed, they feel like works made in the 90s?
Or did they just want to mix the fun of Doctor-X with a medical strike,
so they just whipped up a plot.... and that's what we got??
It has lost both its fun and its direction....