Well, but it's a soap. A soap masquerading as a medical show, but a soap nonetheless. Just be glad no one's evil twin has showed up.
Don't give them any ideas!
The best episodes are never the stunts, you know? Bradley Whitford's wife dies unexpectely and everyone cries for a YEAR. Abby's bi-polar mother shows up and its gripping. Chen
decides to euthanize her father...
all reasonable things. Kellie Martin's character is stabbed to death, however, and after Dr. Romano sheds a character-deepening tear we never hear about her again.
Trudy - details from this season should be whitefonted.
Uhh, Abby
was kidnapped
two eps ago, and there was definitely impact of at least an episode.
but only on ABBY. Nobody else is afraid to go to the ambulance bay alone, no mention of "security around here". Nothin.
no mention of "security around here"
They already did that. Remember the additional presence and the metal detector?
Trudy - details from this season should be whitefonted.
whole season? got it
They already did that. Remember the additional presence and the metal detector?
Not particularly effective, now was it? Probably warrants a follow-up chat.
Not particularly effective, now was it?
Yes, and Buffy should have used guns and supersoakers of holy water. If you don't compromise reality, you don't get umpteen years of must see TV and TV that syndicates extra-profitability.
Is there a show out there that you'd hold up as an example (on broadcast TV) of how to do it right?
Yes, and Buffy should have used guns and supersoakers of holy water. If you don't compromise reality, you don't get umpteen years of must see TV and TV that syndicates extra-profitability.
My argument is that the best episodes ARE the realistic ones. No one got an Emmy for dropping a chopper on Romano.
Right now? I'm pretty sure this is the only drama I'm currently watching. Sopranos does it in spades... finds the drama in the "little" as well as the big. So does Six Feet Under. Both series are set in similarly epic environments.
I've been to real live ERs. They were pretty boring, and I probably wouldn't watch the show.
This is true. Your normal ER would not make for good viewing. (The only ER story my mother has that's at all interesting is about the night Errol Flynn croaked and wound up at her hospital. And that was kind of low-comedy snark about his barely-legal-if-that-woman, I fear.)
Hell, even as a patient, they're kind of dull.
Also, the doctors aren't nearly as pretty, and their lives not nearly as entangled.
ER, when it's working right, is like a Dickens novel--lots of great characters interacting with each other in surprising ways, moments of broad humor, moments which break your heart, huge coincidences, true details which are beautifully observed, big plot holes, great storytelling. The bad stuff is sort part of the good stuff in the fabric of the piece for me, if you see what I mean. The show has had whole bad seasons, but when it's cooking, it's wonderful.
I don't know whether to laugh or to be appalled.
I'm wondering if I should buy one and bring it to the New Orleans f2f where skilled voodoo practitioners will be within walking distance.
I cooked a buffalo burger at the office today. V. tasty, but the smell of the meat cooking will keep me from ever buying more patties to grill at home.
