I give Homicide: Life on the Street major points towards realism.
The funnest part of that show is that they took stuff from real life. But, like, not "Ripped from the Headlines!" type of stuff; but stupid kids dropping a bowling ball off an overpass and killing a driver below, and the kids never getting caught.
Even
Homicide
had to go with the fulminating stunt now and then, but somehow they tended to persuade me to forgive them each time they did it.
I need to say that there is no "fun part" to a limb being torn off.
Doesn't that depend on if you're the tear-er or the tear-ee?
So, if we take GWB to an ER, they could get his head out of his ass?
Damnit, tom. They're doctors, not miracle workers.
My mom was a pediatric nurse when she first got out of nursing school, but her worst shift was when she was called in to help out in the ER the night a couple and their ten kids were in a car crash. The parents both died, as did a few of the children, and the other eight kids were in pretty bad shape. (This was in the late 1960s, so no seat belts or airbags were in the van.) Even worse was the fact that, Joliet being a relatively small town despite its official population, Mom knew the family, as did others on the hospital staff. When she talks about that night, she mostly remembers handling the surviving kids and trying to help them even though the kids just knew that their mom and dad were dead.
But there was long term consequences to Kellie Martin's character's death -- the whole John Carter becomes a drug addict arc was founded on that incident.
Because Carter was attacked too though.
Quick, I forgot my ex-SiL's 50th birthday was today. She's a good person and I want to send her a greeting. Anyone know of nice free ecard places online?
blue mountain and egreetings
opps - corrected.
Because Carter was attacked too though.
I think you're under-remembering. No, it wasn't realistic, but it also wasn't thrown away. I remember Carter remembering Kellie.
And this season, they didn't throw away
the death of his child -- that was palpable for episodes.
Sure, some stuff is abbreviated, but they aren't as strictly episodic as a CSI or a WaT or, lord forbid, L&O.