Medical TV Show Review: ER beloved wonder of Thursday nights

Medical TV Show Review: ER (1994-2009)

ER: This was the show that inspired Carina to become a doctor. Not a joke.

Every child of the 1980’s knows this show. Really, and it started EVERYONE. Some people even went on to be movie stars.Every show has wanted to be ER to hang out with the Clooney and Goose. John Wells is all ‘bite me, Grey’s Anatomy!’

Medical TV Show Review: ER

Date/Seasons: 15
seasons, 331 episodes, 1994-2009

Main cast: George Clooney, Anthoney Edwards, Sherry Stringfield, Julianna Margulies, Eriq La Salle, Noah Wylie, everyone in Hollywood including William H. Macy, Mekhi Phifer, and Angela Basset

Premise: Follow the ER doctors of County Gen in Chicago through the years as they live die and move around the world. Chicago, Africa, Hawaii, Bosnia. Wherever, they did it.

Pros: This was the star making role of George Clooney. His first couple seasons were amazing, and everyone that ever acted guest starred at least once. It was a starting role for many up and coming actor/actresses who graced the show. That includes Shane West (Once and Again), John Stamos (Full House), Mekhi Phifer (Eminem fan), Maura Tieney (Newsradio), Parminder Nagra (went on to Bend It Like Beckham)

Cons: It gave us Noah Wyle super librarian. It limped toward the finish line in the last 3-4 seasons as most of the main cast departed. Some questions were never answered – like why was there always one main female character that was an unlikable nurse? I don’t care if you got the chick from Freaks and Geeks.

Overall Impression: Watch Love Labor’s Lost in Season 1 and prepare to cry. It is the most painful episode of any medical show ever.

Random Trivia/Fun Fact/Gossip: They didn’t do a musical episode but they did a live episode – they had to perform it twice, once on the East Coast and once on the West.

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