ER

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ER follows the medical personnel and patients in the emergency room of Chicago's fictional County General Hospital. Created by best-selling author Michael Crichton ("Jurassic Park") and produced by John Wells ("The West Wing"), Christopher Chulack ("Third Watch"), David Zabel ("JAG"), and R. Scott Gemmill ("Jonny Zero"), the Emmy Award-winning series has completed fourteen seasons as one of television's highest-rated dramas.''''The doctors and nurses of County's ER confront the daily challenges of a busy urban hospital, including overcrowded waiting rooms, staffing shortages, and the impact of life-and-death decisions. While they teach the next generation of doctors, each must tackle the demands of their personal lives, at times unsuccessfully.moreless
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  • One of the best hospital dramas I have seen. A long show which has introduced us a lot of people and situations - medical and personal.

    7.0
    "Good"
    By oxana, Jan 06, 2012 Report Abuse
    I used to watch this show years ago, back in the day when George Clooney and Noah Whyle still starred the show with Laura Innes. I was pretty young then, but I remember watching this with my mom late every Thursday night.

    I have seen glimpses of the show afterwards, these last few years, and although it didn't hook me, this is definitely one of the best hospital shows there is.

    The personnel is interesting, there is drama between them and in their lives, but still the hospital life itself is given room to flourish.

    While I'm sure there are many medical inaccuracies in this show - like in any other such show - they make ER believable, and in the end that is what guarantees a hit show, which this one definitely is.moreless

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  • Same old story, time and time again.

    4.5
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    By Assassin-Altair, Oct 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    Alright people I usually do not write reviews on Television Episodes/Series but this show has bothered me for quite a while. I started watching this show a few years ago and I have to admit I liked what I saw, so I continued to watch but oddly after the first 50 or so episodes it began to just be the same old story . . . or rather a lack of one. The second the show started a "new" episode it had already become quite predictable. I knew alright this patient is in critical condition (what a surprise it never happens) and I figured they would die because most of them I've seen have died, and I was right they did. I need a good solid story to keep me and this show could not provide that, it was all over the place and never really gave a story or at least a consistent one. Every day a new episode came on you knew . . . alright same doctors, same drama, and of course the same ending . . . doctors would go home and it would all start again. Again this is just my review you can take it or leave it.moreless

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  • Have watched so many medical dramas on TV but nothing compares to ER,John Wells and his team should revive the series or gives us a Spinoff with characters that left County such as Abbey and Luka or Neela,moreless

    9.0
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    By Chris_Rootman, Jul 10, 2011 Report Abuse
    The Series finale was brilliant and also a back door entry to revive the series with a cast of old and new characters. Even if John Wells does not want to create a weekly series at least create a mini series or look at the possiblity of a spinoff series , You had a winning formula , fans loved ER now is the time to bring it back and sure the actors will jump at the chance to bring back series, as they tried other things that did not work , excpect for the magnificient Noah Wyle on Falling Skies.moreless

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  • Best Medical drama I seen.

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    By BrendanMurphy1, May 23, 2011 Report Abuse
    I love that show. It's got a lot of amazing characters, like Greene, Ross, Hathaway, Carter, Lewis, Benton, Abby, Luka, Corday and Romano (a character you love to hate). I think my favorite on-screen couples are Doug & Carol and Luka & Abby. What I also love ER is that it's intensity and most of it's complex stories on each episode that aired. It was too bad it got cancelled, but it's got all sorts of records and awards that we're well deserved.

    Grey's Anatomy can never compare with ER because I don't like Grey's because it doesn't have the feel to it that ER had in the past. Grey's Anatomy is too much of a soap opera (no offense to the fans of Grey's Anatomy).

    ER is the best medical drama in the world. A true legend.moreless

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  • the best show ever on television and the reason I'm in the television industry.

    10
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    By carlyy226, Apr 28, 2011 Report Abuse
    ER revolutionized television with its large ensemble, long 'runners' that extended across the entire ER and included many people and it's use of the steadicam to make the viewer feel as if they were in the room with the characters. It had the amazing ability to talk up to the audience and make them feel smarter, more like doctors themselves. They didn't water anything down, they spewed out the medical jargon exactly as it would be said and the audience was forced to keep up. Their character development is the quintessential example of what character arcs should be. The characters were all tragic heroes and had arcs that spread across several seasons instead of being resolved in one, much more like real life in that way. Abby was an alcoholic from before she started on the show (season 6) and the final climax of this arc did not occur until season 14: brilliant. These characters were real, their drama and angst was appropriate to the situations they found themselves in, and the show was written and directed beautifully.moreless

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