It's summer and there's no new TV shows on. Can you tell me which shows I can try to watch in my free time?
Answer from Carina:
No problem! To kick off this party, let's start with ER. It's the show that convinced Carina to become a doctor!
Every child of the 1990'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!'
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? Linda Cardellini might have been fun in Freaks and Geeks, but she was grating as Sam.
Overall Impression: Watch the season 1 episode Love's Labor Lost - and prepare to cry. It is the most painful episode of any medical show ever.
Can you tell me something fun about ER that I might not know?
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.
What can I do to make me feel like I'm visiting ER again?
If you feel like visiting the 1990s, I'd recommend starting off with Live Wire and Wildcat which are set in the 1990s. Phone books, pagers, cell phones the size of a brick. Read now in Steamy Happily Ever After Romances!
