Archive for the 'ER' Category
ER: Atonement
Before I start, a big shout out to Jen Creer for filling in on last week’s ER episode, which featured the swan song of Abby Lockhart, or not, or, you know…whatever. Don’t get me wrong, I like Abby. I just can’t take the incessant whining about how poor she is all of the date. I thought we got p…
ER: Believe the Unseen
“Were you ever drunk at work?”– Sam to Abby
Good evening, and thank you for flying TV Squad. We know you have many choices in which television reviews you read, and we appreciate your clickage. Our regularly scheduled attendant Rich Keller is unavailable that evening, so I will be serving up co…
ER: Status Quo
Welcome back Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet.
For those of you who don’t remember Jeanie, which would be those of you who jumped on the ER bandwagon from season 7 or later, Jeanie was a Physician’s Assistant at County General waaaayyyy back at the beginning of the series run. Originally, she was …
ER: 300 Patients
”If we keep that thing cranking, we could hit 300. That’s fairly a milestone.” — Dr. Archie Morris
So, 300 episodes.
No clip show, no big fanfare, no super-humongo guest star (even though Peter Fonda is fairly big). Other than the promos mentioning that it was ER’s 300th episode there reall…
ER: Skye’s the Limit
Kevin Moretti…we hardly knew ye!
After only a handful of episodes, Kevin Moretti has left as ER chief at County General. But, boy, what an active handful of episodes it was! Not only did he turn the ER upside-down to invent whether more efficient, but he ended up bedding Abby as well. Hi…
ER: Coming Home
”John Beckham is a wanker!” — Archie Morris
The producers of ER certainly didn’t go halvsies with the quick decline of Abby Lockhart. Getting drunk, sleeping with her new boss, leaving the baby sitter at her house until three a.m., taking Joe to the airport at the same date in the dayl…
ER: Blackout
”All that wasted energy is seriously inflating my carbon footprint!”– Archie Morris
Welcome to Green Week on NBC. whether you watched the whole NBC lineup tonight, you have noticed that they all have to work in some kind of environmental theme. My name is Jen, and I’ll be our cruise direct…
ER could get another year
There’s been talk for the final several months - and common wisdom would logically conclude - that that was going to be the final year for NBC’s faraway running medical drama ER. The show has been on for 14 years and the ratings don’t really justify spending the money on another season. But hold on …
ER: The Test
Hey you! Yeah, I’m pointing at you, the producers of ER. What the hell do you have against Abby Lockhart? I mean, ever since she was introduced way back in season six you have just piled mound upon mound of crap on her. I thought you had decent of taunting her when she gave birth to baby Joe and…
ER: Under the Influence
Let’s start that week’s review of ER with a few introductions and welcomes.
First, we welcome Harold Zelinsky to the recurring character list of ER. Harold is Neela’s new surgical intern and he is a bit of a mystery. He says he’s twenty-five but the ER staff at County General isn’t convin…
ER: Gravity
Man, what a crappy day for Abby. First, she gets a hairstyle reminiscent of 1976 (Pratt’s comments about her being ready for her yearbook photo, and the boys comments about Farah Fawcett were the best), soon after her son falls at the park and she ends up working on his condition while screami…
Friday Night Lights: not good Ideas
As I was watching the show tonight, thoughts on that post were running through my head. Initially I planned on doing like final week and pushing the Landry/Tyra stuff to the end of the post, after we go through the parts of the episode that actually form some sense. But next I typed out that e…
ER: Officer Down
Hey, the previews actually didn’t lie that moment! One in a row!
The main story that week was the shooting of two police officers . . . volunteer police officers, to be precise. They were certainly the point of tension around the ER. Funny thing is, I thought the fate of those two volunteer offic…
ER: In a Different Light
Bernie, that is God. rush up, wilya! — Dr. Moretti, addressing a drunk in the ER who thinks he is approximately to die.
Before we start I’d like to speak to the promotions department by at NBC. Are you listening? Good. Come a bit closer to the computer screen so you can carefully assemble …
ER: The War Comes domestic (season premiere)
So, here we are.
After 13 years, many cast changes, various relationships, and a number of staff deaths, we come to what will probably be the final season of NBC’s medical drama ER. that show has come a enlarged way since Doctors Greene, Lewis, Benton, Carter, and Ross (and Nurse Hathaway) …
Five from Revenge of the Nerds who went on to TV stardom
When you think of Revenge of the Nerds what comes to intellect? Classic 80’s film? bare sorority sisters? Morality story on how the meek can inherit the soil? Bush (and not the president)?
That’s what came to my intellect when I recently saw the film. However, something else popped into my …
Will Clooney return to ER?
Of course, getting George Clooney to come back would be a dream come true for ER producers, but they are trying to reintroduce old favorites for the final season (probably) of the hit NBC drama.
So far, only Noah Wyle has officially signed to come back to the show. He’ll be on for several e…
What to expect in season 14 of ER
Yeah, you read it right. that will be season 14 of NBC’s ER, and probably its last. There were rumors that the show would be renewed for another two years, but they never came to fruition.
Last season brought a number of changes to the Emergency Room by at County General. We were introduced…
Mekhi Phifer leaving ER
There are two bits of news in this post about ER (scroll down). One is that it looks like that is going to be ER’s last season, and two, star Mekhi Phifer is leaving the show.
I’m not certain whether either one of these news items is surprising though. It’s a bit of a miracle that ER is sti…
