Watching ER from the beginning

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Anonymous wrote:I remember bleeding out on the table with my second baby and being like “wow this s just like that first episode of ER where the woman dies in childbirth and Dr Carter ends up crying in the hall.” All the doctors were flipping out. They had given me a lot of pain medication so I was the only calm person in the room.

That is messed up. Do you have PTSD from that?

Nope, not at all. I didn’t die so it’s all good. I got so much blood transfused that I joked I came in for a baby and they threw in an oil change for free. I did opt for a scheduled C with my next baby though. The doctor came in the day after the birth and hugged me and told me she was so scared — I think she had some PTSD! And the head of the practice also came in to check on me. The irritating thing is that I had to stay in the ICU for a couple days and they don’t let the baby stay with you in the ICU. I don’t know if my being a huge fan of medical dramas made it all less traumatic — they were like “she needs epi now!” And I was like “wait—you’re supposed to say “Push epi—stat!” And they were like “how are you still conscious?”

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Anonymous wrote:Luka!! My favorite. I had such a crush on Goran Višnjić.

Me too. I had forgotten his name though. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:I loved the first several seasons of ER, but it really sagged in the middle when most of the original actors departed. The last season was pretty good. The problem with long-running medical shows is that they run out of ideas and have to resort to increasingly fantastical plot stories. Plus, they killed off so many doctors in bizarre ways (death by falling helicopter, lol). In real life that would be a cursed hospital where no doctor would want to work.

I do really like The Pitt, but I think it would be a little more believable if it took place over a week/month than a single day.

ITA with this, that ER sagged in the middle and the plots were getting meh. I lived and went to school (healthcare related) in the 90s so ER resonates with me deeply. I still remember when Anthony Edwards tells Noah Wyle's character to "set the tone" (if I remember correctly, it's been awhile). Then after the nurse Abby left, I lost interest.

Wasn't that at the very end when Mark was leaving?

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Anonymous wrote:I never watched it the first time but I would love to tackle house or seinfeld.

Seinfeld is brilliantly candid, which means it would have never seen the light of day in these puritanical times.

Be sure to put on your 1990s not offended by anything mindset before you watch. It is a great show.

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Anonymous wrote:ER was SO much better than The Pitt. It feels like The Pitt is just a poor imitation.

Agreed. I actually just gave up on watching The Pitt. It was simply awful. I didn't care about any of the characters. The real time format doesn't work and woke message of the week is painful.

ER is way better.

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Anonymous wrote:ER was SO much better than The Pitt. It feels like The Pitt is just a poor imitation.

Agreed. I actually just gave up on watching The Pitt. It was simply awful. I didn't care about any of the characters. The real time format doesn't work and woke message of the week is painful.

ER is way better.

Well then you missed out. I loved ER. And I enjoy The Pitt. Yeah it’s not as good as ER, but it’s all we have.

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The Pitt is good but again, not as good as ER, especially season two through six.

My favorite part of ER though are Carter’s transition from newbie to seasoned doctor.
I also loved Sherrie Stringfellow, and thought she had more chemistry with Mark than his eventual wife. I also thought the British lady was much better paired with Benton, but he, the actor actually asked them not to pair them together anymore, because he didn’t like the depiction of a black man with a white woman. His relationship with Carla his first partner was a mess. But I loved the storyline of his son Reese.

I kind of like Carol but not really. Also kind of like Abbey and her mom is hilarious (Sally Field) but after a while, it got annoying and also her relationship relationships with Carter and Luca were crazy.

I thought Kerrie/Dr Weaver was one of the better characters, and I had a better appreciation for all of these as an adult than I did in my teens when I first started watching it

The episodes where mark loses the baby in season 1, and Carter’s drug addiction, and the scene with Carter and Lucy and the schizophrenic patient, and of course, who could forget the helicopter scene chopping off that one doctor’s arm. Those were epic. I also kind of like the Africa season, and thought Carter and Thandie Newton had good chemistry.

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Anonymous wrote:The Pitt is good but again, not as good as ER, especially season two through six.

My favorite part of ER though are Carter’s transition from newbie to seasoned doctor.
I also loved Sherrie Stringfellow, and thought she had more chemistry with Mark than his eventual wife. I also thought the British lady was much better paired with Benton, but he, the actor actually asked them not to pair them together anymore, because he didn’t like the depiction of a black man with a white woman. His relationship with Carla his first partner was a mess. But I loved the storyline of his son Reese.

I kind of like Carol but not really. Also kind of like Abbey and her mom is hilarious (Sally Field) but after a while, it got annoying and also her relationship relationships with Carter and Luca were crazy.

I thought Kerrie/Dr Weaver was one of the better characters, and I had a better appreciation for all of these as an adult than I did in my teens when I first started watching it

The episodes where mark loses the baby in season 1, and Carter’s drug addiction, and the scene with Carter and Lucy and the schizophrenic patient, and of course, who could forget the helicopter scene chopping off that one doctor’s arm. Those were epic. I also kind of like the Africa season, and thought Carter and Thandie Newton had good chemistry.

I agree with every word of this, even the Africa season (which many didn't like).

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I was fresh out of college and starting in the ad industry in Chicago when ER first became a hit. I remember Clooney and Edwards were filming a scene at the Wrigley Building, which was across from my office, and we all rushed over to see. No cell phones for photos, but I got within 2 feet of Clooney as they were walking across the bridge when they finished filming. Great memory!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ER was SO much better than The Pitt. It feels like The Pitt is just a poor imitation.

Agreed. I actually just gave up on watching The Pitt. It was simply awful. I didn't care about any of the characters. The real time format doesn't work and woke message of the week is painful.

ER is way better.

+1
It all seemed very “knowing,” like “look at us trying to imitate ER, wink wink”. I don’t quite know how to describe what I mean, but from the very first episode I got that vibe.

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Yeah, I felt that way too about the Pitt, but as the season went on, I kind of started liking some of the characters more and got more engaged with it by the end. It’s no ER yet though.

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I recently finished rewatching it. It was really well done and brought back a lot of memories of the time period. It did make me feel old, though. I liked the Pitt but ER was better.

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I can’t decide if I think that it’s an advantage to be able to immediately search for medical terms I don’t know. For example, thirty years ago, I could infer that GCS score had something to do with how well the patient the EMTs were bringing in was doing. The lower the score, the worse off they were it seemed. Now, I can pause and quickly google to see that GCS stands for Geneva Coma Score, what its point ranges signify, etc. So, I have my answer, but I’m taking myself out of the storytelling.

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Clooney says he’d love to join The Pitt
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a69424085/the-pitt-george-clooney-guest-star/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6916009b2f391e0001504c64&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=6916009b2f391e0001504c63&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZnRzaAOJwNZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe0p2Hv654Ah9QF7p4bUuSBrwI2M4C7l8elPjYohTtupFFuoKliLBDVvtdeyg_aem_RdbyJzJ0XofNaXV91youmA