Anonymous wrote:Dr Mel King is Brian Cranston's daughter!!! She is the nerdy one with the braid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Dearden

This has already been stated multiple times.

Dr Collins is sort of growing on me. She’s still fairly undeveloped.

Where’s the guy from the first episode who was going to commit suicide? Dr Robby talked him down. It’s like he doesn’t exist now?

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Anonymous wrote:Dr Mel King is Brian Cranston's daughter!!! She is the nerdy one with the braid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Dearden

I love most of the characters on this show but I love her the most. She is such a great character.

+1 very well written, which makes all the difference. Meanwhile, we've learned very little about Collins. And who is the silver-haired fox we see periodically?

I think he's a fellow doctor?

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Anonymous wrote:Dr Mel King is Brian Cranston's daughter!!! She is the nerdy one with the braid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Dearden

I love most of the characters on this show but I love her the most. She is such a great character.

I think she is relatable and seems like someone we could easily be friends with. Santos, no, she gives Mean Girl vibes. Whittaker, yes, he seems easy to get along with too.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr Mel King is Brian Cranston's daughter!!! She is the nerdy one with the braid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Dearden

I love most of the characters on this show but I love her the most. She is such a great character.

+1 very well written, which makes all the difference. Meanwhile, we've learned very little about Collins. And who is the silver-haired fox we see periodically?

Anonymous wrote:Dr Mel King is Brian Cranston's daughter!!! She is the nerdy one with the braid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Dearden

I love most of the characters on this show but I love her the most. She is such a great character.

Dr Mel King is Brian Cranston's daughter!!! She is the nerdy one with the braid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Dearden

Anonymous wrote:I hate how Dana got punched!

I hate that it happened, but I have to love that the idiot basically left a receipt at the scene with that "against medical advice" form he dropped. She ID'd him, but that makes it pretty inarguable. Hopefully they'll show him getting popped somehow (though I suspect it'll be some twist where he comes back, near-death, and she saves him and he turns his life over to God or some other drama)

Anonymous wrote:I know they have to do it for storyline purposes, but I hate that this is all supposed to occur during one shift. I get it, I've worked in an ER and it's chaotic and busy. But this is a little ridiculous. After episode 4 I just stopped thinking of it as all being one shift and it made it more enjoyable. I'd actually forgotten it was all supposed to be one shift until Robby asked one of them how their first day was going!

It doesn't bother me because it facilitates certain plot lines that I think are pretty good. The biggest one being the parents of the kid with the overdose. Without the real time concept, the only way to do that plot line would be to just have it in one episode, because obviously that kid is not going to stay in the hospital for days and days after being declared brain dead. But the format allowed them to develop that story over multiple episodes so that when they take him to the transplant hospital and Robbie says goodbye to them and tells them that some of the staff would like to come to the funeral, it's this extremely well-earned emotional moment -- it is realistic that the kid and his family would become important to people working that shift, even with all the other chaos in the ER going on throughout the time they were there, and I really felt like I went along on that journey.

Also the story with the two middle aged siblings and their dad. Again, they could have done that story over a single episode but it wouldn't have been as powerful. I loved how the story flips because when they first come in to see their dad, you assume that the sister was closer to their father because she's the one more interested in intubating and giving him more time. And then later you discover that the reason she responded this way is because she was never close to him and she wanted more time because she never got to have the relationship she wished she had with her dad. Whereas her brother was more ready to say goodbye because he'd had a close relationship and felt more fulfilled in that relationship. That was incredibly relatable to me and I've never seen that aspect of mourning a parent depicted onscreen -- how sometimes you have to mourn both the person and the loss of the relationship to them that you never had. I also loved how Robbie gave them the advice for how to say goodbye (I love you, thank you, I forgive you, please forgive me) and how both siblings do this but in totally different ways because of their very different experiences. Again, it just would not have had the same impact in a single episode.

Stuff like that makes me overlook something like compressing the storyline of Langdon's drug stealing into a single day, which is unrealistic, or having a doctor on staff going through a miscarriage during the shift (which sadly *is* realistic but I don't think it would play out quite this way normally). And those plot lines are also well written and acted and I am moved by them as well, so the compressed timeline doesn't bug me as much.

But for the patient storylines, I think doing an episode per hour helps because otherwise an ER-based show is going to fall into a "patient of the week" formula with very few patient stories carrying over between episodes. Unless you expand to more of the hospital and incorporate like surgical and ICU staff and spend time in those wards, like other shows do. But this show is really focused on the ER, which I like.

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Anonymous wrote:So I’m all caught up now. One thing I noticed that was Dr. Langdon too easily opened his locker for Dr. Robby and even had the pills in plain sight in the locker. That doesn’t seem very realistic. It seemed like it wrapped up a little too neatly.

Yeah and Robby threw the backpack out like they couldn't possibly be hidden in there! That's the first place anyone would look....

Yes I noticed that! Robby definitely commanded my attention when he yelled “open your f’ing locker!” - absolutely brilliantly acted.

Anonymous wrote:McKay annoys me. I hope she gets taken down a notch.

I find her frustrating. She seems to be a decent doctor and she also seems to care about her job but she's often a little unprofessional. Having her ex and her son in the ER did balance her out a bit, though. Her ex does seem like a very annoying man child, and her scenes with her son were sweet. She is still grating, but a bit more human. Also when her ex basically confirmed that it was his and his girlfriend's fault that McKay has to wear the ankle monitor, that made me a bit more sympathetic. I've personally never gone through a divorce or custody battle, thankfully, but I have a friend who went through a divorce with an absolutely insane person who 100% called the cops on him for a BS reason and tried to impact his custody of his kids (who, btw, were not even her kids -- she was a step mom but was just trying to get him in trouble with the cops to get his kids' taken away from him out of spite). He's a nice, normal person and a good dad. People can be really crazy.

So anyway, seeing the ex confirm that yeah, that's their fault, helps a little bit too because before that it was kind of alarming that she had the ankle monitor while working in the ER and because her personality is so caustic, I wasn't totally buying her explanation for it earlier.

I hate how Dana got punched!

Anonymous wrote:I know they have to do it for storyline purposes, but I hate that this is all supposed to occur during one shift. I get it, I've worked in an ER and it's chaotic and busy. But this is a little ridiculous. After episode 4 I just stopped thinking of it as all being one shift and it made it more enjoyable. I'd actually forgotten it was all supposed to be one shift until Robby asked one of them how their first day was going!

Agree

I know they have to do it for storyline purposes, but I hate that this is all supposed to occur during one shift. I get it, I've worked in an ER and it's chaotic and busy. But this is a little ridiculous. After episode 4 I just stopped thinking of it as all being one shift and it made it more enjoyable. I'd actually forgotten it was all supposed to be one shift until Robby asked one of them how their first day was going!