I’m late to the season 1 conversation, but my wife, teenage daughter and I finished watching it a couple nights ago.
A few observations:
- Very similar to ER, which I really liked. I felt like Whitaker was the new Carter.
- My daughter, who wants to get into the medical field, now has get eyes set on emergency medicine. I think she’s crazy, but adventurousness is for the young I suppose. (She’s now waffling between ER nurse and surgical nurse.)
- I liked the fact that it’s was a “real time” show, which meant there was little room for the soap-opera drama that consumed ER. I think my daughter appreciated that too. I was a little annoyed by Javadi driving to the hoop so hard on Matteo in the first three hours of her first freaking shift in a super chaotic ER, without knowing anything about him or his status, especially as a somewhat-insecure 20-year-old. Seemed a little too forced, trying to set up a romantic drama that doesn’t need to happen.
- My only experience in the medical field, aside from my college job in a hospital kitchen, is watching ER start to finish twice. It was really something seeing the changes in emergency medicine since ER started. Two things that stood out are the robotic chest compression machine and how much easier it seems to intubate with a camera; seemed like intubation on ER was a lot about “feel.”