Jumping in late here. When Season 1 wrapped, I said to my husband, “Give that man an Emmy.”
What a great show. I love Mel. My husband and I were debating about whether she herself was autistic until she got excited about removing 1,000 pieces of gravel from a man’s leg, which settled the issue.
I don’t trust Santos and I don’t want her anywhere near Whittaker. What she did to that man suspected of sexual abuse was beyond the pale and a flagrant violation of her oath. Her hamfisted way of trying to get an answer from the girl made me want to scream. This is not who I want representing this issue. Beyond that she’s an obvious shit-stirrer. I really don’t know if anything can redeem her in my eyes at this point. She’s mentally unstable. Get her out.
And yes, as someone pointed out upthread, this would absolutely be a mandated reporting situation. You don’t need to have evidence of abuse, just suspicion, which is one reason mandated reporting is so shitty. But given the police were already involved it wouldn’t go uninvestigated for long. There was absolutely no reason to try to intervene and even if there were it still would have been wrong to threaten a helpless medical patient.
When I was in high school I thought Noah Wyle was the hottest thing ever. I never watched ER but I sure watched those commercials with interest. Now I look at old pictures and he’s just a baby. But then so was I.
During the “ER” era, a neighbor asked me where I worked, and when I told him which hospital employed me, he went, “Ewwwww!” I had no idea what he meant by that, until he told me that he had never set foot in a hospital since he was discharged as a newborn, and he thought the whole inside of a hospital building looked like the set of “ER.” I replied that only the ER looked like “ER”, and then only part of the time; most of the time, it looks more like a standard doctor’s office.
I should explain something about myself and TV viewing habits. While I like SciFi/Fantasy or paranormal, something not real in my TV shows, I can watch almost anything. I’m a TV junkie and have been since a kid. Things that slightly interest me can get me to watch it. I don’t know that I could watch Duck Dynasty, the Kardashians, Real World, or Jersey Shore, but I have watched Face Off and Glow Up and enjoy those.
After watching the first three episodes of ER, could I keep watching it? Yes. Was it as good or pull me into it as fast as the Pitt? Not even close.
I’m not sure why. I can’t explain it. I have been thinking about it for a while. Both shows have drama among the people, they are people. The drama happens quick in both in different ways. There was some surprising medical things in ER pretty quick. They showed more than I thought a network would show. Not as much as the Pitt but that’s to be expected.
There is something about the Pitt that worked on me. I binged it twice in three months. It has captivated me. ER didn’t do that with me. That’s not to say ER is bad. It’s not. It just didn’t pull me into it. I don’t know if I will watch more or not.
I do find it interesting how young all of the cast look, of course, it being thirty years old. I first saw Noah Wylie in Falling Skies, even though I knew he was in ER. Between FS and the Pitt, he looks like a kid in ER!
One bit of trivia about the earliest ER episodes; in the pilot episode, Carol Hathaway (played by Julianna Margulies) attempted suicide and the plan was for her to die, but test audiences liked her so she survived.