Just look at the list of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations over the years. And I'm talking about top-notch rendition, year after year. The setting aside, ER is a show that can boast about serious talent in the writing, directing, acting, casting, cinematography, editing, sound and even the pretty realistic make-up-F/X departments. Relationships, achievements and short-comings. And yes, also has to cope with his personal life. Is facing critical situations one after the other. An ER doctor never gets enough sleep, never gets to go home. This is what makes it of greater scope and deeper emotions. The admittedly romanticized, but no less relevant, reality of a profession that deals with life and death day after day, night after night. However, the more I watched the show, the more I realized that it's not about the physical traumas, but about the human traumas. I have a great interest in medicine and even considered a career in that path at one point in my life. I thought at first I was biased because I studied physiology and am pretty versed in the technical jargon and medical realities they face on the show. Why? Because it's the best drama show on TV, hands down, no contest. Seven years later, I'm still watching (or taping) it every week.
The next week, I found myself driving back faster from my basketball practice to make sure to catch the show again. Let me see what this fuss is all about, I said to myself, intended to watch at least the end of that show But it was already too late!! I was already hooked. This must be that doctors show, ER, I thought. Then the emergency room complications, the tension. Benton) and his mom or sister, I vaguely remember.
Something to do with Eriq Lasalle's character (Dr. I was exhausted, relaxing on the couch after a good workout and a cooling shower, flipping channels, something I rarely ever do, when my attention was grabbed by the intensity of the scene that was been played out before me. Already at its second season, I had heard a lot of good from the show, but never bothered to see what it was all about.
I started watching ER on Thursdays in 1995 after my basketball practices.