ER: The Complete First Season
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Actor: Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Noah WyleBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 1179 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 24629
Studio: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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- The lives, loves and losses of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's County General Hospital.Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the most watched and honored drama of the last decade. Loaded with extensive special features including two new documentaries featuring Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton, John Wells and George Clooney created exclusively for this release. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:
DVD Reviews of ER: The Complete First Season
DVD Review: The Drama Series That ReDefined Drama
Summary: 5 Stars
Throughout most of the late 80s and early 90s, drama was essentially dead on television. Most of the line-ups were sitcoms. Popular shows were Cheers, Cosby Show, and Seinfeld. Many of the popular dramas of the early 80s were all but gone or nearing their end.
In 1993, NYPD Blue came a long and cracked things open, but in 1994, ER exploded on the scene. I still recall seeing the pilot episode for the first time. Somehow I knew right away that I was watching television history in the making: this show was going to not only be around for a long time, but I knew it was also going to have a large audience.
Those of you, like me, who have grown a bit complacent and tired of ER in recent years may have forgotten the original cast, the stories, and excitement that started it. I had forgotten just how good this show was. I hadn't seen the first season since it aired, with the exception of one episode that I'd taped (Love's Labor Lost).
Another medical drama, Chicago Hope, made its debut the same year that ER did. There's a big reason that ER won out. While Chicago Hope had interesting stories, it was still using the old stationary motion from the dramas of yester-year. ER revolutionized dramatic television. In fact, many dramas today credit ER with its almost constant movement. Rather than have its characters standing still, they moved. They walked corridors at the brisk pace that ER doctors might. Cameras whirled around a trauma patient as four or five doctors and nurses worked on the patient. The camera movement alone created excitement and the good kind of tension that made you wonder what kind of emergency would come through those ER doors next. Watch these earlier episodes, and you'll notice quickly that whenever there is a trauma, the music kicks in and cameras speed up their pace and movement. For audiences were grew tired of the dull stationary cameras, this was new, fresh, and a whole lot of fun!
ER's original cast simply can't be topped. Many actors and actresses have walked and continue to walk the halls of ER, but there's only one Dr. Mark Greene, played superbly by Anthony Edwards. He plays Greene with a reserve and confidence of someone who makes everything look easy. As the Chief Resident, he runs the ER, and he does it both smoothly and proficiently. He's also a man conflicted between his job which he loves and his family. Season one sees him trying to find a resolution between leaving the job he loves or risk losing his family.
Then there's womanizer, Dr. Doug Ross. George Clooney plays Ross with all the charm and boyishness that seems to win women over with a look. He's unable to commit, and he leaves a trail of emotional baggage a mile long. Perhaps his former girlfriend nurse Carol Hathaway describes him best with the line, "Doug is a little boy who wants what he can't have."
Sherry Stringfield has wonderful as Dr. Susan Lewis. She's cute and vivacious, and gives these elements to Lewis. Lewis also has a problem standing up for herself. She's generally a pleaser who is afraid of losing the affection and faith of those closest to her. Perhaps her biggest nemesis is her own sister who is all but inept. She and Greene are close friends, and one had to wonder if anything might come of it.
Eriq La Salle was a perfect choice to play the arrogant, driven, and extremely talented Dr. Peter Benton who is a second-year surgical resident. Benton is devoted to his job and little else. Someone can lose count of the number of times we hear him yell at the nurses, "Come on, let's move people!" La Salle makes Benton move at light speed. He's always in motion, and even when he's stationary, you can see the energy that La Salle gives to Benton, that standing around is his least favorite thing.
Who has forgotten the great charm and clumsy character of the first year for Dr. John Carter played by Noah Wyle? Before he became the proficient doctor we see in later seasons, we forget that Carter was a young medical student trying to survive his first year under Dr. Benton's instruction. Carter was a slightly nerdish, always wearing suspenders and expensive shirts, and yet he's always at the center when a laugh is needed to break the tension. Everything seems to happen to him. He's peed on, vomited on, and another med student hands him the cardio paddles with the wrong end, thus sending three hundred volts of electricity into the unsuspecting Carter and sending him unconscious to the floor.
The stories are crisp and strong in this first season. Quite possibly one of the best single episodes of ANY series I've ever watched is here. Love's Labor Lost was an Emmy Award winning episode. It's an incredible episode featuring Dr. Greene attempting to deliver a baby until things go horribly wrong. Anthony Edwards was nothing short of perfect in this episode. Try watching this one without feeling the stress and tension that Greene feels. It's nearly impossible.
So, if you're anxious to recapture some fond memories with the original cast of ER and remember why this show started off so well, then you can't go wrong with the first season of ER.
Description of ER: The Complete First Season
Complete first season of the television program that focuses on the lives and activities of the doctors and staff of a Chicago hospital's emergency room.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-SEP-2006
Media Type: DVD
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