- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 1994
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It's like "M*A*S*H" with just the helicopters showing up and no laughs. "E.R." is all trauma; you never get to know enough about the patients or get involved with them. It's just treat, release and move on. [18 Sep 1994]
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Tough, gritty, almost exhausting to watch. [16 Sep 1994]
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Superb. [17 Sep 1994]
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A trauma-rama that opens on an adrenaline rush and pretty much stays there, with timeouts for pathos and sex and dark hilarity, ER launches a surgical strike on the emotions that could make it the medical drama for the '90s. [19 Sep 1994]
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Gets off to a spectacular start. [19 Sep 1994]
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Gripping ... It sure gets off to a spine-tingling, heart-pounding start. [19 Sep 1994]
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It's probably the most realistic fictional treatment of the medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling.
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Stresses hard-edged realism over contrived climaxes. [19 Sep 1994]
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In its portrayal of novice docs under pressure, ER may remind you of St. Elsewhere, but with less of the quirkiness that made Elsewhere both brilliant and annoying.
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Offer[s] a mixture of timeliness and wit that's still provocative. [18 Sep 1994]
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Wonderfully textured... ER has hit potential. [18 Sep 1994]
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"ER" achieves speed and grit but at the expense of depth. [22 Sep 1994]
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Crichton ... has infused "E.R." with a contemporary, darkly humorous believability. [18 Sep 1994]
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May leave you exhausted. [17 Sep 1994]
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There are some over-the-top scenes, and no indication yet that these writers know, any better than those on "NYPD Blue," what to do with Sherry Stringfield. [15 Sep 1994]
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As marred and derivative as "ER" is, however, there's something quite seductive about this series.
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ER is energetic, combining hints of Rescue 911 with splashes of L.A. Law in an entertaining concoction. [15 Sep 1994]
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You've seen everything 'ER' has to offer in other medical shows, but you've never seen so much of it crammed into one episode. [17 Sep 1994]
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It's hospital drama in the "St. Elsewhere" mold - but, so far, with less humor. [18 Sep 1994]
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The emergency sequences are pure adrenaline rush, but the drama, romance and humor ladled into the lull periods are pretty hackneyed.
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Exhausting. With documentary precision and harrowing efficiency, E.R. drops you in the emergency room and leaves you there to squirm. [17 Sep 1994]