Anyone watch "ER"?

[Gurm]

Ok, we've watched ER - well, Julie has - since its inception some 14 years ago.

And boy, has this show jumped the shark.

It has, over recent seasons, gotten painful to watch, and last night... I don't know if I can watch it any more. It ranks right up there with "Nip/Tuck" in the "shows which feature tortured people who can never ever ever be happy for any reason".

[Brian Ellis]

Even the wife renounces on that one and N&T. She does like the BBC's equivalents of Casualty and Holby City but we can no longer get them since the Beeb changed their BBC Prime satellite. However, she has watched Grey's Anatomy on Swiss TV but, happily, the last series is finished.

[Gurm]

I just... y'know, you can only watch a show so long where the only way they can think of to keep the ratings up is to have tragedy after tragedy.

[Jammrock]

ER should have died a decade ago.

[RhinoZ]

ER should have died a decade ago.

That's when I stopped watching it. I just was getting tired of tragedy after tragedy. I liked it when they wrote some funny patient stories,There was some great writing back then.

[Mehen]

yeah I stopped watching ER shortly after Anthony Edwards left.

One episode I did watch in the last couple years was when James Woods guest starred - I really liked that episode - probably because it was patient focused, and not just soap opera.

[Helevitia]

My wife still watches it, but it lost me a few years ago.

[Kruzin]

I thought the show jumped the shark when that jerkish doctor had his arm whacked off by a helicopter, then like the next season got killed when a helicopter fell on him. Thats about when I stopped watching. That, and that bitchy head nurse turned out not just to be handicapped, but was a lesbian too. Just too soap opraish for me.

[Brian Ellis]

All these pseudo-medical things are soaps, pure and simple.

[Mehen]

Not really, Scrubs is a comedy, House is still maintaining a pretty strong medical aspect to it, and I hear good things about Grey's (although I think that one is a little more soap-opera-ish).

[Fat Tone]

We stopped watching all the medical things (mainly casualty and ER) when we had a sudden death in the family about 7 years ago. It was too hard to look at anything to do with death and hospitals. We have more recently watched House avidly (although its a little too formulaic some times) and Season 1 of GA, but I still cringe on my wifes behalf whenever a mother dies.

[Brian Ellis]

I've never had the doubtful pleasure of Scrubs. Would Dr Gregory House exist if it were not for the acting by Hugh Laurie? He, alone, carries the series, which is really ludicrous in its content. Laurie should wear a deerstalker, smoke a meerschaum pipe and carry a magnifying glass. The resemblance is even closer in that they are both drug addicts. It does have some funny, as well as pathetic, moments, though!