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Still making my way through the new television pilot season...
1. Manifest
This is starting out pretty good. It held my attention throughout. Grabbed it and held it by the throat in the first fifteen minutes...which are pretty much played out as follows:
( mild spoilers )
I'm sticking with it though. The cast is good. The writing convincing. I like the characters. And more importantly I care what happens to all of them. They've grabbed the creepy kid from The Middle, he's playing the kid with Leukemia in this series. Josh Dallas is the brother, and I know I've seen his sister and her fiance somewhere before. Also it marries sci-fi, cop procedural, medical procedural, and family drama neatly. Again this is just the pilot, it could flow downhill in a jiffy.
2. New Amsterdam
Reminds me of St. Elsewhere. Except faster paced. It's much better than expected. Great cast. The guy who played the husband on The Blacklist, and a bunch of other actors that I've seen before. Is a touch on the melodramatic side: adapted from the memoir of a medical director, diagnosed with cancer struggling with his marriage, who took over and turned around Belleview Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States. The writer of the memoir is serving as a consultant on the series.
Sort of St. Elsewhere meets ER.
I like medical procedurals. I admit that. I find them weirdly comforting. Helps that I hate hospital and know zip about the medical profession.
The hospital looks like a NYC hospital. And it feels real to me so far. Yes, it's swinging a bit into the area of melodrama and hyperbole here and there. The first episode has the following all packed inside of it:
( mild spoilers )
I will state everything is handled realistically (in that my suspension of disbelief never felt the need to leap out the window and run screaming down the street like it did yesterday), down-played, and wrapped up in a satisfying and somewhat comforting manner. I didn't want to scream at the television once. And I was not bored. It held my attention throughout. The characters pulled me in. They looked real. Not pretty. Or overly neat. It was believable. Also diverse cast, with multiple accents, and languages. Felt like a NYC hospital. (And I've been in my fair share.)
To date it may be the most realistic hospital drama I've seen since early ER.
So, sticking with it for now.
Both were heads and shoulders better than yesterdays television series.
1. Manifest
This is starting out pretty good. It held my attention throughout. Grabbed it and held it by the throat in the first fifteen minutes...which are pretty much played out as follows:
( mild spoilers )
I'm sticking with it though. The cast is good. The writing convincing. I like the characters. And more importantly I care what happens to all of them. They've grabbed the creepy kid from The Middle, he's playing the kid with Leukemia in this series. Josh Dallas is the brother, and I know I've seen his sister and her fiance somewhere before. Also it marries sci-fi, cop procedural, medical procedural, and family drama neatly. Again this is just the pilot, it could flow downhill in a jiffy.
2. New Amsterdam
Reminds me of St. Elsewhere. Except faster paced. It's much better than expected. Great cast. The guy who played the husband on The Blacklist, and a bunch of other actors that I've seen before. Is a touch on the melodramatic side: adapted from the memoir of a medical director, diagnosed with cancer struggling with his marriage, who took over and turned around Belleview Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States. The writer of the memoir is serving as a consultant on the series.
Sort of St. Elsewhere meets ER.
I like medical procedurals. I admit that. I find them weirdly comforting. Helps that I hate hospital and know zip about the medical profession.
The hospital looks like a NYC hospital. And it feels real to me so far. Yes, it's swinging a bit into the area of melodrama and hyperbole here and there. The first episode has the following all packed inside of it:
( mild spoilers )
I will state everything is handled realistically (in that my suspension of disbelief never felt the need to leap out the window and run screaming down the street like it did yesterday), down-played, and wrapped up in a satisfying and somewhat comforting manner. I didn't want to scream at the television once. And I was not bored. It held my attention throughout. The characters pulled me in. They looked real. Not pretty. Or overly neat. It was believable. Also diverse cast, with multiple accents, and languages. Felt like a NYC hospital. (And I've been in my fair share.)
To date it may be the most realistic hospital drama I've seen since early ER.
So, sticking with it for now.
Both were heads and shoulders better than yesterdays television series.