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Summary: Flip discs are not a problem
Review: The flip discs are Ok and there is an A or B label on the ER DVDs. It is just written very small before the words "region 1". So, you know which side you're putting in the player. I'm very happy that ER is now on DVD. I'll buy the second season, too ! The french subtitles are very helpful, cause I'm french and sometimes, this is difficult to understand all the medical words ! Anyway, I've had and will have great hours watching ER !
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Summary: The Finest Show On Television
Review: The second season of the multi-Emmy winning show "ER", 1995-1996, proves to be equally as great as the first season. Producer Michael Crichton wonderfully works his own medical experiences through this show. Many changes for the good happen through the episodes. This offers great variety that never becomes boring. This DVD set proves that "ER" is one of the best TV dramas on the air. Its combination of medical theme and the characters' personal lives (love, family, depression, etc.) offers the intensity that keeps audiences interested in every moment. No dull moment ever arises in a single episode. Every episode still holds its heavy impact as they did when they originally aired. Such quality answers why this deserved to have been the #1 show on television. The acting from every cast member is wonderful. Everyone works at their fullest in every episode. They offer their own sense of theme into the plot, which keeps everything more interesting. This season saw the introduction of Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet and Laura Innes as Kerry Weaver (she didn't become an official cast member until the third season; Weaver was a minor character on the second season). Those who didn't watch "ER" at the time will have an opportunity to see all the original cast members in action: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Noah Wyle, Sherry Stringfield, and Eriq La Salle. Beginning viewers of "ER" will get an opportunity to see Dr. Carter (Wyle) when he was still a medical student, Dr. Lewis (Stringfield) before she left for Phoenix, Dr. Boulet before she was diagnosed as HIV-positive, and Dr. Weaver before she realized she's a lesbian. This DVD set will give people an opportunity to see part of how the environment, the characters, and the plot became what it is now. It also shows part of how the show's quality has evolved through its run. The second season of "ER" is an essential for all "ER" fans. This is sure to please many audiences. Those looking for more should also buy their first season and watch for the other seasons to be released shortly.
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Summary: The Finest Show On Television
Review: The second season of the multi-Emmy winning show "ER", 1995-1996, proves to be equally as great as the first season. Producer Michael Crichton wonderfully works his own medical experiences through this show. Many changes for the good happen through the episodes. This offers great variety that never becomes boring. This DVD set proves that "ER" is one of the best TV dramas on the air. Its combination of medical theme and the characters' personal lives (love, family, depression, etc.) offers the intensity that keeps audiences interested in every moment. No dull moment ever arises in a single episode. Every episode still holds its heavy impact as they did when they originally aired. Such quality answers why this deserved to have been the #1 show on television. The acting from every cast member is wonderful. Everyone works at their fullest in every episode. They offer their own sense of theme into the plot, which keeps everything more interesting. This season saw the introduction of Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet and Laura Innes as Kerry Weaver (she didn't become an official cast member until the third season; Weaver was a minor character on the second season). Those who didn't watch "ER" at the time will have an opportunity to see all the original cast members in action: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Noah Wyle, Sherry Stringfield, and Eriq La Salle. Beginning viewers of "ER" will get an opportunity to see Dr. Carter (Wyle) when he was still a medical student, Dr. Lewis (Stringfield) before she left for Phoenix, Dr. Boulet before she was diagnosed as HIV-positive, and Dr. Weaver before she realized she's a lesbian. This DVD set will give people an opportunity to see part of how the environment, the characters, and the plot became what it is now. It also shows part of how the show's quality has evolved through its run. The second season of "ER" is an essential for all "ER" fans. This is sure to please many audiences. Those looking for more should also buy their first season and watch for the other seasons to be released shortly.
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Summary: When ER Was At Its Finest...
Review: This season is probably my favorite season ever. I think the episodes can stand for themselves without me giving a review of them, so I'll just recap some of the episodes in detail to jog your memory and give a brief recap for the rest. #1 Welcome Back, Carter
Carter (Noah Wyle) is late for his first day back at County, where he is doing his surgical sub-internship under the direction of Peter Benton (Eriq LaSalle) once again. The highlight of Carter's day is fainting while trying to save a profusely bleeding patient. It's also Mark Greene's (Anthony Edwards) first day as an attending in the E.R. and he's swamped by his new responsibilities. He also has to decide who is going to replace him as chief resident, and finally decides to choose Kerry Weaver (the debut of Laura Innes), much to the dismay of Doug Ross (George Clooney), who has worked with her before. Mark also gets assigned the responsibility of dealing with four new med students, one of whom is Harper Tracey (Christine Elise), Carter's love-interest-to-be. We also discover that Benton and Jeanie Boulet (Gloria Reuben) have taken their relationship to the next level.
#2 Summer Run
Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) begins her paramedic rotation with paramedics Ray "Shep" Shephard (Ron Eldard) and Raul Melendez (Carlos Gomez). Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite) comes by the hospital to drop off Baby Susie (Gianna Beleno) with Big Susie (Susan Lewis, portrayed by Sherry Stringfield) while she goes to business school. Susan later finds out that Chloe quit school without telling her because it was "too hard".
#3 Do One, Teach One, Kill One
Susan continues to spend her days with baby Susie on one shoulder and Kerry Weaver looking over the other. Susan asks Mark to get Kerry off her back, but when he tries to do so, Kerry turns the tables on Susan by complaining about her. Carter is assigned to do a relatively easy procedure on a patient but botches it. Benton performs emergency surgery to save the man's liver, but the man has a heart attack on the table and dies anyway. It's not Carter's fault, but he still feels guilty. Doug Ross treats a young boy (Chia-Chia) with AIDS, Chloe is trying to become a mechanic but later decides to get into a money making scheme with a friend and skips town without the baby, Carol completes her last day of paramedic recertification, Peter and Jeanie break up, and Mark, sick of commuting between Milwaukee and Chicage, proposes to Jennifer (Christine Harnos) that he spend some of his pre-work nights in Chicago at Doug's apartment. She agrees.
#4 What Life?
Susan is stuck with the baby and finds out that she has to wait three months before she can claim legal abandonment against Chloe. Doug recommends a neurosurgeon and his wife (the Hallorans) to Susan who is looking to adopt a baby. Peter injures his finger so Carter gets to do the surgery that Peter was scheduled for, and gets a lot of praise from Dr. Hicks (CCH Pounder) for his performance. Carol starts dating Shep, Mark is having an interesting time living with Doug in Doug's "House of Love", Carter and Harper kiss, and Doug's AIDS patient Chia-Chia is back and is nearly exposed to chicken pox.
#5 And Baby Makes Two
The Hallorans can't adopt little Susie for three months, but they'd like to take little Susie to live with them before then anyway, seeing as Susan is having such a hard time finding child care for the baby. Susan has an epiphany and realizes that she wants to keep the baby herself. Chia-Chia is back, this time with meningitis. Doug tells Chia's tearful mother that it's only a matter of time before the boy dies but recommends a course of intrathecal (like a spinal tap but reversed) injections to prolong his life. Later on, Mark explains (while Doug is not around) to Chia's mother that the injections, while they will prolong Chia's life, are more painful than the meningitis. She takes her son home to die and Doug lashes out at Mark for doing that, but Mark says that only a miracle could have saved the boy anyway. Benton treats a woman named Vickie Mazovick who has been severely beaten by her husband. She refuses to press charges against her husband and refuses Benton's offer to help her get into a spousal abuse shelter. Later on, Haleh (Yvette Freeman) tells Benton that there is a police officer in the room with Vickie and Benton finds out that the man is Vickie's husband. Later on, Benton talks to another police officer, who tells Benton that he can't do anything if Vickie won't make a statement against her husband. Frustrated, Benton shows the officer pictures of Vickie's injuries, and the officer is quite startled and recognizes her from when she used to work as a dispatcher. Later on, a man who has been severely beaten is brought in by the same officer. It's Vickie's husband. The other officer tells Benton that Mazovick "took a fall" while chasing a suspect. Carter gets to perform more surgery because Benton is still out with the injured finger, E. Ray Bozman (Charles Noland) makes his debut in this episode, and it's Weaver's day off, which prompts the E.R. staff to throw a party.
The rest of the episodes are as follows:
#6 Days Like This (Doug is very close to getting fired)
#7 Hell and High Water (the big Emmy-winning one where Doug Ross saves a boy from drowning during a flood and becomes a local celebrity and gets to keep his job)
#8 The Secret Sharer (Susan's father comes over to help with baby Susie, against his wife's wishes)
#9 Home (Carol buys a house and a schizophrenic patient named Josh tells her all about it because local architecture is his passion)
#10 A Miracle Happens Here (Mark treats a Concentration Camp survivor and Mark is touched by her faith in God)
#11 Dead of Winter (Shep and Raul find an apartment in the projects which contains 22 freezing, starving children and we meet the smarmy Dr. Vucelich for the first time)
#12 True Lies (Rachel finds out that Mark and Jenn are getting divorced and Peter gets a spot on Vucelich's research team)
#13 It's Not Easy Being Greene (Mark refuses to sign his name to the hospital settlement to Sean O'Brien for the malpractice suit. Peter becomes slightly uncomfortable with the unethical-ness of Vucelich's clamp and run study)
#14 The Right Thing (Peter gets tossed off Vucelich's research team and decides that he wants to make public Vucelich's lack of ethics. His brother-in-law Walt advises against this)
#15 Baby Shower (There is a disaster in the OB/GYN department, so the E.R. gets to deliver a lot of babies)
#16 The Healers (Shep's partner Raul gets badly burned in a fire and dies. Shep blames himself for making Raul go into the burning building to rescue victims)
#17 The Match Game (Chloe is back in town and Carter gets suspended for drinking while on call--he was celebrating receiving his "match", which is his qualification for internship)
#18 A Shift In The Night (Mark gets called in to the E.R. and finds it extremely short staffed and overloaded with patients. Susan informs Chloe that she's hired a lawyer to help her keep baby Susie)
#19 Fire In the Belly (Peter is feeling the sting of blowing the whistle on Dr. Vucelich when other doctors refuse to work with him. Shep has a huge blow-up with a stranger and Carol worries about this new anger problem. Susan is forced by a judge to let Chloe visit Susie and Carter is allowed to work again)
#20 Fevers of Unknown Origin (Peter is made Resident of the Year, Harper leaves Chicago for Dallas, Mark and Jenn meet to discuss their divorce and end up having a reunion...of sorts. She ends up saying "What am I going to tell Craig?")
#21 Take These Broken Wings (Susan is in therapy because she lost custody of Susie, Shep is being investigated by the IAD for charges of abuse, Jeanie finds out she may have HIV)
John Carter, M.D. (Carter becomes a "real" doctor, but misses his graduation to stay with a young girl who needs a liver transplant)
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Summary: MUST SEE TV THRIVES!
Review: When ER was in its initial heyday, I watched from time to time, but I wasn't a big fan. I was a recruiter for a college of nursing and every Friday, I would get several students wanting to pursuing a nursing career because of what they had seen on ER. Once I began to watch the reruns, I understood their feelings!
This show is still a great one, but the earlier seasons are the best. Season two has some great moments, my personal favorite being the Hell or High Water episode that shot George Clooney into superstardom. But other episodes are great, too.
What's really interesting is to see how the characters have evolved since the early days. Season Two John Carter is a wide eyed, eager, less jaded person than the one we see today. Susan Lewis is so torn by her career and the care of her niece. And Mark Greene (who I miss more than Doug Ross) is heart wrenching as he grapples with his life and the lives he saves.
This show is one of the best and this particular collection provides a great showcase of its acting, writing, cinematography, and direction!
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Summary: The ER stars are compared to?
Review: When I watched ER it is an amazing show, all this stuff look real. Difference between this show and the other medical shows these are real people who have real problems like everybody else. Medical shows come and go but this is one show that'll never die, this show is an ICON. The crew and the cast are like family, they help each other they work together they hang out everyday. This show is isn't a place to work, it's like a vacation. George Clooney is compared to Mel Gibson. George Clooney is playing Dr. Doug Ross, he's like Mel Gibson with a stethoscope. George Clooney did really well in movies. Noah Wyle is compared to Breckin Meyer and Tom Cruise. Noah Wyle ever did movies he would do it better than ever than that George Clooney did. Linda Cardellini is compared to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Eliza Dushku. Linda Cardellini should have made 50 most beautiful people magazine. Linda Cardellini is excellent actress, is she ever was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she should have played Buffy Summers. What it been like if Linda Cardellini was on American Pie, if she was on American Pie, she would have played Heather or Michelle Flaherty. Sherry Stringfield is compared to Unfaithful Diane Lane. If she ever done Unfaithful, she would have done it better than her. Ming Na is compared to Charlies Angels Lucy Lui. If she ever played Charlies Angels she would done it better than Lucy Lui did. Maura Tierney is really an excellent actress and she is compared to Diane Lane and Gwyneth Paltrow. She should have made 50 most beautiful people in people magazine. Eventhough she is 39, she looks like she was eighteen or nineteen. She looks like a supermodel. Shane West is excellent Teen Idol, he is compared to Matt Damon and Angel's David Borenaz. Shane West did a great job in A Walk To Remember. Shane West ever played Will Hunting he would have done a better than Matt Damon did.
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Summary: E.R. , The Best Show On Television.....
Review: Wow, I mean the title says it all !!! This show is so amazing. It's almost like an addictive drug. When each episode ends, I can hardly wait to see what the next episode will bring. I have to give a bow to all of the directors, producers, writers, editors, and everyone else who is responsible for making this show so real and life like.In my opinion, there is NEVER a dull moment that goes on in the E.R. The story lines are so good and it is very easy to get caught up in each episode. Between all of the Doctors, Surgeons, Attending Chiefs, Nurses, Medical Students and the rest of the staff,there is so much love, compassion, and kindness that goes on while watching. At times,it almost seems that you're right there in the trauma rooms,or standing in the operating rooms observing all of the great team work that is going on all around you. I can't wait until every season is available to own on video,and I would recommend this awesome,and dramatic television show to anyone !!!
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