welcome back, carter When did the show ER get so terrible? I haven't really watched it in a while, but I did tonight, and it sucks my butt. And I'm not just saying that as a medical student screaming about the show being unrealistic, though it is. I don't really begrudge the contrivances--it's TV, after all. But what I'm saying that as a television show, it's coasting on its past reputation and putting nothing new, interesting, or entertaining out there. With the exception of Dr. Romano (who I love now) and the brown-haired Julianna Margulies replacement nurse, every character on the show is unrealistic and annoying. And they have bad hair. What the hell did they do to Mulan's hair? (You know, that Chinese actress Ming Na Wen--she was also June in "The Joy Luck Club.") She used to have good hair, and now they've cut it and hairsprayed it into this horrible bunchy updo that makes her look 50 years old. For shame, ER. For shame. On Saturday nights around midnight, Channel 11 in New York used to show "ER Theater"--basically two back-to-back episodes of vintage ER episodes, in the days when Carter was still cute and George Cloony was still on the show (looking down at the floor half the time, bobbing his head back and forth when he talked, as he was wont to do). My sister and I liked ER Theater. It revisited the era back when the show was good. You know, before they started killing off their characters and and giving them brain tumors hooking everyone up with everyone else and bringing in a whole crop of unappealing new characters with one-to-one mapping to replace the original actors who got smart and left. Speaking of which, what's the deal with this new (OK, maybe not new anymore) Croatian George Clooney stand-in? And when is he going to get a Caesar cut? This is the tail end of Joe's vacation week (I'm on vacation two weeks from now), and this morning, he flew out to San Francisco to visit some friends for the weekend. I got a call from him a few hours ago, and he got there safe. He said he was originally going to call me from his layover in Houston too, but he didn't want my phone to go off in the OR. (I had it on vibrate anyway.) I know it's neurotic, but I always worry when people in my family travel without me. I always worry about all and sundry things that can go wrong, from the mundane to the catastrophic, even before last September. When my family goes on vacation, I obsessively log into nytimes.com 50 times a day...just to check. Knock on wood. Knock on everything. He's flying back Sunday night. Cold and drizzly today. If the weather is going to be this bad, I wish it would at least rain hard, to make a dent in this drought. Now, the weather's just crappy for the sake of being crappy. xo Michelle |
Thursday . April 25 . 2002 . 11:25pm |
welcome back, carter When did the show ER get so terrible? I haven't really watched it in a while, but I did tonight, and it sucks my butt. And I'm not just saying that as a medical student screaming about the show being unrealistic, though it is. I don't really begrudge the contrivances--it's TV, after all. But what I'm saying that as a television show, it's coasting on its past reputation and putting nothing new, interesting, or entertaining out there. With the exception of Dr. Romano (who I love now) and the brown-haired Julianna Margulies replacement nurse, every character on the show is unrealistic and annoying. And they have bad hair. What the hell did they do to Mulan's hair? (You know, that Chinese actress Ming Na Wen--she was also June in "The Joy Luck Club.") She used to have good hair, and now they've cut it and hairsprayed it into this horrible bunchy updo that makes her look 50 years old. For shame, ER. For shame. On Saturday nights around midnight, Channel 11 in New York used to show "ER Theater"--basically two back-to-back episodes of vintage ER episodes, in the days when Carter was still cute and George Cloony was still on the show (looking down at the floor half the time, bobbing his head back and forth when he talked, as he was wont to do). My sister and I liked ER Theater. It revisited the era back when the show was good. You know, before they started killing off their characters and and giving them brain tumors hooking everyone up with everyone else and bringing in a whole crop of unappealing new characters with one-to-one mapping to replace the original actors who got smart and left. Speaking of which, what's the deal with this new (OK, maybe not new anymore) Croatian George Clooney stand-in? And when is he going to get a Caesar cut? This is the tail end of Joe's vacation week (I'm on vacation two weeks from now), and this morning, he flew out to San Francisco to visit some friends for the weekend. I got a call from him a few hours ago, and he got there safe. He said he was originally going to call me from his layover in Houston too, but he didn't want my phone to go off in the OR. (I had it on vibrate anyway.) I know it's neurotic, but I always worry when people in my family travel without me. I always worry about all and sundry things that can go wrong, from the mundane to the catastrophic, even before last September. When my family goes on vacation, I obsessively log into nytimes.com 50 times a day...just to check. Knock on wood. Knock on everything. He's flying back Sunday night. Cold and drizzly today. If the weather is going to be this bad, I wish it would at least rain hard, to make a dent in this drought. Now, the weather's just crappy for the sake of being crappy. xo Michelle |
