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Benton & Lewis To Join Carter, Hathaway and Ross On ER??
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The East Coast just saw John Carter return to “ER,” and the episode marking the event concluded with a promo touting the return of Sherry Stringfield as Susan Lewis, Eriq LaSalle as Peter Benton, Maura Tierney as Abby Lockhart and Julianna Margulies as Carol Hathaway.
While LaSalle directed last week’s “ER,” this is the first I’m hearing of him returning to the role of Benton, and of Stringfield returning to the role of Lewis.
The promo also represents, I believe, NBC’s first acknowledgement that Margulies will be back as Hathaway.
It’s an open secret that George Clooney will also be back as Doug Ross, though his face was not one featured in tonight’s promo.
“ER” ends its 15-season run on NBC April 2.
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...with the celebs wanting to all be on the show before it goes off the air. Wallace Shawn? Huh.
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...VS Mecha-Romano.
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NBC already released the episode synopsis for 15.19(03/12). Carter gets a surprise visit from an old friend (guest star Eriq La Salle) while waiting for his surgery.
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If anybody was actually still watching.
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Benton's return is mentioned in NBC's press release for episode 19 (http://tinyurl.com/d8n4n5), and Stringfield's return was reported by TV Guide last week (http://tinyurl.com/bphs7k).
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..but I've been catching an episode now and then on its way out. The episode with William H. Macy was awesome. Carter's return tonight - bound for a sad ending? I miss the old days of this show.
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It's atleast 10 years too late.
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If any character could be the reason for everyone else coming back, it's him. (Or SPOILERS? Him dying). Thankfully Chuny won't be the only one recognizing the old guard. Wally Shawn was indefatigable (inconceivable!) as always tonight. And yes, the one from 2 weeks ago with Bill Macy was just amazing. One of the best hours of television I've seen. Reached the heart of the show like few episodes do. With only a few misses, ER is mostly hitting it out of the park this season.
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Labours Lost" episode tonight. Beat for beat.Someone should be suing someone. Not that I watched Grey's Anatomy. I just heard it from my sister. Hey what are you doing with my man card? No you don't have to burn it, wait I like chicks. Stop!!!! Ahhhh!
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If only so we could have that perfect, gut-wrenching episode that was "All In the Family." That was top-tier, Grade A+ writing, acting and directing. Also, while this season has been only average like the last eight seasons, there have been two standout moments: First, when Abby leaves in "The Book of Abby" and Nurse Haleh shows her something the hospital uses to remember people gone by... unexpectedly perfect. Low key, and just just amazingly right. If you can find that clip (toward the end of the episode) watch it. You'll thank me. Also, the ten minutes of Mark Green's flashback in "Heal Thyself" WAS pretty damned good.
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"Time is fun when you're having flies."
Extra special geek points if you can name the movie and the connection to "Lost".
Also, more geek points if you can name the OTHER medical show, also set in the same city, that started the exact same night as "ER" fifteen years ago. -
...telling a friend (and his pregnant wife) NOT NOT NOT to watch the ER episode they had taped the previous night, "Love's Labors Lost".
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At least, that's what I've heard secondhand. I've never actually met anyone who watched it.
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It wasn't bad in the beginning but went downhill as Mandy Patinkin had the first of his many TV freakouts.
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Yes they are. So much that NBC is waffling about whether or not they're really gonna end the show.
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he was at the Carter AIDS Clinic hooked up to a machine along with other people.
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Well, he did spend a lot of time in Africa, but the machine clearly says "Dialysis" on it (do AIDS patients normally undergo dialysis?). I'm thinking he's developed some sort of kidney infection. He'll need a donor, and of course the only perfect match in the country will be one DR. DOUGLAS ROSS, who will return to donate a kidney to the young(er) Doc Carter. Ross dies during surgery, Clooney wins an Emmy for his heartbreaking return, and the show and its viewers are finally put out of their misery.
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fuc kthis. give that dude a break.
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AIDS might still be the cause. He could be on dialysis because his kidneys are failing due to his immune system breaking down from AIDS. Hope that's not the case. As depressing as the show has been the past few years, I really wish they would give everyone a frakkin' happy ending at this point. Viewers are bummed out enough as it is, with the economy and job losses.
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I have nothing against her as an actress, but Abby Lockhart was a downer.
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Good point, and a logical one. And I whole-heartedly agree that the writers need to end Carter's story on a positive note, dammit! County General must have the highest freakin' mortality rate among its doctors of any place in the country! Greene, Lucy, Romano - I know *I* haven't seen three co-workers die over the past 15 years. [And those are just the first three on ER casualties that come to mind! Have I forgotten any?]
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Ummm... They killed off another doctor at the beginning of this season, and then there was the one killed in Iraq. Plus the shootout which ALMOST killed Jerry...
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Pratt dies. Omar Epps' character died one season, after Beton made life hard on him, iirc. Didn't whatshername, pegleg's girlfriend, the firefighter/emt die also? Yeah, getting a job/internship/whatever at County is kind of like a death sentence.
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I seem to remember Gloria Reuben's character being HIV positive (I think...) but can't remember the context of her departure.
Another thing about ER, how many had successful childbirths? Think of how many staff members in particular had something go terribly wrong in delivery.
I'll still never forget the Lucy episode, that was some sad shit. -
That way I don't have to hear the overly dramatic promos for this dumbass show.
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is when actors on the show are thrown a directing bone (or writing or producing) to either stay on the show or come back.
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Talk about jumping the shark. This has been crap for ten years. I haven't watched since the beautiful doctor was afraid to 'come out' as a lesbian because then she'd be discriminated against. Yeah. Right.
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That was Midsummer Night's Dream NOT Love's Labor Lost. Hearing the classic line 'if these shadows have offended' come from Wally Shawn's mouth was worth the price of admission.
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often have very little to do with the show. For years, the network has tried to oversell the drama, and the actual episodes hardly ever match the tone of those annoying promos, thankfully. One of the reasons I initially found ER interesting was how the writing underplays its 'climactic' moments. The rhythms and pacing of an episode are very different from the other shows I watch. It's much more naturalistic.
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((Somber Piano Music)) Tonight, an ER Event... the return of Dr. Carter... ((Flashing various actors' faces)) "and you won't BELIEVE what happens next..." ((Flashes of: helicopter crashing into the building. Ambulance crashing into the ER room during an operation. Patient holding a gun to a surgeon's head)) BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! ...BEEEEEEEEEEE... "OH MY GOD! ((QUICK CUT TO BLACK)) ((PAUSE)) ((FANCY COMPUTER-GRAPHIC ER TITLE SCREEN))... I know this show has its moments, but this might as well be a horror series about a cursed hospital. Everyone gets a disease, dies in some horrific accident, or flees for higher pastures.
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she came back for 1 episode last season and the show ruined the happy ending she received when she originally left. She was now divorced, depressed, and looking for a job.
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It's really cool they can get all of these people to return. Provided they're justified aknowledgments, it must be wonderfully satisfying for the fans. Like when Lowe returned to West Wing briefly.
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I really think the show died with Dr. Greene. Steve Young is right...I bet the hospital is cursed...or Dr. Greene's old stethoscope is cursed...or better still, the 3rd floor vending machine! Cursed, like an object from Friday the 13th: The Series.
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back when Romano got attacked by Helicopter! and finished off by Helicopter 2: The Revenge! Some voodoo magic at work there. Still love it, though.
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but she left because Weaver was not 100% out of the closet.
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I'm hoping the show ends with Osama bin Laden crashing the Goodyear Blimp into the hospital, setting free Africanized bees that have gorged themselves on radiological pollen, which then sting the entire cast to death.
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when I was in Chicago and then did it live for each time zone (which was impressive). Was at Gino's East on Michigan Avenue at bar, having incredible deep dish so watched some of it, the only time I've ever watched ER. Just didn't....care
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The line is from Short Circuit 2, and the Lost connecion is that it's spoken by Fisher Stevens, who appeared in the season 4 episode "The Constant".
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was the worst thing in the first 10,000 or so episodes
That guy is the worst monotone, no expression actor
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Yep, yep, yup! True dat!
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