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Posted Sep 29th 2009 2:35AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Sons of Anarchy
(S01E01) The first question I had after watching the new NBC medical drama
Trauma was this: can the show keep this up every week?
You can tell a lot of money was spent on the pilot, because the first 20 minutes is like
Irwin Allen: The Movie. Helicopters crash, cars explode, children are endangered. It's like those big episodes of
ER where something massive happened, only this is going to be a regular thing with this show (if, as I said above, they can spend a lot of money on future episodes).
But what about the rest of the show? It's one thing to have big accidents and pyrotechnics (which are actually very impressive) but what about the cast, the writing, the stories?
Continue reading Trauma: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted May 6th 2009 11:37AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Upfronts, Reality-Free

NBC unveiled its
new shows Monday (they'll reveal the full schedule on May 19), and one of the shows is a medical show. Well, actually, two of the shows are medical shows (the other is
Mercy), but here's the first one. It's called
Trauma, and it's set in San Francisco. Remember those special episodes of
ER that had a helicopter falling on someone or a plane blowing up or a car crashing into the emergency room? This show looks like it has that stuff in every episode! But it makes more sense because these people are paramedics and not ER personnel.
Continue reading Sneak Peek: NBC's Trauma