TV: Man With No Name (ER episode 12.03)
I shouldn’t keep doing it to myself, I know, but after investing so many years in a once great programme it’s kind of hard to let go.
I found myself almost feeling sorry for Sam when Eve the new nurse manager (has there been a NM since Carol left? And if not, why do they need one now?) changed her shifts, which is weird, as I’ve actively disliked Sam since she arrived. According to an NBC statement Kristen ‘3rd Rock’ Johnston has been drafted in to play “an inscrutable and unflappable nurse manager…on a mission to whip the department into shape”. God, even they sound bored. I took umbrage with her because she was too tall.
So after a non committal start and a messy - in both senses - burn victim analogy, the set up for the rest of the series began in earnest. In no particular order, I predict the following events likely to occur in series 12 –
+ Abby sleeps with Luka.
+ Gallant returns, temporarily, and sleeps with Neela (his “girlfriend” now, apparently).
+ Luka revisits his philandering ways and/or gets back with Abby.
+ Abby and Dubenko bond over his, initially undisclosed to other ER staff, cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment.
+ Susan’s disappearance is explained away for a couple of weeks, at which point the writers will expect us to forget she ever existed.
+ Nurse manager Eve whacks her head on the ceiling and buddies up with Luka over sutures.
+ A man sporting Aviator shades and described only as ‘John Doe’ is admitted to the ER with a series of non-lethal and possibly self-inflicted stab wounds to the stomach, and is accompanied throughout the episode by dramatic music and a yellow digital clock…
I read ahead to see if my predictions were correct (wait and see, I don’t do spoilers) or if there were any storylines in future episodes that held my attention. There were several. Well, one really. Though I have to say, I saw it coming.
However by far the scariest thing to come out of my research was in a description of the future episode ‘I Do’ and the line “Morris, Ray and a somewhat rusty Kerry treat a man with hypothermia, leading Morris to take a stand regarding the best course of action.” It would be laughable, if it weren’t so tragic. I must remember to forget to watch that week.
I found myself almost feeling sorry for Sam when Eve the new nurse manager (has there been a NM since Carol left? And if not, why do they need one now?) changed her shifts, which is weird, as I’ve actively disliked Sam since she arrived. According to an NBC statement Kristen ‘3rd Rock’ Johnston has been drafted in to play “an inscrutable and unflappable nurse manager…on a mission to whip the department into shape”. God, even they sound bored. I took umbrage with her because she was too tall.
So after a non committal start and a messy - in both senses - burn victim analogy, the set up for the rest of the series began in earnest. In no particular order, I predict the following events likely to occur in series 12 –
+ Abby sleeps with Luka.
+ Gallant returns, temporarily, and sleeps with Neela (his “girlfriend” now, apparently).
+ Luka revisits his philandering ways and/or gets back with Abby.
+ Abby and Dubenko bond over his, initially undisclosed to other ER staff, cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment.
+ Susan’s disappearance is explained away for a couple of weeks, at which point the writers will expect us to forget she ever existed.
+ Nurse manager Eve whacks her head on the ceiling and buddies up with Luka over sutures.
+ A man sporting Aviator shades and described only as ‘John Doe’ is admitted to the ER with a series of non-lethal and possibly self-inflicted stab wounds to the stomach, and is accompanied throughout the episode by dramatic music and a yellow digital clock…
I read ahead to see if my predictions were correct (wait and see, I don’t do spoilers) or if there were any storylines in future episodes that held my attention. There were several. Well, one really. Though I have to say, I saw it coming.
However by far the scariest thing to come out of my research was in a description of the future episode ‘I Do’ and the line “Morris, Ray and a somewhat rusty Kerry treat a man with hypothermia, leading Morris to take a stand regarding the best course of action.” It would be laughable, if it weren’t so tragic. I must remember to forget to watch that week.
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