He gets the full show to himself, including well-constructed sequences inside his mind. Stunt guests also fuel the show's vitality, and our first in The Complete Eleventh Season is Ray Liotta popping up in episode 6 as an ex-con whose past life is catching up with him in a deadly medical fashion. "An Intern's Guide" is one of the series' best hours. While the show's interpersonal drama is among the best, it's the medical stuff that makes the show special, the speed and the smarts with which it moves. It's this kind of vibrant activity that always set ER apart. No explosions, no fistfights, no crazy diseases-just the influx of patients, mistakes and triumphs, and getting through the day. Episode 5, "An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy," gets the full swing of the season going with a day-in-the-life installment that shows us a single complete shift of all the newbies. Susan Lewis (original cast member Sherry Stringfield) also takes over as the head doc in the Emergency Room, serving under Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes), who fulfills some of the villainous void left by Romano's death (another big Year 10 development).įunnily enough, though, for all of these plot points, the best shows in ER - The Complete Eleventh Season are when it's business as usual. Roseanne's Sara Gilbert comes on for an off-again-on-again role as a brainy medical student, and Madchen Amick ( Twin Peaks) is a semi-regular social worker and somewhat love interest for Carter.
He is put together with the already established doctors who just finished their internship, Abby and Neela Rasgotra (Parminder Nagra). Shane West joins the fresh-faced rookies as Ray Barnett, a hot-shot who moonlights in a rock band. The new year starts with a new group of students and first years. Elizabeth Corday, though the cause of her leaving-a rebellious action in the operating theatre-reminds us of Corday's early days as the hospital libertine. Less developed is the sudden departure of Alex Kingston's character, Dr. Likewise, the loss of his newborn baby at the end of the previous year weighs heavy on John Carter (Noah Wyle) and darkens his mood to such a degree it paves the way for his eventual exit later this season. Rather than dismissing these narrative moves in a quick wrap-up, they get the full focus of the first episode as well as the time to develop the aftermath over the next couple. The first three episodes get us through the preceding summer, with the premiere picking up on the cliffhanger of Gregory Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) and Jing-Mei Chen (Ming-Na) crashing their car into the Chicago River and nurse Sam Taggart (Linda Cardellini) making a run out of town to escape her ex-husband. Unlike most ER seasons, The Complete Eleventh Season takes a couple of shows to catch up with real time.
Patients quirky enough for a tour of Wonka's Chocolate Factory? The road most traveled.
Plot wheels put into motion then get full traction here, and though this was still a very solid year and Luka Kovac (Goran Visnjic) and Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) as the new power couple on the show (though not yet dating again) would be as important as the early dynamic of Clooney, Marguiles, and Edwards, ER was truly entering the been-there/done-that category. In my review of The Complete Tenth Season earlier this year, I noticed that the peak had been reached, that it was a pivotal year for the show where a secondary cast was beginning to take over. It's only in retrospect that we can now see ER - The Complete Eleventh Season as the year the downward slide was beginning.
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