It may be quite different in this seemingly powerful series, as Drew (Brendan Fehr) struggles to hide an injury, causing a series of accidents to leave the rift (Ewyn Christopher McCain) re-grabbing his broken hand and the land of Jordan (Gil Flint) Famine threatens to stop the transfusion of life-saving blood. On the other hand, there are injuries in re-representing the Alamo staff. Meanwhile, a patient suffering from amnesia receives care; Drew helps a severely injured soldier. Topher schedules vasectomy. Jordan's friend arrives.
Things are so unsurprising in the pilot you expect even the new show is suffering from summer rerun syndrome. Generally, it makes one appreciate better shows like Nurse Jackie, Getting On or Children's Hospital.
It's the kind of manipulative, boilerplate material that you could use as a teaching tool at the school for TV hacks, in a seminar called "How to Be Bland and Formulaic." It is definitively generic.
If a TV show goes over the top too often, it's eventually going to bump its head on the ceiling. And then it's going to get really loopy. That's what happens to NBC's new medical series The Late Shift.
