EPISODE
SEASON
ER - Season 2
Season 2 opens with victims of a gang shootout being brought in, Carter is late and a new group of third year medical students arrives; on Weaver's first day, she doesn't exactly make a lot of friends...
1970, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3 June 1942, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
7 June 1964, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
13 August 1958, Santa Maria, California, USA
November 28, 2017
It took the arrival of the exceptionally cranky, annoyingly whiny, stodgily by-the-book, apparently humorless new chief resident, Dr. Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes), to reveal fully the strengths of ER.
November 28, 2017
As we have seen innumerable times since, Clooney was up to the challenge, ditching his gala event, and refusing to give up on the trapped boy, because he's a doctor, dammit, and committed to trying to save a life, no matter the odds.
November 28, 2017
Few shows had the guts to portray doctors as falliable, stupid and petty at times, indifferent or unable to connect to patients and some times ill-tempered.
November 28, 2017
... you can actually pinpoint the exact second George Clooney became a star.
November 28, 2017
The action-tracking format of NBC's "ER" injected the medical-show format with a compelling energy it never had had before, overcoming predictable plots and thin, if likeable, characters.

