ER Complete Season 11 DVD Review

Television shows are a bit like dating. You find a show that’s interesting. You fall in love. You have a relationship, which hopefully lasts for many years. After the relationship has grown old or ended some of the memories may not be quite as clear as they once were. Thank goodness for DVDs. After fifteen years, the television show ER came to an end in April 2009. We watched ER almost every week since the middle of the second season and I’ve now forgotten more than I remember. This past week, on July 14, Warner Brothers Home Video released ER: The Complete Eleventh Season on DVD.

“An aquarium worker with a live shark latched onto him…a blind woman and her guide companion (a miniature horse!)…a college boy with an arrow in his gut (his fraternity brothers were aiming for the apple on his head). Gunshot victims. Homeless children. Cardiac cases. So many patients, so little time.”

Season 11 of ER was on from 2004 to 2005. Regular cast members included Noah Wyle, Maura Tierney, Mekhi Phifer, Goran Visnjic, Sherry Stringfield, Ming-Na, Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini, Shane West, Scott Grimes and Laura Innes. The season a lot of groundwork and did a lot of character development for future seasons. Abby and Neela graduated and become doctors. Sam and Luka decide to live together. Dr Morris becomes Chief Resident. A new staff member comes on board – Dr Ray Barnett. Several doctors leave the ER – Dr Chen moves to China after ending her father’s life, Dr Corday leaves after performing an illegal operation and Dr Carter moves to Africa.

We loved watching Dr Morris start to come into his own. What a long way both the actor and the character came! We thought the character was much improved from years before when he was smoking a joint while the helicopter crashed. We found Ray Barnett’s struggle to be both a physician and a doctor humorous. The standout episode of the season is “Time Of Death”, which features Ray Liotta as dying alcoholic Charlie Metcalf . The episode is about the last 43 minutes of Charlie’s life and is filmed in real time. Other notable guest stars in this season include Red Buttons, Danny Glover, Cynthia Nixon, Francis Fisher and Sharif Atkins.

ER: The Complete Eleventh Season is a six disc set that includes all 22 episodes of the season plus some unaired scenes under a section called “Outpatient Outtakes”. This set is an ideal addition to the collection of long time fans and folks who tuned in after that season as well as those who might have stopped watching for a while.

You can learn more about this DVD and previous seasons by visiting the official site www.ertv.com.

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ER fans, I’d love to hear what your favorite character or moment from the show was.

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