Tag: code black

evaclaremarie:

team-angus:

moonlitgleek:

What an excellent episode of Code Black. I think they could have hid that Gina died for a while longer but I thoroughly enjoyed how they surprised me with the time jump and the briefing. I expected the episode to start right where we left off, but they got several birds with one stone in a very engaging way. The doctors’ reactions to seeing Gina and Malaya in Center Stage were great, especially Christa shouting Malaya’s name.

My one complaint about the show rn is that it needs more consistent named background characters. I need known nurses and students to populate the hospital because I currently feel like the main characters exist in a bubble. Who are the people who keep peeking in Central Stage? What’s the name of the two recurrent nurses? And where the hell did Dr. Guthrie disappear to?

Isabel and Risa I think are the ones you’re talking about. 

Isabel, Risa and Amy are the three nurses we see the most

Ah, thank you. I thought I remembered that at least one nurse was called by name, but it didn’t happen often so I blanked.

What an excellent episode of Code Black. I think they could have hid that Gina died for a while longer but I thoroughly enjoyed how they surprised me with the time jump and the briefing. I expected the episode to start right where we left off, but they got several birds with one stone in a very engaging way. The doctors’ reactions to seeing Gina and Malaya in Center Stage were great, especially Christa shouting Malaya’s name.

My one complaint about the show rn is that it needs more consistent named background characters. I need known nurses and students to populate the hospital because I currently feel like the main characters exist in a bubble. Who are the people who keep peeking in Central Stage? What’s the name of the two recurrent nurses? And where the hell did Dr. Guthrie disappear to?

I’m rooting so hard for Neil and Christa. That first stage of romance where they are exchanging loaded glances and establishing a connection is my favorite because of its sweetness and brightness. And god knows that show needs all the brightness it can get.

Code Black is getting mixed reviews but I really like it. It’s more ER than Grey’s with how it’s handling understaffed hospitals, but it’s grittier, bloodier and more chaotic than even the most packed ER episodes, darker even in its lighting. It feels too much in places, I felt like they were in the middle of a crowded chaotic street with a million person crowded around one bed, but it’s based on a true hospital that announces that they no longer have enough staff to handle cases 300 times a year, so it’s real, shocking as the imagery was.

It relies heavily on invoking human emotions and I don’t expect it to stop. It’s bleaker than the other medical dramas I saw so it’s that humanity that softens that bleakness and stops it from devolving into a depressing show. Cliched as some of the moments were, I cried three times over the course of the episode. The cast in nice, only Marcia Gay Harden and Luis Guzman truly stand out, but the rest are doing a good job.

 I liked that the show didn’t immediately fall into the same old story of animosity between the new residents and that Malaya was shown supporting Angus several times and from the get go. The vibe of the show is about team work and support, more than competitiveness. I’m still not sure what to make of Mario, and Angus only won me over at the very end, but I really like the rest. There were bits that felt weird; getting fired over running a test instead of sending the patient home? A first year resident responding to the chief resident’s praise that she did good by saying that she did good too, with a strong vibe of peerness when they are very much not peers? Yeah, weird, even if it was all to serve the reveal of them having gone through trauma and Christa recognizing it in Leanne.

Oh and the camera work is AMAZING.