believing what you see

[jessebeller]

today's times has a a surprisingly interesting article on ER and how that outrageously-long-running show did a number of new and very useful things related to weaving health lessons into the overarching narrative of the show.

reminds me of this fascinating, if disgusting, article from the new yorker about how 24 and jack bauer have influenced the

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[mtfujifunhour]

Yeah the key insight of ER is one of those TV insights that has been so internalized by the industry and is so obvious in retrospect it's easy to forget ER was the first show that really did it.

"What if we gave a shit about the profession of medicine in our medical shows?"