Статья на английском. Содержит спойлеры!Mercy is not only starring Michelle, but Gail Berman is the executive producer. She was the executive producer of both Buffy and Angel. (Which is the main reason why Michelle took the job).
Here is a look at Mercy. It's not just another nurse show. Mercy starts this Wednesday, 8, 7c.
Spoilers!
Gail Berman the executive producer of both Buffy and Angel, this is her new show. Looks interesting. And I do like doctor shows, but it really depends. I like shows that show their lives in and out of the workplace. So I like both aspects of that. I don't care for just showing their romances at the 'office' like Grey's Anatomy. No offense to Grey's fans, just not my thing.
Much could be made that this is TV’s year of the nurse with “HawthoRNe,” “Nurse Jackie” and “Mercy.”
Yes, these are all shows about nurses, all with female leads, but they are all very different. NBC’s “Mercy,” premiering at 8 p. m. Wednesday, follows three young nurses, in the ER and after-hours, and does it quite well.
The action unfolds with Manhattan as a backdrop, across the Hudson. The New Jersey city, home to Mercy Hospital, isn’t named, and it doesn’t much matter. The city is there, beckoning, as they work in its shadows, trying to piece people back together.
Just as nurse shows carve out individual territory, so do these nurses. The best-known of the three leads, Michelle Trachtenberg (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Gossip Girl”), plays Chloe Payne, a naif whose empathy could consume her. Jaime Lee Kirchner (“Rescue Me”) plays Sonia Jiminez, a knockout beauty from the ’hood. Newcomer Taylor Schilling plays Veronica Callahan, a nurse who not only knows more than most of the doctors, she’s more than willing to beat up the arrogant ones to prove a point.
“Chloe just graduated,” Trachtenberg says, kicking off her Christian Louboutins and rubbing her sore feet, while relaxing in a green room after a news conference.
Some had questioned if she plays the new kid too often.
“People are quick to judge,” Trachtenberg says. “We are all first day on the job at some point. All experiences in life you go into with eyes wide open. She’s a great, great soul. All she wants to do is be accepted by these women.”
When Chloe shows up for work she’s wearing scrubs with a print of hearts and ladybugs. After a patient soils her uniform, she changes into Hello Kitty scrubs. By comparison, Veronica wears navy scrubs and Sonia’s in a black T-shirt and lavender scrubs, making Chloe’s uniform look better suited for a pediatric ward.
The pilot does a fine job of explaining the women and laying out their relationships. Veronica comes from a blue-collar family, and her parents drink too much. She’s separated from her husband, Mike (Diego Klattenhoff, “Supernatural”), who continues to pursue her.
From the opening scene, Veronica proves her mettle as she saves someone’s life, though because she’s not a doctor she could be in big trouble because of her quick-thinking heroics.
The bond the nurses have with one another seems genuine, the sort of easy rapport coworkers develop when they have been through so much together. Once Veronica speeds up a patient’s inevitable death, horrifying Chloe, they go out for a beer after work. At the pub, they appreciate a fetching bartender described as “a unicorn, a magical creature.”
Their relationships with men are complicated. Veronica doesn’t know whether to return to Mike. Just as she decides, a hot doctor, Sands (James Tupper, “Men in Trees”),whom she served under—literally—in Iraq, shows up to work at the hospital.
Those still uncertain if they want to invest the time in another nurse show might do well to follow Trachtenberg’s instinct.
“I passed on a lot of pilots,” she says. “When Gail Berman [the executive producer behind this, ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’] calls your cell phone, you don’t hit ignore.”