ER – The Complete Tenth Season (Warner DVD)

 

Picture: B-     Sound: C+     Extras: C-     Episodes: C

 

 

Sometimes a show should quit while it is ahead, but NBC and Warner Bros. just cannot let go of ER and by its Tenth Season featured in this new DVD set, to show the site has fans of the show, here is our coverage of previous seasons:

 

Eight

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6609/ER+%E2%80%93+The+Complete

 

Nine

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7131/ER+%E2%80%93+The+Complete

 

 

The show retained the underrated Noah Wylie, but even with newer cast members like Mekhi Phifer, Sherry Stringfield, Laura Innes and other capable supporting actors, the show became pretty thin at this point despite the money and backing of the makers.  The medical trip to Africa was a good idea, but throughout the 22 hour-long shows on six DVDs here, it looks more like an imitator of the show than the show they started out with a long time ago.  It is a show that never stayed with me then, let alone now and it may have drained any life out of future medical dramas for years to come.  Enough is enough.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 widescreen image is not bad, but can have some motion blur, detail and depth limits despite how clean it is.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is on the flat side with some Pro Logic surrounds, but nothing special.  After all this time, you’d think the show would have gone 5.1 by then.  Wonder if this will play better on Blu-ray whenever it arrives.  Extras include more unaired scenes and another gag reel, but nothing more in a way that points out that even the makers seem to know they are stretching things out.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo