A Man. And His Blog.

NBC's medical action drama aired during the season 2009/2010.

This adrenaline-fueled drama project succeeds NBC’s ER and takes the action outside to the field. Trauma centers around the work and personal lives of seven paramedics and EMTs in San Francisco. Former military pilot Marisa (Aimee Garcia) and her crazy EMT partner Rabbit (Cliff Curtis) man the skies. Nancy (Anastasia Griffith), Glenn (Taylor Kinney), Boone (Derek Luke), and Tyler (Kevin Rankin) work the rigs on the ground. All of them bring their trauma cases back to Dr. Joe (Jamey Sheridan) back at San Francisco General.

Episode 01: Pilot
I already posted a pilot review last year. Click on this link to read it. 7,5/10

Episode 02: All’s Fair
An interesting episode. Not only am I glad that the show develops into the right direction and the direction I wanted to see, but the series didn’t lose the characters and the episode even had some nice developing moments. But what the series has lost are the viewers, which lets me strongly believe that NBC won’t even finish airing all the 13 episodes of the first season, not to mention a back-9 order. I am already waiting on NBC’s announcement of canceling Trauma…
The first half of the episode was very nice. The story plays with stereotypes and is funny; the first rescue mission was like a parody of the Final Destination movies, how everybody would have thought the guy gets pulled into the machine and how it didn’t happen after all – very nice.
The main rescue mission in the second half of the episode was good, though I didn’t need the five minutes of character constellations, before the car hit the market – it was a waste of time, the story with the mother and her son was way more important than the other ones, so I can’t understand why the writers put too much time on the other little stories.
I am starting to like Glenn; as the new character in the show he has some difficulties to live in the expectations (especially when he was out of line during the final rescue mission), but he actually has not too much screentime, which I didn’t like. With this storyline you can do much.
Rabbit and the kid – funny. Boone and his problems with his wife Sela (Ryan Michelle Bathe) – not so interesting, though I like how he writers wrote his character. The rest has to see how they develop. As long as NBC keeps the series on the air. 7,5/10

Read the rest of this entry »

First I didn’t have any big expectations of this series. Another effort to copy ER, then NBC putting the show on a slot after the struggling Heroes. So it won’t be a show for more than one season, and if NBC is lucky this season, Trauma will have his 5 or 6 million viewers and they can be happy about that. Then I saw the action packed promos and thought this show could make it. Then I saw resembles of Emergency! (I loved this show when I was a child) and Third Watch (L liked this show, when I grew up) and thought this show has a chance to make it. Probably it will be a success, but with NBC and then as lead-out to Heroes? That just can’t work.

Read the rest of this entry »