How The World Should End On E.R.
So (and forgive me for knowing this) People Magazine is reporting that George Clooney is coming back to ER. Okay, it was on the WordPress home page and I saw it, so sue me.
Anyway, I clearly remember the last episode of ER that I watched. It was when the helicopter landed on Romano, killing him. I didn’t think sharks that big could be jumped. One of the problems with any drama series is that you have to keep raising the stakes. Eventually what happens is the show devolves into farce. Anyone remember the lawyer going down the elevator in L.A. Law?
So, my theory for the last couple of years is that the only one good way for ER to end is nuclear holocaust. Here’s how it should be scripted:
Some wacked out pay-for-play reject attempts to blackmail Blago with a MIRV cone that he stole from somewhere in the Nevada desert and hides it in the Loop. Clooney, having spent the last five years as an on-call doctor for the NEST guys in Las Vegas, is deciding whether to cut the red wire or the blue wire. Fade out to a mushroom cloud and Anthony Edwards welcoming the entire cast to heaven.
Now that’s drama.
One Response to “How The World Should End On E.R.”
A benefit of living out of the US the last few years is that I missed this horror.
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