A network that has plenty of cop and legal TV shows, CBS hasn’t had a successful medical drama in quite awhile. Will Code Black become a ratings success or a flop? Cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
Code Black takes place in an Emergency Room in Los Angeles where underfunding and understaffing pile huge pressures on its staff. The cast includes Marcia Gay Harden, Raza Jaffrey, Bonnie Somerville, Melanie Chandra, William Allen Young, Harry Ford, Benjamin Hollingsworth, and Luis Guzman.
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What do you think? Do you like the Code Black TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Renew Code Black
I love this show, please do not cancel
Love, love Code Black!!!!
Me too!!! I have from the moment the previews came out. I will admit the background volume was an issue the first episode, but it’s better now. I think it’s developing just right. I so hope it makes it!! I’m in the demographics they target…but no proof I watch it..I don’t have a Nielsen’s rating box. I don’t know if saying I watch it is enough. 🙂
love this show!!!! my new favorite
I have to turn on closed captioning to understand this show. Sound is bad and they’re talking in medical jargon. Took too many episodes to understand what happened to the doctor’ family.
Um, medical jargon is what is supposed to be talked. It’s a medical show.
I disagree…developing stories are what keep you hanging on. If you know all the answers from the first 3 episodes then what’s the point of watching from there on out? Just my opinion. I respect yours, but I disagree with yours.
Its intertainment. I think the topics that medical professionals deal with daily are worth touching on with some indepth thought to how each topic is played on the show as reality or fantasy. But its worh mentioning at the end of the show some tanglable follow up if viewers should want to learn more. I enjoy the series for intertainment not so much on accuracy. I say one more season.
I was looking foward to the show, watched it last night on Demand. This show is going nowhere.The reason: 1. Chaotic scenes, bad sound. 2. This hospital ER looks like a war zone. ERs may have bad busy days, but this looks like a daily occurance ( 300 days a year) in this ER. 3. No one would want to work in a daily war zone. neither nurses nor physicians. 4. No laughter, no levity. Everyone is serious. Really corny lines about the seriousness of their job. No black humor, which is really what you see. 5. Has this hospital… Read more »
No one would want to work in a war zone? Seriously? Have you not heard to MSF (Doctors Without Borders)? Are you unaware of the fact that doctors and nurses accompany US to troops to see to their health and any injuries? Some people are compelled to help other human beings even in dangerous circumstances – many doctors and nurses are among those, which I would expect. Also big city ERs are not the ultra posh ERs you often see on TV anymore than real crime labs look like the ones on CSI. This is based on a documentary of… Read more »
You have based your opinion of ER’s based on a documentary you saw? Well, let me tell you that this ER would be shut down in real life. In this show, physicians are performimg procedures that they are not licensed to perform. Because, somehow, in this huge hospital, there is no surgeon available to do the procedure.There is an appalling lack of staff. They have take all comers approach, which is not realistic. ERs go on divert if there is not enough staff to see the patients. Yes, Doctors Without Borders work in war zones. But, they do not work… Read more »
No, you need to do your research. The show is based on a documentary of the same name. The creator done his research.. Are you a nurse in a big city? Not all hospitals function the same.
http://codeblackmovie.com/
I am a nurse in a big city hospital. Big inner city hospitals are busy, but this show is very unrealistic. ER physicians in big city hospitals have surgery on call backup, so they don’t perform the procedures on this show. Hospitals grant privileges based on your specialty, and those ER physicians would lose their job and license if they did the procedures they do on the show. No ER would stay open if there were an unreasonable patient load they could not handle. It is a huge liability risk. That is why go on divert. Yes, it is a… Read more »
Then simply don’t watch it, miss know it all, if that is how you feel. Let those of us who enjoy it, watch it.
Your last comment, very mean spirited, shows me that you are related to someone in the show . You are taking this way too personally , which is really weird. And yes, this show stinks. Tell your relative that. Enjoy watching it while it lasts, probably not for long. Don’t reply to me anymore.
People are entitled to their opinion. We don’t have to be entitled to yours. Come work in my big city ER. So much wrong with this show.
“We hired 30 real trauma nurses who work both off screen and on screen.”
McGarry said the goal of the show is to capture the transformative experience of an actual ER physician.
Taken from this site: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/cbs-code-black-tells-the-real-er-story/
Let me first say, that TV isn’t always meant to be REAL. That is what is wrong with America…thinking TV is true life. It’s entertainment. Just because things are based on real life doesn’t make them right or wrong. But here is some info on the creator of the documentary that in turn inspired the TV show. Perhaps you should take the time to watch the documentary. Ryan McGarry is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and a physician at The Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and the director of the… Read more »
Can’t even hear dialing on code black.. Miss half the show because if loud background noise.
I watched the first 15 minutes and turned it off. Perhaps it might be a realistic attempt to dramatize an ER, I don’t know. But it was too jumpy, too noisy to hear out the dialogue and too chaotic. Not what I need to watch just before heading to bed. And I put up with enough chaos during the work day, I don’t need to see it at night too.
One of the Best new shows on television. Finally a show that has authenticity and an Academy Award winning actress at the helm. Hope it continues to find an audience because it is really Good!
I agree!! The background sound is getting better…in my opinion. I really like this show. WTG NBC…finally some shows worth watching. Code Of Black and Blindspot.
I loved it… of course I could be partial since I recognized LAC/ USC right away. And trust me that ER was always a hot mess! I spent many days and nights working those halls.
As for the show itself, I hope it does survive- so far it reminds me how ER started back in the day. Some tweaking here and there and it could really do well.
Thank you!! I really loved it, too. Just the background sound is too overriding at moments., but other than that, I really enjoyed it. I hope this show makes it.
Have you worked in a big city hospital, Snugs? How do you know that this isn’t how the hospital really is? Not all hospitals function the same. This show has potential. Not all pilot’s of a show grab one from initial onset, some of them take a couple or so shows. It seems everyone has set this show up to fail. CBS didn’t give it that much publicity like it did some of it’s other new shows.
Dear SS: I like the show but did see promotions for the show it seems every other hour – more than any other show actually. Code Black became imprinted upon my brain. So, you must have been watching other channels most of the time.
And snugs; how many shows actually present the reality of life in any scenario?
All I saw was Blindspot every other hour….perhaps it’s the area in which we live?
I never thought about that, but I bet that is it. Different regions are bombarded by different promotions. Thanks.
Judy, you are correct. Authenticity is not the major networks strong strength. Wish they would see this and understand why people are leaving the big networks for cable. They can’t seem to understand that.
What a mess! This show should be called ‘Code Mass Confusion’. What kind of super bug problem do they have in there? It is typical network formulaic crap. I don’t care about any of these characters and having worked in hospitals, this is absolutely unrealistic. That is one hour I will never get back in my life.
I agree about the sound. There was a lot of chaos with all the people in the ER. However, I’m sure that hospitals are like that in the bigger, busier cities. But yes, fix the sound.
I liked the pilot episode but noted a problem with the sound. The designed ER background noise was so loud that it was difficult to understand the actors. I have normal hearing and was having problems. Doesn’t matter how well acted, well written or how great the video is – if the sound is bad, you might as well cancel it now.
Thank you rhondadossett. I agree and thought it was just me.