Rorish to her new residents as she blows into the ER like a hurricane. “Life is measured here in split seconds,” says Dr. Her scenes with Guzman are a highlight of the show. Despite being given lines like this: “Your instinct has to be sharper than your scalpel and faster than any machine,” she is able to create an impressive, authoritative character who you want to get to know better. Rorish however, is memorable thanks to a solid performance from Harden. As characters, the residents suffer from a fatal condition called “being forgettable.”ĭr. Christa (Bonnie Somerville) is the older one and Malaya (Melanie Chandra) is the smart one who whispers the answers to Angus whenever his insecurities threaten to potentially kill a patient. Ford) is the resident who lacks confidence and Mario (Benjamin Hollingsworth) is the one with a chip on his shoulder. Reminding us of a character’s traits is the show’s specialty it seems, as we are told repeatedly that Angus (Harry M. Hudson takes almost every opportunity when the two share the screen to question Dr. Hudson (Raza Jaffrey) but after a traumatic event in her life, she has become reckless. Leanne Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden), assisted by senior ER nurse Jesse (Luis Guzman). In the average ER, it happens five times per year.ĭealing with the chaos in the country’s busiest ER is a staff including four doctors beginning their residency.
As the show begins, we are told that in Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, code black happens 300 times per year.
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Despite the appealing fast pace and some solid performances, CBS’ new drama “Code Black” is a medical procedural that sacrifices a complex look at the overburdened health-care system for simplistic emotional ploys.īased on a documentary of the same name, the title of the series comes from a designation that indicates when patients in the emergency room outnumber the resources it has to treat them.