St Denis Medical

From the creative forces behind The Office and Superstore comes this new NBC comedy. Done in the mockumentary style of The Office, it starts off with Nurse Alex testing a drug addict by offering to get him drugs from the hospital. Wendie McLendon-Hovey (so memorable as super mom Beverly on The Goldbergs) as the hospital administrator, Joyce. David Alan Grier is great as Dr. Ron. Alex has just gotten a promotion but the pay bump is apprently not comensurate with her new job duties. "I'm going to spend about 40 minutes filling out electric health forms...that's a party." "Go watch your kids murder some ABBA songs." Alex appears to be a control freak. Joyce was funny introducing and legitimizing her new breast cancer wing and a dreadfully expensive mamorgaphy machine. Love the hospiutal coming to a complete stop when the computers going down. "Those attitudes are the real cancers." Mekki Leeper is adorable as the new male nurse, Matt. Josh Lawson is hysterical as Bruce, the trauma surgeon. Ron's really got Alex's number....she thinks the hospital will fall apart if she leaves. Mindy Sterling was very funny as a patient named Laura. Matt was hysterical on the intercm. Slight nitpick, but I didn't see anyone operating on Laura scrub before the surgery. Loved Matt comparing the staff to the Avengers. The drug addict in the opening scene was Laurie's husband? Pretty solid pilot...it's a lot better than Happy's Pace. I'll keep watcing

I also really enjoyed that first episode.

Season One, Ep 2. Loved Dr. Bruce's surgical music. ". A big steel wall, that's what you have to have between your personal life and your professional life." "I had a personal trainer once...I almost lasted the whole hour." I'm getting some wonderful antagonistic chemistry between Allison Tallman and Wendire McLendon-Hovey. Bruce the trauma surgeon is so full of himself. Hot twenty somethings are into old guys talking about WW II." That was weird with Joyce and her marimba teacher. I love that Doctor Ron's patient had no idea who George Carlin was. LOVED Matt's question abouot being an organ donor. "I heal patients and they heal the world." If you close your eyes, sometimes Allison Tallman sounds like Ellen DeGeneres. Great to see Lynn Whitfield, she looks fabulous, hope she's going to be a regular, a love interest for Dr Ron? "Those crackers are for the sad, throw them out." "he's brainwashed because he grew up in a time before modern ideas." David Alan Grier is SO funny. Joyce was in love with her married marimba teacher? Loved Ron, a heteroseuxal, using the phrase "clutch the pealrs", an expression I've only heard gay men use. McLendon-Hovey and Grier are making this show watchable all by themselves.

Season One, Ep 3. "We have Matt update the families because it's pretty much impossible to screw up." Did Matt actually reference "Dem Bones"? Erinn Hayes joined the cast, she's been in about 30 different shows in the last five years, she's like the new millenium Ted McGinley. Why did Bruce think the son was annoying? I understand the mockumentary style, but it seems like these characters spend a little too much time talking to and mugging for the camera. "I learned this stuff when I was seven...in a coloring book." Loved Dr Ron putting a hex on the hospital. "I think it's alarming that your finger smells like that, but you still have to wait your turn." They were killing me with the life-sized Jesus cross. I like Chaplain Steve (Stephen Schneider). "Those flatscreens are from the Clinton area." Matt's self-congratulations were so funny. "I refuse to live in a world where they are on your side." I missed how a surgeon got bit by a rattlesnake in a hospital. Loved the reveal that Matt's grandfather wrote a sequel to The Bible. Bruce killed it doing Ron Schneider. Don't really get Matt's obsession with getting rid of Chaplain Steve, but it did provide some laughs. There's some really clever writing here, I'm not feelng some of the supporting characters yet, but this show is off to a solid start for the first three episodes...if you liked The Office you might enjoy this.

Season One, Ep 4. Bruce is so ridiculous sometimes. "I'm usually after the lupus girl...there...that guy." Loved the Mean Girls reference. Loved Dr Ron trying to get into his car. "Do you have a piece of salami, that was oppressively minty." Alex really doesn't have a clear plan, she just wants to throw her weight around. Why would that nurse keep Dr Ron's note as long as she did? Why is Matt taking it upon himself to speak for Alex. "I don't want to go to the zone because it smells like beef." Why would Jayce have Bruce consult with her on the next featured employee?

Season One, Ep 5 Loved Matt complaining about his own physical problems while doing chest compressions. Alex realized she wasn't going to get anything done until she tried Joyce's brie. Where did Joyce get "Cave Nurse" from? Does Matt think this patient owes him a thank you for saving his life? "All for one and one for nugget." Matt's disappointment with visiting the patient was very funny. Bruce and Ron duking it out over a candy bar? Really? I hope Alex can get away with not firing Debbie. "I'm the Diana Ross around this place and you are just one of the Supremes." Matt really thinks he saved this guy's life. "This is a hospital gift shop, nothing that happens here matters." "You could be the hands and I could be your puppet." Matt's obsession about this really crossed a line. Bruce is such a smarmy creepy guy. "Sure, she's funny on the intercom, but is she really going to clear those mountains?" Joyce was so funny in the firing rehearsal, I could not stop laughing. Do not believe Bruce made a stool out of candy bars, that was hysterical. Joyce nailed firing Debbie. I liked that Dr Bruce and Dr Ron forget their issues to save their patient, I thought another candy bar gag was coming. So glad that patient gave Matt exactly what was coming to him. Funniest episode so far.

Season One, Ep 6. I don't know what was going on with Santa and I don't think I want to know. Nice to see David Paymer as a guest patient. "Strong as an ox with lung cancer." "I almost don't want him to get better." Santa's predicament provided more than its share of laughs. I loved when Dr Ron realized he hadn't bought any gifts for his family. Paymer doesn't want to leave the hospital. How long does he think he can gat away with this? Joyce and Serena making that video was really funny. "It's not our to cure being a jerk." "He called me sweetheart and I liked it.' Loved when Paymer spilt the black and white cookie and threw away the white half. Number one, I don't see how that particular tool was going to solve Santa's problem and you just new Joyce or somebody on the administrative staff was going to walk in during the "procedure." I kind of understand where Bob, Paymer's character is coming from, this is real moral and ethical tightrope he's walking. The tray of hot dogs had me on the floor. Bruce's 2nd solution seemed worse than the first one, Sometimes I wonder how Bruce got through medical school. I liked the way Bob turned everything around at the end, trying to smell like a rose. The video was a cute finale and learning they took of Santa.