ER: Season 14

My three favorite shows of all time are The Twilight Zone, The Fugitive, and ER. I had already purchased every episode of TZ and The Fugitive on DVD, and had all but the last two seasons of ER on DVD. About two weeks ago, I was scanning through Amazon.com and found Season 14 of ER for about $17 and Season 15 at the regular price of $39. I decided to bite the bullet and buy both seasons. I'm not in the medical field, but I remember staying up on a Thursday night, knowing I'd be paying for it the next morning at work, just to watch this great show. My series is complete. I want to thank Amazon for making a little bit of it less expensive (similar to a medical co-payment - LOL-) and thank you for the cast and crew of this wonderful show for making medicine so friendly, yet believable.

As other reviewers suggested, it's remarkable how an ER season can be made or broken by good guest appearances. This is a shortened season, cut to 19 episodes by the writer's strike. The first nine episodes are dominated by the guest appearance of Stanley Tucci as the new head of the ER, having been transferred from intensive care. In episode 9, Skye Wexler, another major guest star, takes over as temporary head of emergency medicine, and Dr. Pratt considers leaving County General. After Tucci, the most important non-lead role is Leland Orser as Dr. Lucien Dubenko as chief of surgery. His presence is usually the only thing which makes Parminder Nagra's role as Dr. Neela Rasgotra interesting. She is one of the very few major characters who, for me, tend to add to the mix of characters and plot. Goran Visnjic and Maura Tierney are still the leads, but their roles are less important to the main action. The addition of David Lyons as Dr. Simon Brenner spices things up around episode 14. John Stamos' role grows in importance. But the biggest change with lead characters is Dr. Archie Morris' becoming a far more serious doctor, comparable to Pratt and Kovac as the ER's best attendings, even if, sometimes, he still appears to be a klutz. Near the end of the season, Hal Holbrook appears as a guest. That is always a treat. One of my constant aggravations on ER is that whenever one of the doctors or nurses shout's "Call Security", it seems as if Security never arrives, until the doctors, nurses, and clerks have already subdued the disturbance. One would think that the ER is one place where two security guards would be posted on a 24 hour basis. This season has just such an episode. It seems as if most in hospital scuffles could be put down in a few seconds if the guards were a few steps away. The last episode of the season ends with a great cliff-hanger, and an appearance by one of my favorite actors, Steve Buscemi.

A good send-off to a medical series that was one of the best shows ever! Brought back a lot of characters from earlier in the series, everyone from Ross, Greene, Hathaway, and even dreaded Rocket Romano in a 'flashback'. Honestly, if you've been the previous seasons and enjoyed them, you'll be extremely happy with this season. Characters that left the show coming back for bit pieces within the season and some (Carter) with a small story arc, characters leaving. It's all a very good tie up for the series. My only wish is that they had done some kind of gag reel for the complete series with some new clips as this season didn't have any gag reel whatsoever.

This is one of my favorite series. Good assortment of actors, long and very dramatic storytelling.

Excellent

Season 14 was originally intended to be the last for ER. Thank God it wasn't. One of the few positive effects of the 2007-2008 Hollywood Writers Strike was delaying ER's demise so that this mediocre (by comparison to other seasons) year was not the way the most emmy nominated drama of all time signed off. We'll never now how the second half of season 14 would've gone if there wasn't a writer's strike, but I can say with certainty that the first half of the season, which was written pre-strike, wasn't up to the challenge of sending ER out with a bang. Too many subplots are end abruptly and uneventfully (example, Archie's relationship with Hope). Maura Tierney gets a great storyline with Abby falling off the wagon (much harder than that wink and you miss it season 8 sub plot) and her performances are excellent. The problem is, the writers seem to put all their effort into that storyline, and don't balance it out enough with patient storylines or well developed arcs for the other characters. The 300th epsiode is decent, but pales in comparison to other milestone ER episodes. After the 300th episode, things improve somewhat. We get fantastic guest appearances by Gloria Rueben, Hal Holbrook and Steve Buscemi, and more fast paced medical storylines (the first ten episodes of season 14 are very soapy). It's still an entertaining season. But I'm glad the writers strike gave the pwoers that be some time to plan a stronger final season.

no issues with discs played well; all in place within the box[not scratched via being loose]

After reading all of the negative reviews I was a bit hesitant to order this DVD set but thankfully I went ahead & ordered it because I loved it! SPOILER-- It did seem like Dr. Pratt was made "too nice" because they knew he was going to die so it was to make us miss him even more! If I didn't know he was going to die I'd have bought this Big Brother to everyone act and been impressed w/the character's turn around. I reluctantly ordered S15...I say reluctantly because I dread watching the episode where he does die! :((

Zufrieden

I can't merely credit one season but the entire show from one to fifteen. The plots are sometimes light but most times complex and I find myself wishing that they'd continued. The acting is great. You know, some people loved the show more with Clooney and Edwards. To be certain, those first seasons were amazing. However, you can not help but glean some greatness from the seasons that followed. ER gave me an interest in medicine and it's approach is so authentic that the medical shows today just don't compare. Don't kid yourself, if you watched this show and feel like buying the seasons is a waste of time, you'd be wrong. It's like they never left...those hospital doors are still swinging, and the stories are richer than ever.

Network television is sadly lagging with its presentation of "ER" here in Australia, and so I am breathless with anticipation as I await the release of "ER" The Complete Fourteenth Season. My sincere and heartfelt thanks go out to Warner Bros. (U.K) and Amazon (U.K.) for their speedy releases of this truly extraordinary television drama. I have not felt quite this passionate about any other tv show. From my standpoint "ER" is probably equal top with "St. Elsewhere" and "NYPD Blue" for all-time best US tv drama with an ensemble cast. The haunting First Season episode "Love's Labor Lost" truly set the tone for this show. Because this viewing experience left me in total physical and emotional shock, I can recall thinking that I had never before seen anything quite like it on television. From that moment I was convinced that this show was going to take the viewer to places that no other medical drama ever had, and I was compelled by its characters to tune in again... and again. All tv shows have a shelf life, but I will truly miss this one when the screen fades to black at the conclusion of its Fifteenth Season finale :-).

J'adore toute la série d'URGENCES ! C vraiment dommage d'arrêter cette série ! j'étais très triste de savoir que ça finissait dimanche ! Même si j'ai les dvd pour les voir et les revoir ! J'espère juste que vous aurez la saison 14 qui me manque dans ma collection ! Pouvez-vous faire le nécessaire pour que je puisse compléter ma série ? S'IL VOUS PLAÎT !!!!! Cordialement Mme FRERE

Llegó 10 dias despues del dia que decía que llegaría, pero el paquete y el dvd estaban intactos, casi excelente.