1. SARAHB

   10

   Great show!!! It's about time there's a show about a woman torn between her profession, her insane alcoholic family, herself, her past (war), two lovers Her life is real..tragic and humorous all in a matter of moments. If this show was about a male soldier grappling with "normality" upon returning from war --it would be hailed as genius. ..This show is blue collar, not boston ivy league surgeons and doesn't have profound VO to mask the melodrama... or maybe people don't take post traumatic syndrome by female soldiers seriously..so maybe this show is ahead of it's time..Keep this show on.. and take us to the war -in her head and the one we still fighting...… Expand

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2. PaulP.

   5

   The problem is: they didn't have enough faith in the medical drama to avoid resulting to Grey's Anatomy "who's hopping in to bed with who" soap. So you get a half hour setting up the medical issues and then they're almost completely forgotten while one nurse runs into the doctor she cheated on her husband with and another one hops in to bed with an undercover police officer she's known for two or 3 days. Mercy can't decide what it wants to be. It won't glamour up it's nurses because it wants to be seen as real, but - since it's banking on the soap - it means it's only potential audience is women who want to slobber over it's men. But, since the show is about the nurses, the men aren't on the screen long enough to keep women's interest. I can't see how Mercy is going to succeed. Not a bad show, but not worth putting on the calendar.… Expand

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3. BrianS

   3

   Very, very interesting... For most of my life, as a teenager, my mom was a ER fanatic- watching the series, getting the whole family to watch it, etc. I know what ER did and I know what other hospital dramas were like because I also sen episodes from Grey's Anatomy and House. I, included my mother was devastated when ER was ending, my mother was excited when an ER replacement was all the buzz in the news about NBC. (She also is a major fan of Law and Order SVU). I missed about half of the pilot for mercy (I don't have much respect for that show, so I have little care over proper punctuation), but I asked my mom for plot details and looked up and read plenty of reviews of this show, and it seems, like a heaping pile of filler-show. I guessed the missed plot details correctly. From the fragmented dialogue and plot, the stereotypes of all male doctors, all female (included the exception of the only gay guy whom acts like a women, so you can count the man as a female), too much drama over little things, and the patients also being stereotyped. If NBC thought we, the viewers of the USA, will eat such trash like the lies of the Inner Party in George Orwell's "1984", they should think again. Never eat trash- its bad for the soul and you'll loose your ability to think.… Expand

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