• Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

  • Summary: Drafted to fill in for the delayed "Parenthood," the drama about the staff of New Jersey's Mercy Hospital focuses on three nurses.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 17
  2. Negative: 9 out of 17
  1. It sounds soapy, but it's all handled well enough, and with enough humor, that we believe it.
  2. In spite of some talented actors, it all seems more scripted than lived, referring not the world but a world of things you've seen on TV, handled well enough to make Mercy passable, but never exceptional, television.
  3. 37
    There are some remarkably good actors going to waste here, most of whom will no doubt wipe this showoff their résumé the moment they get the chance.
  4. 30
    Mercy is a bunch of played-out hospital cliches placed together in hopes of being the next “Grey’s.’’

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 26
  2. Negative: 9 out of 26
  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
  2. dl
    8
    The 3 main female characters are interestingly flawed. Sure it's a soap opera, but it has a gritty feel that lets me identify with the cast.
  3. JamesL.
    7
    Okay, we get it. Schilling's character was in Iraq. It was annoying how they kept mentioning it. Plus the senior nurses seemed really cold when they turned off the life support of one of their patients. Besides that though Trachtenberg's character is really likable and well played and I saw enough "good" in everybody else to come back next week. The show does need some improvement but it did just start. Expand
  4. SuzanneG.
    4
    I am an ER nurse myself and I found the majority of the show way out of line in several instances. I would not want the public to think that real nurses act this stupid and "high school." The scene at the bar was just too much. Nurses are professionals who act a lot better than this group. And the doctor pulling the nurse into the closet was Sooooooo obviously done for effect and ratings or something but even my husband turned to me and said nurses don't do this.......Please.......create a show that shows what nurses REALLY are like. There is plenty of drama in what goes on every day. Don't insult us like that. Expand

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