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Code Black (2015)

Summary The medical drama based on the 2014 documentary of the same name, Residency Director Dr. Leanne Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden) with the help of senior nurse Jesse Sallander (Luis Guzman), leads a group of first-year residents that includes: Christa Lorenson (Bonnie Somerville), Malaya Pineda (Melanie Kannokada), Mario Savetti (Benjamin Holli...

Created By: Michael Seitzman

  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • CBS

Code Black (2015)

Season 1 Premiere: Sep 30, 2015
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 115 User Ratings
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Summary The medical drama based on the 2014 documentary of the same name, Residency Director Dr. Leanne Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden) with the help of senior nurse Jesse Sallander (Luis Guzman), leads a group of first-year residents that includes: Christa Lorenson (Bonnie Somerville), Malaya Pineda (Melanie Kannokada), Mario Savetti (Benjamin Holli...

Created By: Michael Seitzman

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
53
35% Positive
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
15% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
53
35% Positive
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews

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83
Sep 29, 2015
Not for the squeamish, but a well-done new medical drama.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 25, 2015
The show, based on a 2013 documentary about a real Los Angeles ER trauma bay, rings with crisp dialogue and authoritatively shouted medical jargon in sufficient quantities that you'll never be more than halfway through an episode before you're completely immersed in hypochondriac terror of what your miscreant organs are plotting against you.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
67
Sep 16, 2015
It might just do the trick, if its frantic doctors can save the first episode from a deadly case of hammy dialogue.
By Hank Stuever FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 30, 2015
Though some would probably be happy to have the show compared to the long-running "ER," there are signs that others may be thinking a bit too much of "Grey's Anatomy." If the show lasts, we'll have time to get to know the individual tragedies of the Angels Memorial staffers, so there's no need to burden the pilot with all that clunky exposition.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 30, 2015
Code Black is at war with itself, trying to sell its setting's realistically jagged edges even as it files them down to nothing.
By Isaac Feldberg FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 17, 2015
As rendered here, none of its medical crises or characters are terribly compelling.
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 29, 2015
You'll find some fine actors here, Harden and Somerville among them, along with some whose continued employment may strike you as a mystery. Not that it matters much: Dr. Zorba returned from the dead would not have been able to breathe life into this stiff.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 115 User Ratings
7.1
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12% Mixed
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19% Negative
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19% Negative
22 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Michael Seitzman's Pictures
  • Tiny Pyro
  • CBS Television Studios
  • ABC Signature
  • Maniac Productions
Initial Release Date: Sep 30, 2015
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

BMI Film & TV Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Il Festival Nazionale del Doppiaggio Voci nell'Ombra
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations

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