Hopkins Review by Angie

"Hopkins" This ABC summer series is a cross between the first seasons of ER and the artistic elements of the early Grey's Anatomy. It is more dramatic then the Trauma: LIfe in the ER reality show and it has just the right amount of medicine and doctor lingo for the audience like myself who loves to hear those big medicine-laced words. I would agree with the Loon on the Indy songs. As refreshing as the music is to this world of garbled pop stylized crap, I found it be annoying to the point of me wanting to throw my favorite pillow at the screen. Enough already I proclaim!!! Yeah, the producers did catch a break by finding a doctor who is going thru a divorce. Talk about an emotional roller coaster. As anyone who has gone thru a divorce knows, they ALL are like that. Some turn uglier than others but in the long run they are similiar. It is a death of a relationship and it is sad no matter what the outcome is. And when Tim needs a new brain, I will in fact take him to Johns Hopkins to have the doc work on him. So, in summing up, I loved the first episode of Hopkins and could hardly wait for the second. This is one reality/drama that I will watch and look forward to all the drama and hospital chaos on a weekly basis. I don't know how long they can produce a show of this caliber but I will enjoy it in the process.

Television Show Review: Hopkins

Eight years after ABC News aired "Hopkins 24/7," its cameras return to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for a new six-part documentary about the lives of the caregivers on its staff, and the patients who come through its doors.

Tim's revue:
One of the first true "reality" shows, ABC has once again captured the real-life drama at a leading hospital. Last night was episode 2, an emotional roller-coaster ride. A woman awaiting a lung transplant suffered the highs and lows of waiting for a suitable organ. And the producers got lucky, as one of the doctors chosen to be followed separated from his wife. Yes, we are entertained by others' emotional pain, but to me, everyone knows that kind of pain and can relate.

Sadly, the producers use WAY too much "indy rock" and it becomes distracting. There is enough drama (and this isn't supposed to be "Grey's Anatomy") and it doesn't need to be "heightened" by the use of music. I don't need a twenty-something girl singing about her life while watching a fifty-something woman hanging on to her life. It's insulting to me and her both!

But the stories so far have been intense, the doctors have been great (if I ever need brain surgery, send me to Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa!) and the production is otherwise top-notch.

Can't wait for next week!