Mercy

The good news is that Mercy is on again on Saturday night. They're repeating the first show. I've got it set for the DVR just in case I don't have time to catch it the second time around. I think it looks like a great show too.

This does not look like a good show at all. Maybe I am wrong. But what's with the influx of hospital dramas on television this season? This, that Nurse Whats-her-name show, the one about the action-hero paramedics. I guess they are all trying to pick up ER's audience.

I LOVE Mercy. At first, I wasn't so sure. But now that is has been on a while, the characters are developing, and I find I really like it.

Mercy fan here. I don't remember why I started watching but it's one I tried out to help as a distraction in my life and I got hooked. Reason I got hooked is it takes place in Jersey City, New Jersey, across the river from New York City. I grew up in a different part of North Jersey, out in the green suburbs away from NYC, maybe 30 minutes to an hour from Jersey City (always depends on traffic) so I sort of have this weird dumb nonsensical connection to the show. I've seen every episode except the last few and I might start one at nbc.com right after I finish this.

Veronica's a fairly interesting character and the show touches on themes that have sometimes moved me... maybe just correlations to my own life and that helps bring me back.

I also like the main doctor, with the beard, who was in the great film American Graffiti around 1975 or so. He's got a lot to deal with in his life and so there's another correlation there.

Mercy's not the best show on Earth and there are things in the show I don't approve of and wish weren't there but I still like it well enough to keep checking it out.