Fine and dandy, even. But, since it happened when she was in the middle of a revolt on Richard’s behalf against Eliza — and the temporary promotion came at the expense of coconspirator Meredith — it was neither fine nor dandy. In fact, it resulted in Kepner spending most of “It Only Gets Much Worse” wishing that it really was lonely at the top, because she was surrounded by colleagues who mostly were hopping mad at her. Did she even make it through her first day in her new position?

First things first: In tonight’s episode, Webber says the sentence, “This isn’t about my butt!” He’s very angry when he says it! It is very awesome.

When she asked Bailey what Meredith would do, Miranda replied, in essence, not come to her with any of her questions. Right off the bat, Eliza — launching Phase 2 of her training, which allowed a resident to be primary surgeon on their own case, start to finish — needed April to find an attending to supervise Ben during a partial colectomy. Unfortunately, that someone was going to be Richard, who was already fighting with Catherine over her decision to go to Bailey, not him, with the “problem” in Grey Sloan’s training program.

When April approached Webber and Arizona, you could feel the chill in the air all the way through the TV — and that was before she informed Richard that she was replacing him on his partial colectomy with Ben. And, while it was hard not to feel for Kepner, awkward as the situation was, it was just as hard and maybe harder not to be ticked on Richard’s behalf when she informed him that he could assist Warren, but “only when requested.” And no, she wouldn’t have Bailey back up her husband in the O. R. April had assigned the task to Richard. Edwards so excited about Phase 2 that she wanted to hug Minnick (and did). Considerably less excited. She hit the roof when she learned that Eliza intended to let Stephanie perform a lap chole on the kid!

Worse, her concerns appeared to be founded when, mid- surgery, it was discovered that Matty had been bleeding out the whole time! Despite Arizona, Eliza and Stephanie’s best efforts, the patient flatlined. Unfortunately, “she’s not with us,” Webber had to inform his stepson. Ben wasn’t thrilled to have Richard on his surgery, either. However, he didn’t want Bailey to talk to Webber on his behalf. Warren was already having enough trouble being his wife’s “First Lady,” he noted.

Pilot Episode. Season 1, Episode 1. September 19, 1994. In Part 1 of the series opener, Greene (Anthony Edwards) considers joining a private practice; Carter arrives.

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Or, as Murphy called him, “Mr. Bailey.” Making matters worse, Miranda decided to scrub in and watch Ben’s surgery along with Richard, further alienating her mentor. In the O. R., Webber suggested that, somewhere along the line, former student Miranda had “forgotten that he knows how to teach.” Eventually, Richard and Bailey became so distracted by their argument that they altogether stopped observing Ben, who was understandably pissed that they’d ruined his first solo flight. RELATEDEllen Pompeo to Make Grey’s Anatomy Directorial Debut This Season.

While Maggie seized on the opportunity to use Lynn’s loyalty to Mer to jab at April, Pierce also noted that they couldn’t wait for Grey to return. In the O. R., Lynn went into cardiac arrest and became so unstable that her tumor couldn’t be removed after all. Noting Maggie’s glare, April pointed out, “I didn’t give her a heart attack!” She couldn’t convince Lynn, though. She’d been sure she was in trouble from the minute “Dr. Not- Grey” showed up!

In the hall afterward, Maggie lit into Kepner for being a traitor, to which April replied that she was doing her job. Sure, Kepner was their pal, Robbins said — but their very misguided pal. You can vote wrong!) Checking on Lynn later, April was declaring herself much nicer than Mer when the patient’s staples gave way. Before going back into surgery, Kepner, having had it up to here with Maggie’s attitude, dismissed her from the case and allowed Jo to be her extra set of hands. RELATEDGrey’s Greenlights #Japril.

The. Sequel. And it would have been wrong of her to ignore her responsibility to the hospital because of “a political pissing match.” Pointing out what everyone was saying about her and suggesting that Catherine had cleverly had Bailey pick Kepner to fill in for Mer — rather than her being up to the task — Jackson said it wasn’t too late for her to change her mind. But “I didn’t make a mistake,” she argued.

Later, with Maggie glowering from the doorway, April informed Lynn that not only had she and Jo fixed her staples, they’d also managed to remove her tumor. After Richard reported to Catherine that he’d been a failure as a teacher that day and accused her of turning his start- to- finish — Bailey — against him, Stephanie approached him to go over her disastrous surgery on Matty. Thing was, “I never had a child die,” Minnick admitted. So she didn’t know how to tell Matty’s parents that they’d lost him. Robbins gently advised her and volunteered to go with her to talk to Matty’s folks. By the time they got there, however, Stephanie was already breaking the news — with Richard by her side.

PHOTOSGrey’s Anatomy Season 1. The 1. 0 Most Heartbreaking Moments So Far. But, since her roommate was a “narrow- minded, insulting piece of. She was talking to Jackson’s mother.

After Catherine assured April that choosing her had been Bailey’s idea, Richard’s wife said that Jackson would never understand people like the two of them, because he was raised with money, connections, a name. So whose side was he on? Passing by, Arizona came to her rescue, pulling out her horn wires. When Minnick sincerely thanked Robbins, less for the horn than for being there for her after losing Matty, they embraced. It wasn’t a Mer/Nathan sitch, though.

Arizona just noted that Eliza “could have friends here” if she wanted to. Finally, we cut — ominously?

Was April in the right to take Meredith’s position? Did you expect Arizona and Eliza to hook up in the parking lot?

Hit the comments.

ER was the top drama of the ’9. Club. With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD every day, it gets harder and harder to keep up with new shows, much less the all- time classics.

With TV Club 1. 0, we point you toward the 1. TV series, classic or modern. If you watch those 1. These are not meant to be the 1. ER lasted so long (1. When it premi. Even in the pilot, the show had a blockbuster feel. It pulled off things people hadn’t seen before on TV, with long Steadicam shots that turned the show’s medical procedures into white- knuckle thrill- rides.

The sight of that charismatic, pretty, but appropriately de- glammed cast shouting medical lingo while wheeling gunshot victims into grimy trauma rooms felt worlds away from any other hospital drama, even the great St. Elsewhere. After reigning as arguably the most popular drama of the ’9. Nielsens only once in its first six seasons), ER’s decline was long and slow, with NBC finally pulling the plug at the end of the 1. George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies, and Anthony Edwards for swan- song appearances. But the wheels had come off the bus years before then, with increasingly implausible “event” episodes (exploding helicopters, serial killers, tanks, bombs, hostage situations, virus outbreaks, etc.) eroding the show’s early strength: its sense of realism. Sure, ER always had a knack for big- scale drama, but it became so huge that it lost its grasp on plausibility as the seasons went on.

That original cast (Edwards, Margulies, Clooney, Wyle, Sherry Stringfield, and the great Eriq La Salle) and a few other regulars introduced in the early going (Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, William H. Macy, and CCH Pounder) helped keep things focused when the dialogue got too technical. The show lasted so long that it had a completely separate, second ensemble, anchored by Maura Tierney, Goran Vi. That cast did good work but was increasingly hampered by the show’s ridiculous twists and turns. As things dragged on, ER’s somewhat bleak outlook grew overwhelmingly dark, with misery around the corner for pretty much every character. This list will focus on ER’s early days.

Its first four seasons are uniformly excellent television, and the sixth season (where Margulies departs the cast) is the last truly satisfying one. There are occasional standout episodes from later on, but they’re not noteworthy enough to merit Top 1. Blizzard” (season one, episode 1.

ER doesn’t exactly hit the ground running—the two- hour pilot sets the tone for the show, but as with many first episodes, it feels a little stilted. Watching the characters spring into action after a languid first act—which includes a great opening shot of a nurse roller- skating through the hospital halls—is thrilling, and the unexpected twist of Polish desk clerk Bob performing emergency surgery (turns out she was a doctor in the old country) is a great surprise—and a well ER returned to for years to come.“Love’s Labor Lost” (season one, episode 1. A gut- wrenching, miserable, utterly compelling hour that sees Mark Greene (Edwards) preside over an otherwise ordinary labor that goes wrong at every single point. Unlike many of the show’s later tragic turns, there’s nothing extraordinary going on here. No one shoots a rocket launcher or runs around with a gun.

This is just horrible luck and the unfortunate reality of the quick decisions ER doctors have to make. The psychological reverberations Greene experiences, which last into the second season, feel well- earned. Both this and “Blizzard” were directed by Mimi Leder, who went on to make blockbusters like Deep Impact and The Peacemaker and helped set the show’s visual tone and kinetic filming style. It also features Bradley Whitford, who delivers a particularly compelling guest- star turn as the baffled, grieving father.

ER lent itself well to big, dramatic one- shot appearances by well- known guest stars.“Hell And High Water” (season two, episode seven): The rakish Doug Ross (Clooney), about to lose his job at the hospital, rescues a boy trapped in a storm drain, saving his own reputation in the process. It’s undeniably fun, heart- stopping TV that set the benchmark for ER’s popularity with 4. Clooney’s first wave of super- stardom.

Producer Steven Spielberg (who helped shepherd the show onto TV and executive- produced the first season) was no longer involved in the series at this point, but there’s a strong whiff of his presence here.“Union Station” (season three, episode eight): The first cast member to depart the show was Stringfield as the harried Dr. Susan Lewis, who was tormented by a dark family life and screw- up sister. Her flirtation with Edwards’ Dr. Greene (whose marriage quickly disintegrated as the writers realized what fun they could have with him single) was one of the show’s original long- running threads, and her departure came right as Greene finally worked up the courage to declare his love and beg her to stay with him. This is just as hackneyed as rescuing the kid in the drain, but Edwards (perpetually frustrated as the stuffy ol’ Greene) made viewers feel Greene’s pain. His emotional shell was the toughest to crack, but what peeked out from behind that shell always made for memorable moments. Benton’s relentlessly tough attitude toward student Dennis Gant (Omar Epps) comes to a head as a train- jumper gets wheeled in—wearing Gant’s pager. Watch Dante`S Inferno Animated Online Metacritic.

It’s one of ER’s best twists of the knife, and one that sets off a crisis of conscience for the normally unshakable Benton.“Ambush” (season four, episode one): Sparked by Clooney’s long- abiding interest in live television dramas, ER pulled off the remarkable feat of a live episode to start its fourth season, broadcast twice (once for each coast) without a hitch. The show’s traditional Steadicam work, impossible to replicate live, was eschewed for a point- of- view documentary gimmick, but that the whole thing happened at all is rather remarkable. As a chemical spill brings dozens of patients to the ER and makes one out of boss Kerry Weaver (Innes), student John Carter (Wyle) has to step up and run the massive trauma incident. The best “event” episodes of ER have an electric, cinematic quality that network TV rarely manages to achieve. Yet they wouldn’t work without the show’s sterling ensemble, and episodes like “Exodus” have an immense amount of fun bouncing between characters in nail- biting situations. In this one, Ross and will- they/won’t- they love interest Nurse Carol Hathaway (Margulies) are stuck in an elevator with a sick girl as their own romantic tensions continue to bubble.“The Good Fight” (season five, episode eight): By its fifth season (Clooney’s last as a regular), ER was beginning to wane in quality and tend toward unnecessary, bombastic drama.

Clooney’s exit in the two- parter “The Storm” is undoubtedly compelling, but it features the kind of insane coincidences and big- budget action moments that would come to dominate later seasons. But there was still room for standout hours like “The Good Fight,” which tells a simple medical- drama plot well: Benton tries to save a dying girl on the surgery table while Carter and intern Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) search for the girl’s father, who can give her blood. There’s that old- school Spielbergian style at work again, and it’s effective stuff.“All In The Family” (season six, episode 1. The follow- up to the wrenching cliffhanger of “Be Still My Heart,” which killed off Lucy Knight in horrifying fashion (she’s stabbed to death by David Krumholtz, of all people) simply can’t be ignored in a rundown of ER lore. The dramatics of “All In The Family” (which include Paul Mc.

Crane’s hothead chief of staff Robert Romano overturning a surgery table) err on the good side of clich. Later character deaths (especially Romano’s death by helicopter) were too bombastic to really resonate.“Such Sweet Sorrow” (season six, episode 2.