I am “rewatching” ER, but I realized I was seven when it came out.

You are in priiiime ER. I just binged it up to about season 13 recently and the 90s nostalgia was so sublime. Random, but it's fun to see cell phones evolve on the show too.

Me too! It's crazy to me that it went on till 2009?? I remember it around 2003-2004, but I have no recollection of watching it, or anyone talking about it after that. Grey's Anatomy was the hot topic when it came out in 2005, I guess that took over.

I remember being a kid and seeing the school bus crash episode of ER and I was scared of the school bus crashing for a little while after.

I'm currently doing that with X-files - I recognize all the episodes while rewatching, but there was some hazy storylines I'm now just following. I remember waiting for new ones each week - having sleep overs with my bff on Friday nights and we'd watch it together. Then it moved to Sunday nights and it was a special treat to stay up late enough to watch it on a school night, because I was 12!

Anyone remember the primetime TV battle between ER and Chicago Hope?! ER always had Hope beat for the medical drama. Hope felt like more of a precursor to Grey’s with the interpersonal drama

Network/procedural became so unfashionable, but seasons 1-6 of ER is just insanely good tv.

I regret that I never watched ER; maybe someday I'll get around to watching the entire series. But from what I understand, The Pitt is a worthy successor, and of course Noah Wyle is very involved in both shows. I did binge all of the first season of The Pitt and the second season until I was caught up, and I highly recommend it if you haven't been watching already. Terrific show, but some episodes and scenes are very hard to watch, especially if you're a parent like me.

Right!? 1994-2005 and Greys just picked up at the right time and still going strong 22+ years. I like greys as well but love how these early seasons of ER are so trauma focused….less dramatic at times and the old tech is just fun to watch and see.

Somewhere over the rainbow

You've got to at least watch through the Africa episodes. I can't remember what seasons they are, but those episodes really opened my eyes. Fantastic. Great character arc.

What service are they streaming on? I'd like to watch them all myself.

I started watching ER when I was young too around its 5th or 6th season. It was after George Clooney left. The serious was absolutely riveting and at the time the series was heavy in syndication so before their was streaming I was able to watch the earlier seasons on TNT which had ER marathons during the week during the summer. A time was definitely had lol

I remember watching it when it first premiered with my mom from season 1. Such a great show. I've watched it twice as an adult. I appreciate how it ended.

I did something similar. I think I'm a little older than you but I watched several seasons as a kid on Thursday nights, and stopped watching as I got older. I didn't finish my recent rewatch either. Mostly because I stopped subscribing to the streaming service it was on, but partly because the quality ebbs and flows over the years as the cast changes. There are some stretches that are phenomenal, then some that are just okay. It's one of those shows that's great for recognizing actors early in their careers. Lots of well known actors had bit parts as patients on ER. It might be recency bias but I like The Pitt more. I'm excited to watch the new episode every week.

Same! I was born in 1991 and remember watching episodes with my mom but don’t remember anything about the show. I’m currently in season 10 and I’m still loving it so much. I’m going to be sad once I finish the whole series. Might have to watch The Pitt next

I was 11 when it started and I remember watching the early seasons until I left for college in fall of 2001. Usually Thursday nights were spent studying, working or going out to the bars. After awhile I wouldn’t attempt to catch up on missed episodes. Then I didn’t watch it for years after that until maybe the last season. All before the streaming era, prime Netflix delivery or recording it on VCR.

I had the same deal with my mom! I’m so squeamish about medical stuff but I loved the special treat of staying up late with her so much that I have such a love for the medical drama…

I'm also in season 4 and the same story. My mom used to watch it so I know some parts but never watched much especially not the older I got. A few weeks ago I saw that it was available for streaming so I started watching and it is sooooo good.

I loved ER so much as a kid, I would get the TV Guides with episode info at the grocery store checkout. So much fun!

That’s the strange bit: My mind has difficulty remembering what I watched live when it came out and what I watched on syndication. I feel like I knocked out a lot of ER before school on TNT, along with reruns of CHiPs and Buffy, whereas after school it was Gilmore Girls and Angel.

The show came out a few months before I was born 😂 I remember catching bits and pieces of it as a kid because my mom used to watch it, but she also did her best to not expose me to it because the stuff they show can be traumatizing to a young child. ER was the first show I binge watched on Hulu when I first subscribed to it years ago, my 2nd favorite medical show ever behind House.

Yeah, I remember it growing up... only because it was on one of about eight channels I got on terrestrial TV and it airs once a week. I barely remembered anything save it aired on Channel 4 on Sundays and how big it was when the show ended.

Hahaha me too! It was a say Homr from school and watch kind of show

I literally just started a rewatch yesterday. It's been long enough that I have absolutely no memory of the show beyond just basic recognition of the most prominent actors. Loved the pilot episode. It's aged incredibly well. Great acting, with a very sharp and witty script. The "walking and talking" style feels really dynamic, especially when it shifts focus to different characters in the same scene. I love, love, love the messy lived-in sets; it feels like a real workplace. Just a stellar production all round. My only criticism of the pilot is that it's perhaps slightly too long (it's longer than a normal episode), with a few too many patient vignettes, but I get it's just trying to immerse the viewer in its chaotic world immediately. I'm really looking forward to continuing with the rest of the show. There's so many episodes to watch!

I would always watch it in the morning on TNT during the summer. It really is impressive they had the courage to have that one guy be involved in two freak helicopter accidents.

It saw ER when George Clooney was on. It was a great show back then.

I always thought ER was basically just a soap opera set in a hospital? All drama and pretty people, very little substance? What's your favourite show other than ER? Imma need a taste test.

I just want to see Dr Robby do the Eriq La Salle punch he does during the theme song. Just sneak it into one of the scenes.

Prime ER was so good. I have this weirdly core memory of the episodes where Lucy and Carter get stabbed. Not so much the actual episode, though that's there too, but I specifically remember it being it being a hot topic of conversation in the boys locker room after gym class.

I am doing much the same! I was 12 when ER started and my mom let me stay up to watch it with her. At the time my bed time was 9:30 so it was a big deal. I started a slow rewatch after my mom died a few years ago and pick up the pace recently because of enjoying the Pitt so much. Just the other day I realized how much of my conception of what it means to be an adult comes from ER.