Update 1:
Sorry guys – had to remove Daniel’s latest collection for Franco Ferraro’s from this entry due to erm… conflicting content. Will post it again next week.
Update 2:
Since the premiere of Daniel Henney’s American drama series debut is this Sunday (CBS 9pm), a few other tabs has been picking up the story and publishing their review. I will add more as they come in.
Before we get to the review – let me reiterate, I wasn’t impressed with the trailer of the first pilot they released. This was way before they re-shoot the whole thing again in a new locations, add a new cast and built a new set in LA (the original pilot episode was shot in Pittsburgh). Not that I changed I mind but that just based on a short two/three minute clip.
(TV Squad (via Pittsburgh Post Gazette) noted that the episode premiering this Sunday is actually the second episode, while the pilot will follow the week after)
Let’s see what other thinks:
(Three Rivers) has the advantage of offering all the trappings of “CSI” (a crack team, hair-trigger decisions and life-and-death situations) — only before the body becomes a chalk outline. Then again, like the copshows, this is a template as well-worn as “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” albeit with greater visual style and an accelerated pace — as well as an underlying “pay it forward” message about organ donation.
It feels both ordinary and pokey, as if the plot points were being spelled out for slow TV learners
Daniel Henney is the new handsomest man on TV and it’s a pleasure to watch him walk the halls in scrubs
(Three Rivers) is not totally focused on organ transplants (another good call), they do play a large role, which requires a series of double-edged medical dramas. While organ donation is a necessary and noble act, the decisions are often being made by family members in shock and grief. Walking the line between dramatizing what is an already overly dramatic situation and hyperbolizing it is an ambitious quest; more than one show has fallen to its death in the attempt.
But (Carol) Barbee (producer) and her cast and crew might just pull it off. The pilot will not blow your mind, but strangely, that is its biggest strength.
Yes, it is well-made and even sporadically compelling, but it’s hard to ignore that it has no basis in the real world. A walk-in uninsured patient who gets immediate top-notch care with barely a nod to how it’ll be paid for? In your dreams.
But maybe that’s the point of “Rivers”: It’s a dream state.
Three Rivers replaces first episode with another episode [TV Squad]
Three Rivers [Variety]
After resuscitation, ‘Three Rivers’ pilot flatlines anyway [USA Today]
Organ grinder: Transplant docs hack their way up ‘Rivers’ [NYPost]
Good prognosis for ‘Three Rivers’ [LA Times]
Three Rivers — TV Review [Hollywood Reporter]
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