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Trauma became a no miss in my TV week. So many of the shows on the schedule now start out being different, like Nip/Tuck, it was fascinating to watch the surgical part that I knew nothing about, then it just turned into a soap opera like all the others. It had great possibilities, but it took the the easy way. I loved Six Feet Under, what a great concept, the corpse talking to the guy who had something valuable to add to what was happening in his life; then soap opera or worse made me rather watch cartoons, anything rather than that. Now Trauma comes along, it is new, fresh, and very rewarding. It had so many things I didn't know and had never even thought of. Some people have said it wasn't completely accurate in all ways, but it was so exciting, edge of your sit stuff--who cares! The characters are interesting and likable and the cases were very interesting. How they become so familiar with their city and its "regulars" and what lengths they go to to help injured people. I like this so much more than ER or Grey's Anatomy. After watching a few episodes of this I wanted to go into my local firehouse and thank them for being who they are and doing what they do. I think it is a show with everything it takes to be a hit, it exciting, it's informative, it's engaging, it seems very real to me, and I have come to care about these characters. Now if it can keep it's edge and not fall into soap opera hell, it will be a big hit. Though I know it's a fine line to walk to let us know more about the characters, but not go to far and make it a soap opera. I thought the first season was top-notch. I am looking forward for more, more, more! Love it, keep 'em coming!

Never let the Trauma Staff do CPR on you!

The story is fine, fast paced and - as far as one can tell from the pilot - well developed. The roles leave plenty of room for internal tensions and the characters themselves seem to have interesting backgrounds. That together with the variety of different settings the characters can play in the show has great potential.

But never let them do CPR or any other medical procedure do on you! Basically in the pilot they killed at least 2 patients just by giving them the wrong medicine or by delivering a devastating CPR.

So... the do need a medical consultant.

Can we have a zero rating, please? I've just watched the Thanksgiving episode and frankly will never watch another. To compare this TURKEY to ER is unbelievable...where to even start listing the points that make it a terrible show? Others identifying themselves as involved in emergency services have commented appropriately on various Darwin Award moments, so I shan't except to second their words. But let's put in one point about past shows on TV...waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy back when there was a series about medicine in the field rather than in the hospital...it was called Emergency! and it did a pretty decent job of showing realistic paramedic work as well as gave us some character development and story lines to follow. Laugh all you want at the dated look of the series now, it did a far far better job than this ridiculous excuse for a "medical show replacement". This mess should be described as a soap opera, with just as little believability.

BTW, catch the sudden "you can't go off and eat turkey dinner, everyone get dressed, get the rigs, and get out to the airport...there's a big plane about to crash land" announcement for a real laugh. It's portrayed as if EMTs go home for the holidays, every holiday...like, man, ain't gonna be ANYONE out there at the station house on shift. Good grief.

Let's move on to the airplane crash, shall we? As a former medic and pilot I winced throughout the scene...airplanes that land belly up on paved surfaces have a strong tendency towards burning, which is why runways are foamed prior to such a landing. They had enough time in the show to have emergency vehicles along the sides of the runway, but they didn't foam AT ALL? And the plane, shown as creating a shower of sparks and spilling jet fuel all over, had no actual fire except in the conveniently detached engines? Oh, yeah, which the firefighter was training WATER on? As for the medical portion...where was the triage? You do not just randomly float about a major trauma scene blipping along happily from whoever to whoever as you please...or sit around hugging any of the victims while others have not yet been seen.

There is absolutely no urgency portrayed here. Either the actors are incapable, the point of the show is so much to be a soap opera rather than any sort of "medical show" that realistic emergency response has been tossed by the wayside, or the people writing or possibly directing have no idea of the realities. Definitely a miss of a show.

I watched the pilot yesterday. I hesitated between Lie To Me and this, but my affection to medical dramas won. I watched it with some hesitation, because not every medical drama can win my love, but this one succeeded in like 5 minutes. HUGE SPOILER! When I first saw the helicopter, I thought that it will fall to the staff, but then I thought nobody would put a helicopter-crash in a medical show after the fabulous helicopter-scenes with the late Dr. Romano, but then it turned out that I was wrong. Somebody did, and I should tell he/she did it very well! That scene was fantastic! As I was watching the two helicopters falling down, I forgot to bite into my sandwich and said to myself: OK, I definitely will watch this! SPOILER OFF Anyway the pilot was very good for a first episode, and I wait with excitement for the next one. Trauma indeed has potential, and most of the characters seem interesting. The actors are mostly average, believable people. Nancy - I hope this is the name of the blond girl - is a bit too artificial to me, too much make-up, hair-product etc., but never mind. Cliff Curtis is on the other hand rules the screen, he obviously enjoys his character, and can totally make it real. By the time of the end of the episode, SPOILER! when they slept - or tried to slept - together,SPOILER OFF I was totally a "regular viewer".

When this series came out in 2009, I was hooked. Trauma was a series that was going to be the next big thing in medical drama. The series involves an elite group of paramedics, E.M.T.'s, and flight medic's. The group works in conjunction with San Francisco Hospital. Going to some of the worst accidents in San Francisco. Cliff Curtis( Rabbit) is a flight medic; who went though his own traumatic experience a year ago. After surviving a helicopter crash he is back; and has a new partner, Marisa( Aimee Garcia). She is ex-military and at first doesn't mix well with Rabbit. They are Angel Rescue, coming to the scene in moments of crisis. Working with Angel Rescue is Capt. Basra's( Steven Jones), team. The team consists of partner's Medic Boone(Derek Luke) and E.M.T. Tyler(Kevin Rankin). The top paramedic of the group is Nancy Carnahan( Anastasia Griffith). She has a medical degree, but for some reason, stays a paramedic. This aggravates Dr. Jo Saviano( Jamey Sheridan), who thinks she is wasting talent by not taking the next step. Which is becoming an M.D. at San Fransisco City Hospital. Nancy is also the wild one of the bunch and has the repetition. She plays the field, including a lot of her co-workers. She is one with a heart, taking Glenn(Taylor Kinny-Chicago Fire) under her wing. He is the new guy, he's nervous, makes mistakes; and no one seems to like. Capt. Basra knows Nancy will teach him well, and not make mince-meat out of him. Eventually the others warm up to him; and he is a good sport about being a probie.

This show has excitement from beginning to end. This show is realistic to a point. Some of the resuscitation efforts( C.P.R. looks weak). A few times it looks like they could be doing it right. Like they taught us in school arms locked, not rocking, a straight steady motion.

I have to say that the whole cast is great, Tyler and Rabbit will always be my favorites. I was shocked to find out after only one season the show was going to be canceled. Watching this show takes me back to the days when I belonged to my cities fire department. I was a fire explorer, we were first responders, we went on calls; a great learning experience I will never forget. I'm glad I did by the DVD of Trauma so I can also relieve one of the best shows of 2009.

THX, Kris L. CocKayne

Like everyone else I was looking forward to this quite a bit. I like Cliff Curtis (fantastic in "Training Day." And Anastasia Griffith was okay in "Damages.") Imagine, well, you don't have to, my disappointment when this drek appeared and unfurled in front of us. Appalling.

Good luck getting to the hospital if the characters from this misfiring 3-episode-and-out boatload of triteness have anything to say about it -- they're too busy screwing in the back of the ambulance or drinking on the job. What's meant to be hip, daring, and oh, so real is merely lame, familiar and fake.

Even down to the way the characters are handled visually this was doomed -- the introduction of Cliff Curtis with this loving hero dolly shot was a harbinger of doom. No way this character lives up to the way he's photographed. And guess what -- he knows his stuff and saves that guy's life -- and then gets knocked out of the sky. What a stunning turnaround. I haven't seen plot twists like that since "Sheep in the Big City," which is supremely better written, acted and thought out.

I'm not going to ramble on about this. The positive comments are clearly written by shills, friends of the producers who've been sought out to write pleasant things. Too bad the comments' writers aren't doing the teleplays. They're equally as inventive.