SERIES PREMIERE: David E. Kelley and co-executive producer Bill D’Elia have been making TV a long time, and most of it has been terrific:
Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal, Harry’s Law. They even worked together on Kelley’s
Chicago Hope, a medical series that premiered the same week as
ER – and here they are again, almost 20 years later, with a new medical series, this one based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The standout in the series pilot is Alfred Molina, as the no-nonsense chief of surgery, but this one, at least initially, feels a lot more stiff, and a lot less imaginative, than most Kelley series to date. So give it a look, and decide its prognosis for yourself. For a full review, see Eric Gould's
Cold Light Reader.