Title: Emily Owens M.D.
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Year: 2012-2013
Season - Episode:
- season 01 - 13 episodes
- Mamie Gummer
- Justin Hartley
- Aja Naomi King
- Kelly McCreary
- Michael Rady
- Necar Zadegan
SYNOPSIS
A young doctor realizes that working as an intern in a big hospital is very much the same as being in high school.
REVIEW
I like Emily Owens M.D. although I have to admit that I was a little uncomfortable watching the scenes in the emergency room and the scenes in the operating room. I have no idea how realistic those scenes are but it feels tremendously realistic to me.
I found it strange that the promotions for the TV series are all about how the dynamics in a hospital is very similar to the dynamics in a high school. I wonder if that's the reason more people did not tune in to the TV series, which eventually led to its early cancellation after only 13 episodes in its first season.
Tyra Dupre: Hospitals are totally like high school.
Emily Owens: That's the second time I heard that today.
Tyra Dupre: Because it's true. Look. You got the jocks, aka orthopedic surgeons. Mean girls go into plastics. The all-American next-door types, they're gonna be in O.B. The true geeks, they're the neurologists. Rebels are in the E.R. Stoners, anesthesia. And peds (pediatricians) gets your sanctimonious churchgoers.
Emily Owens: How about us?
Tyre Dupre: Surgery's a melting pot, a little bit of everything, which basically means none of us get along.
I knew prior to watching it that the people we encounter in our early lives (whether in kindergarten or elementary school or high school or college) will have similar manifestations in the people we encounter in our later lives; particularly at the work place, wherever that may be.
I definitely did not need to watch Emily Owens M.D. to know that in every stage of our own lives, we would always feel insecure and unsure about what we are doing and what will happen in the future. But it was surely nice to be reminded that it's okay to be unsure about a lot of things and that it's normal to feel lost sometimes.
Emily Owens: The thing about being an adult that no one tells you growing up is that you don't feel like an adult. All your stupid insecurities and anxieties are still there, only you feel more stupid and insecure about being stupid and insecure because you're not supposed be stupid and insecure anymore. You're supposed have the answers. You're supposed to know. But we don't always know. And those answers? They're not always easy to come by. Well, you know what? I'm done feeling stupid and insecure about feeling stupid and insecure. The truth is, I think part of being an adult is that you stop waiting for yourself to change and you start to accept who you are.
I find the plot lines very engaging but the main reason I stuck with the TV series is because Emily Owens is such an endearing character. She goes through these very embarrassing situations that as a viewer, will make you glad you weren't her but at the same time make you admire her for dealing with the said embarrassing situations quite well.
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Emily Owens M.D.
