Code Black is another hospital series with trauma and drama that takes you beyond the norm. In it’s 2nd season, Code Black continues to hold it’s own in the ratings. Grant you, there’s nothing earth shattering happening that doesn’t happen in other medical series, save maybe one, but like the other medical series, it’s exciting, insightful and quite informative. Over the last two seasons, Code Black has featured many actors. Currently, three main doctors that were featured in season one have been replaced.
Each week after showing short excerpts from last week’s show and a quick lead in to the current show, Code Black displays the following statements to your screen:
When there are more patients than resources [in the emergency room].
An influx of patients so great, there aren’t enough resources to treat them.
The average ER is in Code Black five times per year.
Angels Memorial hospital in Los Angeles is in Code Black 300 times per year.
After displaying their customized definition of Code Black, the action begins. Like ER and Grays Anatomy, Code Black features mini stories about the patients that have been brought into the ER, with running stories about the staff of their permanent doctors: Residency Director, Dr. Leanne Rorish (Marcia Gay Harden), Attending ER Physician, Dr. Rollie Guthrie (William Allen Young), Chief of Surgery, Dr. Will Campbell (Boris Kodjoe) four resident interns: Dr. Malaya Pineda (Melanie Chandra), Dr. Mario Savetti (Benjamin Hollingsworth), Dr. Angus Leighton (Harry Ford), Dr. Mike Leighton (Tommy Dewey) and senior head nurse of Angels Memorial: Jesse “Momma” Salander (Luis Guzmán).
SEASON TWO:
Angels Memorial welcomes Dr. Ethan Willis (Rob Lowe), a U.S. Army colonel attached to the U.S. military’s prestigious Combat Casualty Care research program. He joins the ER staff at Angels Memorial after the Army pulls him from the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Dr. Will Campbell (Boris Kodjoe), this highly regarded surgeon from season one, has become the new Chief of the ER as well, in order to save money.
Elliot Dixon (Noah Gray-Cabey), a new intern.
Dr. Amanda Nolan (Kathleen Rose Perkins), a new psychiatrist.
Noa Kean (Emily Tyra), a new first year resident in the ER.
Code Black is exciting and entertaining. I enjoy watching it and I think anyone else who watches it will like it as well. Code Black currently airs on CBS.
I thought Keanu was going to be one of those silly, slap stick comedies with two guys I had never heard of until recently. I’m happy to report Keanu wasn’t that bad and even had quite a few very funny moments. This comedy is about two nerdy cousins who go beyond the call of duty to recover a kitten. Keegan Michael-Key plays Clarence Goobrie, Smoke Dresden and Shark Tank while his cousin Jordan Peele plays Rell Williams, Oil Dresden, and Tectonic. Clarence is married to very sexy young lady named Hannah (Mia Long) and has a daughter. Rell, who is sort of a weed head, just broke up with his girlfriend and lost his job. Rell’s weed supplier Hulka (Will Forte) lives next door and supplies endless information throughout the movie. The plot is a little convoluted as the two men get together thinking that Clarence is going to cheer up the down and out Rell. However, before Clarence arrives at Rell’s apartment, the most adorable kitten you’ve ever laid your eyes on comes scratching at his door. When Rell opens the door and lays eyes on the kitten, he instantly cheers up, names the kitten Keanu and completely falls in love with him. When Clarence arrives, Rell is chipper and introduces Keanu to him with a full heart. So where did this adorable kitten come from in the first place? That is the opening of this movie, which will explain the names Smoke and Oil Dresden and the Kitten. As time moves on, Keanu is stolen, and Clarence and Rell have to go undercover to get him back. They end up posing as “The Allentown Boys”, who are responsible for a big drug robbery and massacre earlier in the week. Teamed up with a dangerous gang banging crew under the names Shark Tank and Tectonic, they befriend Hi-C (Tiffany Haddish), Cheddar (Method Man), Trunk (Darrell Britt-Gibson), Bud (Jason Michell) and Stitches (Jamar Malachi Neighbors) in order to convince Cheddar, who now possesses Keanu, that he should turn the kitten over to them. Apparently, everyone who comes in contact with the kitten, falls head over heels in love with it and will do anything to keep it. The movie has some very funny scenes and is so different, you won’t see what’s coming. I enjoyed it as I was pleasantly surprised. Luis Guzman played a cartel boss near the end of the movie that was really one of the biggest twist of all. There are lots and lots of crazy in Keanu! BTW: Keanu Reeves is the voice of Keanu, the kitten.
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