TMC
11-10-2015, 06:15 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/er-story-behind-hell-high-water-230003285.html
Many shows can lay claim to a true masterpiece of episodic television. Few can lay claim to two. Even fewer can lay claim to two in one calendar year.
Exactly eight months after the seminal "Love's Labor Lost" aired, ER delivered another landmark episode with "Hell and High Water" on Nov. 9, 1995. Focusing on George Clooney's Dr. Doug Ross, the episode followed the rakish doc as he heroically saves a boy, Ben (Erik von Detten), who's stuck in a storm drain during a torrential downpour, and in the process, saves his job when the rescue is filmed by a local news crew. A pulsating, kinetic hour, it brought the NBC drama to the empirical height of its popularity with its biggest ratings ever, launched its leading man to super-stardom and proved that the show's bold, indelible storytelling had life beyond County General's walls.
Many shows can lay claim to a true masterpiece of episodic television. Few can lay claim to two. Even fewer can lay claim to two in one calendar year.
Exactly eight months after the seminal "Love's Labor Lost" aired, ER delivered another landmark episode with "Hell and High Water" on Nov. 9, 1995. Focusing on George Clooney's Dr. Doug Ross, the episode followed the rakish doc as he heroically saves a boy, Ben (Erik von Detten), who's stuck in a storm drain during a torrential downpour, and in the process, saves his job when the rescue is filmed by a local news crew. A pulsating, kinetic hour, it brought the NBC drama to the empirical height of its popularity with its biggest ratings ever, launched its leading man to super-stardom and proved that the show's bold, indelible storytelling had life beyond County General's walls.