TMC
07-28-2022, 03:50 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/07/27/just-the-vitals-brief-thoughts-on-nurses-season-three/
Thoughts: With David Rasche’s Jack turning Nurses into a funnier but even less grounded sitcom, Season Three has more changes in store, dropping both an ancillary orderly added during the previous year and the series’ originally intended star, Stephanie Hodge, who was never able to anchor the ensemble as planned. But by this time, the show was on life support, so while it needed creative help, it also needed commercial help too. The solution to hopefully boost ratings was yet another regular — even bigger than David Rasche’s Jack: Loni Anderson’s Casey, a new hospital administrator (played by a bigger star) who has a definite characterization, and like Jack, indeed sparks new relationships within the group — as she butts heads with Arnetia Walker’s Annie, becomes the object of desire for Jack, and even has a half-season crossover romance with Empty Nest’s Harry Weston (Richard Mulligan).
Thoughts: With David Rasche’s Jack turning Nurses into a funnier but even less grounded sitcom, Season Three has more changes in store, dropping both an ancillary orderly added during the previous year and the series’ originally intended star, Stephanie Hodge, who was never able to anchor the ensemble as planned. But by this time, the show was on life support, so while it needed creative help, it also needed commercial help too. The solution to hopefully boost ratings was yet another regular — even bigger than David Rasche’s Jack: Loni Anderson’s Casey, a new hospital administrator (played by a bigger star) who has a definite characterization, and like Jack, indeed sparks new relationships within the group — as she butts heads with Arnetia Walker’s Annie, becomes the object of desire for Jack, and even has a half-season crossover romance with Empty Nest’s Harry Weston (Richard Mulligan).