Code Black: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Medical drama set in an embattled big city emergency room
Year: 2015-2018
Certificate: 15
Owing much more to the gritty thrills of the late, lamented ER than it does to the more soapy Grey's Anatomy, this US medical drama follows the understaffed, under-resourced and under-experienced residents trying to keep their heads above water in an LA emergency room. Tough attending physician Dr Leanne Rorish (Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden) is supposed to bail them out when they get into too much trouble, but she has demons of her own to battle.
It's familiar stuff, but well executed and very well played across its three series run, especially by Harden, Luiz Guzman as the department's no-nonsense head nurse and (in series two and three) Rob Lowe as a heroic former army surgeon seconded to the department. (Three series)
