American television series
Mercy
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Genre
| Medical drama
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Created by
| Liz Heldens
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Starring
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Opening theme
| "Better Get Right" by Devin Moore
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Composers
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Country of origin
| United States
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 1
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No.
of episodes
| 22
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Executive producers
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Producers
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- Jim Ellis
- Matt Ward
- James Bigwood
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Cinematography
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- William Rexer
- Frank Prinzi
- Dejan Georgevich
- Russell Lee Fine
- David M. Dunlap
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Editors
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- Scott Gamzon
- Scott Boyd
- Heather MacDougall
- Greg D'Auria
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Running time
| 41?43 minutes
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Production companies
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Network
| NBC
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Release
| September 23, 2009
(
2009-09-23
)
?
May 12, 2010
(
2010-05-12
)
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Mercy
is an American
medical drama
television series created by
Liz Heldens
, which aired on
NBC
from September 23, 2009, to May 12, 2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday at 8:00 pm (ET), as part of the 2009 fall season, but was pushed back to 9:00 pm in April.
[1]
On October 23, 2009,
Mercy
was picked up for a full 22-episode first season.
[2]
On May 14, 2010, NBC cancelled the series after one season.
[3]
Plot
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Mercy
is an ensemble drama set in the fictional Mercy Hospital in
Jersey City, New Jersey
.
[4]
The show focuses on the lives of three nurses. Veronica Flanagan Callahan (
Taylor Schilling
) is a nurse who has just returned from a tour of duty in
Iraq
, while Sonia Jimenez (
Jaime Lee Kirchner
), her best friend, has become seriously involved with a
police officer
, and Chloe Payne (
Michelle Trachtenberg
) is a recent nursing graduate who is thrown into the world of nursing and is unprepared for what it entails.
Cast
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Main
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Recurring
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Development and production
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NBC
producer Jim Bigwood selected the warehouse at 10 Enterprise Avenue in
Secaucus, New Jersey
as the filming location for the series. The show occasionally also filmed inside a private residence in
Weehawken, New Jersey
. The production left New Jersey for New York in 2010, however, when New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie
suspended the tax credits for film and television production for the fiscal year 2011 to close budget gaps.
[5]
Some interior shots for the show were filmed in the unused
Barnert Hospital
in
Paterson, New Jersey
.
[6]
[7]
in the old St Mary's Hospital in
Passaic
.
[8]
[9]
Exterior shots of Mercy Hospital were taken of the back side of a public school on 4th street (between Newark Ave. and Colgate St.) in
Jersey City, New Jersey
. The exterior of Lucky 7's Bar was filmed at a location on the corner of 2nd and Coles Street in Jersey City. The interior of the bar was the Park Tavern located on West Side Avenue off Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City.
[6]
The exterior shots of The Red Fox Saloon were filmed at the Monaghan House in
South Amboy, New Jersey
. The interior shots of the Saloon were filmed at Ted's Bar in the Morgan area of
Sayreville, New Jersey
.
Mercy
was originally slated to begin
midseason
, but was moved to the fall after the premiere of
Parenthood
was pushed to 2010 due to production issues.
[10]
Episodes
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Critical reception
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Mercy
received a score of 41 of 100 from the review aggregator
Metacritic
,
[33]
and received mixed to negative reviews from critics. Matthew Gilbert, from
The Boston Globe
, referred to the show as "a bunch of played-out hospital cliches" and said it "follows the hospital melodrama blueprint way too closely."
[34]
Similarly, a review in
The Hollywood Reporter
calls the show "just another hospital soap opera" and "a lethal cocktail of virtually every medical drama ever seen on TV".
[35]
Matt Roush of
TV Guide
wrote "Nurses deserve better than this ludicrous potboiler".
[36]
Several critics have referred to
Mercy
as a weak copy of
Showtime
's
Nurse Jackie
.
[34]
[35]
[37]
[38]
The show's writing has been criticized as "twisting itself into a pretzel to provide ironies,"
[35]
and a review by Maureen Ryan of the
Chicago Tribune
states that "all the characters are so thinly drawn."
[39]
In a review in the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, Rob Owen said the show "hits viewers over the head with its thesis statement that nurses are under-appreciated."
[38]
Robert Bianco from
USA Today
stated that "remarkably good actors [are] going to waste here."
[37]
On the positive side, in a review in
The Daily Telegraph
, Rachel Ray found the show "utterly enjoyable" and "marvelous television", while praising the "clicking pace, real-person dialogue, excellent writing, a fresh story line, and thoughtful acting".
[40]
(Although the review was for a UK paper's online edition, the series did not air on British TV.) Noting an effort by NBC to find a replacement for the former standout
ER
, David Hinckley, from the
New York Daily News
, favorably compared the two shows and stated that
Mercy
"comes the closest yet to capturing that chemistry."
Ratings
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Seasonal ratings
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Season
|
Timeslot (EST)
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Season Premiere
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Season Finale
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TV Season
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Rank
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Viewers
(in millions)
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1
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Wednesday 8/7c
(September 23, 2009 ? April 21, 2010)
Wednesday 9/8c
(April 28, 2010 ? May 12, 2010)
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September 23, 2009
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May 12, 2010
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2009?2010
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#76
[41]
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6.33
[41]
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Home media
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Name
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Region 1
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Region 2
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Region 4
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Discs
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The Complete Series
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August 3, 2010
[42]
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?
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September 29, 2010
[43]
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5
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References
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]
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.
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- ^
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.
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,
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,
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Mercy
did not have the benefit of star names in its regular cast, it had the luxury of a very competent ensemble and a totally authentic setting, because Mercy Hospital was played by St. Mary's of Passaic. When you saw hectic stories unfolding in the emergency room, it was right here. So were the tense and somber moments in the intensive care unit."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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2016
.
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. Archived from
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. Retrieved
August 1,
2018
.
External links
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