ER (1994)

It sort of fell apart at the end so let's not focus on the half of the show that turned into pure soap. It started out great.... so the 10 stars is for the first few seasons that i can watch for more reasons than nostalgia. The story was excellent, the characters were real, they acted like real people. It was a compelling and entertaining show.... ... and then somewhere around 98, 99 it became a soap opera. It wasn't a drama about an Emergency Room any longer, it was a soap. What was dramatic was contrived and it lost all sense of realism. And then I slowly tuned out. But, the first few seasons, shows like 9-1-1 could take a lesson from them.