Live-blogging the Premiere Episode of Trauma
Tonight marks the first episode of NBC's Trauma, filmed right here in San Francisco, an hour-long drama about paramedics and explosions. Oh, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom will, we think, be in this episode.
In lieu of judging the new series based on the first show -- which is next to impossible, because pilot episodes are painfully awkward upon later review: offspring mysteriously disappeared, siblings never spoken of again, sidekicks have undeveloped personalities, bizarre set designs -- we'll just live-blog the action. And, what with Trauma being up against the same time slot as the brilliant Rachel Zoe Project (Rachel might die tonight, by the way!), Gossip Girl, and Intervention, NBC's newest drama really needs to prove itself.
See you at 9 p.m. sharp!
8:58 p.m. [Jay] The suspense is killing me, but so is the fact that I can't watch Gossip Girl. Anyhow, using the laptop as it was meant to be used, on lap in front of television, is quite refreshing.
9 p.m. [Brock] First shot? The Golden Gate Bridge. Groundbreaking TV, folks!
9:01 p.m. [Jay] Nice requisite helicopter shot over Bay Bridge. 1 minute in, already hot guy and hot girl exchange suggestive "hey"s. And we're right to the top of the Grand Hyatt for more pretty skyline. Uh oh, dude electrocuted on top of Hyatt.
9:03 p.m. [Brock] A blonde woman just cummed came.
9:05 p.m. [Jay] If this electrocuted dude situation is any indication, everybody's acting way too cool.
9:07 [Daniel, friend of SFist] Is the black paramedic a scientologist because his daughter just declared polar bears clear. Also, people were doing it in the back of an ambulance, which is gross because if I'm injured I don't want to have to lay in the wet spot.
9:08 [Jay] Oh, now I see. That was just a fake-out trauma. MAJOR helicopter accident at Grand Hyatt... AND it turns out to be a flashback.
9:09 [Daniel] Wait, his name is Rabbit, and he just said hippity-hop? Yay, Rabbit's dead.
9:11 [Brock] You guys, Rachel Zoe isn't dead. She just has vertigo. No one on the show seems to know what, exactly, that is. Shut it down! Fine, I'll change it back to NBC.
9:15 [Jay] Oh, nice shot of North Beach pizza, near where Latina gal lives. They're treating this helicopter accident that claimed 7 lives as a San Francisco 9/11? @Brock, wouldn't the past tense still be "came"?
9:18 [Brock] @Jay, yes, but "cummed" would be on the box of a porn film, I'd like to think. Sort of unrelated: where's Jennifer Siebel??
9:19 [Jay] UH oh - Yuppie in Beamer is texting while driving on 280 dangerously close to oil truck! Pile up! We remember them shooting this one!
9:20 [Jay] Commercial break -- Blair wearing bad color, Chuck being selfish, Vanessa calls out her new BF for not being enrolled at NYU.
9:24 [Brock] @Jay, you know, I just can't get into Gossip Girl. Back to the show: Trauma reminds me of the first few scenes of ER before they would get to the emergency room, which I guess is the point of this show.
9:24 [Daniel] "Please help Jimmy, he's my boy"... You're my boy, Jimmy!
9:25 [Daniel] Why is Rabbit back? I thought he died in the helicopter crash. I'm very upset.
9:26 [Brock] There are of blond women in this show so far.
9:26 [Jay] Rabbit not dead. Blonde in question, ladies and germs, is Anastasia Griffith and appears to be most sympathetic character and possibly best actor on show.
9:27 [Brock] They're going to cut a hole in the son's throat. Nice. That so almost happened in The Sweet Hereafter, by the way. Time for a glass of wine!
9:30 [Daniel] @Brock, @Jay, Do you want to get a never-ending pasta bowl with us for only $8.95 at the Olive Garden?
9:31 [Brock] @Daniel, no, that's vile. (But, shhh, yes, I totally do.) It's back on! And the boy is saved. Yay! Pretty people shouldn't have to die, ever.
9:35 [Brock] Not-Izzie Stevens kept performing CPR even after he died. Then she freaked when the guy died. They should rename this... Drauma. Heh. Yeah. Sorry.
9:36 [Brock]: JENNIFER SIEBEL!!!!
9:37 [Jay] Here Jen is. It's just a sprain... and this dude's offering her a helicopter ride for her wrist. This is what the NIMBYs in Potrero most fear. Abuse of heliport!
9:37 [Leanne] Nice accent, Siebel.
9:43 p.m. [Jay] Now they're up in the Presidio above Golden Gate Beach somewhere, at sunset. And Rabbit appears to be faking an accent too. What is this, some kind of paramedic hangout spot? [Ed. note: Someone's wine got to them fast and there was some technical difficulty there. All is restored.]
9:45 [Jay] Rabbit is such a dick, but he does drive a Mustang (?) and manages to replicate the hill-car-jump scene from Bullitt. And now some drunk guy's lost a finger. Gross.
9:53 [Jay] Latina to Rabbit: "Do NOT go Bullitt on me in the car... I got news for you buddy... You're not Steve McQueen."
9:57 [Jay] OK, we're seeing a bunch of nice nighttime shots of SF. One character on F train. Another shot at North Beach Pizza (free advertising!) Helicopter shot over city.
9:58 [Jay] Ohhh shit! Booty call with Anastasia and Rabbit? Or they're just gonna *sleep* together because they're "war" buddies? Yah, whatever.
9:59 [Jay] And now for the previews of upcoming episodes, including gang violence and the *shocking* car-through-the-farmers'-market thing that never really happened here, but sure did happen in L.A.! And oh God, The Jay Leno Show. (Changes channel.)
10:00 [Brock] Which one was Rabbit again?