Hospital mockumentary 'St. Denis Medical' isn't 'The Office,' at least not yet

Consistently amusing if a little sentimental, NBC's new sitcom about life in a remote Oregon emergency room needs more time to mature.

The mockumentary form, which once seemed a refreshing innovation, has become a standard element in the sitcom toolkit. Indeed, younger viewers may not remember a world without it. Counterintuitively, it's formally conservative; whatever the subject, one mockumentary now looks quite a bit like another, with the side eyes and addresses to the camera and a sometimes desperate self-presentation on the part of its characters.

As the most experienced physician on the floor, Ron, divorced and living on takeout food , takes a more relaxed approach to his work, though not to the candy bar he ritually consumes each day. At one point, this sets him against Bruce , a preening, square-jawed trauma surgeon, who keeps a samurai sword and an electric guitar in his office and plays the Beastie Boys in the operating room, and who has bought the last Reese's NutRageous in the hospital.

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