ER (TV Series) Out on a Limb (2006) User Reviews

Out on a Limb (#12.16)

[ComedyFan2010 · 7/10 · 14 May 2015]

This episode has a lot to do with Weaver's hip replacement. It is interesting why she is so worried about getting it. And her conversation with Abby makes one understand it. Really well thought through and one can understand her. Again a brilliant performance by Laura Innes. I hope it all will end up well for her.

I feel bad for Pratt. But am glad that Luka just gave him a 5 days leave. I wold hate to see him go.

I also liked Neela's talk at the club of military wives. What she said really made sense.

I am very curious what will happen with Sam, i kind of hope she will decide to take the offer.

Good Episode on Weaver, Time for Pratt and Clemente Characters to Go

[sycamoreavenue · 7/10 · 12 April 2021]

Kerry Weaver is not a very sympathetic character, though every once in awhile she reveals a human side of herself. Lately that's been about her son Henry. This episode on her need for a hip replacement shows her very vulnerable, gives more of her backstory and a glimpse of why she's the tough, no-nonsense doctor/manager she's been. Makes her understandable, and at least for a moment, likeable.

Pratt deserved to be terminated for what he did (giving police his no-alcohol blood instead of that of DJ's father). Pratt has been way to gullible and willing to believe his friends and others when they do something really bad, and this was criminal this time. Honestly Pratt in real life would never have made it out first year, defintely not gotten to the point in his career he is in this episode with his attitude, his over-the-top handling of patients, his frequent corner-cutting, etc. It's the character, but it's also just Mekhi Pfifer's acting.

Clemente's whole character thread has been dumb and annoying throughout. He also deserved to be fired based on Weaver and Luka's knowledge he was drugged up at the time he brought Jody to the hospital. And then John Leguizama's over-acting is annoying. He's a good actor in general, but plays Clemente unbelievably. Would Weaver and County Hospital management really have hired Clemente --however short of attendings they were-- given his known history? I doubt it. At least I hope not.

7 stars for the Weaver and other storylines, minus 3 stars for Pratt and Clemente storylines.

We get it...

[slak96u · 6/10 · 10 March 2022]

The war on terror was bad, Bush lied and soldiers died, Cheney and Rumsfeld sucked. In ER law enforcement is corrupt, racist and violent. People that practice religion are ignorant, backward and from the stone age. Individuals in the military are blindly patriotic, robots and unable to think for themselves. ER was competing with West Wing, they were really leaning into Sorkin liberalism for viewers...

Weaver's whining

[polite-45692 · 2/10 · 20 April 2020]

Weaver's whining took up much of the episode. She is the least sympathetic physician in the hospital, both in general and due to her difficulty being her own fault.