ER (TV Series) Obstruction of Justice (1997) User Reviews

Obstruction of Justice (#4.9)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 28 December 2014]

This episode is filled with legal issues. We have the great Herb Spivak back and he again brings us some wonderful scenes playing doctor, like in his life saving scene. Besides that there is the great story of Carter being arrested. It is a pretty fun story through all of it, especially his time in jail with taking the picture and have his cell mate ask him for medical advice.

And Jeanie gets her job back. I do like the story because it is a good conflict that brings some wonderful scenes and great acting but I have trouble understanding Jeanie. She was getting the same job in Atlanta, why she feels so strongly about staying in Chicago with her husband having to leave is a bit weird.

SCENE WITH HERB 18:19

[pammozuch · 10/10 · 9 April 2024]

We just got to love that good ole Herb!😂18:19 scene he puts his hands on his hips and walks towards patient slyly though lol and says What we have here ?😂😂😂 then gives order to treat patient LIKE NOBODY's BUSINESS 😂😂 and Greene is strangely looking over his shoulder and interrupts Herb and pulls him aside and says how did you know that? Herb answers and I lost it laughing ! So Dr. Greene brings Herb into a room alone and has Herb practice Suturing On a pigs foot mind you!😂 Then Herb ask which ones?? Herb then says UM, running, UH. Vertical, deep thermal!?? Greene answers why don't you try all of them😂😂😂😂. Herb thinks only a moment😂😂😂 A ? Dr. Green is trying to put Herb to work FOR ETERNITY!😂😂. Get it? I hope they keep good ole guy Herb Spivak off and on through out ER show. As pals Dr. Green and Herb together comedy scenes, we need this in the ER to break up all chaos coming in and out of the ER. Ty. 😎

Jeanie and Carter at their worst...

[m-47826 · 5/10 · 21 December 2022]

I don't know if the writers craved for drama, and settled for these unbelievable storylines. But they were both wrong, acting like rebel teenagers. It was annoying and very unprofessional, putting their own feelings above everything else. Jeanie can't lie about being fired, for her medical condition. Especially after everybody was so understanding about it. And she indeed, put one of her patients life at risk. It made her petty and ungrateful. Which is a shame, because I always rooted for her. Carter, though, is just the little rich boy, acting out. And it's pathetic and don't do his character any favor. Since he became kind of unlike able after season one. I don't like Mark this season either. And his new girlfriend, is such an airhead. It's unbelievable it's the same actress that plays a fearless cop lady a couple of years later. I don't even know what to think about his new lawyer, either... Season 4 has its upsides, like new additions and a tone closer to season 2. But did they had to throw all these characters under a bus?

First villain of the show

[gacsogergely · 4/10 · 6 January 2021]

You don't expect that opressed minority character to be your first villain, right? But that's what happens in E.R.

Even having a villainous character in the show is pretty strange. E.R. is usualy a melancholic series, where success and especialy happiness has a rare appearance, funny moment constantly get overshadowed by other events, or sudden point of view.

What happens here perfectly fits the title, but whil the arrest of Carter is a funny side-story, the main event is actualy Jeanie Boulet's story, a black, HIV-diagnosed woman. As the story goes is, the hospital is under financial pressure, so they have to release certain employees, one of the becoming Jeanie. Sure, she is HIV-positive, but the named factor is financial: employees with less time at the house need to be payed less, so bye-bye Jeanie. Until this, it is your usual melancholic ER-episode. Also, to sweaten the deal, the Boulet-couple is offered work in another city. So Jeanie has every reason to move on with her life: she is not wanted here (though she is offered to be taken back later, when finances stabilized), she just found happiness of househuld at the side of her partner, currently ex-husbnad of hers, and she has at least the same deal in Atlanta, where she doesn't even have to get into situations endangering patiences.

This is when Jeanie Boulet decides to stay. She throws away the job-opportunity, also her new-found happiness of love, AND along this the respect of her colleagues in Chicago. She stays to feel powerful. With other words: she stays, because she is a villain.