Certainly medical drama junkies will be entertained by NBC's The Night Shift, a San Antonio-set TV series following the sexy lives of men and women doctors. But for everyone else, the new show will likely bore and confuse, as they're introduced to nearly a dozen main characters in the span of 15 minutes, each with their own case of the week and one-note personalities. Indeed, the first half of The Night Shift's pilot is a dizzying affair with front-loaded exposition, introducing the docs one by one and firmly establishing their timeworn archetypes.
At the center of the ensemble is TC (Eoin Macken), a renegade military doc who doesn't play by the rules. How do we know he doesn't play by the rules? Because he rides a motorcycle and wears a leather jacket and comes in late to his shifts and has long hair and stubble and... you get the point. But the worst part is Macken's heinous American accent (he's actually Irish), which makes it hard to buy him as a rough-and-tumble Texan. That's not to say Macken doesn't have the swagger for a character like this, but it doesn't help that TC -- rather, all the characters are written so blandly.
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