All six seasons of the NBC medical drama with a cast starring Denzel Washington, Howie Mandel and Ed Begley, Jr. are now available on Hulu. "A morally complicated drama with a sprawling cast and intricate ongoing narrative? St. Elsewhere already did it," says Alan Sepinwall. "Technically, Hill Street Blues (which Hulu has had for a while now) did that even before St. Elsewhere. The latter drama, created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, transplanted the Hill Street formula to a hospital setting, for the same network and studio as Hill Street no less. But it went bigger — by the end of its first season the cast featured 16 regulars, a huge number for the time and even for most non-Game of Thrones series today — and often deeper."
TOPICS: St. Elsewhere, Hulu, Retro TV