Mercy is like home-cooked food

After spending nearly an entire quarter with very little home-cooked food, I can’t wait to go home and have some food that hasn’t been overly processed for the dining hall. I know that though it may not be the best food I’ve ever had, it’ll be the best thing I’ve had in awhile.

Such is the case with Mercy. After watching several mediocre-at-best TV shows, I found mercy with … Mercy (pun intended).

Mercy centers around Veronica Callahan (Taylor Schilling), her best friend Sonia Jimenez (Jaime Lee Kirchner) and Chloe Payne (Michelle Trachtenberg), all of whom are nurses at Mercy Hospital in Jersey City.

The show takes on a Grey’s Anatomy-esque feeling when it begins to focus more on the character of the show rather than the traumas that enter the hospital. For instance, Veronica has recently returned from a tour in Iraq. However, her husband Mike (Diego Klattenhoff) cheated on her while she was gone, and so she cheated on him with Chris Sands (James Tupper), who just so happened to be hired as a doctor at Veronica’s hospital—just when Veronica and Mike decide to try and make their marriage work again.

Although the show is very character-focused, the hospital aspect is also very intense. The ending of the first episode nearly brought me to tears—it was extremely powerful.

Out of all the TV shows I have reviewed so far, Mercy is only show besides Glee that I plan on watching on a regular basis—I have fallen in love with it. Check out the preview for yourself, and chew it over. I hope you like it just as much as I do!