They are quirky--cookie-cutter quirky. But for summer TV drama, that's not the worst they could be.

The Night Shift gets the X-ray right for a series. Now it just needs to find a way to pump some new blood.

Night Shift won’t make anyone forget the glories of NBC’s ER at the height of its powers. It shows some signs of being a passable summertime drama series, though.

Both ["Undateable" and The Night Shift] are NBC series serving as spring-summer filler, adequate at what they do but not worth scheduling your life around.

Not surprisingly, the producers assemble a sizable, attractive and appropriately diverse cast, albeit without giving many of them much to distinguish their characters, who--whatever the color of their scrubs--simply blend together.

The cast here is decent, especially Flint and Rodriguez, but the writing is unforgivably bad.

It's hard to imagine any other reason for NBC to go ahead with a noisy, unwatchable show like Night Shift except to fill holes in its schedule.

This show is great. If you like medical dramas, this one is a great one. Compelling story lines and great actors. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season.

I think that "The Night Shift" mix the narration typical soap opera with clinical cases, much better than Grey's Anatomy. The ideas used are original and the pace of each episode is great (except in a few episodes).

Lame, lame, lame. This is a weak very poorly written one hour situation comedy posing as a medical show. The acting is generally poor. I give one exception to the guy who plays Dr. Topher. His lines aren't much, but he is a demonstrably good actor. Without going on at length about this incredible waste of time, I must comment on how scary it would be to be a patient in this Emergency Room where the doctors and staff are whooping it up in their parking lot party place or delivering pseudo funny lines in the hallways. This week there was a scene of a totally full waiting room with the hospital administrator dancing around under the accidental influence of Ecstasy. What did his "staff" do about this? They gathered outside of the waiting room, toking cell phone pictures and just laughing and laughing. I'm glad someone is having a good time at this hospital. I'm with the long-suffering patients.

I'll start off by saying that I am a medical student, and this is by far the worst medical show I've ever seen. Yes, even worse than Grey's Anatomy. I've seen 4 episodes, and can't stomach any more. In just the last episode, they used 3 cliche'd plotlines (disaster at the hospital, power goes out, and a doctor's wife needs medical help and he has to get to her). They horribly mispronounced very routine medical terms, like metoprolol and troponin. And the chest compressions done during the show would actually kill the patient. I mean, it didn't even look remotely right. And all of this was from just one episode. The others were just as bad. It's very clear that there is absolutely nobody with any amount of medical knowledge involved in any step of this show's production. Setting aside the poor, poor representation of medicine, the show is also bad as a tv show. Plotlines intersect without rhyme or reason, characters frequently break character without explanation, and the show works way too hard to appear busy. Much of the show feels forced, and it seems like even the actors can't get behind the absurdity of what they're asked to do. The single bright spot of this entire show is Dr. Topher, who tries desperately to bring some life into this horrible show. Sadly, it is not nearly enough. Do yourself a favor and watch one of the other, much superior medical shows out. House for the clever dialogue and cases, or Scrubs, which is by far the most true-to-life. At least Scrubs was intentionally funny, unlike this joke of a tv show.

Lame Grey's rip off with no relationship to how doctors really behave. Truly stupid. This is a close cousin to Rookie Blue, another pandering show desperately seeking the 18-49 eyeballs.