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If the Scrubs Fit
On ER, Noah Wyle was a prime-time TV star. In the streaming era, he’s just happy to be part of the company.
His character, Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, has been plagued with knee-buckling COVID flashbacks, forced to fire a trusted colleague, watched numerous children die, and continues to butt heads with a hospital administrator obsessed with patient-satisfaction scores. (His longtime colleague, the costume designer Lyn Paolo, says she let the actor give her stitches once; she’d cut her finger on the set of ER, and writer and co-executive producer Dr. Joe Sachs agreed to supervise the suturing. It’s an ability to listen, and a stillness that he brings as an actor, which is a skill that goes unnoticed sometimes.” Falling Skies and The Librarians had a fraction of ER ’s viewership, but they made good use of Wyle’s level gaze and pitched-down tone, and attracted their own niche sci-fi/fantasy audiences — the kinds who show up to comic-cons and buy tie-in novels.
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