What I liked
Everything about this. The story, the cast, the music, etc
What I didn't like
If it could work, I’d love to see a post op situation 6-12 months down the line
My overall impression
We’ve all been at this point in our lives. We’ve all had our hearts broken by someone. What if there was an operation you could have where all of that pain, anger, hatred, and betrayal could be removed? If only it were that easy. This is the premise of “Emergency Operation”.
We meet Adam (played by Ben Bergstrom), whose girlfriend Kelsey (played by Jess Moore), just cheated on him. Adam is so hurt from his heart being broken that he has an emergency operation to fix his heart. After his operation, the memories of what happened are gone and he can start fresh, but can everyone around him do the same?
This show takes delicate subject matter and twists it around to make it funny for the most part. Don’t get me wrong, there are definite triggers of heartbreak in this show, but the comedic moments definitely outweigh them. The funny moments come from everyone in the cast, but mostly from the emergency room patient (played by Tahmus Rounds), the sarcastic, bad joke telling doctor (played by Colleen Elizabeth Miller), and Adam’s overprotective mother (played by Sigute Miller) and his father (played by Alan Ehrlich) who just wants to give him his space.
I left the show with a smile on my face, but also left reflecting on certain times in my life when my heart was broken and felt just like Adam or when I unintentionally broke someone else’s, and felt like Kelsey. It’s a lot easier to see things like this as a spectator instead of being in the middle of it.
One last thing I want to point out are the song selections before the show and during the scene changes. If you put them all together as a mixtape or a playlist, I think it would be a fantastic “Broken Heart” mix.
