The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle

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Anonymous wrote:I tried to watch, especially since I'm from Pittsburgh. Found it super boring and didn't like the gore, either.

I found the first several episodes a little slow but it got better. How far did you get?

Well thanks for this. I only made it about 1/2way through the first episode and was totally uninterested. Maybe I'll give it another shot because usually I enjoy medical shows and it would be cool to watch something set in my hometown.

I had to give it another shot too. I did the same, watched about half of the first episode and thought nah…. But tried it again and go thoroughly hooked.

It really builds with each subsequent episode because of the through lines with the patients. By last week's episode, it packed such a huge and earned emotional punch because we were watching several plot lines that started at the beginning of the season or at least several episodes prior come to fruition. But you need the slower build to get there. I'm glad the show is 15 episodes so they can take their time.

And in this vein, I just want to note that right now my favorite character is Mel (the young resident with the sister in the live-in facility). They've woven a lot of subtlety into her character so that you get to know her kind of the way you would if she were your coworker -- just clues here and there that give you a sense of who she is. She's super up front about certain things (like her sister's situation, the way she approaches patients, etc.) but other stuff just unfolds. It seems likely that she is neurodivergent, or is at a minimum just a highly sensitive person who is tuned into people on a different frequency. I like seeing how it enables her to understand things about her patients that other doctors don't see, like when she immediately recognizes that the guy with autism needs to to have sensory inputs turned down and to be approached differently, or when she understands on a deeper level what is going on with Rita and Ginger, the woman who is caretaker to her mom, and figuring out how to get Rita the assistance she needs. It's just been incredibly satisfying to start out thinking "huh, she's kind of different, she has a weird vibe" and then get to know her and realize she's just a phenomenal doctor but that also the way she approaches her patients is probably a lot harder on her.

Anyway, I love a lot of the characters and am invested in all of them, but that's the one I'm most focused on right now. She makes me think of what my own daughter might be as an adult, in the best possible way.

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Anonymous wrote:I definitely got the sense that Jake is Robby's son, and that Robby is divorced from but on good terms with Jake's mom.

Robby is not currently married, or if he is, he is separated, because Nurse Dana has multiple times referenced the fact that Robby and Dr. Collins were romantically involved at some point but it didn't work out. A major plot point seems to be the fact that Robby does not know that Dr. Collins is pregnant and that his interest in this would be more than that of a colleague.

When Robby sees Dr. Collins giving herself an ultrasound, he later asks to speak to her privately (he asks as though they are talking about a patient or something work-related, but in this tone that you can tell it's a cover story for asking her about the ultrasound) but she doesn't want to talk to him about it.

My current suspicion is that Robby is divorced because being an ER doctor is not conducive to being a particularly good spouse, and that Jake is his son from that marriage. I think he and Dr. Collins dated, but that they broke up because Robby is still not really processing/dealing with his PTSD from Covid or his feelings about Dr. Adamson's death. I think while they were dating, Robby learned that Dr. Collins wanted to have a child and perhaps they even discussed having a baby together, but because Robby is issues, Dr. Collins broke things off with him. And now Dr. Collins is trying to have a baby on her own and she doesn't want to discuss it with Robby because it will bring up the feelings they have for each other and she doesn't want that distraction at work when she knows they cannot be together because of Robby's issues.

I could be wrong about all of that but that's the general vibe I'm getting. Oh, and Dana knows all of this because she's one of the very few people that both Robby and Collins confide in and she's known them both forever (she's worked in the ER for 30 years) and can read them really well.

What? I’ve been watching since Day 1 and never saw this. Can you give specific episodes please?

At least one of these times is in the episode with Jake that I just rewatched. Dana says that Collins and Robby used to be together and Collins says, "That was a million years ago" or something like that, and Dana says something like, "it's not too late" or "you never know".

You’re right! I just found it and rewatched it as well - episode 5. Robby and Collins seem to have zero chemistry though so it’s not really believable.

Also, why was Jake so tight with Dr. Langdon?

Huh they are at work and she’s obviously a bit stiff around him. Probably trying to keep him in dispassionate friend zone.

I think Dr Robbie is attracted to black women. So perhaps that’s his preference. His son is clearly mixed.

So given his attraction to black women I can see how working together in such stressful situations where you spend so much time at work that they might have been in a relationship at some point

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Tonight’s episode was great. I laughed a few times. Dana was the best. The rat.

“This ain’t Philly!”

When Whitaker pulled on the face mask to see the pee guy.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight’s episode was great. I laughed a few times. Dana was the best. The rat.

“This ain’t Philly!”

When Whitaker pulled on the face mask to see the pee guy.

I laughed out loud several times!

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Loving this show!

What is up with the end credits music? Every time it comes on it takes me back 30 years like we are watching the end of, like Quincy or St. Elsewhere or something. It seems like it’s from a different era ha!

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Tonight's episode was really great, and a nice relief after the heaviness of last week (which I also loved but was tough to watch). The second to last scene (Whittaker) made me cackle so loudly I woke up my husband down the hall. Oops.

Noah Wylie wrote the episode I noticed, and I'm impressed. He's so great in this show. I hope he gets nominated for it. I also think others on the show are deserving for their acting, but it really seems like he was instrumental in making the show happen and I'm so glad because I love it!

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He's just flat-out terrific in this.

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Anonymous wrote:I tried to watch, especially since I'm from Pittsburgh. Found it super boring and didn't like the gore, either.

I found the first several episodes a little slow but it got better. How far did you get?

Well thanks for this. I only made it about 1/2way through the first episode and was totally uninterested. Maybe I'll give it another shot because usually I enjoy medical shows and it would be cool to watch something set in my hometown.

I had to give it another shot too. I did the same, watched about half of the first episode and thought nah…. But tried it again and go thoroughly hooked.

It really builds with each subsequent episode because of the through lines with the patients. By last week's episode, it packed such a huge and earned emotional punch because we were watching several plot lines that started at the beginning of the season or at least several episodes prior come to fruition. But you need the slower build to get there. I'm glad the show is 15 episodes so they can take their time.

And in this vein, I just want to note that right now my favorite character is Mel (the young resident with the sister in the live-in facility). They've woven a lot of subtlety into her character so that you get to know her kind of the way you would if she were your coworker -- just clues here and there that give you a sense of who she is. She's super up front about certain things (like her sister's situation, the way she approaches patients, etc.) but other stuff just unfolds. It seems likely that she is neurodivergent, or is at a minimum just a highly sensitive person who is tuned into people on a different frequency. I like seeing how it enables her to understand things about her patients that other doctors don't see, like when she immediately recognizes that the guy with autism needs to to have sensory inputs turned down and to be approached differently, or when she understands on a deeper level what is going on with Rita and Ginger, the woman who is caretaker to her mom, and figuring out how to get Rita the assistance she needs. It's just been incredibly satisfying to start out thinking "huh, she's kind of different, she has a weird vibe" and then get to know her and realize she's just a phenomenal doctor but that also the way she approaches her patients is probably a lot harder on her.

Anyway, I love a lot of the characters and am invested in all of them, but that's the one I'm most focused on right now. She makes me think of what my own daughter might be as an adult, in the best possible way.

Mel is a wonderful character. I really enjoy every scene she's in.

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Some thoughts for discussion:

1) I think McKay is going to handle the suggestion that she might have misdiagnosed the postpartum mom due to bias badly. McKay is super tense and has shown herself to be unprofessional at times. Just seems like the wheels might come off now that she's on the defensive.

2) The Santos storyline is interesting because I'm genuinely struggling to understand her character's motivations. She's been very abrasive throughout the season and sometimes it seems like her suspicions of Langdon are totally manufactured because she doesn't like him. Like in this episode, it actually felt like she made a calculated move to lie to him about why they had not come to get him, to induce him to lose it with her and yell. There was this glint in her eye. But then sometimes I think that's not it at all, that she's maybe right about him, and that he's being unfair to her. But I like him generally and she seems like a PITA! It's very hard to see where that plot line is going.

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Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts for discussion:

1) I think McKay is going to handle the suggestion that she might have misdiagnosed the postpartum mom due to bias badly. McKay is super tense and has shown herself to be unprofessional at times. Just seems like the wheels might come off now that she's on the defensive.

2) The Santos storyline is interesting because I'm genuinely struggling to understand her character's motivations. She's been very abrasive throughout the season and sometimes it seems like her suspicions of Langdon are totally manufactured because she doesn't like him. Like in this episode, it actually felt like she made a calculated move to lie to him about why they had not come to get him, to induce him to lose it with her and yell. There was this glint in her eye. But then sometimes I think that's not it at all, that she's maybe right about him, and that he's being unfair to her. But I like him generally and she seems like a PITA! It's very hard to see where that plot line is going.

There were definitely signs that point to Langdon being on something last night, or maybe it's just that it was pointed out to me via this thread. I loved the first few minutes when they all took a few minutes to regroup and he went outside to call his kid.

I loved the slow clap when Whitaker caught the rat and killed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts for discussion:

1) I think McKay is going to handle the suggestion that she might have misdiagnosed the postpartum mom due to bias badly. McKay is super tense and has shown herself to be unprofessional at times. Just seems like the wheels might come off now that she's on the defensive.

2) The Santos storyline is interesting because I'm genuinely struggling to understand her character's motivations. She's been very abrasive throughout the season and sometimes it seems like her suspicions of Langdon are totally manufactured because she doesn't like him. Like in this episode, it actually felt like she made a calculated move to lie to him about why they had not come to get him, to induce him to lose it with her and yell. There was this glint in her eye. But then sometimes I think that's not it at all, that she's maybe right about him, and that he's being unfair to her. But I like him generally and she seems like a PITA! It's very hard to see where that plot line is going.

There were definitely signs that point to Langdon being on something last night, or maybe it's just that it was pointed out to me via this thread. I loved the first few minutes when they all took a few minutes to regroup and he went outside to call his kid.

I loved the slow clap when Whitaker caught the rat and killed it.

The scene with Whitaker and the rat is probably my all time favorite of the season thus far. And because they'd foreshadowed it with him talking about growing up in a rural area and there being lots of animals around, it was totally believable when he knew exactly how to handle the rat. Love it.

I don't buy the idea that Langdon was high in the episode because the whole conceit of the show is that it's one continuous shift. If he was high in one episode, he'd be high in others. And honestly, he didn't seem high at all -- the scene where he calls home and has his wife put their son on the phone so he could hear his voice, after they lost the little girl who drowned, didn't look like someone who was on drugs.

I think if it turns out that Langdon is stealing drugs from the hospital, it will wind up being for a complex reason that is an ethical gray area, not just for a drug problem. Like maybe he is taking drugs and giving them to prior patients that he can't get to come back into the hospital. They kind of set up a plot line like that this episode with all the talk about the "street team" and Whitaker's interactions with the guy with schizophrenia, and figuring out how to get him meds given that he is unhoused and can't be counted on to come back in on a regular schedule.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts for discussion:

1) I think McKay is going to handle the suggestion that she might have misdiagnosed the postpartum mom due to bias badly. McKay is super tense and has shown herself to be unprofessional at times. Just seems like the wheels might come off now that she's on the defensive.

2) The Santos storyline is interesting because I'm genuinely struggling to understand her character's motivations. She's been very abrasive throughout the season and sometimes it seems like her suspicions of Langdon are totally manufactured because she doesn't like him. Like in this episode, it actually felt like she made a calculated move to lie to him about why they had not come to get him, to induce him to lose it with her and yell. There was this glint in her eye. But then sometimes I think that's not it at all, that she's maybe right about him, and that he's being unfair to her. But I like him generally and she seems like a PITA! It's very hard to see where that plot line is going.

There were definitely signs that point to Langdon being on something last night, or maybe it's just that it was pointed out to me via this thread. I loved the first few minutes when they all took a few minutes to regroup and he went outside to call his kid.

I loved the slow clap when Whitaker caught the rat and killed it.

The scene with Whitaker and the rat is probably my all time favorite of the season thus far. And because they'd foreshadowed it with him talking about growing up in a rural area and there being lots of animals around, it was totally believable when he knew exactly how to handle the rat. Love it.

I don't buy the idea that Langdon was high in the episode because the whole conceit of the show is that it's one continuous shift. If he was high in one episode, he'd be high in others. And honestly, he didn't seem high at all -- the scene where he calls home and has his wife put their son on the phone so he could hear his voice, after they lost the little girl who drowned, didn't look like someone who was on drugs.

I think if it turns out that Langdon is stealing drugs from the hospital, it will wind up being for a complex reason that is an ethical gray area, not just for a drug problem. Like maybe he is taking drugs and giving them to prior patients that he can't get to come back into the hospital. They kind of set up a plot line like that this episode with all the talk about the "street team" and Whitaker's interactions with the guy with schizophrenia, and figuring out how to get him meds given that he is unhoused and can't be counted on to come back in on a regular schedule.

The hospital has the Street Team, so it doesn’t make sense that he’d need to do that. Langdon has a temper problem (as called out by Robby last night) and at times lacks empathy. The dynamic with Santos is weird on both sides and to they are both characters that I don’t think we’re really supposed to have a read on yet.

[Anonymous]

Love this show!

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I was happy Langdon was calling out Santos. She thinks her sh*t doesn’t stink. And she’s not following rules which exist for a reason. She should be fired.

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Anonymous wrote:I was happy Langdon was calling out Santos. She thinks her sh*t doesn’t stink. And she’s not following rules which exist for a reason. She should be fired.

He was too harsh though and Dr. Robbie did a good job checking him.