The Pitt, Season 2
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Anonymous
| ^ end of the last season, not scene. |
Anonymous
Why do you have to insult others to make your point? |
Anonymous
+1 I’ve noticed this. The minute you bring up a potential flaw in a storyline someone is quick to shoot you down. We are all supposed to raise up and worship The Pitt and agree they do it right all the time no matter what. |
Anonymous
PP has a personality disorder. |
Anonymous
Because people in this thread are being incredibly pedantic about the show and nit picking stuff that isn't even incorrect. It's frustrating when you like something (like this actually very good show) and people incessantly want to point out everything that's wrong with it, even when it's not wrong. It's hard to make art, and this show puts way more effort into making something realistic, honest, and compelling than like 99% of television shows. Only to have people half-watch the show while scrolling their phones and then complain that they are mad the show used the term "photographic" instead of "eidetic", somehow insulting their intelligence, because even though they've never written or acted or directed anything worth watching, they do take pride in knowing $20 words that the average person does not know. It's like being served a really good sauvignon blanc that wine experts spent years making only to have someone insist on pissing in it because they are certain their piss will taste better than a perfectly good wine. |
Anonymous
This thread is nothing but people pointing out "flaws" in the storyline, and then when some of us say "actually that's not a flaw, it's internally consistent" or "eh it's a weird plot point but doesn't bother me", we get argued to death and are never allowed to actually discuss the characters or the plot lines in an enjoyable way. |
Anonymous
I think your taking this way too seriously. |
Anonymous
| You guys should watch the YouTube commentary from a real doctor (OB/GYN) discussing the Pitt and how realistic it is. There are definitely things that aren’t correct. It was eye opening. |
Anonymous
| One thing I really like about this show is how easy it is to miss little things. Really forces you to focus, possibly rewatch, and catch all the nuances. So what if they occasionally fudge some of the details of a procedure or use a more common term than a clinical one, the show treats us like intelligent viewers, capable of following along rather than people who need every scene narrated by Basil Exposition. |
Anonymous
| Why do they have to make it so graphic? They’ll even show genitalia |
Anonymous
I mean if you are watching it thinking it's a documentary about a real ED, you are missing the point of the show. It's realISM. It's not reality. Of course they are going to alter some things to fit their narrative arcs, or because they want to show a specific side of a character, or because of the "single shift" conceit which forces them to pack a bunch of things into a single day that in reality would not all happen on the same day. Like is it realistic that Langdon would be returning to work post-rehab before meeting with, at a minimum, the senior members of the ED staff to discuss his re-entry and the parameters of the program he's in? No, in reality he would have had a sit down meeting with Robby, Dr. Al-Hashidi, likely Dana, and probably a hospital administrator, prior to his first shift. If he had 12-step amends to make with Robby and Dana, he would have made them at that meeting or outside the hospital. He would not be meeting Dr. Al-Hashidi on the job, between patients. But by making an unrealistic choice (having Langdon returning to work on Robby's last day before sabbatical and on Dr. Al-Hashimi's first day at the Pitt), the show creates some interesting character and plot opportunities to allow them to tell Langdon's story in a way that might get at the truth *underneath* better than a protracted show that portrayed that administrative meeting happening before this shift. Because The Pitt is engaged in storytelling, not documenting. They are more interested in the emotional and relationship implications of Langdon's story, and getting that right, than in portraying exactly what it looks like for a doctor with substance abuse issues to return to work after rehab. The point is to let us see Patrick Ball and Noah Wyle in an elevator, looking at each other (or avoiding looking at each other) and feel the weight of their history and the needs and motivations of their characters, right before the elevator doors burst open onto a helipad with a critical patient coming in who will require their focus and expertise. You can't create that moment if you are 100% honest about how these situation play out IRL. But the moment is powerful in a way that a more accurate version is not. You give a little to get a lot. |
Anonymous
| I like ER more even though I didn’t like how it was like a soap opera more about drama than medicine |
Anonymous
It matters because the results can be contested in court if proper protocol was not followed. |
Anonymous
| I could not look at the tongue laceration with all the blood. Including the repair. I had to cover the screen. |
Anonymous
Yes, same. |