The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle

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Anonymous wrote:Feel like it started off super strong and then the season lost steam with the shooting and Jake storyline. They should have taken more time to establish the show and hospital before going mass casualty event, especially one tied so deeply to family trauma.

Makes me concerned next season, they’ll just go ridiculous with the storylines.

+1 agree with all this. I lost all interest in the last 3 episodes.

I agree too. I did like the fast pace and the action, but it did seem a bit much.

And the Jake storyline did nothing for me.

The Dr. Collins storyline did nothing for me either. She had a miscarriage early on and then had a heart to heart with Robby…and then disappeared.

They also sort of dropped the ball with the drug storyline with Langdon.

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The Pitt is in the top three most watched shows in the history of the Max platform ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous]

I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

I hear you. I also don’t buy that a busy ER doc would ask to attend the funeral of a kid he literally just met that day. Or sit in a room and cry like that. It felt a little like ER but different. And not as interesting. I want to see more relationship stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

Definitely not the only one that didn't like it. I gave up after a couple of episodes also. The fact that this all happens on one shift doesn't make any sense, and the "woke message of the week" was as tiresome as it was obvious.

I bailed, I couldn't care less how it ended or any of the characters.

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My BIL works at an urban level 1 trauma center in ER and also ICU as a PA and he had to stop watching The Pitt because it was too real life. When I mention story lines of the show, he's said "I just had that conversation with a family yesterday." He also said the show gets the lingo (medication names, dosages, procedures, etc) exactly right. So, high praise from the actual pit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

Definitely not the only one that didn't like it. I gave up after a couple of episodes also. The fact that this all happens on one shift doesn't make any sense, and the "woke message of the week" was as tiresome as it was obvious.

I bailed, I couldn't care less how it ended or any of the characters.

Did you find Dr. Collins boring?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

I loved the show quite a bit. I will say that to be honest, I thought that perhaps one reason why Dr. Robby took so much time with the parents of the brain dead teen (while at the same time he kept trying to rush Mo) was because he very much wanted the parents to donate their son’s organs, and there is no way they would have agreed to that if he had broken the death to them in an hour. I saw it as a bit of a calculated move rather than all caring (note how he got that female employee who would discuss organ donation involved right away).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

Definitely not the only one that didn't like it. I gave up after a couple of episodes also. The fact that this all happens on one shift doesn't make any sense, and the "woke message of the week" was as tiresome as it was obvious.

I bailed, I couldn't care less how it ended or any of the characters.

Did you find Dr. Collins boring?

Can't even remember who he/she is.

[Anonymous]

I just watched this and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it (I loved St Elsewhere and ER, and assumed this would be a poor imitator). I really liked the hour by hour format, and foubd the show to feel more “real,” and therefore I found myself surprisingly emotional, than a lot of other medical dramas.

I agree with the posters who said that the show did a good job of integrating the memory of covid and how it does affected and/or still affects the medical staff, without making it all about that. I also liked how many of the character background pieces were implied but not overt- Dr Abbott’s combat experience, Dr Roby’s relationship with Jesse, Dr Langdon’s kid on austism spectrum (I’m inferring that one).

Of course I could come up with critiques but overall I found this well done and enjoyable to watch.

A question for those with medical knowledge - were the med students the only doctors who were there but did not necessarily have an interest in emergency medicine as their specialty, I guess I’m asking if they were there simply as one of many “required” rotations and the rest of the doctors had selected ER medicine as their specialty? I liked the (24 hr, haha) ark of Dr Mohan’s character, but wasn’t sure why she chose an ER residency in the first place.

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I really enjoy the show, but I think I would like it better if it were over the course of a shift or shifts rather than each episode an exact hour. Felt unrealistic to have that much happen and for Robby to be involved with all of it.

I also think it would be nice to learn a little more about personal lives without taking the focus off the work. That’s hard to do in a show that happens on 1 day.

I’m on the episode with the organ donation kid and the little girl who was saved by her sister in the pool but the sister died. All seemed a little heavy handed to me. Don’t get me wrong, I cried! But seemed designed to make the viewer do that.

And finally, I’m interested to see what happens in season 2. In other shows like this, they just skip to a random point in the future and catch the viewer up. I don’t love that and it allows for lazier storytelling because you can do whatever you want at that point.

Anyway, I still like it and will continue!

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Anonymous wrote:I really enjoy the show, but I think I would like it better if it were over the course of a shift or shifts rather than each episode an exact hour. Felt unrealistic to have that much happen and for Robby to be involved with all of it.

I also think it would be nice to learn a little more about personal lives without taking the focus off the work. That’s hard to do in a show that happens on 1 day.

I’m on the episode with the organ donation kid and the little girl who was saved by her sister in the pool but the sister died. All seemed a little heavy handed to me. Don’t get me wrong, I cried! But seemed designed to make the viewer do that.

And finally, I’m interested to see what happens in season 2. In other shows like this, they just skip to a random point in the future and catch the viewer up. I don’t love that and it allows for lazier storytelling because you can do whatever you want at that point.

Anyway, I still like it and will continue!

That’s exactly what will happen next season. They are skipping ahead to July 4.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I must be the only one who is meh about this. 7 episodes in and done. To me it was ER in 2025 and I loooooove ER. That is still a comfort show of mine. This was to me exactly like ER. The prob I also had is that who can go through that much intensity in an 8 he shift day in and out without a nervous breakdown?! Holy shit - it's just too much drama and heavy to watch and it's just a show for me - it lost me when it breaks down the time frame like that. I also do not believe any busy ER doc would have taken the compassion to do what Noah's character did like give the brain dead teens parents that much time to absorb his death by ordering brain scan tests and what not. I simply did not believe the stories the way h believed them on ER. It just seemed like it reflects everything wrong in todays world in that it's telling the same story as ER but for me it's a complex bore - the original was so much more compelling because it was easier somehow. This is just so complex it bored me.

I loved the show quite a bit. I will say that to be honest, I thought that perhaps one reason why Dr. Robby took so much time with the parents of the brain dead teen (while at the same time he kept trying to rush Mo) was because he very much wanted the parents to donate their son’s organs, and there is no way they would have agreed to that if he had broken the death to them in an hour. I saw it as a bit of a calculated move rather than all caring (note how he got that female employee who would discuss organ donation involved right away).

I think it was both. He had compassion for their loss, and he wanted to save more lives with the organs.

[Anonymous]

Just finished. I liked the show a lot but I think it would be better if it were just over the course of a couple days and not hourly. It felt really unrealistic to me that anyone would not have a. Breakdown after that day. Robby being so worried people would learn that seemed silly in the context.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished. I liked the show a lot but I think it would be better if it were just over the course of a couple days and not hourly. It felt really unrealistic to me that anyone would not have a. Breakdown after that day. Robby being so worried people would learn that seemed silly in the context.

Any thoughts on Dr. Collins?