The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like Dr. Collins at all. She’s not warm at all and I don’t understand why she doesn’t get along with Dr. Robbie. Also, her whole pregnancy storyline is weird. She’s not married and doesn’t even seem to have a partner. Who is the father?

How can you determine that from a show that takes place over a few hours? It's literally one day. We don't know if any of them are married or have partners.

You’re not paying attention then. We know Dr. Langdon is married with 2 small kids.

Another character has a 9 year old son and a third mentioned a daughter.

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I didn’t like the underwear scene either but I get why they did it. I don’t think the pp who is guessing that Robbie’s son will be a shooting victim. Seems to gimmicky for this show.

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Well this week's episode is a gut punch. Fantastic acting all around but just brutal.

I've had to spend a bit of time in the ER as a patient and as a loved one and I've always really respected and appreciated the people who work in them, but this show is giving me a better sense of what it is like, emotionally, to work there. I've encountered some people in ERs who struck me as callous or harsh at times, and while I've never been too bothered by it, I've also never really considered what they might have experienced prior to my encounter with them that might have influenced how they approach me or their work. I just chalked it up to personality. But this episode made me think a lot about that, how the work must impact the people there and the different ways people might handle it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like Dr. Collins at all. She’s not warm at all and I don’t understand why she doesn’t get along with Dr. Robbie. Also, her whole pregnancy storyline is weird. She’s not married and doesn’t even seem to have a partner. Who is the father?

How can you determine that from a show that takes place over a few hours? It's literally one day. We don't know if any of them are married or have partners.

You’re not paying attention then. We know Dr. Langdon is married with 2 small kids.

So, that's ONE person

They haven’t developed Dr. Collins well. I think she’s miscast in this series honestly.

Feels a little tokenish to me.

100%

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Anonymous wrote:I really enjoyed the first two episodes, but I’ve figured out where it is all heading, it’s so very obvious that that Robbie’s son is going to be the victim of a mass shooting carried out by the disturbed teen (who ran away from the hospital) from the first episode. And Dr. Robbie is going to have a major breakdown because he didn’t call the police and to alert the authorities to a potential threat.

Or it could all be a giant red herring, who knows?

Wait, who’s Robbie’s son?

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Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?

+1 agree. Gross!

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Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?

+1 agree. Gross!

I was thinking that, but it is one of the fastest ways to tell you that she’s having a miscarriage. Also, the whole medical procedures are gross and every once in a while you turn and there’s a giant bloody needle coming out of somebody’s body cavity so it’s the same thing.

Plus women see seems like that all the time when they have their period so, I’m surprised there aren’t things like that on TV or in movies more often.

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I binge-watched all 8 episodes so that I am all caught up for next week. I found myself relating to quite a few of the storylines. So far there's been a storyline about an elderly gentleman with dementia who resides in AL and becomes severely ill. He has a DNR but his two adult children struggle with honoring the DNR. There's also a storyline about an adult daughter who is exhausted as the sole caregiver for her elderly mom who has schizophrenia and requires 24-7 care - there's even mention of the other adult child who lives in another state and is not involved at all in the mom's care. As a caregiver to my elderly mom who has Alzheimer's, this series makes me feel seen.

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Anonymous wrote:Well this week's episode is a gut punch. Fantastic acting all around but just brutal.

I've had to spend a bit of time in the ER as a patient and as a loved one and I've always really respected and appreciated the people who work in them, but this show is giving me a better sense of what it is like, emotionally, to work there. I've encountered some people in ERs who struck me as callous or harsh at times, and while I've never been too bothered by it, I've also never really considered what they might have experienced prior to my encounter with them that might have influenced how they approach me or their work. I just chalked it up to personality. But this episode made me think a lot about that, how the work must impact the people there and the different ways people might handle it.

There was an article in the NYT about how medical professionals are impressed by the show's accuracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/arts/television/pitt-doctors-noah-wyle.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk4.gfA4.Qlm8SHmCbgaK&smid=url-share

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Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?

I appreciated that scene. As someone who has experienced that moment, in the middle of a workday, the scene was so realistic. I had to go back and finish a meeting while I had just literally flushed my hopes and dreams down the toilet. I think it being graphic was necessary to accomplish the point as to what women carry and bear on behalf of us all. The feeling of dealing with the nausea and sickness for weeks, while keeping up your job, only to have your body turn on you in an instant - it’s gutting. I’m glad more people may grasp that now.

(Btw this is many years behind me and I have two great kids, don’t feel bad for me!)

Same here - as someone who has experienced pregnancy loss, I really related to that scene and appreciated the accurate portrayal.

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I think the daughter/caretaker of the elderly woman with dementia is going to come back to the ER as a patient.

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Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?

I appreciated that scene. As someone who has experienced that moment, in the middle of a workday, the scene was so realistic. I had to go back and finish a meeting while I had just literally flushed my hopes and dreams down the toilet. I think it being graphic was necessary to accomplish the point as to what women carry and bear on behalf of us all. The feeling of dealing with the nausea and sickness for weeks, while keeping up your job, only to have your body turn on you in an instant - it’s gutting. I’m glad more people may grasp that now.

(Btw this is many years behind me and I have two great kids, don’t feel bad for me!)

Same here - as someone who has experienced pregnancy loss, I really related to that scene and appreciated the accurate portrayal.

Yes they could have done all of that without the miscarriage in the underwear though.

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Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?

I appreciated that scene. As someone who has experienced that moment, in the middle of a workday, the scene was so realistic. I had to go back and finish a meeting while I had just literally flushed my hopes and dreams down the toilet. I think it being graphic was necessary to accomplish the point as to what women carry and bear on behalf of us all. The feeling of dealing with the nausea and sickness for weeks, while keeping up your job, only to have your body turn on you in an instant - it’s gutting. I’m glad more people may grasp that now.

(Btw this is many years behind me and I have two great kids, don’t feel bad for me!)

Same here - as someone who has experienced pregnancy loss, I really related to that scene and appreciated the accurate portrayal.

Yes they could have done all of that without the miscarriage in the underwear though.

Sure, they could have done a lot of things. We’re explaining why this was effective the way it was done.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?

I appreciated that scene. As someone who has experienced that moment, in the middle of a workday, the scene was so realistic. I had to go back and finish a meeting while I had just literally flushed my hopes and dreams down the toilet. I think it being graphic was necessary to accomplish the point as to what women carry and bear on behalf of us all. The feeling of dealing with the nausea and sickness for weeks, while keeping up your job, only to have your body turn on you in an instant - it’s gutting. I’m glad more people may grasp that now.

(Btw this is many years behind me and I have two great kids, don’t feel bad for me!)

Same here - as someone who has experienced pregnancy loss, I really related to that scene and appreciated the accurate portrayal.

Yes they could have done all of that without the miscarriage in the underwear though.

Yet you're not upset about the post-tonsillectomy bleed? the spurting arterial blood? I mean, by your logic, they could've simply done an interpretive dance about each medical malady and shown nothing graphic at all, yeah?*

You have issues with menstruation and miscarriage. Just say it. And then deal with it, because it's misogynist at its root.

So much this. Maybe they can start a separate thread: The Pitt (racist, misogynistic commenter edition).

This episode hit so hard. Collins having to compartmentalize her loss and keep working. Ginger’s daughter coming back. The honor walk. The history of the lack of ambulances. I love how they’re weaving the history of the characters and the institution into the story. So much character development this week.

I just love Dr. King, she’s so pure. The actress is Bryan Cranston’s daughter.

What do we think of the trafficking storyline? Is it trafficking or something else?

I did not know that! I like her. I think they are using her to show how empathy can help and hurt you in this job.

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We absolutely didn’t need the thick red blood in the underwear scene - it was completely obvious she was going to miscarry anyway - they had been foreshadowing it from as early as a few episodes ago when she had had some stomach pains and even got pushed by an angry patient.