Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:10     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
I actually don’t feel the cast is diverse enough. And I don’t like Dr. Collin’s bc she hasn’t been developed well.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:06     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
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Anonymous wrote:NP. I'm glad they showed the miscarriage more graphically. Having never experienced one myself, it drove home the physical pain more strongly. This show is being praised for being unusually accurate in its representation of various conditions and treatments. I'm here for it.



Agree it's realistic. What is the first thing a woman fearing a miscarriage does? Check her underwear.


It definitely was realistic, but realistic things can be gross.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:01     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote:I'm neutral on Dr. Collins right now. Her character is seriously underwritten compared to some of the others. Hopefully it will be developed further post-pregnancy loss.


+1 this is exactly what I’ve been saying.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 12:59     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
I'm neutral on Dr. Collins right now. Her character is seriously underwritten compared to some of the others. Hopefully it will be developed further post-pregnancy loss.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 12:58     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
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Anonymous wrote:
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.


+1 Heaven forbid women's natural bodily functions and the related inconveniences be normalized.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 08:51     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote:NP. I'm glad they showed the miscarriage more graphically. Having never experienced one myself, it drove home the physical pain more strongly. This show is being praised for being unusually accurate in its representation of various conditions and treatments. I'm here for it.



Agree it's realistic. What is the first thing a woman fearing a miscarriage does? Check her underwear.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 16:59     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
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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


As a medical professional who has been in various areas of the hospital and who has seen a lot , I've been pretty impressed by the accuracy of this show. Obviously some things are rushed for drama, overdone for drama, or just cant be done accurately because of TV. But that story line with the elderly man and his children who weren't ready to let him go? I've been through that so many times I had tears streaming down my face because it was done so well that it brought back so many memories of myself being involved in those situations. Or the stable patient who suddenly dies and you have to just keep going? So hard.

They've obviously hired good consults because the medical bits are pretty accurate and I like that they don't dumb it down.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 16:42     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote: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.


It could have been worse they could have done a sound mix that included a kerplunk into the toilet, followed by a visual pan into the toilet; then another visual and audio of her flushing the toilet. Followed by her washing her hands, smoothing her scrubs and pulling it all together 3 minutes later and returning to work.

Had I been the director that’s how I would have played it. Women are the real mental, emotional and physical super heroes!
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 13:56     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
NP. I'm glad they showed the miscarriage more graphically. Having never experienced one myself, it drove home the physical pain more strongly. This show is being praised for being unusually accurate in its representation of various conditions and treatments. I'm here for it.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 13:39     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Like the show but didn't need the dying girl, a little too sad for what I choose to watch for entertainment.

I'm wondering if they are going to circle back to the potential school shooter or the dad who was poisoned.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 12:28     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Spoiler - the miscarriage of Dr Collin’s was a little graphic. Did they need to show her underwear?


This is the part you thought was graphic? The part that most women see monthly?

Handle it, bro. We do, so you can too.


It wasn't a period, it was a miscarriage. I can see my own, I don't want to see someone else's. I don't watch any of the graphic medical stuff.


NP +1
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 00:57     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
It’s a bit too much gore for me at times - they show way more of it than say on ER.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 19:34     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote:
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 think trafficking for sure. Initially, I thought baby farm because the madam is at least second trimester.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 19:21     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote: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.


I’m not sure if you’re being purposely dense? Of course we didn’t need to see it to comprehend what was happening. Similarly, when they brought in a guy and said his fingertip was amputated, we didn’t need to see that either to understand it. But it’s a televised medical drama and images accompany the narrative.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 16:34     Subject: The Pitt, new HBO Max show w Noah Wyle
Anonymous wrote: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.

Because we miscarry in the dark?