Let Me Show You My Reverse Tracheotomy: “The Pitt” on Max or HBO or whatevef

“The Pitt” on Max starring Noah Wyle: this medical drama fucking RULES and we should talk about it

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i’m caught up and cannot wait for ep 6. notes so far

- pvmic but grizzled Noah Wyle is hot af
- i love the 1 hour= i episode structure
- no music! maximum intensity
- i understand like 5% of the jargon but i am fucking RIVETED to my seat
- the plate spinning of all the building storylines is fantastic
- love the chemistry btw Wyle & Dr Collins
- love Dana the head nurse
- i need Princess to crack soon bc i haaaaaate her character so much (but i know at least 2 versions of her irl)

i never was obsessed w ER or House & dont usually care abour medical shows but i am full heart-eyes emojis for this show

episode 4 really proves how good the show is imo

We've watched the whole thing so far as a family (well, most of us), including my daughter, a near-future medical professional. We love it, and while there are a few TV moments here and there, it seems pretty level-headed and relatively realistic. Ironically, the person that reminds me the most of a legit young doctor (in training) is Brian Cranston's daughter, who nails the right level of nerdy competence.

1) I didn't even notice there is no music!
2) I wonder if the doctors that wrote/consulted kept notebooks of all the random or mundane cases they had, because some of the stuff the show depicts is so very specific without coming across Very TV Doctor Show.

I used to watch ER, back-when, but not House or Grey's Anatomy or whatever, so can't compare to those. But as good as ER was in its prime, this seems different and in many ways better.

My good friend’s wife was an ER nurse in NYC was telling us they really captured the vibe and feel of a busy urban emergency room.

yeah the specifics feel very true to irl experiences on the writing staff or consultants or something — my BiL was a paramedic & i have ER nurse friends

like even the way Wyle ducks into the bathroom to kinda cry for like a nanosecond (about something genuinely devastating) but then looks at himself in the mirror & laughs felt so truthful

love Cranston’s daughter, she’s so competent and handles her shit so well in those intense procedures!

I am not usually a fan of doctor shows — I watched a few episodes of ER back when Linda Cardellini and Parminder Nagra were on it, because... well, Linda Cardellini and Parminder Nagra. And I have seen a few episodes of House, but never Grey's Anatomy. The hospital show I've probably seen the most is Chicago Med, which is... OK. But yeah, The Pitt is pretty compelling. Some of the kid doctors are annoying (the one who's a huge bitch who thinks she knows everything, and the one who keeps getting splattered with blood), but some of the others are just dumb kids and entertaining about it. They're setting up some interesting plotlines that I hope resolve well and not as horror.

the one who keeps getting splattered is kinda fun imo. waiting for him to run out of scrubs of ~any~ kind lol

oh and i said i hate Princess -i meant Trinity! I hate Trinity!

princess boned a dave navarro dude under the stars -she’s cool as hell lol

I might have said this in the other tv thread, but I started this show with a fair amount of ambivalence and maybe even skepticism. I was especially wary of the 15 eps = 15 hours of one shift; it just sounded like it was going to get really tedious. And the whole plot of the woman with the moody son who may or may not become a school shooter just felt very forced.

But lo and behold by the third or fourth episode all my reservations went away and I think this show has only gotten richer with each passing episode. I’m impressed with the depth it’s developing - a long simmer of a show.

And now for better or worse I’m expecting the school shooter plot to come back in a more unexpected way - like maybe an attempted suicide rather than a bunch of injured kids… something less predictable. Hoping for something less on the nose, at least.

the way this show handles death so matter of factly but with so much empathy is like nothing i have seen on tv in a long while

like maybe Leftovers was the last show i can think of

Only thru ep3 so not reading the board yet. Love Noah Wyle in this. Hopefully he gets to pee in ep4 :) Also appreciate casting and acting from the patients and family members. Adds to the verisimilitude

i still have not gotten over them uh, popping out the dent, in that dude’s FACE in episode 1

like

i didn’t know faces could do that. that was hardcore

my fiancé and I are both physicians and we both thought this was the most realistic medical show we’ve ever seen — or at least that I’ve ever seen, since I don’t usually gravitate toward them. it’s really tightly scripted and well acted, super enjoyable. the medical student who’s the daughter of one of the surgeons is a bit of a caricature but having known a lot of similar people it is fun to root against her.

Is this too-much intense like the Bear? or heartbreakerly so like This Is going to Hurt? Or a more general ER meets 24 kinda idea?

I have a feeling my other half will inevitably want to watch this lol. Though he's just started on 6 feet under of all things so it might be a while.

More general ER, I'd say. It's got its sad spots (so far) but nothing terribly melodramatic and intense yet. It's pretty grounded.

yeah cosign that

Yeah, it's a very grounded show. Blood, tension, anxiety, but they haven't resorted to a single "no one's ever seen this disease before" or "if we don't get this contained, the whole city will be at risk" plotline yet.

Tonight's episode was good. Very glad to see the student doctor I dislike the most fuck up badly (without harming a patient) and get slapped down for it. Frankly, I was beginning to wonder whether sexual tension was building between her and the surgeon, or if it was just the beginning of a mentor/mentee relationship, but neither of those things is happening now, ha ha.

haven't seen this but is is v. curious to me that two shows set in pittsburgh debuted in january: this and the latest sherlock holmes spinoff (watson, 'a medical drama with detective elements' on cbs)

that watson show is a goddamn lie: thinly veiled sherlock notions but it’s basically just “Morris Chestnut IS House” zzz

tbf i just want artistic shots of the mighty allegheny and monongehela confluencing into the ohio river. and decent scripts i guess

who had primanti bros on their bingo card

I read a few interviews about the show, mostly with Wyle, and I think the pivot from making a new ER to the episode-per-hour format has been very clever. ER was a melodrama partially by necessity because it was really focused on the medical staff with the majority of the cases being one and done.

The individual patients have so much more room to breathe (until they're intubated?) in the script and they feel just as important as the staff.

I really like this

can't wait for Data's daughter to get slapped down some more as the day winds on

I really love the rhythm of this show, how there's no traditional rising or falling action structure, how each episode doesn't really conclude so much as pause the story.

yeah same, makes it very enjoyable and sort of cliffhangery, more like old fashioned serialised plays and stuff

"Sort of" cliffhangery is pretty much right, because rarely does an episode end on or even aim for an "oh shit!" moment, at least not so far. I forget how each episode of "24" ended, with, like, snapshots of whatever four conflicts/cliffhangers are going on at once?

But with this, so far there's been no "tune in next week to find out what happened!" sort of suspense, because there is a lot going on at once.

Could do with the show cooling it on the med students embodying clichesarchetypes bit.

We're still learning about them, though. Who was the person Cranston's daughter was talking to on the phone, for example? And arrogant student has a back story we haven't gotten yet, too. And Huckleberry, I feel we have a lot to learn about him as well. And of course surgeon's daughter is being set up for ... something.

mainly i just need propofol and ketamine stat

rarely does an episode end on or even aim for an "oh shit!" moment, at least not so far

The biggest one was "that's not the pregnant girl's mom, that's her aunt — the screaming angry lady is her mom".

The character I'm keeping a close eye on is the angry guy who keeps getting sent back to the waiting room; a violent outburst would not be a total surprise.

cranston’s daughter i guessed was talking to her sister, so maybe she was not only caring for a mom (who passed) but a sibling still as well idk

The angry man is also a racist MAGA dude. I forget why he's (still) there. Chest pains?

have you guys missed the entire plot point where she has a sister that has special needs and has assisted living arrangements during the day? it's why she was trying so hard to relate to the lady with the schizophrenia-having mom

Yes. Though eventually I sort of pieced that together.

have you guys missed the entire plot point where she has a sister that has special needs and has assisted living arrangements during the day? it's why she was trying so hard to relate to the lady with the schizophrenia-having mom

Yeah, I caught that; my question is, how special needs is she supposed to be? She seems at least somewhat autistic, but it's not clear yet whether we're supposed to care about that or if it's just a minor character trait.

angry guy is there for chest pains

I'm surprised angry guy hasn't just fucked off in frustration yet. Also, of course, potential school shooter guy, will that come back in the form of victims or *his* return to the ER? A lot of stuff hanging out there.

it was floated on The Watch podcast that maybe the possible shooter story intersects w the music festival story?

Hmm. That would also rope back in Noah's son. I kind of hope it doesn't go supernova dark and tragic, though tis the world we live in, I guess.

honestly that storyline with the shooter kid & the mom irked me the most, like jeez lady why are you making this kid the ER’s problem? i understand not knowing where to go for help but this really should not be the move.

honestly that storyline with the shooter kid & the mom irked me the most, like jeez lady why are you making this kid the ER’s problem? i understand not knowing where to go for help but this really should not be the move.

I did actually think this was ER: The Next Generation for a good while and chalked up any wincy tropes to being an unavoidable inheritance before vaguely remembering the lawsuit by the Crichton estate. The main actors do a really good job physically inhabiting their characters versus the patients who seem like they're making the most out of their guest spot (though does that apply here when it's essentially one long episode?), which I also associate with ER!

Between the schizophrenic woman whose daughter abandoned her and the lady who's handcuffed for some reason, this show is slightly overpopulated with sassy senior citizens.

don’t worry, there are still some very tired and boring looking senior citizens in the waiting area

that demographic is probably the largest at the ER, right? that and parents with their injured/suddenly ill children

Making yourself sick to go to the ER to tell the ER doc your kid might be a school shooter was such a strange choice it seemed like a real life event one of the writers read about or something.

I enjoy hearing about asystole again, I haven't heard that word since ER

this show is slightly overpopulated with sassy senior citizens.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, February 12, 2025 1:52 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I invite you to spend 14 hours in an actual emergency room

SEE

I invite you to spend 14 hours in an actual emergency room

no thanks I did that in June, 10 of that was in a waiting room

i spent a long evening in ER with a gallbladder attack, lying in a bed next to a female version of the Kraken who was going through withdrawal & screaming her lungs out. It was heartbreaking. It was my first time in an American emergency room & it was very overwhelming & terrifying! i just lay there puking into a bedpan for hours just listening to this sad screaming woman.

I just realized new episodes of this air on Thursdays...just like ER

Does that mean HBO is going to do gritty homages to Friends and Seinfeld?

I mean they already have Curb

tonight’s episode was really good - i never knew about that heart machine! that is incredible technology

-that meeting between the two patients was peak contrived emotional manipulation but you know what, it worked on me
-I seriously thought that maybe the mother was lying about her daughter being molested, esp after Santos went into the room and threatened him, storyline's resolution seems a bit too...I dunno, neat? I can see Santo's threat biting her in the ass
-a miscarriage is a hell of a thing to throw halfway into the season

the tiktok beauty influencer one’s diagnosis was really predictable imo, if you like detective games or am an amateur epidemiologist

not in a bad way, just “when are they going to put this together”

S2 renewal lfgggg

yeah the Santos storyline w molester didn’t go the way i expected so maybe this has a longer tail that it seems. when Santos went to the daughter i was like girl wtf are u doing, she is so “Ready Fire Aim” i find her v stressful

loved Dr Mel & autistic table tennis dude, she handled all of that so beautifully, made me a bit emotional

dr collins miscarriage i was really lowkey anticipating, the way she was trying to hide her wincing last episode i was like this doesnt bode well

i was hoping tiktok girl had a parasite, oh well cant win them all lol

yeah the Santos storyline w molester didn’t go the way i expected so maybe this has a longer tail that it seems. when Santos went to the daughter i was like girl wtf are u doing, she is so “Ready Fire Aim” i find her v stressful

Good on Collin’s for calling Robby out for being a dick to everyone. Dr Mel and table tennis guy was best part of the episode. And good on Langdon for acknowledging it after brushing her off earlier.

I hate how mean Dr Robbie is to Slow-Mo, my guess is he sees some trait in her that maybe got him into hot water when he was coming up? Like she cares too much & he doesnt want her to get hurt or something idk? it feels like a really hardcore overcorrection tho

I think it’s mostly explained by the admin lady’s hectoring about metrics etc — emergency medicine, at least the way the suits would like them to practice, is all about stabilization and throughput. spending too much time getting to know a patient takes time away from seeing the next pt in line and keeping things moving. that’s what internal medicine is for lol [cries]

agreed with pgwp about the incest dad storyline and a couple of other seeming shark-jumping occurrences. not a great sign. these last two episodes were a bit of a drop off for me

why would the doc try to get his peers not to feel too much for their patients, on this, the anniversary of his mentor’s death as a patient, etc

I think like k3vin said he’s just feeling the pressure from administration to move through patients as quickly as possible.

i think mh is being sarcastic imo

there are a lot of reasons in the text!

Husband asked me how I (a famously squeamish person) can watch this, and I said that fifteen years of ER taught me never to look at the screen when the patient on the gurney has burns or the word "degloved" is used.

lol otm

They've only shown glimpses of Robbie's flashback, but iirc this was the first week where they had him upset and panicking in the flashback, and maybe pushing treatment a little too far. Shades of Whitaker on the show, but also showing that he's had to make a lot of tough personal decisions he's seeing other people make, too, while trying to remain neutral/impersonal. As an administrator/mentor/supervisor/manager he wears one cap, as a doctor he wears another, as a human/friend/colleague he wears a third, and they're all colliding on this inauspicious day. Which, given Chekov's school shooter and Chekov's music festival and Chekov's his song, may indeed not bode well, but I hope the show zigs where I expect it to zag, because yeah, there were a few plot turns in this one that seemed a little much. Still great acting and direction, though.

I was convinced the good samaritan was the guy that pushed her, and was going to find a way to threaten her into silence, but that would have been *too* TV! As would making the racist in the waiting room the one who *did* push her, but I guess tbd.

only watched the first episode but it seems pretty good

noah wyle and the head nurse have aged extremely well
welsh guy looks like he's 16 (he's 32)

her dickishness almost distracted me from recognizing isa briones from (the terrible) 'picard'

between pittsburgh and my mom's dementia and my own increasing age-related frailty this might be too fucking real. like i'm cool-ish with dying but i'm not sure i want to watch the half-measures play out ad infinitum

total crush on fiona dourif

A couple of weeks ago I saw Neko Case interviewed, ostensibly about her new book. I forget how it came up, but she told a story of a friend that had died suddenly a couple of weeks earlier. A mutual friend had attempted CPR but failed to revive her, but rode with her to the hospital in the ambulance, and iirc because she made it to the hospital before she was pronounced dead they approved her as an organ donor. Neko told the story of her and her friend walking the body of her late friend down a line of every hospital employee paying tribute to her friend and her generous sacrifice after death. The entire auditorium was in tears.

Anyway, that's how I felt after this episode.

God, I’m sobbing after this episode.

yeah fuck that was heavy

curious what the resolution will be with the potentially-trafficked girl and her pregnant handler.

yeah i was a bit ?? on that. like if she is not going to say it outright then they cant really DO anything

But hey, could be a good opportunity for the most annoying young doctor to radically overstep again!

most annoying? dude there is NO UNIVERSE in which she is more annoying than Santos

curious what the resolution will be with the potentially-trafficked girl and her pregnant handler.

xp

I was referring to Santos; I feel like she's gonna find a way to get involved with the trafficked girl and run off on some kind of moral crusade that makes things worse. AGAIN.

xpost Eh, I thought it was mostly just an excuse to relay the history of the Freedom House, which was good to learn Pittsburgh-centric.

I think it would be nice if they didn't resolve every single case they see, it's partly what keeps the show grounded. Was that woman being trafficked? Not letting us know puts us in the shoes of the doctors, who often have their hands tied (unless you are Santos threatening to kill a suspected predator). Even hypothetically, how would the possibly trafficked woman with an STD even make a return to the show? As a victim of violence, I suppose, but that feels like it would be a little on the nose/standard TV.

Santos is annoying, but she's so clearly annoying and meant to be annoying that I trust it will pay off in some way more than "yep, she is annoying."

i’m curious how far Santos will get w the doctor stealing meds theory

Isn’t this shift supposed to be Santos’ very first shift in this ER? Between threatening a patient, accusing her advisor of theft, and dropping a scalpel on a surgeon’s foot, I’d love to see her get fired by the end of the day.

yeah same. i’m guessing there’ll be some kind of humanizing arc to all this performative tapdancing she’s doing but we’ll see

She got slapped down by the surgeon almost immediately after getting back on her better side. Didn't she basically just sneer "you've only been here 7 hours" and then walk off?

There are a lot of ways they could play her character. Let's say she *is* right about the doctor and pills, or discovers something else mid vendetta. Maybe he loses his job and then Robbie takes her aside and says something like, yes, he had a thousand outstanding parking tickets, and for that we had to fire him, but we are a team and you are a jerk and I cannot recommend you stay here. Or, as is more likely, they'll further explore her origin story and perhaps explain her behavior. I feel like we still need to learn more about Whittaker, too. Like whether they will keep forcing him to administer CPR to precarious patients until he quits.

They should give him some kind of CPR trophy in the finale.

next ep he has to cpr a baby

final episode, he collapses, ER docs take it in turns doing chest compressions on him, cut to black

He gets locked in a room and has to do chest compressions on himself.

lmao

oh also shoutout to nepo-baby doctor for finding the spiderbite on that uh, intensely demanding patient of her mom’s

It's kind of ironic to have a nepo doctor on a show with (at least?) two nepo actors. And nepo doctor actor is Australian! Lotta non Americans in this nailing their accents.

that was a beautiful if heart wrenching hour in the Pitt

long interview with the show's creators

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/the-pitt-noah-wyle-john-wells-r-scott-gemill-interview-1235267835/

Isn’t this shift supposed to be Santos’ very first shift in this ER? Between threatening a patient, accusing her advisor of theft, and dropping a scalpel on a surgeon’s foot, I’d love to see her get fired by the end of the day.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, February 21, 2025 2:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

hmm — she’s an intern, so it’s her first year. but the fact that there are college kids studying for exams seems like it’s a clue that it’s not july, when new interns start. I think it might be the med students’ first time in the ER, though

I just recall in the first episode they all were introducing themselves

Unlocked RS article:

https://archive.ph/3XqUA

Tonight's episode was pretty good. I liked that Torres finally got the shouting-at she's had coming since the premiere, but I also liked Robbie's response to Langdon for shouting at her.

yeah i liked the way all that was handled, and i dug that Langdon’s pep talk to Mel was straight out of the Robbie playbook

OMG DANA WTF

(and yay for farmboy with the rat !)

Very absorbing episode. Really felt the sucker punch at the end.

Ha, Whitaker getting a golf clap was perfect

I had forgotten that terriers were specifically bred to hunt rats.

yes! i proudly informed mr veg of that trivia last night

One of the things that I'm really enjoying about this show is that it feels like substantial, chunky, non-trivial television, but done in such a breezy, professional way. Nothing tricksy, nothing too heavy, just absolute pros going about their business in all departments. It feels right for the way things are at the moment.

yeah it really is a balm to have a show like this to look forward to on Thursdays

Goddammit, I did NOT want Torres to be right...

Santos. But yeah, a sort of twist? Not what I expected.

you must imagine Sisyphus happy

crazy story arc in the course of a hospital shift re Langdon but, damn, its compelling story telling

you must imagine Sisyphus happy

That part was hilarious. I knew it was a quote from some philosopher, but I had to look it up afterwards. (It's Camus.)

I love it in shows and movies and stories where it seems to be leading you to believe one thing so you're primed to believe it's actually not that thing, and then it turns out to be that thing after all. A subtle narrative rope-a-dope.

Still a lot of balls in the air in this show, but given the way it's been handling things so far and the fact that there's a second season (and that this is all just a single day) I'm beginning to suspect not every storyline will be resolved.

joke telling neurosurgeon (?) is my new fave

Nice medical body horror this week.

Yet another week where Noah Wyle just 100% awesome. Great scenes with the nurses v administrator, with Langdon, and with McKay

man what a banger ep

also when i was in high school my dad’s best friend had 3rd degree burns to his legs when i was a kid & his legs looked just like that burned guy’s chest (oxycetane welding tank was left on in his shed by an apprentice, he sat on the ground outside the door to have a smoke , lit a cigarette & whoompf)

*oxy-acetylene

I just watched the episode where the patient who pulls the wires out of his pacemaker gives a history lesson about Freedom House and its ambulance service. I'd forgotten how much of a feature of John Wells programmes those history lessons can be. It really gave the show a very 1990s NBC feel.

it really did, i love that they brought that into the episode in that way

you must imagine Sisyphus happy

I just caught up on the last two episodes. Man I love this show so much. Give Noah Wiley the Emmy now please.

lets give him the EGOT just because

wiley is unimpeachably great

loved the moment when he just fully unleashes his fury on Langdon & then yells WHAT!? at Princess as she’s wheeling the patient down the hall in the opposite direction toward him.

carefully not reading anything here but we just finished E5 and the kids were ROARING for more but it was too late so they have been sent to bed. my 16 yo has evinced some interest in medicine and i think he’d be good at it, and that was the main motivation behind starting this ish but man it’s a great show that delivers those old fashioned TV thrills you don’t get from the movies and you don’t get from netflix.

Wyle is excellent in this, but one of my favorite facets of his acting - the exhaustion in his voice - I can't tell how much of that is acting and how much of that is just older, gruffer Noah, lol.

I'm all caught up. :( I've never wanted a return to 24-episode seasons more.

RIGHT?

You know something else I really like about this show? Everyone is always giving each other constructive criticism and advice in every direction. Top down, peer to peer, student to teacher, etc. And it's rarely played as conflict, and is almost always received thoughtfully. Like when Dr. Collins tells Dr McKay she may have been biased in diagnosing the postpartum patient, and rather than pushing back Dr. McKay just lets it settle in. Same with Dr. McKay challenging Robby's own biases, which he owns and is grateful to now recognize. Everyone is learning from everyone else.

One exception: curious to see how things play out between Santos and Garcia, now that Santos (rightfully) took down Garcia's sparring partner (who she previous angrily defended to Santos).

There's a really good article on Vulture.com about the whole Santos/Langdon thing and how the show very craftily set you (and by you I mean me) up to disbelieve Santos because she was so annoying all the time. But the annoying person was right! Whoops!

One of the most consistent things about The Pitt, as dependable as Dr. Dennis Whitaker getting gross stuff splashed on him, is that Santos will be a pain in the ass. And that consistency is incredibly clever because, by stoking viewers’ dislike of Santos — she’s too rude, too young, too ambitious, too much — and then proving her right about Langdon’s drug thieving, The Pitt turns around its thematic interest in bias so that it also implicates us. Now PTMC’s doctors aren’t the only people dealing with their own prejudices, distortions, and preconceived notions. In being led so easily into doubting Santos, we’re put on blast for our own innate ageism, sexism, and “Jeez, she’s a lot”–ism, too.

Per my last post, I can totally see it coming around and biting her in the ass. As in, you did the right thing, but no one trusts you, or you are not a team player, or some shit. Esp. from Garcia, a surgeon, now that it's been revealed that Santos wants to go into surgery.

Anyway, I thought this was neat:

https://i.redd.it/1n8ovhwzy9oe1.jpeg

that’s v cool

new episode tonight, can't wait! My wife calls it "the noah wylie show".

I just learned that they have previews for the next episode after the credits, but I am so glad I didn't know that and am not going to start now!

yeah i saw that mentioned somewhere else, Max on apple tv (like so many other streaming services) tries to throw you to some other show the second the credits run (in this case, ER!)

I will continue with my insistence on not watching the after-show material because I want to watch the tv show, that’s it. I’ve let some supplemental material play on some relatively bad shows that I may not admit to watching and at the low end, that content falls between “here’s how we did this scene” (fine) and “here is what this scene meant” (learn to write and direct a coherent plot and put that in the actual show, please)

i always look forward to Thurs nights now bc of this show

and ER rerun update: we’re on e12 of s1 and Noah Wyle legit almost feels like a different person, he’s so fresh & clean you don’t yet see a lot of the idk behind-the-eyes “internal stuff” he gives you later on

it’s cool tho! i absolutely love what an almost complete choad Clooney’s Dr Benson is. it’s very fun to hate him.

had no idea the scrub vending machine existed or the auto-chest compressor from the first or second episode

xp Clooney was Doug Ross, right?

a friend and I watched most of ER a couple winters ago and I have to say, do not do that. there are some good moments here and there but I swear to god some of the later characters are just amalgamations of two existing characters from prior seasons and it’s all very repetitive after a while, with some stretches of crushingly boring episodes

lol oops Doug Ross

Doug Benson is a comedian jeez

Tense one. Another tense one.

tense, and so controlled the way the episode toggled between the diff subplots

That was a whole lot of birthing footage. And of course Santos couldn't last five minutes without reverting to her usual asshole self, running immediately to her crush with Langdon gossip, exactly the opposite of what Robbie told her, and stepping on Mel's moment after the birth, which was really shitty.

the birth was sooo stressful! i was fully crying by the end! i loved how much they showed though, it was cool in that respect

And of course Santos couldn't last five minutes without reverting to her usual asshole self, running immediately to her crush with Langdon gossip, exactly the opposite of what Robbie told her,

Yes and no. First, I think Garcia has been flirting with her; Garcia outright asked her out for a cocktail when they connected in this episode. But also Robbie had told Santos not to tell anyone, then she realized, oh shit, I already told Garcia about my suspicions (a couple of hours earlier), so she called Garcia down to try and cover her ass. Though yeah, Santos's assholery remains impressive.

I was reading that same aforementioned reddit thread that the actor praised, and there was a medical professional who describes the Santos character as both very familiar and also the worst type of person to work with. The thread title was "Non-medical viewers need to understand that Santos is a nightmare trainee," and it boiled down to "This is the type of trainee who will kill or hurt you/your family members when you seek care."

A good, in-depth article about the birthing sequence.

from Garcia, a surgeon, now that it's been revealed that Santos wants to go into surgery.

Anyway, I thought this was neat:

https://i.redd.it/1n8ovhwzy9oe1.jpeg

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, March 13, 2025 9:30 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

did I miss something? she’s an ER doctor

thought this week’s episode was maybe the strongest yet. the intertwined labor/variceal bleeding scene was riveting and actually kind of moving, even if we were repeatedly screaming “call GI!!! call MICU!!! call OB!!!” at the screen, and then burst out laughing when robby finally said something to the effect of “we’ll call GI tomorrow”.

was pretty bummed out by the opioid withdrawal scene tho

I was reading that same aforementioned reddit thread that the actor praised, and there was a medical professional who describes the Santos character as both very familiar and also the worst type of person to work with. The thread title was "Non-medical viewers need to understand that Santos is a nightmare trainee," and it boiled down to "This is the type of trainee who will kill or hurt you/your family members when you seek care."

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 14, 2025 5:13 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

there’s no doubt the santos character was written to challenge the viewer’s deep-seated biases to some degree. but both things can be true: her character absolutely does represent the sort of overconfident intern that can get a lot of people in trouble

it will be cool to see them working with the next shift dealing with the situation coming their way

did I miss something? she’s an ER doctor

She Santos or she Garcia? Garcia is apparently a trauma surgeon resident. One of the recent episodes, someone wonders why Santos is doing her residency in the ER when she wants to go into surgery. Or something like that. The context was iirc hitting up Garcia for a recommendation? This is a tough show to go back and find anything specific, there is so much going on!

(was referring to santos as ER resident). ok I have no recollection of that exchange! could it have been said sarcastically? she’s certainly eager to do procedures

I have worked with one person or another at every single job I’ve ever had who a) can be a pain the ass with poor/combative interpersonal skills and b) is frequently right

So the Santos arc has felt extremely real

so how do we think the shooter at pittfest storyline is going to play out? will the shooter be the incel kid? will Robbie's kid and/or his girlfriend be injured? it seems like the writers have defied obvious storylines a few times (thankfully the pregnant woman in the last episode did not die, Santos was right about Langdon). we've already had 1 family member of staff show up for treatment (Mckay's ex with the broken ankle). Robbie's arc started with his mentor dying during covid. would they really have his son get shot and come to the pitt for care?

I would put money on the shooter not being the intel kid, the rest can go either way imo

Not the son getting shot, but maybe the son's girlfriend...

yes, the shooter is not the Intel heir, also won't be the incel kid

Jesus fuck, tonight's episode is a 40-minute sprint. No overt tragedies, but a relentless parade of horrors. The doctor from the first episode, from the previous shift, says to the students, "This is a MASH unit now," and it just stays that way for the whole time, and next episode too, or so it seems.

Stunning how much less dramatic it was than similar mass casualties on a Grey's Anatomy or ER.

can't believe we're getting a 4 hour season finale, incredible show

Omg that was so intense. Just rocketed thru, wasn’t even aware of time passing. All the young ‘uns did great. Is it really a 4 hr finale ? Yes please

episode was awesome

fuuuuuuuck that was HARDCORE intense

this show <3 <3 <3

i never pondered what irl MASH would be like without flirting and a megaton of blood but now I know O_O

and how everything just hums along! i sort of expected wall to wall screaming & insanity but the busy semi-quiet was beautiful in a weird way

Just thinking about the doc giving blood via a vein in his leg while treating one of the casualties. Like what the hell.

Really great idea to show McKay’s ex as the civilian wandering in and then the disbelief on his face as he took in the scene.

yeah that was great

Still thinking about that incredible episode. This quote from Sepinwell’s review captures an crucial and enraging feeling about watching the ep unfold

The sheer level of competence, preparedness, and dedication on display throughout the hour is stunning, especially at a moment when so many people in power don’t know what they’re doing, and don’t seem to care how their actions will affect anyone but themselves. This is an hour of watching people trying to make it through an absolute nightmare, yet it somehow also feels inspiring to be reminded that even in the darkest times, there are still people who not only want to help others, but are almost superhumanly capable of doing just that.

super otm

nice interview here w production designer re ep12 (and the design for the whole show too)

https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/the-pitt-production-design-episode-12-mass-shooting-1236339828/

I loved how they showed the relationship between Dr.Robbie and Gloria immediately shift to totally professional, supportive and accommodating in response to the situation.

It's so good. Please just commission ten seasons immediately.

otm

Wow this episode

love this show and especially this episode

can someone who simply cannot handle “injury detail” (ie this guy) watch the pitt or is it a hard skip?

it might be a hard skip imo

Yeah, I wouldn't if I were you.

yeah, I consider myself pretty desensitized to gross shit due to being raised online and also my day job (work at a criminal defence firm which sometimes involves looking at disclosure/evidence) and still, every episode involves a moment that makes me squeamish

When I compare notes with my mom we talk about the gore like we talk about horror movies.

Not at all frivolous but seriously gnarly.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

this is a safe space for ugly-crying fyi

holy fuck this show is gonna destroy me.

I watched last week's episode before last night's and a thing that really impressed me is how it starts off so calm and the ramping up is so gradual that you don't really notice how intense it is until it's really in the thick of it

Yeah, in all the years of watching medical dramas, there's always a senior person for the junior people to call on. This is the first time I've ever seen where the junior folks have to go it alone.

Lads, this was intense.

The drilling-into-someone-who's-awake-to-feel-it bit was one of the best dark comedy bits I've seen in a long time. I laughed very hard at that.

the saddest clown

AIUI the show still leans too heavily on doctors doing things vs. nurses and staff but I do appreciate how routinely it shows that the nurses appear to know more than anyone but the attendings.

As great as Wyle has been I would not be mad about the next season being 15 hours with the permanently haunted former military attending. That's an actor who has the thousand yard stare down pat.

yeah he’s excellent

sidebar: everyone gets an IO drill for christmas this year

AIUI the show still leans too heavily on doctors doing things vs. nurses and staff but I do appreciate how routinely it shows that the nurses appear to know more than anyone but the attendings.

nurses doing most (even nearly all) of the physical work is generally true on the wards (which is the setting I primarily work in), but in the ER most of the important hands-on work really is done by doctors. I haven’t seen much that I’ve thought was unrealistic from that standpoint

k3vin have you ever used an io drill

Love the show but am so disheartened by the insanity that a mass shooting with 90+ casualties doesn’t seem far fetched. Great TV, horrible country we have ATM.

k3vin have you ever used an io drill

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 28, 2025 5:36 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes when I was a resident, but the person was dead

so what did you use it for in that instance?

to learn to use the drill I would guess

no dead as in we were doing CPR! lol

great interview with Taylor Dearden (Mel): https://www.vulture.com/article/the-pitts-taylor-dearden-on-dr-mel-skills-langdon-mentor.html

that was excellent! great read

Vulture really is all in on The Pitt, which shows it must be driving traffic to them, at least.

episode was a great conclusion to the mass shooting situation. All the annoying quirks about the young doctors have kind of stopped being annoying now. I think the only bit I didn't care for was that the kid with measles and the anti-vaxx mom was a little too reminiscent of the kid who was brain dead with the mom who didn't want him taken off the breathing tube; do we need to keep characterizing moms in this manner?

thought that portrayal was fine. it really do be like that sometimes

In the first case, both parents were united in their batshittery; this time the husband was on board with modern medicine and had to make apologetic eyes at the doctors. More accurate IME.

I watched episode 1. it was gnarrrrrrrly in places

I don't know if I've gotten desensitized or if the show has backed off a bit, but I'm not as bothered lately as I was for the first few episodes. There are certainly places where I have to turn my head...and when I do I can see my wife straight up has her eyes closed, and I think...they could've gotten the point across without showing that bit quite the way they did.

Anyway, I've never seen ER, never been particularly into medical dramas, and find this to be often a bit too on the nose, but damn is it effective stuff.

I laughed pretty hard when combat medic doctor Abbott advises trainee Mohan on how to drain air out of a gunshot victim's chest, and after she does it and he congratulates her on her success, he admits, "Oh, that was way too risky for me to do."

lmao yes! that was great. and i loved the tension between the surgeon (or surgery advisor?) and Abbott .. what is expedient vs what is correct/less risky etc

i loved that Whittaker was the one who found Robbie & his choices on how to handle the situation felt v realistic, not wanting to be too overly-familiar or overstep, but also still be kind, and try to be firm but not cold … its a tightrope!

and then the coda after where he repeats Robby back to himself was <3

also i went to a party last night where I preached the gospel of The Pitt to at least two ppl

I am on a mission from God*

*Dr Robby

So impressive how Noah Wyle has powerful well-acted 1:1 scenes with so many the different cast members. This hour it’s Whittaker.

Preach VG, preach

In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television

(unpaywalled link)

I think I mentioned somewhere upthread, or on another thread, that I know the actor who plays nurse Jesse (we’re not great friends or anything but we used to live in the same neighborhood and our kids are the same age). Anyway, a fun fact - the actress playing Dr Robbie’s ex-wife / Jacob’s mom, is nurse Jesse’s real-life wife.

you forgot to mention that he was in the band Rooney and also that he's an actual emergency nurse

anyway, I guess Child's Play doesn't exist in the show's timeline because my first thought if I were Chad would be did he have to roast me so hard like that and second would be why did he roast me so hard in Chucky voice, love Brad Dourif

do we need to keep characterizing moms in this manner?

Not to pile on this thought, but I do think there are enough other mothers doing the right thing by their children and the wider community here for it not to be weird.

Measles and anti-vaxxers are obviously something the makers of this show feel strongly about, because they had a very similar storyline for Noah Wyle on a 2001 episode of ER as well, I remember. Well, I remember they tackled it. I had to google the specific episode.

haha, that's funny, I rented an AirBnB in LA and the owner was in Rooney. It wasn't him though.

epi 2. intense (not so gnarly)

I think I am still an episode or two behind, so averting my eyes from the thread, but give Wyle all the awards.

Noah Wyle Feels 'Profoundly Sad and Disappointed' That ER Creator's Widow Sherri Crichton Sued Him Over The Pitt

https://people.com/noah-wyle-reacts-to-er-creator-widow-suing-him-over-the-pitt-11712297

in the end I think having him NOT be Carter was the better decision for the show

Not reading this thread because I've only watched through episode 5, but I am hooked. The Pitt!

welcome new Pitt fans! <3

enjoy this nice photo of our hero, looking fly

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Noah-Wyle-Variety-Cover-FORWEB.jpg

receding hairlines having a moment in 2025

bring back stars with hair and teeth like 70s character actors

Who is the actor that plays the former combat surgeon? He is quietly very good in a less flashy role.

he's from In & Out

The '90s movie? For a second I thought he might have been Eric Bana.

Josh, are you treating us like ilxgpt

lmimdbtfy: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004999/

who is Shawn Hatosy

ChatGPT said:
Shawn Hatosy is an American actor and director, best known for his intense and gritty roles in both television and film. He's probably most recognized for playing Andrew "Pope" Cody on the TNT crime drama series Animal Kingdom (2016–2022), where he portrayed a deeply troubled and complex character in a family of criminals.

Quick facts about him:
Born: December 29, 1975, in Frederick, Maryland, USA.

Started acting in the mid-1990s, gaining attention with roles in teen dramas and thrillers.

Notable film roles:

Alpha Dog (2006)

The Faculty (1998)

Outside Providence (1999)

John Q (2002)

In & Out (1997)

He's known for playing characters with emotional depth and often a dark edge. Beyond acting, he's also stepped behind the camera to direct a few episodes of Animal Kingdom.

Want to know more about his earlier career or what he's doing now?

loved the finale
also nice needledrop over the end credits <3

He's probably most recognized for playing Andrew "Pope" Cody on the TNT crime drama series Animal Kingdom

Absolutely no one is best known because of a 2010s TNT crime drama.

Alpha Dog & The Faculty, though, makes sense that he looked familiar.

I demand that they create a redacted version of the pitt for little babies (like me) - it is not fair that I should miss out on this prestige tv banger

(still slowly working my way through it - with pillows to hand if required to cover my eyes)

Great finale, loved the gradual introduction of the next shift/new slate of actors, and also how certain actors have been absent for a few episodes and didn't return, because that's just how it goes. Look forward to a second season, but don't know how they'll handle it without repeating themselves too much.

Somewhere during this last ep I jokingly asked about what happened to the other two rats, glad to see no one forgot!

i read that the next season will skip forward some months to 4th of July weekend.

the variety article also said it might start 10 minutes after this last episode (which seems unlikely after watching the finale)

xpost lotta missing fingers

Dr. Collins absence in the second half of the season was interesting.

Yeah, that's what I meant by actors that didn't return. I guess it's realistic that she would go home and not come back, given the circumstances. But TV-wise, especially since we already got one actor's surprise return.

Something I liked was that the finale effectively removed itself from the trappings of a lot of prestige TV— there were some resolutions, but they really kept the gurneys moving in the background to ensure we remembered that this is an ER and nothing stops. I loved the fact that the finale was the same length as every other episode, no 90-minute gala event here! it suggested discipline in the writer’s room

Also how so many plot lines were half-resolved instead of fully-resolved! Jake’s “fuck you, you’re not my dad” moment, and all these COVID flashbacks leading to a brief convo in front of Adamson’s memorial photograph. Loved it.

I had a very brief second when Dr Robby was up on the roof where I thought, is he going to jump off this roof? Are they going to Sean Bean me? I will pummel every single person involved in this show if they do that.

But they didn't do that.

Yeah, I had that thought too — that all the talk of a second season had been a fake-out for the stunning suicide ending.

I figured it (and the song) was just a bookend with how the season started.

The Watch podcast w Chris Ryan & Andy Greenwald had a great conversation w Noah Wyle about the finale etc -
starts at 26:58


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YEfnNVuWhI

(opps; Noah Wyle interview starts at 45:35)

Great interview. Wyle is so good in this show, it's honestly shocking he has been (imo) wandering the wilderness as an actor.

Nice that with the final episode they leave the hospital for a few scenes and give brief glimpses of the lives beyond the Pitt. Love that the combat doc knows which service delivers to the roof. Pizza spaghetti beer and Elf

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/nothing-sounds-as-good-as-the-pitt/

This was nice. I’m such a fan of “less music” and keep a mental rolodex of media that has none or almost-none (CBC’s The Newsroom, No Country For Old Men)

jesus man this show is so good. funny, heavy, intense, and noah wyle - wow

xpost that was excellent. hadn’t thought about the extra care put into sound-design & background sound/conversations. Really fascinating.

Samira Mohan (slo-mo) is over the top enthusiastic at the end in a way that seemed a little too manic, she is clearly compensating for the trauma of the day.

Santos is a disliked resident at the beginning of the show and has an incredibly bad bedside manner with almost every patient she encounters, and she is also arrogant with the attending physicians, but she in the end appreciates the help she is given and tries to save the methylene blue kid.

Langdon fucks up so completely that he's almost unredeemable, but I'm hoping he gets a second chance.

McKay is kind of a savior to everyone in the ER in so many ways and the restraining order against her is unfair. And she is a good mom.

Whitaker is a comic relief at the beginning but then has some pretty great moments at the end.

Mel - well, she is entrancing from the outset, I couldn't take my eyes off her. Victoria and Mateo likewise

Abbott is a veteran who has no truck with any bullshit

And Dana Evans, the charge nurse, holds it all together

There are a lot of other interesting characters too

Expectations from years of medical dramas: oh no the intern is doing a spinal tap that mom doesn’t want, they’re going to paralyze him! Oh no the resident is riding a rush after a traumatic shift, now she’ll fuck up and kill someone! Oh no, the slightly weird med student is acting squirrelly, he’s going to turn out to not even be a med student!

milo I like you but you always make these incredibly cynical responses

he’s right tho: i had a lot of the same muscle memory thoughts!

No sorry, he is shitposting, which is what he always does. None of what he says is even that relevant to this show

I like that Santos extends an olive branch to Whitaker and offers to let him stay in her place

The slow evolution of Santos is one of my favorite things abt this season, like by the end we really see how her hunches are kinda her lowkey superpower, and when she can hone her empathy she can do so much good

Really nice redemption for her.

Compared to Langdon who I was rooting for, but the fear/anger lashing out at Robby in the ambulance bay is just like (sigh)… my guy. STFU. You are shitting on the only person left who could possibly help you.

No sorry, he is shitposting, which is what he always does. None of what he says is even that relevant to this show

no, his oh no's post is about the cliches of the genre as he sees it expressed in this show

there are some hokey things about this show, but they are minor

I worked in the SF General Hospital ER for a couple of years as a medical intern and resident and then for a whole year as a fellow in Radiology. The show is idealistic but I think on some level it portrays the trauma of that experience, not just the physical but also the psychological trauma of it, the toll it takes on both the patients and the staff who have to work extended hours without sleep.

I can tell you that there is a lot of staff burnout. They have to deal with intense physical trauma, like a severed limb from a bus accident, but also have to try to treat really hardened IV drug users, people with esophageal varices from end-stage alcoholism, homeless people with scabies and lice, and children who die from drug overdoses, which is the worst of all.

sees it expressed in this show

Dan, none of those things happened in the show.

well then I misunderstood what you were saying, sorry

I have my own trauma from my years as a resident. I had to tell a 17 year old girl’s suburban parents that she was dead from a drug overdose at midnight on Christmas Eve when I was an intern. It was an experience I will never forget. It came in the middle of a 36 hour shift. I had many subsequent experiences like that

That sounds very tough Dan, thank you for the work and the emotional cost of doing it.

They did such a good job introducing more characters in the last few eps, I would actually be totally ok with Langdon being gone in s2 and them just being like “yeah he was stealing drugs, he got fired, we have moved on.”

yeah truly

i would remiss if i did not post this v adorbs clip of Noah Wyle’s appearance on the Jennifer Hudson show wherein she makes him blush IT IS THE CUTEST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfN31aqfoY0

I had the same groaning expectations he lists, and was pleased to be wrong.

Yes, me too. Many of them from ER, made by these same people. (No, Trish, really? Mention it again.) It's as if they are deliberately saying that they're trying to do something different this time. Or for the time being, anyway. I'm sure the students will all be skateboarding teenyboppers having hot shower sex by the time the show is on season twelve or whatever.

It is quite funny to see the backlash starting on social media, with people saying "I dunno, seems like another hospital drama show to me" and the responses all pointing out exactly what we've been saying here. Yes, it is "just" another hospital drama show. Yes, it is fairly standard stuff on some levels, but it is made so well, with such commitment and care, by professionals who know what they're about, that it seems like a miracle in the current television landscape.

E.R. certainly did a lot of the things milo listed. It did notably stray from the main premise a number of times, but it was at its base a character-based melodrama where the patient of the week had something extreme, often gimmicky, going on and the main track of the show was the ups and downs of the hospital staff.

Which devolved over time, with a lot of recycling of character plots and crazier things happening that were more about spectacle than empathy or process.

The 90s flip side was Chicago Hope, which was iirc less ER and more character than case oriented. And now NBC has Chicago Med as part of a slate of Hospital/Police/Fire department shows kind of cranked out by Dick Wolf’s production style.

If anything, The Pitt deserves an award for not being set in Chicago?

I only sporadically watched ER and figured any given episode would be interchangeable with another, but when someone told me Bobcat Goldthwait once voiced a cadaver on the show I thought he was joking.
He was not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePT29wbF64o

tbf I appreciated that gimmick

Never once watched ER but did love Chicago Hope. I think I was just an Adam Arkin fan.

I happened to be living in California in 1994 when the television season began, and ER and Chicago Hope were put up head to head. ER was the favourite from the get-go, and I think Chicago Hope admitted defeat and got moved pretty early on in the season. I got to go to a panel that John Wells and one of the other producers held to discuss the show and its phenomenal success in its first few months. Noah Wyle and Sherry Stringfield were also there. I remember thinking that Sherry Stringfield must be a tremendous actor, because she had absolutely nothing to say for herself at all. Mind you, it was 10am on a Saturday, I'm sure she was only DELIGHTED to be there.

I have told that story a million times, so I apologise if you have read it before. I should retire it completely, really.

I haven't seen this yet and was anxious about the gore, but I watched the clip of the throat intubation, where the guy's face suddenly cracks outwards like an imploding Coke can, and that was fine!

Unfortunately I can't handle the grief. Watching people break down as their children/partners/friends die, get permanently maimed, or something else awful. I'm curious why I have such an extreme reaction, because I'm a counsellor and consider myself to be fairly emotionally resilient. But I think I need to wait until I feel happier to watch something this sad.

That sunken face but was in the top 5 yikes moments for me. There’s more but they never stay with it too much.

that was WILD had no idea that was a thing that could a) happen and b) be done

degloving def an alltimer

also the multiple instances of external uh chest slicing to reduce internal swelling was cool & also crazy

my favorite was the childbirth just for showing it so completely & trying to show it “as-is”, from potential peril & complications to relief & beauty & just trying to capturing the fullness of an experience like that was fucking awesome

the baseball eye kid wth

I miss this show. An island of competence, action and caring in an ugly world.

FWIW, there are a few episodes a watched a second time, because I was with someone catching up, and they held up well to a second viewing, just as effective/powerful.

The revival of the Dennis Hopper thread reminded me that Katherine LaNasa, who plays Dana, has two ex-husbands and they are ... Dennis Hopper and French Stewart??? (She is currently married to Grant Show.)

wow, thats quite a variety

noticed that myself when looking up her bio while watching the show

I was also momentarily confused because I thought French Stewart was gay for some reason?!

season 2 coming in January!

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-pitt-season-2-start-of-production-los-angeles-1236433458

watched this last month. what a show

medical stuff makes me really squeamish, i’ve always avoided hospital shows. but my bf wanted to check this one out and i relented and it is really a fantastic show

I've watched a hunk of the show a second time and it really holds up, too.

everyone really acts their ass off in this

So no one was at all annoyed with every character feeling like a straw man for trending issues of the times? I say that having enjoyed the show

comes with the territory. reminds me of “ripped from the headlines” classic law & order

yeah thats literally every episode of ER
buy the ticket, take the ride baby!

Fair enough!

There were a few on the nose things that seemed ripped from the headlines, but on the other hand, anti vaxxers, anti maskers, mass shootings ... those are the headlines.

season 2 apparently takes place during the 4th of july. gonna start taking bets on number of lost fingers and toes throughout the season

I thought for sure they would do a season of the exact same time period but from different POVs.

do we know yet if Dana and Collins return? Hope so

I thought for sure they would do a season of the exact same time period but from different POVs.

This would suck so hard.

Well, sure, if Robert Zemeckis is guest directing...

i’ll take blown-off-face for $500 alex

I understand, but :(

TVLine can exclusively reveal that Tracy Ifeachor, who starred as Dr. Heather Collins in Season 1 of The Pitt, will not return to the acclaimed HBO Max medical drama for Season 2. Sources tell us that the decision was a creative one, and it was not Ifeachor’s choice to leave.

Boo

noooooo :( :(

BOO

word on the street is that the reason why Collins wasn’t back for the final few episodes (and probably at least partially why she won’t be back for S2, regardless of whose choice it is) is that she is an anti-abortion Christian nutso and was not thrilled about her character’s storyline

I guess she stood too hard in her faith: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHfd-jGonKT/?igsh=MXB4bzQyZHF0ZzZyOA==

unboo

On a different note, from threads of old (in this case on the 'oh yeah that was a movie' John Carter thread):

they really should have gotten Noah Wylie to star in this

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:26 AM (thirteen years ago)

you say that about every movie!!

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:27 AM (thirteen years ago)

yes, but they could have started another "Predator ship"-style fanboy debate with this between "A Princess of Mars" and "ER"

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Friday, February 17, 2012 7:36 AM (thirteen years ago)

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/tv/hbo-show-cast-member-axed-1261766

"as her very gay publicist" is sending me, an absolute all-timer

Season 2 teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuZnRRVWnbQ

15 episode season baby

Really would love them to level up and do 22 ep for s3 but that’ll never happen

but yay! January we scrub in!

I wonder how often I have to see a character before I remember their name, or is it just the same thing that happens to me with books: if I don't talk about them with someone (or write an essay on them) I can't remember the details. Like, I think all these characters are great, I'm delighted to see them all back, but I can't remember a single one of their names except for Doctor Robbie. I'm the same with Strange New Worlds. I am only now beginning to learn the characters' names properly (the ones I didn't know already). I'm sure this used to be different in the old days when seasons were longer and everyone watched the same programmes.

Same here. Santos probably the only other name I remember

lfg

oh yeah. nice to see that Dana, the charge nurse, didn't walk away. from the credits on imdb it looks like Langdon (addiction guy) is back as well

You can see Langdon around the 18 sec mark (looks like he's wearing a penguins cap)

You are all very kind to include the names. This is teamwork.

Super excited. January is too far off.

I'm just impressed they stepped on the gas and turned it around so fast.

I thought it was first reported s2 would be out this summer?

maybe I was conflating that with the reported 4th of july setting

well either way odds are in our favor for at least a gnarly fireworks injury :D

don't know if i can handle another go around

rewatching ER S1 and the thing that Noah Wyle still does that he was already starting to do waaaaay back then is just that very specific, open-hearted empathetic look he gives to a scene partner
that says, “I know,” “That sucks,” and “I got you” all rolled into one

it’s all in the eyes

It's such a big part of his character, but also a prominent theme of the show, the exhausting price you pay for giving so much of yourself to others. That includes his role as manager/mentor. He's of course struggling, but that's primarily in his role as physician. As a manager, in a leadership role, he has to stay strong. Maybe not a coincidence that his direct analog, Abbot (literally night to his day) is a combat vet. He's struggling personally as well, that's how we meet him, but when it's time to go into action he shuts down those emotions and his learned discipline kicks in. We haven't really seen much of his mentor/management/leadership style yet or how it might be different from Robby's.