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.

THEY DID IT! The Pitt won an Emmy and Dr Robbie won an Emmy & DANA won an Emmy

best show <3

... and justice for all

you guys: Noah Wyle’s Emmy tuxedo was made out of scrubs! <3

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/noah-wyle-scrubs-tuxedo-figs-2025-emmys-1236371490/

https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/ftcms%3A9ae3a47a-d39b-11e7-ae3e-563c04c5339a?source=ig

So I presume this will interest a number of you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8x47ky2Tw

Sorta of casting spoilers in there, maybe? Some plot spoilers too, I guess.

But two thumbs up for the second season turnaround. Almost like a real network show.

YES

blessings

lets fucking GO

Hyped

Finally, a reason for there to be a 2026.

Season 2 starts Thursday. To quote VG, let’s fucking GO !

I AM SO EXCITE U GUYS

I just tried watching the first episode of ER on HBO Max and it was so slow by comparison, it was like watching a Robert Wilson opera.

aw! i am 4 seasons deep in ER myself and i am
kinda surprised how much love it, i remember not really caring about it at the time

I rewatched the first 3 seasons of ER - I thought they were great but didn’t feel the need to watch the next zillion seasons when there are other shows to see

rewatching more than a few seasons of ER gets to be a real drudge, especially as new characters show up and they recycle the same plot lines or seemingly adapt whatever they were going to do with one character with another

this clip is so stupid at its core that but v funny

Wyle is asked about Clooney ever joining the The Pitt (rmde)

- the pause before he answers is an encyclopedia worth of unsaid answers

- “i’m gratified to be cool enough for him to talk about publicly again” is an absolute KING body-slam answer lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oIz9mINoG8

lmao

I’d watch Wyle act in preference to watching Clooney smirk ANY day

forgot how gnarly this show gets, watched Fallout before and it was so much more tame

PITT DAY PITT DAY :D

i forgot how hardcore the foley is on some of the injuries & procedures - when they revealed that dislocation in the ambulance bay there was an audible “shlorp” that flipped my guts a little

questions i never asked that The Pitt answered
- how gross can conjunctivitis get
- how dark CAN a urine sample be

ps we’re so back

Love the inclusion of the baby nurse, not sure I remember any medical drama having one before.

Did else one else get Kerry Weaver flashbacks from the new attending? I’m not yet loving the conflict between Dr Al and Robbie as a key theme for this season

But otherwise, great to see the Pitt crew again tackling all sorts of horrors

Decided to stave off the junkie-cravings of waiting for weekly drops by running my daughters through S1 which they had missed, it's equally compelling on a revisit when you know where the plotlines are headed.

Management acolyte, AI freak - hope they don’t give her a redemptive storyline, make her suck for the whole season.

Love the baby nurse. Don't mind the conflict between Dr. Robbie and Dr. AI. Don't love Santos getting an excuse to go off on another crusade.

yeah I wonder how the Santos story is gonna go this time

So glad to have this show back! My guess is the baby is carrying something really contagious and bad and the ER is going to have to lock down.

As long as Louie makes it out of this season alive...

Just felt a little forced. Like that character could’ve waited one day before imposing the new order. We wouldn’t have a season then I guess, but it seemed like crazy behavior.

Well, Robbie didn't read the memo.

Baby is a bomb & will explode if it goes under 55mph imo

Did else one else get Kerry Weaver flashbacks from the new attending? I’m not yet loving the conflict between Dr Al and Robbie as a key theme for this season

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(deep sigh) I am

great episode! need more louie

louie is the best. love him

That whole procedure with the heart was SO COOL.

yeah - so riveting!!

I assume people have seen this article in the NYT, but leaving it here in case you haven't.

thanks for sharing! just discovered that a colleague of mine is one of the doctors mentioned there as one of the realism consultants

oh whoa! thats cool

fun fact i learned this wk: apparently the very tall grey-haired male nurse that is helping out w the abandoned baby is also the drummer from the band Rooney

That's very cool, k3vin. I hope they enjoy doing it.

what else is k3vin’s coworker hiding

hahaha. I’m gonna ask him about it next time we work together

I’m not an ER doctor FWIW but as the show sort of implies (but probably could show a little better tbh, they should hire me!), pretty much every doctor who works in a hospital spends a ton of time in the ER these days because patients wait forever to actually get a bed upstairs

I watched season 1 just before Christmas, then pretty much immediately went into a re-watch before Thursday's episode came out. I really like the show, but the re-watch did highlight just how basically the entire show is a chain of miniature "very special episodes" where someone gets to make a speech about how this is the unfortunate reality of healthcare in this country. Not saying it isn't warranted, but it's just that the scaffolding was more apparent on my second run.

I've never watched any healthcare dramas before (barring maybe a handful of House episodes 20 years ago), but I really like this one! I love the characters. I love the gore. I find the background noise to be soothing, in a weird way, and would listen to an audio track of that, with the dialogue mixed out.

I thought the first season held up really well on re-watch, and while the little very special bits were there, a lot of other subtle details and table-setters made themselves more apparent, too.

There was a funny Jacob Geller post the other day about the chest opening scene being like the real world version of the infamous scene in "The Thing."

"very special episodes"

totally. I paused the first episode of this season to comment on that, how it's like there's these little PSAs. I think I mentioned upthread or somewhere that there was one scene last season where they all stopped and took turns recounting some issue, like they were reading from a pamphlet.

I think I mentioned upthread or somewhere that there was one scene last season where they all stopped and took turns recounting some issue, like they were reading from a pamphlet.

The Law & Order shows do this a lot; they'll have three or four detectives each say one line of the exposition, like they're the Beastie Boys finishing each other's rhymes.

Was it after Dana got punched and they're all like "I was hit once," "I lost two teeth," "Violence against healthcare workers is a serious problem in this country and its only getting worse"?

btw, speaking of which, Dr. McKay's patient in S2E1 has me on edge, right out of the gate.

xpost likely

The Law & Order shows do this a lot; they'll have three or four detectives each say one line of the exposition, like they're the Beastie Boys finishing each other's rhymes.

Ha. Still, I imagine so much of medicine is rote memorization plus investigation that it may actually work this way. You are faced with a problem, you go through your options in order, especially in a teaching hospital.

The most PSA I recall the show getting was with the anti-vaxxers, but there have been a few bits like that. It's sort of the crutch of shows like this one, where show-don't-tell means nothing to layman viewers who don't know the ins and outs of medicine. I watched a few episodes with my mom, a retired physician, and she was calling out their likely actions before they actually did it, but if the actors didn't literally say what they were doing then I doubt most people would understand.

so this ruled obviously. always strange seeing the teeny little differences that 12 months or so of age can bring to actors' faces.

huckleberry has got some swagger now huh?!

what do we think the new attending is thinking in that last shot?

also... dr robbie... motorbike without a helmet? whut??

Not a coincidence, I don't think, in an episode that moments later show him with the (unused) helmet under his arm and later has other doctor make sure bike accident guy was wearing a helmet.

xpost My guess was Very Bad Contagious Disease, which will require the ER to go into lockdown while simultaneously tracking down the person that dropped the baby off (witnessed by the seemingly deaf patient in the waiting room).

i’m telling you - “there is a bomb in this baby”

surely the most traumatizing thing for dr robbie would be the baby having covid :(

also... dr robbie... motorbike without a helmet? whut??

the NYT Mag profile of Wyle has some mild spoilers that shed some light on this

it made sense in a weird way, esp wrt the handful of EMTs i have known

if there was a message there for me it’s that he’s not valuing his own life very much right now

some people who go into emergency medicine are chasing a sense of danger and excitement and are probably personally more accepting of risk but i feel like dr robbie passed that point a long time ago probably

It could be a specific character thing, but it could also be the same reason a lot of the characters don't wear surgical masks as much as you'd expect around some of the patients, that facial expressions are a large part of acting when audiences expect to see them

It's a really good point and underscores the limitations of "realism." For example, I finally saw "Society of the Snow" last night (it's harrowing but great), and we kept wondering why the characters, despite being in sub-zero weather, were not wrapping their heads with anything they could find, but really it might have just been the practical considering of allowing us to be able to tell one bearded, goggled character from another.

Yeah, I always assume that's why in space films their helmets always have bright lights that point into their faces, which is not what you think you would want in a space helmet.

I also wondered if Doctor Robbie might have a bit of a "well, if it happens it happens" feeling, but also he might be like sailors of old, who never learned to swim because you'd only be prolonging the inevitable.

Keep in mind, he ended the last season borderline suicidal and is planning a long sabbatical after this season's "day." He's having a rough time.

the plaque in the foyer that Robby paused in front off was honoring the Emergency Department’s heroism handling the Pittfest shooting aftermath

so there’s that

it’s established that his grip on himself is tenuous at best despite how great he is at his job so this just seemed like ramming that point home in a single shot without having to recap the end of last season etc (and yes as you say JiC then the capper like a minute and a half later of the guy with road rash who’s told to always wear his helmet)

this GQ interview w Wyle is really interesting - lot of stuff i hadn’t heard before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cgd99yLijQ

Man, for a guy that was off my radar for so long (and tbh was never on my radar that much; didn't really watch ER), Wyle has become such a thoughtful, empathetic (relatively) elder statesman. I love people like this (like Springsteen, for example), who didn't go to college or embrace higher education (or any traditional education, really) but somehow came about their wisdom and intelligence and curiosity naturally, through life, through experience.

otm

hurry up

Aaaaand two episodes in and we've got our first penis of the season.

Amazing priapism scene - they must have needed to shoot a few takes to keep the giggles to a minimum

lol that was really something!

i feel dumb not realizing that that was how you treated it. way more labor-intensive than I realized

but guys, i’m worried about Louie. he seemed kinda short of breath at the end there…

oh and popping that dislocation back in was cool as hell

Yeah, the dislocation was crazy.

Robbie's teasing of Al-Hashimi (like in the scene with the baby) are riiiiight on the edge of open hostility. That relationship's gonna go very far south in a couple of hours and it's already extremely nerve-wracking to watch.

This season is already so good.

The priapism scene... I know the frontal male nudity barrier was broken on HBO years ago, but is that the first erect one shown?

i would like to unwatch the maggots though D: D:
i dont know why i didnt expect it but that was real hands over the eyes tell me when its gone moment

I assumed roaches.

hate for things to be predictable but at some point smarty new guy is gonna get a come-uppance and slacking Joy is going to do something amazing right? Because they're telegraphing her incompetence WAY too much.

maybe Joy is a spy from admin & she’s filming them

I wasn't expecting maggots; I was expecting roaches or maybe another rat.

I don't think Joy is incompetent, she just seems lazy and DGAF, which makes me wonder how she made it all the way through medical school. I would like to see smartypants new guy go down a Whitaker-in-season-1 gauntlet of bodily fluids.

otm

OR give him the Jerry in ER treatment & get a horse to poop in his face for lols

Yeah I thought something was going to leap out of the cast, but the maggots were somehow worse...

A co-worker noted the following today, "the fact that there were none in Heated Rivalry but a lot in The Pitt is expert level trolling by HBO".

Not saying they need to handle another huge mass casualty incident this season. I assume the writers wouldn't be that formulaic. But the bacon grease stock car family had me imagining a grisly pile-up at PA Motor Speedway.

Very proud to have called (while catching up tonight) the maggots! Think the baby cliffhanger from last week to this episode was some BS, tbh. You don't end episode one with her literally rendered speechless, and even have another doctor bring it up this episode, and then not resolve why she was so concerned.

Smartypants new guy is going to turn out to be fine, especially once we inevitably get his sympathetic origin story. Or, who knows, maybe he and prodigy will get locked in an elevator or something. Joy ... she doesn't make sense yet, to have made it this far but to be so checked out.

My prediction for the know-it-all intern is that he is going to fuck up badly and then have a very difficult time recovering from his error.

That's so obvious I could totally seem them going that direction, lol. Or he does a great job but still gets a dressing down for doing it at the expense of others on his team. Or maybe he'll have a drug addiction, lol. Or get locked in an elevator. Or do something heroic, like stay behind to defuse the bomb baby.

"I've learned everything there is to learn about medicine. I know more than all of you combined. No, it's true, I do. And I understand that that makes me unlikable. But if there's one thing I've learned from this ER, it's that life is about more than just knowing everything, and that friends can be more important than facts. And you know what? Learning that proves that I *don't* know everything. Now get out of here while I defuse this baby!"

i dont know why i didnt expect it but that was real hands over the eyes tell me when its gone moment

my wife screamed for probably one full minute

seen maggots a couple of times. usually under wound dressings in unhoused people — under a cast is a new one for me!

the maggots are what keeps your arm healthy

mh here for Big Maggot

I was surprised they didn't say this, mh.

Caught up the first ep - they must have changed the makeup team, everyone looks distractingly glam compared to the drawn and sallow look I loved in S1.

agree there’s a (v subtle) yassifying/netflixing where the contrast has been bumped just a little, the makeup sharpened just a little. it’s not super egregious tho imo

Maybe they're gonna do a sort of hyperreal makeup-assisted gradual thing of making the characters look worse later in the shift lol

An observation I had about broccoli guy and Dr. Robby butting heads with Dr. al-Hashimi: the lawsuit talk from previous scenes gets brought up again, with the seeming implication that al-Hashimi is a worse doctor, mainly interested in covering her own ass, compared to Robby who is flexible and responsive to his patients' needs... But that's not what's happening here at all! She wants the paralytic immediately because that's the standard of care; he wants to rule out all the easily fixed possibilities before committing to a course of action that will tie up more of the ED's limited resources. He's speaking from experience, but it's not medical experience, it's para-medical (heh), managerial, administrative stuff. And it could come back to bite him!

Second paragraph makes it sound like broccoli guy is butting heads, oof, bad writing.

Broccoli guy is written to be on Robby's "side" so to speak, with his post-save appearance to express gratitude and talk about his crazy overbearing wife. Women be nagging! First Gloria and now Dr. al-Hashimi...

My point in writing all this is that the show seems smart enough, and woke enough (cf last season's explicit discussions of implicit bias) to hopefully zag away from what it seems to be setting up: another woman of color, confident but clueless, serving as a season-long thorn in Dr. Robby's side.

An observation I had about broccoli guy and Dr. Robby butting heads with Dr. al-Hashimi: the lawsuit talk from previous scenes gets brought up again, with the seeming implication that al-Hashimi is a worse doctor, mainly interested in covering her own ass, compared to Robby who is flexible and responsive to his patients' needs... But that's not what's happening here at all! She wants the paralytic immediately because that's the standard of care; he wants to rule out all the easily fixed possibilities before committing to a course of action that will tie up more of the ED's limited resources. He's speaking from experience, but it's not medical experience, it's para-medical (heh), managerial, administrative stuff. And it could come back to bite him!

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I was wondering about that scene too. I'm not an expert in bronchoscopy, but a quick lit review I looked at yesterday suggested avoiding paralytics was not necessarily outside standard of care. the idea being avoiding more complications and intubation if the procedure is judged to be simple enough. as fate would have it I'm working tonight and the colleague I mentioned earlier is to, and I was just talking to him about the show and that scene in particular. he said he'd have gone with ketamine alone too

your point about the gendered dynamic is fair though. the sorts of people depicted that way do indeed suck, but they could have made one of them a guy

Think the baby cliffhanger from last week to this episode was some BS, tbh. You don't end episode one with her literally rendered speechless, and even have another doctor bring it up this episode, and then not resolve why she was so concerned.

This is an obvious setup for some personal or past ER trauma that will be fleshed out somewhere around hour seven.

xp I stand corrected! And I love imagining y'all (working in an ER? or other hospital setting?) talking about this medical drama.

Now I want a scene where all the juniors and the nurses and staff are talking about a case on a TV show. Okay not really, unless they can make it feel sort of organic, like season 1's ambulance theft betting pool

he’s an ER doc, I’m an internist, but 90% of the patients I see are in the ER since there are never any beds in the hospital, so I’m there all the time. he was a writer for jimmy kimmel before getting into medicine and also has a screenplay to a john cena movie to his credit, which I had no idea about. he was showing me some of his notes he was exchanging over email with the pitt writers, pretty cool though I eventually had to look away because I didn’t want spoilers!

my 17-y-o son is like why is it all the tings helping out the boner guy

at that moment dr al-hashimi walks in and he's like oh my god another one

tings?

that is london slang for "girls" which i personally find kind of offensive though my son keeps trying to reassure me that it's not

ah lol thx!

ting tings

this is old i think but i’m rewatching ER currently so this kinda hits

(pitt opening credits done ER style)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oRN_i77Ygk

Just an all-around good episode tonight, tying up some loose ends, setting up some new stuff, stressing the importance of kindness and patience and empathy.

braaaaaaaains

mrs kovalenko is the mvp of this episode <3 <3

Beautiful episode. McKay with the doctor MVP.

My favorite scene was the triple-dad nose bead extraction.

show has me so on edge there was a moment when I was sure something terrible was going to go wrong before the second bead came out.

Loved Mrs Kovalenko. Her scolding Dr Robby for riding a motorbike, perfect (and alarmingly foreboding).

Oh and ugh the crushed skull accident... glad I wasnt eating dinner bleughh.

This show is so good. It's like the/an apotheosis of TC medical dramas and/or TV dramas. Each episode is like a special treat I want to savor.

The bit about Dr. Javadi, TikTok star made me laugh really hard. And the fact that Whitaker is hanging out with the farm wife? Good for both of them! The thing with the smarty-pants intern and the gigantic piece of glass was deeply disturbing, though.

Dr. J? This show isn't even set in Philly.

Javadi influencing! Love it.

First I assumed she had just been mentioned by the fashion influencer she helped last season. Her being an influencer (and complaining about coworkers) was a bonus.

The glass thing...I was just counting the moments till that guy had a humbling moment. And we got it.

yeah that was gnarly way to FAFO

oh geez I had a skin infection last year that cleared up with antibiotics and that last scene made me grimace

Had to laugh at McKay and the older player with the sacral injury. Perfect blend of comedy medicine and character beats

yeah that was p wild lol

episode 3 was a touch too didactic and sentimental for me

I loled when the psychiatrist complained about being called down to see an unconscious patient

the way the smarty pants intern SMILED?! when the blood was pooling under the parkour casualty??

my kids think al-hashimi has the hots for dr robbie

oh yeah we called that in the first episode!

yeah seems inevitable, bit of a Hepburn/Tracy vibe.
What odds am I offered that ICE will crop up before the season ends? Altho if HBO are setting up a cop version of The Pitt, maybe not good optics.

I think they already said that there would be an ICE part of the story and what thye said about it looked kind of wishy-washy

kinda meh episode overall. also, i get it, but robbie being annoying is getting old

i get but also, it’s been weeks of this for us but in Pitt time it’s only been 4 hours!

i kinda like that he’s just getting more & more showboaty & irritable & running & gunning & i dont want the wheels to fall off but also I REALLY REALLY DO

learned a lot about necrotising fasciitis all of it gross and unpleasant rip me sleeping again

the poop though! looool

i was getting annoyed at santos doing charts in the middle of a shift out in the open! seemed unprofessional? i dont know how thats supposed to work but from my ER watching (lol hi am a doctor now) they all did their dictation alone in a room somewhere after hours, or at least sequestered themselves away somewhere if it was during a shift

A good episode generally. Diabetes guy has entirely the wrong attitude; just say "Fix me up, I swear I'm good for it" and if your daughter wants to raise money for your dumb ass, fucking let her! Nickel-and-diming your way through diabetes is a sure way to wind up legless. Ogilvie as the new Whitaker, getting old-lady shit all over him, is much better than Ogilvie showing how smart he thinks he is all the time. And I'm definitely curious how they're gonna make the prisoner interesting. He doesn't seem like the type to break free and take hostages, or anything dumb like that.

well it's the wrong attitude in that he'll help his family a lot more if he stays alive but the sense of pride in being self-sufficient is a deeply entrenched value you're not going to talk someone out of in a couple hours at the emergency department

i was getting annoyed at santos doing charts in the middle of a shift out in the open! seemed unprofessional? i dont know how thats supposed to work but from my ER watching (lol hi am a doctor now) they all did their dictation alone in a room somewhere after hours, or at least sequestered themselves away somewhere if it was during a shift

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it’s standard actually — ER docs at a busy center see 20+ patients a shift. there’s no way to save all of that for after a shift, they’d never go home

fair enough! thx for the insight k3vin :)

Fine episode, definitely helps (and sometimes takes work) to remember that this show is not episodic, per se, but chronological, and yeah, this isn't a Robby season-long personality shift or character arc, this is just one person having a bad morning that we are privy to. Though of course he's probably had many of these, hence the sabbatical/vision quest. The poop slapstick/splatstick was pretty predictable, but the show has an impressive ability to surprise without notice. It's still very conspicuous that they keep bringing up the baby without revealing what's up with the baby. (So, yeah, still probably most likely a bomb, which is likely what took out the other ER, too.)

the baby is a bomb? oh no!

mark my words

The baby has to be kept above fifty mph at all times.

Lol

"The baby has tested positive for amphetamines."

"Wait, you mean ... speed?"

"Exactly. We're going to have to get this thing on a bus, stat."

the baby is played by Jason Statham

all good on hot dogs forever thank u this show

and I cried quite a bit this week <3

something i learned about myself in this episode: nothing makes me dissociate faster than 2 middle aged white dudes talking about motorcycles

*disassociate

His friend who's supposed to show up to the hospital will either be in a horrible accident or it will be Anthony Edwards IMO.

This season hasn't really gelled like the first - the Dr. AI stuff is eye roll worthy, nothing interesting or new really happening with the previous med students, the two new med students are stock characters.

xpost Eriq La Salle or I will RIOT

Katherine Heigl stunt casting

hear me out MAURA TIERNEY

Much better than last week - especially the segments about Louie and the woman with terminal cancer. Good Dana episode as well. Agree with Milo Z about Dr Al. So far she’s just been a foil for Robbie - I hope they do something more with her character.

Between Dana/Langdon, Dana/baby nurse, and goddamn Louie the writers were absolutely smashing the YOU CRY NOW button, fortunately we got hot dog barf for “comic relief”.

shoutout nurses!! <3

Sure hope they give the deaf lady a pen & paper next week.

what's going on with cancer lady? is she just sick to death of her husband or is there something more?

i am wondering what else too — kinda wondered if he was stealing her pain meds at home or something. or maybe its just she’s ready to die & he isnt ready to let her

she’s ready to die & he isnt ready to let her

This is where my money would be on the big betting grid.

yeah it feels like the most obvious

Yeah, I keep waiting for her to ask one of the doctors to slip her a couple of extra 12-hour super-duper oxys so she can end it.

Was thoroughly confused and had to do a double take at the screen this morning when we hit minute 33 of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MxnEeY9Hw4

for some reason I forgot what thread this was and went in hoping someone said "nabkin dispender"

the writers were absolutely smashing the YOU CRY NOW button

Worked on me! The bit where they revealed Louie had a wife and daughter who'd been killed was quite effective. Sure, it was Scrubsian but I didn't mind.

Honestly, the part that hit me the hardest was seeing Perla's response to Louie's death. Perla's awesome.

What a sad but lovely episode, cried a bunch. The show's way with depicting empathy is unparalleled; it's rarely showy and didactic (even when it's literally being showy and didactic). I have a bad feeling this is a calm before the storm episode (bomb baby, etc.), but it achieved so much through its relative stillness, like showcasing the nurses (my daughter is studying to be a nurse), or how hospital staff deals with death and poor outcomes, or just the practicalities of cleaning things up or moving people around.

I agree the cancer patient is being set up to make a hard decision, which will no doubt trigger the tear ducts the way the kid in a coma did last season. Also wondered why they didn't give the deaf person a pad and paper, it's not ideal but it's better than not treating whatever is wrong with her. I'll be bummed if anyone else from ER shows up, I assume the friend is gonna be Dr. Abbot, who we will learn has retired or changed professions or something.

Oh, and congratulations, Dana, for that totally PA pronunciation of "covid."

I loved the scenes prepping Louie’s body after death -
the way Dana is always reminding the trainee that this is a person, they have people who care about them, this isnt just a bunch of rote procedures

also there is so much unsaid in each of Dana’s short answer’s to the training nurse’s questions, how many times she’s done this, how bad those traumas & cleanups were, all the times she fell apart quietly on her own, or swallowed all the sadness & kept going —- like that old cliche about the iceberg being 90% below the water level, being a nurse of Dana’s level of experience is all the shit she can’t, and maybe will never talk about

so real

loved it

it was so much more of a non-event than the alcoholic death on ER, luckily. Ray Liotta was the guest star on that one and his esophagus (?) is also just blowing up from chronic alcoholism but it’s over the course of an episode devoted to him.
good anti-alcohol content but it was really rough, as if someone was trying to drive a point home

i just watched that Liotta ER episode for the first time today! very different type of episode to Louie’s yeah — but when he was spitting up the blood i instantly was like oh yeah thats like what happened to Louie :(

I didn't even notice that Mateo has been awol. I think I read that he (the actor) had a scheduling conflict, but would be back for the last few episodes? Also read a take on Robby's road trip, namely that Wyle implied in an interview that Robby isn't always the most reliable sharer and that there might be more to the trip than he is letting on; I've never read it, but apparently the character (and Wyle) have been reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For sure there hasn't been an episode yet where they don't mention his trip, or motorcycles, or helmets or the danger of motorcycles, which when you think about it could be a misdirect. Then again, Bomb Baby makes an appearance pretty much every episode and we still have no idea what is going there, or why Al-Hashimi had that initial reaction. Maybe she learned that it is a human/AI hybrid sent back from the future to kill us all.

I think I potentially spoiled something for myself when I saw an interview with the guy that plays Abbot ...

I am sure VG has no thoughts:

https://bsky.app/profile/jakecole.bsky.social/post/3mf2vmbpcjc24

lol yeah i saw that whole Mardi Gras thing! pretty great imo

Dr. Javadi's social media hustle has piqued my interest - anyone follow any good medical influencers?

generally best avoided…

that said a friend of mine from training is a dermatology influencer with millions of followers and was in a super bowl commercial this year. seemed like a good guy when I knew him

wow can't believe k3vin knows dr. pimple popper

Abbott back = yes
Moshe Kasher cameo as the ASL interpreter = yes
We’re going analog when? Right fucking NOW bitch

This show continues to subvert my expectations and predictions in really simple but effective ways. For example, I was convinced the deaf woman was going to have a huge Code Something because Santos kept blowing her off, but her condition is staying a (very) slow burn. Same with the Bomb Baby. I thought the SA victim was going to be revealed to be male, or maybe trans, but instead was a very straight-forward but powerful depiction of the examination and documentation process. I had read that Abbott had been moonlighting in SWAT, and that his return would not be what people expected, which my mind took to mean he would come in as a patient or victim, but no. Likewise, Al-Hashimi clearly has seen a lot and has a lot going on, too, but we're still not privy to any details. Sort of the opposite of Santos, who we know has survived past traumas, which made the self-harm scars less of a reveal and more a show-don't tell (so far) reminder of her backstory (as we know it). A bunch of the others have had simmering background/off-screen stuff going on - Whitaker and his farm friend, Mohan and her parents calling all the time - while Javadi keeps getting prominent foreground moments.

Speaking of background, I feel like this season is leaning in more to the close-quarters nature of the show, with an even better depiction of the space or lack thereof, showing how even the most personal or tragic stories are often occurring just a curtain away from someone else and their situation. The last time I was in the hospital I remember hearing a conversation through the curtain between my recovery neighbor and his doctor. He had been shot and was more interested in going home (and saving the bullet as a souvenir) than in the fact that he had been, you know, shot. Different worlds. Incidentally, the hospital where this took place just had its own cyberattack ransom situation a year or two ago, and had to go several days working analog!

BTW, out of curiosity I tried to figure out why they (still) haven't really resorted to pen and paper with the deaf patient, and I learned that a huge percentage of deaf people have very low literacy skills, with many not reading above a fourth grade level, which makes sense, since signing is their primary language.

Oh, I did some other googling, too, and either on the open web or in a recap saw that Dashte Barchi, which is mentioned by Abbott and where Al-Hashimi was working, was the site of a suicide attack targeting the maternity ward killed 16 mothers and 8 children in 2020.

Something else I'm curious about is Mel's deposition, which we've heard a lot about. I doubt we're going to see it, right? We rarely leave the ER. So I wonder how or if it will be resolved this season.

>I learned that a huge percentage of deaf people have very low literacy skills, with many not reading above a fourth grade level

that's *really* surprising!

and would be surprised if they didn't show some of the deposition. i get showing nothing of their home/personal lives, but this is a work related thing that they've been building up – would expect something.

was also enraged (as intended) when beach mode boss came down and shut off the system with zero warning. seemed like an insane thing to do

The scenes between the SA survivor and Dana were very moving. Tina Ivlev played the survivor - this show keeps getting great guest performances.

Abbott and Al-Hashimi bonding quickly over experiences in Afghanistan also highlights the grumpy side of Robby. With the hospital going analog, I suspect Abbott and Al-Hashimi's war experience to come in very handy.

Want more screen time for Mel... she's not been highlighted much so far.

What was great about the scenes with Dana and the SA survivor was that they showed exactly how voyeuristic/exploitive 99% of other medical and cop shows are when dealing with similar material.

Something else I'm curious about is Mel's deposition, which we've heard a lot about. I doubt we're going to see it, right? We rarely leave the ER. So I wonder how or if it will be resolved this season.

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i think we will definitely see it. the night shift's dr. ellis came back this episode and said she arrived early so she could prepare for her "depo." makes me think she is part of the same deposition as dr. king (probably a patient from last year...maybe the measles kid?)

highlights the grumpy side of Robby

I loved the gag where Mohan is helping Abbott and says it'll be their little secret, and you see Robby pass by in the background, see them, pause, maybe scowl, then continue on his way.

that one got a good laugh out of me. tho i read it more as him slowing down and deciding he didn't have time to think about whatever was going on there.

Wyle has v good comedic reactions imo

The SA scenes were so heavy but so good at showing how much minutiae this woman still has to go through after being assaulted. yes its all handled with care and respect and attention but the endurance it takes to do that is not always talked about or understood frim outsiders. you can tell that she just wants to crawl out of her skin and scream or runaway or all of the above

When they were asking if she wanted a drink part of me really wanted Dana to offer her a beer.

that one got a good laugh out of me. tho i read it more as him slowing down and deciding he didn't have time to think about whatever was going on there.

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it's been a great running joke. he had a similar reaction to abbot flirting with dr. al. i can't remember if he was around when santos asked garcia if she was gonna sleep over that night, will have to go back and check haha

xxpost It was really illustrative the number of times Dana emphasized that *she* was in control, *she* can stop whenever she wants, *she* can stop entirely if she wants, and the other counselor immediately asking permission to even be there, and reminding her that she doesn't have to say anything today, or tomorrow or ever, or could come back in a year, if she wanted. One of the more powerful moments was when the counselor asked the SA victim something, and she looks to Dana for an answer, because Dana, from experience, was so good at establishing trust and boundaries. And of course the way Dana quietly breaks down the second she is off the clock, as such.

also Abbot rolling up in police tactical gear

so where Abbott is concerned (to quote Andy Greenwald on The watch podcast) ACAB “all cops are beautiful doctors” lol

On the other hand, the show has been pretty good at representation, afaict. The deaf patient is actually deaf (she's apparently a popular youtuber), I assume the doctor in a wheelchair is actually in a wheelchair, etc.

The baby is an actual baby/bomb.

Santos walking off after 2 min and leaving the interpreter just staring after her like “wtf” was v good

For those who dont know Moshe Kasher is a comedian who irl has a deaf mother and at one point actually worked as an ASL interpreter & advocate back in the day

thx for the background on Kasher. Santos's behavior with the deaf patient is super frustrating.

BTW we also need more Garcia screen time, "this looks like some jurassic park shit" was perfect

I need to rewatch to make sure I didn't miss or mishear, but didn't Dana tell her patient that the rape kit becomes inadmissible if she (nurse Dana) leaves the room before completing it? Seems the writers maybe engineered a way to have her sidelined while everyone scrambles to relearn analog hospital recordkeeping.

Yeah, she's not allowed to leave the kit unattended (legal chain of custody).

Santos was infuriating, but Singin' Santos was beautiful.

Yeah, I think Dana said that once she opens it *she* (Dana) can't leave the room, because it can't be left alone with the patient or anyone that might tamper with it. I don't know what they would do with an incomplete kit if the patient left, though.

Also, very worried about Mel's sister if cell phones are down and Mel's waiting on the sister's nurse to call her.

cell phones aren't down. the hospital phones are

I went back and checked, and you're right. Thought I saw Princess checking her cell, but it was a hospital phone. However, if the WiFi went down as well, you probably wouldn't get much of a cell signal in there.

Looking forward to an hour of everyone wandering around the hospital parking lot, phones held aloft.

Santos was infuriating, but Singin' Santos was beautiful.

A good use of Isa Briones's musical theater background!

good ep!

internist dad being chiller than surgeon mom, that checks out

at some point Mel is going to remember her deposition isn't today, right? it's a holiday...

That would be a hilarious twist if in hour 9 she looked at her calendar and was like “omg it’s tomorrow”

loool i hadnt thought of that

Just realized: Mel was probably planning to do the deposition virtually, but the hospital just shut down its entire network... She's gonna freak out!

So this is cool. (Read the followup post as well.)

https://bsky.app/profile/michelledean.bsky.social/post/3mfnsk4b5mc2v

wow i had no idea he was an actual nurse too? multihyphenare mfer!!

Dude has skills!

his has a stillness that feels very real

He's not just an actor/ nurse, wasn't he a member of Rooney?

yes I believe so

OK episode, but this is the first where the writer's room contrivances really loomed and distracted me. Maybe too much novelty at once? You've got the general cyberattack/analog scenario (omg a fax machine), you've got multiple interesting but still very PSA-esque explain-what's-happening patients requiring special treatment (heavy patient, eye stroke, deaf patient, patient with reaction to lime and sunlight, etc.), and then you have the medical staff itself: doctor with photographic memory, Javadi and Ogilvie as a team, Mel's heads-up about the deposition, Dana stuck in that room. Just a little too ... written, imo straying from the show's generally grounded disposition.

"What are you thinking?"
"I have no idea."
"Agreed"

xp - Yeah, he was in Rooney and also did music for Marc Maron. Also plays (played?) the Mick Fleetwood role in a Fleetwood Mac tribute thing. Oh and also was a model.

at some point Mel is going to remember her deposition isn't today, right? it's a holiday...

they fact they were doing this on the 4th did seem strange

Feels like they should have done a little "what if there are no computers" training for everyone in the ER but I guess it's more realistic to just spring it on everyone but management.

I thought the deposition on the 4th was weird too, but apparently these lawyers are billing extra for holiday depo.

the thing I like the most about this show that this newest ep reminded me — how good they are about showing how to uplift, respect, or just care for patient dignity. The rape kit patient, or the heavy guy, or Louie, even the cancer mom … they really do such a beautiful job with that in the moments when it counts

also i think this season hits differently bc Dr Robby is on “short-timer” mode — we dont see him being as attentive as much which changes how you relate to him this time around, he’s more just A Guy Doctoring instead of being in superhero mode. so it largely falls to the other staff to do those things.

also i saw on insta - the moment when Santos says about guessing drunk tongue suture girl’s blood alcohol - and pointedly stares down Langdon while she tells Joy “it’s fun”
— Langdon had THE SAME interaction w Santos in Season 1 but it was him
saying “Wanba Guess the BA Level” and Santos asks why and HE says “it’s fun”

at some point Mel is going to remember her deposition isn't today, right? it's a holiday...

They showed her talking to a colleague who I assume had just been grilled for the same deposition so I guess its on, I dunno how "all tools down" July 4 is regarded at in the US though.

Yeah, the attorneys absolutely wouldn't be working on the 4th. I guess they just really wanted to have the deposition and the hot dog contest guy in the same season and said "fuck it."

also holidays like the 4th being big days for ERs iirc

embarrassingly bad episode last week imo. hopefully they shed that cloying nonsense

I was specifically let down when it turned out that, even though Huckleberry couldn't take a decent photo of the board, Joy had a photographic memory so everything was going to be just fine.

Like I said, writer's-room clearinghouse episode.

So far this season has felt a bit like a sophomore slump. Still a great show but not as amazing as the first season. Some of it is structural -- first season had novelty (hour-by-hour format, return of Noah Wyle to the ER!); fresh characters and story lines that gestated over years before production; and first season with the original ER cast of interns and med students. Another issue this season is the character arcs aren’t as compelling. Season 1 had great story arcs with Collins (now gone), Langdon (now kinda whiny), and Robby (now generally annoyed at the world and all the people in it). Plus in S1 we had the process of getting to know Whittaker, Santos, Mel, Javadi, etc. And the long patient story arcs in season 1 were stronger (best one so far this season was Louie, RIP). Maybe the writers have something up their sleeve with Dr Al-Hashimi but so far she hasn’t been all that compelling a character. Same for Joy and Ogilvie (who seems to exist so everyone can show they are better humans that him – not that tough a bar). Other posters have pointed out that the show has become more obviously didactic than it was in season 1. Anyway, we still have about half the season left – let’s see what they have in store for us.

I am still loving the show but I agree with most of that. I think it’s built in that this show will have diminishing returns with each season as the novelty wears off. Even if they did something huge like a train crash or a bombing or something, it would t pack the punch of the first season.

But… does it have to? I still look forward to new episodes every week and am perfectly happy to treat this as comfort watching.

still loving the show, i don’t need it to be “prestige” and may actually enjoy is ordinariness in a old school classic network tv sort of way

i don’t need it to be “prestige” and may actually enjoy is ordinariness in a old school classic network tv sort of way

This is exactly how I feel. Gimme Doctor-Show Plot #523, stat!

The 15 Hours In The Life Of An ER gimmick would work better with a new cast each season. Once you’ve figured out almost everyone’s relationships with each other it’s kind of like a weekly slasher flick, just trying to see what nightmare practical effect they get to use this week.

just trying to see what nightmare practical effect they get to use this week

Needs a little penis counter ticking in the bottom corner of the screen.

Tune in next week when Robbie’s biker friend rolls in with a desleeved but somehow still erect dong.

we're only halfway through this season, right? i have faith they'll stick it, a lot of wiggle room left.

i still love it, even when it’s regular doctor show tv it’s fuckin quality

it might also be because i’m still also submitting myself to the bataan death march of S12 reruns of ER, compared to those doldrums this shit is incredible

the dreaded ICE storyline has yet to emerge

The 15 Hours In The Life Of An ER gimmick would work better with a new cast each season. Once you’ve figured out almost everyone’s relationships with each other it’s kind of like a weekly slasher flick, just trying to see what nightmare practical effect they get to use this week.

Hard disagree. It hasn't much paid off yet but I like the idea of seeing these characters evolve over time from one season to the next. folks like Whitaker and Mel are already showing growth compared to first season.

also, I grant that every episode of this show isn't going to be top-shelf, but calling it "embarrassingly bad" is ridiculous. I'm fully locked in every week and inevitably disappointed when the episode ends because it means I have to wait another week for the next one.

I do wish Robbie would stop reminding everyone that he's going on vacation, though I can at least say that's true to life because I've definitely encountered this annoying habit in some of my coworkers in past jobs.

I'd say he has also learned from experience. If he doesn't remind everyone every ten minutes that today is his last day, guaranteed someone will turn up tomorrow expecting him to be on hand for something important.

I also disagree with the complaints about this show. I think it's great. As said by several people, I don't expect it to have a major battle scene every other week or anything. And I had no problem with Joy's revelation of her photographic memory. I can imagine being a woman of Asian heritage with a photographic memory would lead to you being funneled into studying medicine, whether you wanted to or not.

Btw, I rewatched last week's episode and it held up better than I expected, esp. given my reservations. However, someone I was with made a good observation. The contentious relationship between Santos and Langdon? She met him on her first day and he was out before the end of the first 15 hours. This season is his first day back, so they've literally spent less than 24 hours together, lol. Mortal enemies at first sight, I guess.

she was the one who ratted out his pill pilfering, right?

yep

I liked this episode. Some good problem solving, some good novelty patients, some honest tearjerker moments. Even a couple of good laughs.

Agree. And directed by Shawn Hatosy (Dr. Abbot)!

“Ogilvie, put your hand down.”

haha, loved that line as an appetizer for this episode

THE FUCK YOU MEAN “IF I DON’T COME BACK”

The nature of this show allows for all sorts of stuff. S3 could begin with them talking about Robbie's retirement, or change of jobs, or permanent vacation, or death, or therapy, etc. Or murmurs of "what happened on that trip ..." Or maybe Robbie won't go after all. Or maybe he will return midway through S3. It's bonkers. They make a direct or indirect reference to him not maybe coming back more than once, right? In multiple senses? I dunno. The bigger question is could the show survive his absence? The other question would be, would the show write out their star comeback linchpin only two seasons in, and the answer to that is likely no.

I didn't have money on water slide collapse.

Didn’t he say he was going away for three months? The time lapse between s1 and s2 was a year, there’s no reason for him not to come back

anyway lol at “you gotta have some boundaries kid” followed by immediately asking Whitaker to move in

The two implications were maybe after those 3 months he might decide not to come back, or something darker. I don't know. Maybe he *will* leave the show and every two seasons they will rotate in another "ER" vet.

Some great acting from Wyle in that scene between Robbie & Abbott

when Abbott says “…are you sure you can handle that?” - Robbie’s looking off elsewhere with that distant smile like “yeahyeahyeah”, and as Abbott delivers that line to him there’s just an extra moment of reflectio where Robbie’s eyes go slightly wider & he looks briefly haunted. It’s really great

I love the way he can give you those subtle passing stormclouds of inner thought & emotion without ever overdoing it, it’s all just clamped down under that pressure cooker lid.

otm, that scene was so good

yeah if Wyle didn't return this show would be dead in the water, superb ensemble cast notwithstanding.

Great episode - felt like a seamless flow in the good way. Great scene with McKay and Roxie. Shabana Azeez who plays Javadi was excellent in her “ I f’ed up” scenes. And so beautiful stuff from Robby

Lotta stuff at play it the latest, some of it predictable, some inevitable. Some solid gross prosthetics.

I'm glad people are calling Robbie and Santos on their dickishness. Ogilvie freaking out about the severed leg was a lot of fun. I worry that something actually bad may be going on with Mohan's mother, though.

i don't know why I was feeling extra sensitive but I watched half the episode with my hand in front of the TV. The ring finger guy. Ugh.

Also, dispensing with Mel's deposition entirely offscreen was a fucking hilarious storytelling choice, and one I totally applaud.

I was sure they would show it!

lol @ the helicopter pilot handing ogilvie the bag full of..leg

i am kinda enjoying Robbie’s heel turn too btw. When Dr Al Hashimi calls him on it he has a ‘what!? what did i do? squirtelly high schooler vibe. Very nothing’s wrong/everything’s wrong

and i love that actor who plays Duke whos name i cannot for the life of me remember. he’s great

*squirrelly lol, not squirtelly

Park The Shark ortho = Lou Ferrigno Jr

Duke was the super who almost had sex with nick and Jess in one of the first episodes of New Girl.

he’s jeff kober, who was a main vampire antagonist in the pilot episode of buffy the vampire slayer and later returned in one of its best-ever episodes as the demon called “the judge”

also in sons of anarchy and a billion other things

anyway, this was an incredible episode. it really had everything

Just came across an astute observation that may or may not just be a coincidence. This was a particularly cranky episode, but maybe not just because of the cyberattack or the heat: as far as the doctors and their bodies/brains know, they are nearing the end of their shifts. We, on the other hand, know there is more to come, because it's a 15-hour show. They're ready to go home, but we're waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I love that the guy playing the cocky Rocket Romano orthopaedic surgeon is Lou Ferrigno Jr.

I love that there is a hierarchy tier of asshole surgeons.

Great episode. Park the Shark was amazing, and Al-Hashimi’s slash trake… damn.

Totally figured that Becca was having sex the moment they mentioned she had a UTI last week, and that Mel was likely going to have a meltdown over it.

Yeah, I filed that reveal under "predictable." Also works as PSA. The actor has been doing some interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLBNGpcF9iM

Lotta mom stuff in this episode. Roxie dying of cancer, Mohan dealing with her mom, Javadi dealing with her mom, Mel essentially mom to her sister ...

kudos to Taylor Dearden for nailing the transition from "stressed and drained from the deposition" to "confused and eight other emotions on discovering her sister is having sex"

eating ramen in bed is psychopath behavior

hard agree

tbf, look who we're talking about here

they could have been speaking metaphorically?

My wife does not understand this at all, but ramen on the couch or in bed would bother me less than something like pretzels or Pringles (because you can put down a cloth napkin / handkerchief / paper towels to catch stray droplets from the ramen) (I know you can also do this for other foods, but I'd be worried about crumbs rolling off the convex dome of the lap while shifting)

look, i had a cup of noodles at my desk this week and still spilled a bit on my keyboard and down my chin.

if these two actually order legit carry out from a decent ramen joint, that’s a whole other level of insanity in a bed

i don’t like any food in bed as a general rule either, cracker and chip debris would drive me nuts

As soon as the sister came in I thought she was going to be pregnant so at least it’s just a UTI.

they already had the convo with not-Chris Pike about it being a uti I don’t think this is a show where they keep a diagnosis back and have someone say they’re also surprise pregnant

Great episode. Some stray observations. I fear they are trying to make Ogilvie a bit more human / likable. McKay did well playing big sister to Roxy’s son and to Javadi. And Al Hashemi got a save with something Robby didn’t know how to do - big win. Always need more Garcia, she’s the best.

whoops typo. I keep seeing Patrick Ball, who plays Langdon, as a Chris Pine analogue

I fear they are trying to make Ogilvie a bit more human / likable.

Well, people are complicated, right? We don't know why the way he is, but maybe there is a reason, just as there are reasons that Santos is the way she is, some of which have been revealed, some of which likely haven't. Etc.

Man, can I just say how much I appreciate rich characters that are well acted? They can go anywhere with any of these characters, as long as they keep them grounded and don't get silly.

what are the chances that Mel has a very stilted conversation where she blurts out “but I’m not having any sex!”

probably better than even odds

I’m sure Ogilvie has a backstory and/or is growing as the day progresses … but it’s also fine if they just want to keep him as a punchable know it all.

“Here’s your leg.”

Degloved finger, slit trach, shot of the leg being placed in line with the stump, English teacher you kind of want to die - all in line with my theory about this being a horror show in disguise.

when the English teacher corrected Ogilvie again i was kinda hoping he’d just smother him with a pillow

I lol’d when Ogilvie brought out Notes of a Native Son

ramen in bed is ok if it’s dry imo, definitely not soup ramen

he’s jeff kober, who was a main vampire antagonist in the pilot episode of buffy the vampire slayer and later returned in one of its best-ever episodes as the demon called “the judge”

― harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Friday, March 13, 2026 4:36 AM (yesterday)

!!!

bounceback episode. loved the ortho guy, perfect look and disposition. thought the way robby treated samira was obviously awful, but kind of out of character? he's grizzled of course but I don't remember him treating anyone he works with that way before? just struck me as strange.

dana's response to "isn't that insurance fraud?" absolutely killed me. though irl they'd just take it from supply, it's not as if a nicotine patch is a controlled substance

I love that there is a hierarchy tier of asshole surgeons.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 13, 2026 9:08 AM (yesterday)

don't think there's been a neurosurgeon yet that I can remember, but if there is...

starring ben carson as himself

This is pretty hacky (it's SNL), but it has a few good lines.

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