'The Pitt' medical drama on HBO

Trailer.

I never watched ER. Is this similar in tone?

Meh - he's done a wide variety of shows since ER.

Unless you're Michael Crichton's heirs who are suing him and the show for copyright infringement, it's a baseless criticism.

It was good. The first two episodes were compelling.

Does the manager of the billing department get shot by an unhinged patient? If not, then I'll pass.

Dr Santos is hard to watch.

And how is this entertaining?

The acting has been excellent with the main characters all so relatable. The recent episode 8 was quite the tearjerker.

Noah Wyle seemed like a gay boy to me when he appeared on ER plus the fact that he married his makeup 💄 artist from the show.

In other news I wonder if they will show any FULL FRONTAL naked men since this is HBO.

Total man crush on him! , the series is very interesting every episode is a 1-hour time frame of a 15-hour day in an ER. It's a very accurate portrayal and at times sad and draining. No nudity yet other than a patient who was a homeless man pissing all over everybody in an exam room.

I want to deflower Whitaker.

[quote] I never watched ER. Is this similar in tone?

It is exactly like ER. The only thing missing is the dramatic music when a patient has to receive emergency surgery.

How similar is it? Michael Crichton’s widow is suing because they planned to reboot ER with Wyle, cancelled it and came up with this instead, which is a carbon copy with a different host city.

Thanks, R8. I thought it was just me.

Excellent show. And I don't think it's any more like ER than any other TV hospital show. This show, we will never really see the personal lives of the characters, like we frequently did on ER. Frankly, that's refreshing, and makes the episodes fly by.

I'll we anxiously waiting for the next episode.

^^^be

It is NOT exactly like ER.

It's a great show.

[quote] It is NOT exactly like ER.

It looks like the WB’s PR team have joined Black Lively’s here on the DL to plead their case publicly.

It is an ER clone and I hope the widow Crichton takes you all to the cleaners.

r17 have you seen the show? It's not a copy of ER.

Has anybody watched the South Korean medical drama “Trauma Code” on Netflix? It’s supposed to be fun. The main doctor calls an underling “anus”.

I was very hot for Noah during the Falling Skies era.

Allegedly Noah and George Clooney were VERY close in the first years of ER. Allegedly.

I was so lucky to see him without clothes.

Excellent show. I wait impatiently for each new episode.

Completely engrossing. A strong lesbian thread... subplots. R11 I agree that if Whitaker were fucked very hard he'd relax and love life more. I'd volunteer for the job.

Patrick Ball (Dr. Langdon) is the one I'm crushing on.

I've always liked Noah Wyle. But I listened to him on Marc Maron recently and couldn't tell if he was humble or smug.

[quote]I've always liked Noah Wyle. But I listened to him on Marc Maron recently and couldn't tell if he was humble or smug.

Smug.

A lot of stories have come out over the years about what a douchebag he was and likely still is.

Yes. My neighbour's aunt has a cousin who visited LA just after Noah was in a restaurant she ate at. She told us that Noah's gardener told them over coffee at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf that he heard Noah used women like Kleenex and he sucked off the whole ER crew at the wrap of each episode.

This last episode was fantastic

Why does House keep limping through each episode?

Know someone who was involved with ER and Noah was a total shit.

Are people's lives so bland 'n comfy that they crave shows about crime, emergency rooms and zombies?

Breckin Meyer is 50

[quote]Allegedly Noah and George Clooney were VERY close in the first years of ER. Allegedly.

Yes they even had a European vacation together the first year. The tabloids made a thing about it back then and George's PR went as far to put out a statement that it was "just a guys trip" and the actor who played Dr. Benton was also on the trip. But the Benton guy was photographed elsewhere at the time,

Before the show aired and the paychecks started rolling in, George paid Noah's rent and gave him a car to drive while they were filming the first few episodes.

Poor Noah got dumped when hairdresser Waldo Sanchez joined the ER crew. Waldo was George's main guy for years and is still around as he was a groomsman in George's bearding/wedding and can be seen in the People magazine spread.

There’s a lot of Brits and nepo babies in that show. Both Brad Dourif’s and Bryan Cranston’s daughters play doctors. The black female doctor is English and the farm boy student doctor is Welsh.

No gay male characters? If not I don't care.

I think the male nurse with the hair is gay. I’m going off the ca t that he is a male nurse.

Noah Wyle is as hot as hell. I never found him attractive in ER but he is comfortably in his daddy era and I am here for it.

R34 stopped taking his meds on Friday.

13’’. Clock?

Tim is dead, haven’t you heard?

Obviously there’s going to be some similarity to ER, but the structure of the show (each episode takes place over an hour and stays in the hospital), minimizes the soap opera stuff and keeps the focus on the ER process more than on the personal lives of the staff.

I feel like I've watched enough ER/hospital dramas for one lifetime.

It feels lazy to me - you can go online on any nurse or doctor or hospital thread, collect stories, then write the episodes.

It's built-in tension and high-drama, but it feels cliche at this point.

If it weren't for hospital and cop shows, there would be so few dramas left.

R41, I get what you’re saying but I’ve been watching the series because the ensemble acting is so good. Yeah, I’ve seen many dramas about Henry VIII before, but I’ll still watch a new production if the acting is good.

I’m read the ER reboot was gonna focus on Carter losing his mentor (Benton) just like what’s happened in this show.

BtW, is Eriq La Salle gay? I’m doing an ER rewatch and his character is more enjoyable this time around. Clooney and Margulies are insufferable

R35 And the bitchy butch intern is Jon Jon Briones’ daughter.

Michael Crichton was a right wing piece of shit. By all means rip off his estate.

Not sure that sexuality matters much since it appears the show will never leave the ER.

Any "HOT, DARK-HAIRED FOREIGN DOCTORS" who look and sound like Goran Visnjic, PLEASE!!!

The show is set in Pittsburgh, there SHOULD be more Goran Visnjic types on it......lots of smoking hot, horse hung Baltic, Eastern European and Polish guys there, second/third/forth generation immigrants, so many hot fuckers.

Get a new act. TIA

Thanks, R48, your description of Eastern European, Slavic men was really on-point& made me think bad thoughts of Eastern European men. My buddy Marak, is Southern Polish& Russian but looks like a California surfer, and his 2 brothers are Goran Visnjic lookalikes, and the oldest brother has red hair-looks like a Viking.

I loved cruising Pittsburg in the 90s for work.

Contra Costa County cruising? Who knew?

[quote]I loved cruising Pittsburg in the 90s for work.

Shame on you, Phillywhore! And I used to think you were smart.

I binged the first seven episodes and I really love it. I felt moved to watch after articles in Vulture and the NY Times pointed out that actual doctors and nurses love the show, feeling it is more accurate about what they do than any other medical series they’ve seen.

But I really like medical shows, binged the first three seasons of “The Resident” last year. “The Pitt” is better. So far, anyway.

Noah was awful to Kellie Martin during her time on ER. He has admitted and apologized to her publicly for it.

Yeah, he “apologized” to her in interviews but I believed has confirmed he’s never spoken to her about it… which is not how apologies work.

Agree with R40. I was shocked how engrossed I was. I binge watched the first five episodes . Excellent writing. Good character development although as R40 points out, more focus on ER events then personal lives.

We learn about the characters by watching them work on a day to day basis. Not by showing after hours bs - Very clever writing . I think it’s mainly written by Noah

Wrong R55 hour by hour, not day by day

R56*

Not only is it hour-by-hour, but the entire season will take place over a single shift.

If they are going to develop any soap-opera drama, it’s going to have to be hyper-speed .

R50 Yes, those Slavic men have rough looking faces sometimes, but the dick more than makes up for it, every time.

At least YOU can spell

I'm not clear how ER was any more original than any other medical drama that's ever been made.

It's essentially St Elsewhere, Grey's Anatomy, Chicago Med, Chicago Hope, Code Black, and The Resident.

House and the Good Doctor are in a slightly different category, but the new show for DL Fav Zachary Quinto, Brilliant Minds, is in that same category.

ER was original in that it was focused on the Emergency Department and was quite graphic and gritty for its time.

I’m not sure why r62 thinks House and the Good Doctor and Brilliant Minds are in a different category from the others. They all seem the same to me.

R62 The majority of shows you've listed came out at the same time (Chicago Hope) or after ER.

I actually love medical tv shows, but I love them for the medical drama, not the stupid love life crap. That’s why The Pitt is so good, there’s no time for sappy love stories (and I love love, just not in my medical dramas). Chicago Med was an excellent show for many years btw, I was surprised how much I liked it. It’s not as good lately, it’s running on fumes.

Same, r65. I love the Pitt. It's a total medical show without stupid personal stories. A friend of mine who's an ER doctor loves it and says it's very realistic.

Same R65 and R66 It is NOT a soap opera. That is one of its greatest strengths. The medical issues are more sophisticated; challenges people to think a bit .

Thoughts on that bitch know it all resident ( trying to paint Noah Wylie as a drug user). I was completely taken aback by her absolute stupidity in verbally harassing some father who was intubated ( I think ), calling him a child molestar . I’m waiting for the fallout on that .

What say you my precious Pitts fans ?

R67 you sound dumb, like an ER patient. She was not challenging the Wyle character—she was questioning the senior resident with “forelocks.”

R67 Santos has been a needling aggressive bitch from the first episode, leveraging her relative experience as an intern over the medical students.

I assume she is a victim of sexual abuse turned bitter in adulthood? But one of the doctors need to rip her a new one, even if she’s right about the drug theft, she’s not going about it the right way.

I am impressed by Robby’s management of the unit. He is good at giving instructions without making them seem like orders.

[quote]I’m not sure why [R62] thinks House and the Good Doctor and Brilliant Minds are in a different category from the others. They all seem the same to me.

They focus a lot more on a single billiant character. The other shows are more ensemble casts.

House was a Sherlock Holmes pastiche in a hospital. The Good Doctor is about its neurodivergent lead character learning to be a part of his medical community. They a pleasant soapy aspect, as did ER.

The Pitt is really a slice of life and is truly work based, their personal lives are only present by the shadows thrown by their interactions. I like how Ronny’s and Collins’ former relationship is whispered, nor shouted, they way it happens in real life. Long may it continue.

*they HAVE a pleasant soapy aspect

It’s not at its peak until I quit it- Sherry Stringfield (Hire me)

R71 No Ronny at The Pitt.

*Robby

I heard Noah Wyle was in a long term secret relationship with a man

Kellie Martin was a truly awful actress, amateurish and embarrassing to watch, with her flat voice and vanilla pudding face. I’m with Noah on that one, she had no business on a show like ER, and I would have been complaining about her to the producers too. If he was rude to her face, maybe it was because she still sucked after the 20th take of a scene.

I would lick Noah Wyle's shitter.

I don’t think Noah still looks good.

I loved her, R77. I was sorry they killed her off.

There’s that inappropriate use of the word “heroes” applied to the well paid health professionals doing their job in a modern hospital.

The first two episodes were good. Then it starts to become less compelling because some of the actors suck. The story lines might not be that bad if some of them knew how to act. The Actresses in this irritate the shit out of me.

Sherry Stringfield has all but disappeared from the face of the planet. What a strange career she had.

But R77, Kellie Martins "Death scene" on ER was soooo GOOD. Plus Noah was so fuckable!!

Not heroes day to day, but heroes in the midst of a pandemic.

Any gay male characters? Or just lesbians?

We need more Gay doctors on TV

If you want a good Noah fix, find the movie The Scene of the Crime. He wears the tightest pants this side of Bob Conrad, and his bubble ass and package are on nice display. He's also at his hottest looks wise.

Clooney definitely had that ass

Noah is a TV 9 and. Movie 6 or less.

R86 I assume Ethnic Male Nurse is gay.

I presume bitchy intern Santos and the surgeon Garcia are already bumping uglies and are trying to keep it undercover.

Or that everyone knows that Garcia fucks all the female interns.

It's decent programming. I can't unsee a young Travolta with that one doctor. And, like, is this the only hospital in Pittsburgh?! Wouldn't catch me sitting around for 6 hours unless I was holding my severed leg.

Ethnic Male Nurse

Which one?

So, is Collins carrying Robby's baby?

[quote]So, is Collins carrying Robby's baby?

Not anymore.

To R94-"Susan having Alan's baby...GENERAL HOSPITAL!!"

I couldn't help myself!!

R93 the one with the hair.

When does the kid come back and start shooting randomly in the waiting room?

Hair

I want Matteo in me, quite deeply.

I'm enjoying Patrick Ball as the arrogant doctor who may or may not be a pillhead. His only credit before this was an episode of Law and Order.

[quote] And, like, is this the only hospital in Pittsburgh?! Wouldn't catch me sitting around for 6 hours unless I was holding my severed leg.

I love the show so far, but I have been asking myself "are there any fucking Urgent Cares in Pittsburgh? Who the hell still goes to the ER for a non life-threatening problem?"

Lots of people do, r102. They may not have insurance. Commercial Urgent Care clinics may require private insurance.

R102 types like an ingrate.

r104 with all the Urgent Cares that are around you don't see people going to the ER for minor problems. And the people on this show who are waiting in the ER are mostly the types who would have insurance.

You’re mistaken. Or just plain wrong.

Um, ok r106. Hate to spoil your bitter parade.

Anyway, back to the show....

“Um”

Great r108. Looks like a nerve was hit.

Most of the people featured as patients on that show looked like they would have insurance. Like the two fist-fighting soccer moms and the asshole who punched out the nurse. I know people who work in Emergency Rooms and they've said Urgent Cares have really lifted the burden.

Take it up with the health professionals consulted by the producers and writers. You killing an otherwise interesting thread.

[quote] Most of the people featured as patients on that show looked like they would have insurance

The economy is not what it was in 2007. Millions of soccer moms aren’t insured.

Not American. I’m an epidemiologist, my mother is a retired university professor and we both had to let our medical insurance lapse for 2 years whilst we got her house into a sellable condition after she retired to nurse my suddenly quadriplegic father with polyneuropathy right before lockdown. She wiped out $1.5 million (ie, pretty much all) of her retirement fund caring for him at home and doing pricey last minute home renovations they didn’t do the decades before so he could live and die at home in the manner she chose to provide and he deserved.

IMO the people from all walks of life in ER is the realest thing about the show.

ya, lke didn't understand how the pregnant teenager ended up in the ER to get abortion pills. Can't you get those over the counter?

No, you can’t.

And the plot line included avoiding/hiding from the mother…she was not a local—rather from several hours away. Pay more attention next time.

The fact that she’s not a local cuts against her coming to the ER for a prescription. Why not just make an appointment or go to a clinic?

It was a fictional example of the difficulties women face when they live in places where aboriginal is illegal—is that hard to understand?!

The character was from TN, where abortion, including any my medication, is illegal. It’s called dramatic effect.

*abortion, not aboriginal

R111 Actually, way more people have insurance today than they did in 2007 thanks to the ACA. As long as you live in a blue state that is (like PA). If you live in a red state, know your governor would rather see you die on the street than let the federal government provide you free insurance.

[quote]Most of the people featured as patients on that show looked like they would have insurance

All the interesting things about this show and [italic]this[/italic] is what you're focused on? Tell me you're "on the spectrum" without telling me you're "on the spectrum."

R118 you lack that superpower to instantly know who has what level of insurance coverage.

[quote] It was a fictional example of the difficulties women face when they live in places where aboriginal is illegal—is that hard to understand?!

[whoosh!]

You talking to me?

R118 is fired up y'all!

R121 he’s not eligible for Obamacare

[quote]All the interesting things about this show and this is what you're focused on? Tell me you're "on the spectrum" without telling me you're "on the spectrum."

I was merely responding to what another poster wrote, dipshit. Work on your reading comprehension.

Many people prefer not to use their insurance for the sort of stuff we have seen.

People with insurance do in fact use it at major cities’ ER depts. Shocking, isn’t it?

A real ER doctor is interviewed about the Pitt. He loves it and says it's very real.

I think it is great. It is grittier than ER was, but ER might have been more educational about medicine.

The Catholic nurse who was king hit was funny: “this ain’t Philly!”.

I am obsessed with THE PITT. What a surprise this show is. And I too want Nurse Mateo in my quite deeply. WOOF.

So the hot doc gets booted? Boo! Boooo!

There was a lot of gore in the most recent episode. It certainly presents itself as "realistic"... but it's got melodrama running through it. The head nurse getting her nose punched and she just goes back to work? Dr Rabinovich physically pushing Dr Langdon out the door and he sheepishly leaves clutching his clothes.

I love the series... but I wonder if there will be a second season ... the format where they only show inside the hospital could get a bit old.

It's already been renewed for a second series, r132.

Oh no the hot doctor got busted for being a pillhead!

And you thought that girl doctor was out to get him!

He’s too cute to be guilty!

Lady student doctor is the correct reference.

Patrick Ball (druggie Dr. Langdon) seems like a really sweet guy. He recently wrote on his Insta that he struggled as an actor for ten years and kept striking out, and The Pitt changed his life and how grateful he is for the show and Noah Wyle.

He wants his character back next season…kissy, kissy.

Just because Dr Hermione is right about Dr Pillhead, doesn’t mean she isn’t out to get him!

The handheld shaky camera makes me sick. I don't think I will stick to this series. Maybe it's more watchable on a real tv at 3 metres away?

I am really enjoying this show. I will look up when the second part of it starts. Noah Wyle looks really haggard and realistic.

[quote]Noah Wyle looks really haggard

That's exactly what I said. He's only 53 -- WTF happened to him?

^^Lifelong smoker

He’s also whippet thin.

I like that all the doctors are shown making mistakes, including Dr Robby.

Throwing an addicted doctor out into the cold without resources will have him marched straight into HR.

He was being sent home from the shift, not permanently dealt with. That’s for HR to sort out.

It’s the throwing out and the yelling where Robby opened himself up for criticism.

Noah used to be so pretty.

Man I love this show. So glad it's been renewed for another season. Is Bryan Cranston's daughter's character (doctor) on the spectrum? In 4 episodes. She sure seems to be.

Man do I not like this Dr. Santos. She is so full of herself.

IOW, R120, she's acting like most men act [italic]all the time.[/italic]

R143 Haggard? Fuck. He never looked better. Mmmph.

I never found him attractive in ER, he’s hot as hell now.

I thought Noah was cute in his younger days. Now he's hot!

Agree with all who think Noah is upping the hotness/daddy factor. He's knocking me out!

That's just the Body Odour, r155.

So it looks like we’re going to end with some ER-style melodrama. They couldn’t resist.

Since it was supposed to be an ER reboot in the first place, I guess not

It wasn't supposed to be an ER reboot, though.

I did not need to see that birth

did not know that doctor plain jane was Cranston's daughter.

also did not know that elfin doctor whitaker is 34. he looks like a sickly 17 year old.

He’s also a Brit —from Wales.

R160 Were the birth images CGI? They were pretty amazing.

Yes, I think a mass shooting at the music festival is a cheap way to end a serious that was about more common realities ...and the variety of small moments that are life and death in an emergency ward.

^^^^Why not, commonplace now!^^^^

McKay looks so much like her father.

It would have been about Carter mourning Benton

R157 a true melodramatic ending would be the shooter be Langdon and not the incel teen.

In Series 2, Dr. Langdon turns to OnlyFans to make enough money to support his family.

even more melodramatic would be the incel shooting Ravi's stepson (or however he described his relationship to him).

Who the hell is Ravi?

HAHAHA I thought his last name was Ravinowich!!!!!!

Turns out the kid is the son of someone Robby used to date. I assumed it was his son. I like the way the show reveals information in layers. I’ll be very disappointed if he or his unreasonably attractive girlfriend gets shot, or if the sullen boy is the shooter, but it seems almost inevitable that one of those things will happen.

Well, now we know Robbie and Collins were an item back in the day.

I think there was enough foreshadowing to know that something is going to happen to his not-really-stepson.

We knew that from the first or second episode… R173

I work in a hospital, but not a teaching one. I find it hard to believe that an intern doctor like Santos would be able to speak to other interns that way as if she is somehow superior and act like instructions from residents above her are optional. Her behavior is not professional and why would the attending allow it?

Because she doesn’t do it in front of him, does she?

She has been spoken to about her behavior, so it’s not being allowed. If she keeps it up, she’ll be disciplined.

Remember, it’s her first day.

Could that blond queen have been any more stereotypical? Jesus.

I just binged the show so far.

The closeups on the medical stuff, like the birth and the foot of the woman who fell on the subway track, was not for the squeamish.

I like the concept that each episode is one hour of a single day although the season is supposed to be 15 episodes, so that makes for a long shift.

It's been renewed for a second season already.

[quote] Turns out the kid is the son of someone Robby used to date. I assumed it was his son.

Mmm hmm, you know that fine Dr Robby is down with the swirl! 👸🏾👨🏻‍⚕️

I thought the kid was the son of Robby’s colleague who died from Covid.

Makes sense if he was supposed to be Eriq LaSalle’s kid.

^^did they have a butt baby?

[quote]I thought the kid was the son of Robby’s colleague who died from Covid.

Apparently, it's his kid.

[quote]The Pitt built up to the reveal after Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) gave his son, Jake (Taj Nico Speights), tickets to a music festival.

He explained that Jake is not his son in the last episode.

Someone claiming to be involved in production claimed on Reddit that Dr Collins is not returning next season.

It would be great to see a young, sexy, white gal, perhaps an Aussie, replacing her in the ER, to mix things up a bit. I mean, the Collins character was great but in the post-DEI world, wouldn’t it be great to see Dr Robby with, say, a redhead?

You’re an asshole, but I expect you know that.

[woosh!]

You’re still an ass

Incel son being the shooter would be something out of Grey’s Anatomy. But I won’t hold it against The Pitt if he is.

Alan Sepinwall:

"And speaking of David, it seemed inevitable that there would be a mass casualty of some kind this season. And between the potential threat of David and all the talk about Jake (clarified here to be the son of one of Robby’s exes) going to Pittfest, something bad happening there in particular made sense. So we head into the season’s endgame with the terrible news that there’s an active shooter at the festival. Having seen the next few episodes — some of them multiple times, because I’m addicted to this show like few in recent memory — all I can say is, buckle up."

Is that from Twitter r193?

No, R194, it's from Sepinwall's Substack:

[quote]It would be great to see a young, sexy, white gal, perhaps an Aussie, replacing her in the ER, to mix things up a bit. I mean, the Collins character was great but in the post-DEI world, wouldn’t it be great to see Dr Robby with, say, a redhead?

I actually think Dr. Collins is pretty. I will say this about DEI, it's brought a lot of very talented actors and actresses into roles that we'd never have otherwise seen.

Also, remember that the "post-DEI world" would also likely mean fewer gay characters on shows and fewer gay storylines.

What I'd really rather see is Dr. Collins stay and a very hot gay doctor show up next season. Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) is passably hot, but who knows how long he's going to be around after stealing drugs.

Fiona Dourif really impressed me on 'Chucky.' I may tune in just for her.

Comment I saw on Reddit: [quote] They sure are getting their money's worth out of that prosthetic vagina

Bwahahaha!

The cutting the chest wall entirely open scene for burn victim guy (who's probably toast, Langdon is right) was really gross to me.

The burn victim is -- toast?

Hahaha.

Is Mateo gay?

R200 I was thinking that would be the reveal forMateo because I wasn’tbuying his whole “I don’t date colleagues” act.

He was going for spa treatments on their Sunday off with Dr McKay, and probably brunch, so that’s my guess.

It was a joke about Nicole Kidman charging her way onto any remotely prestige TV project she can, r196.

Heaven help me, imagine taking any post complaining about DEI with any seriousness.

To R201, in "real life" you should never date your colleagues or co-workers.

If it ends badly, problems can arise from the breakup!!

But that’s in Philly. Pittsburgh is probably different.

“I see hair!”

What is Myrna being treated for and why was she in cuffs?

She’s nutz

This last episode was exciting - but it was all sizzle and no steak.

We only get minor insight into any of the characters while they all just raced around.

I have a bad feeling on why they can't find Dr. Collins after she left early.

Dumb Dora^^

I'm just glad hot little Patrick Ball is back.

Boring!!

Now [bold]that[/bold] seemed like an episode of ER.

I’m glad this wasn’t an ER continuation because I would not want to see Dr. Benton die. His relationship with Carter was my favorite part of the show. Thanks for suing, Crichton family!

Love Robby- authoritative without being bossy, so damn competent, able to admit when he’s wrong and listens to others, swoon.

Matteo is simply adorable.

Santos- she can leave, stat! Take Garcia with you.

The charge nurse getting punched in the face by that dickhead patient made me audibly gasp. That rarely happens, so, kudos!

I feel bad for David’s mom. I’m hoping he’s not the shooter, but he probably is. I bet Jake’s gf was on his list and Jake got shot (not fatally) protecting her.

I hope Collins is back next season, I like her.

We never need to see McKay’s ex or his gf again. They were obnoxious.

Shawn Hatosy is looking good with the salt and pepper hair. But there can be only one Jack Abbott and he lives in Genoa City, Wisconsin.

Myrna is on the loose! Beware!

The first few episodes were great because they were mainly about the work, but I see some personal drama coming through and I’m not a fan (i.e. McKay’s family drama). Keep it away.

The actress playing Santos sucks on this show just like she sucked on Picard.

[quote] But there can be only one Jack Abbott and he lives in Genoa City, Wisconsin.

I wish the plot on The Pitt was a mass shooting of grown men who watch soap operas.

That would save time scrolling on DL, for sure.

Very excited for the next episode. I am rewatching the previous 2 in preparation.

^a little too excited, of you ask me.

^ I won’t deny it.

Robby is still pissed off at Langdon.

I started to roll my eyes at Noah Wyle’s big Emmy bait breakdown scene but he just about pulled it off.

I thought that scene was a bit much. A career ER doctor would not be so grief-stricken at deaths of patients . I know it’s the anniversary of the death of his mentor, but that’s a loss he is feeling everyday for four years and I don’t buy that the date itself is so traumatic. He’s obviously sad for his step-son, but he never met the girlfriend. The calm-and-in-charge exterior while breaking down inside is a cliché I didn’t need to revisit.

Interesting interview with HBO/Max CEO Casey Bloys about The Pitt:

I agree that the grief about his mentor feels contrived and frankly unnecessary. But that apart, Wylie is killing this season with his performance.

He’ll certainly be up for an Emmy as Lead Actor in a series. But if Stephen Graham is also in that category for “Adolescence,” Wylie would be far from a shoo-in.

How many times in this series have people been taken to "a quiet place" to have "tough" conversations, or break downs, or deep self-reflections. It happens, I suppose, even in an ER... but every episode? It seems a go-to device for the writers. I don't think it's wrong or unusual for Wylie to be so upset he couldn't save the girlfriend, but his rushing back to be alone in a room and rolling around the floor, weeping with collective grief... didn't really work for me. So many other ways to show his "humanity" and pain.

I look forward to the series every week... as was said upthread, it's a different pleasure to have to wait a week rather than streaming a whole series... and the actually medical procedures and the human responses to them (doctors and patients both) are the more interesting to me than the plot. The balloon angioplasty up the femoral artery: "Who did this? Who told you you could do this?!! Don't ever do this again!! ... way to go, that's badass, you saved a life..."

I'm just glad the season didn't end with some god awful cliffhanger knowing it will probably be at least a year for S2 to come out.

[quote]I'm just glad the season didn't end with some god awful cliffhanger knowing it will probably be at least a year for S2 to come out.

The season's not done yet.

The article at r222 says they are going to move quickly into production of Season 2 so that it will be ready for January 2026. One of the reasons they went with a traditional TV series format and budget was to reduce the gap between seasons.

Pittsburgh twitter loves The Pitt but complains about the lack of yinzer representation.

Okay I will ask...What is "Yinzer representation"!

Having people who grew up in Pittsburgh and talk the talk, n’at.

plural you. yinz = y’all in the South, or youse in NYC/Philly

When I heard people in PA with that accent, it always sounded like "you'uns" to me.

But "yinz" is close enough.

It was pronounced "youns" until some parvenu at CMU started a blog called Yinzburgh in the late '80s. And it's been "yinz" ever since.

Anyone actually from Philly would know it refers to Pittsburgh 🤔

Hmmmm

Just started watching.

Fast paced and really pulls you in

So good.

Dr fucking google!

I guess Collins really did go to bed and then turn her phone off.

Good for her.

I want to be the middle of a Dr. Robby/Dr. Abbott sandwich! Those middle aged hotties are really doing it for me.

Matteo can watch

I love how you think r241

When does the next season start?

I'll take Dr. Langdon's druggie ass.

I don't care for medical dramas and never watched ER, but this show is really good.

That kid that's not the shooter is really getting on my nerves. You're being 5150'd, too bad you don't like it. Shut up and stop whining. You got yourself here with your list and posts.

Cameo from Brad Dourif was awesome!

It hit me today that I've had a thing for Noah Wyle for 30 years now. Holy fuck, I'm old.

He still looks good, though.

R244, I got a feeling the drugs were for his wife.

No, he was using the drugs. The snitch tattletale resident found two empty med bottles. He was injecting as well as taking pills.

Snitches get stitches.

[quote]No, he was using the drugs. The snitch tattletale resident found two empty med bottles. He was injecting as well as taking pills.

I think we can all agree that he should have done the right thing and sold his ass for drugs, like other addicts, instead of abusing his position.

I'm first in line to pay for his ass!

I didn’t recognise grampa Brad!

The new season will start in January.

R253 “A douchebag name for a douchbag guy!”

Good line.

I was like Papa McKay is a firecracker! Now I realise it’s a great actor in the role, it makes sense.

Where’s Myrna?! They’d better find her crazy ass soon.

Grandpa was Brad Dourif?

I didn't recognize him at all.

Great line about ex's name, though.

I stopped watching doc shows quite some time ago. I worked it and they don't come close to the real deal. Pretty much a fairy tale. Show me the blood, guts and psych trauma and I might tune in.

Several ER doctors/nurses have said The Pitt is one of the most realistic depictions of an ER ever on TV, r259.

I have never really cared for medical shows, but I am hooked on this one.

It’s very well received on nursing TikTok and medical TikTok.

Season 2 will be set several months later during the 4th of July weekend.

I kind of think the Crichton estate has a point .

[quote] The complaint claimed that when Crichton sold Warner Bros. the screenplay for what became the pilot episode of ER, Warner Bros. promised that no subsequent productions derived from ER would go forward without Crichton's consent. The suit further alleged that after negotiating unsuccessfully with Crichton's estate for nearly a year for the right to reboot ER, Warner Bros. "simply moved the show from Chicago to Pittsburgh, rebranded it The Pitt, and has plowed ahead without any attribution or compensation for Crichton and his heirs."

After a hard day at work I just want to watch crime, emergency rooms, Coroners and zombies. It relaxes me..

Sherri Alexander Crichton was the last of Michael Crichton's five wives. She was only married to him for 2 1/2 years. That gold-digging cunt can go suck on a fucking tailpipe.

I don't care, she's right

The Pitt is not a copy of ER, it's just set in an ER like a million other shows have done.

They were already producing it as an ER reboot with Wyle and John Wells attached.

But then they went in a different direction.

Yeah. They moved it to Pittsburgh and changed Carter’s name. That’s obviously completely different.

If you've watched the show it's not a copy of ER.

That’s not the argument, though —is it?

The argument is they violated the rights as specifically negotiated.

What makes THE PITT different is that the whole season (15 episodes representing 15 successive hours) is taking place in one day during a single shift for the doctors and nurses. And there have been countless series since ER that take place in an emergency room. Netflix has a new series like that, and they also have THE RESIDENT, a series that ran for five or six seasons on the Fox network, also about an emergency room.

On the other hand, Wylie and Wells were indeed working on an ER reboot, so it’s a coin toss as to which way a judge and /or jury will go.

But Crichton was a political reactionary, and this latest wife barely new him. His royalties must be running down or else she wouldn’t have gone for this money grab. But the series is a big hit so she came sniffing around. Contemptible.

*cuntemptible

The legal action was already underway before the show came out.

There is nothing similar about Wyle's character or the format of the show.

As a matter of fact, Dr. John Carter would have folded like a cheap suit during the shooting aftermath.

They tried to negotiate a spinoff. It didn't work, so they changed gears and retooled a different show. Now, if ANY of the ER main cast shows up, that's a different story. They would clearly be playing on the foundation ER built.

But, this has as much similarity or continuity with ER as any other medical procedural that has aired since. Frankly, if this were successful and if I were Shonda Rimes, I'd be suing too for ripping off Grey's Anatomy,

You can’t look at this in isolation. They signed a contract that they would not further develop the ER concept without Crichton’s permission and they attempted and failed to get that permission, then went ahead anyway. I’m not sure that they are going to be successful saying “well, it’s not exactly like “ER.”

Like it, but it's really diminished as the season has gone on. Novelty goes a long way. After episode 9, it was diminishing returns - not that it was terrible or anything.

R277 Especially if any ER concept they might have developed included the death of Benton, as rumored

There's nothing special about this show. It has tried to be compelling, but falls short. It's not an awful show it's just ok.

Different strokes for different folks

I just want to say, I want Shawn Hatosy in me, quite deeply.

Agreed r262

Love this show! It concentrates on the medical aspect and how it affects the doctors and nurses etc, and not the personal love life shit. I’m actually rewatching, but I have an incredibly stupid question. I did catch where they said the actual shooter was killed, and it wasn’t the disturbed boy, but were any details revealed as to who the shooter was?

I would like Noah inside my sugar walls

[quote]I would like Noah inside my sugar walls

I would like Noah inside my shitter walls

Robinavitch's nose looks a lot bigger than Carter's.

[quote]I want Shawn Hatosy in me, quite deeply.

If you want to see more of him, see if you can find a series called "Southland." It's a great series with a gay storyline.

Shawn Hatosy (now with graying hair) is currently playing a secondary character on Chicago PD. And yes, do see SouthLAnd.

Regina King!

My sister, who worked directly with LAPD, gave that show props for a decent take on cop life in LA.

So sexy

Did they leave the hospital when Melissa picked up her sister?

If so, only time all season.

I can think of few places I would less want to spend time than in an overcrowded, understaffed, underfunded e/r.

It amazes me people want to watch a show about that.

I don’t want to spend time in a concentration camp or an amusement park with malfunctioning dinosaurs but it creates good drama.

He was sued

Does anyone know if it’s pronounced while or wiley?

Crichton’s widow is suing, claiming The Pitt is a rip off of ER.

Maybe the surviving creators of St Elsewhere should sue Crichton’s estate for ripping them off in the first place.

I don’t think the estate would have a case against a third party producing this show, but Crichton had a contract with Warner Bros. that said they can’t do it without Crichton’s permission.

It’s nothing like cheeseball ER.

That said, I imagine they will settle.

R296 - Wiley.

R300 Thank you

r83, worked with Sherry, and ER really burned her out.

Redditors were suggesting a spin off of the Pitt with the night shift version, with Shawn Hatosy's character as the lead doctor- I would watch that too.

Noah Wylie's characters on the two shows could not be more different. This lawsuit is frivolous.

It’s not a copyright suit. It’s a contract suit. Pay attention!

The widow claims breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, as well intentional interference with contract.

These are well established “breach” claims under California contract law.

God damn I love Jack Abbot. What a great character. And Shawn Hatosy has the perfect amount of grey hair right now. Love the curls. Yum. I’d definitely be like Myrna and ogle him openly if I saw him.

He’d better be back next season. Maybe they’ll move him to the day shift.

R304,

Yeah, yeah. I get it. But the Widow Crichton started complaining about the show just being an unofficial and unapproved sequel to ER.

Realizing that that argument has no chance of winning, she and her lawyers have now started screaming about a breach of contract law.

They may have a case there, but even then I doubt this will go very far. Their deal went south. The creative team made something different as a result. This happens all the time.

All that said, this will come down to the finer details of the contracts and what actually went down, details none of us really know at the moment.

R306 Hatosy was too boyish for me even in Southland, he is pretty much perfect now.

[quote] Realizing that that argument has no chance of winning, she and her lawyers have now started screaming about a breach of contract law.

That’s absurd. It was always about the contract. There is no other cause of action. You can’t own the idea of a TV show set in an ER.

Their defense is going to have to be that the changes that they made after failing to get the estate’s consent make the show different enough from what was originally discussed that they are not in breach. Probably a losing argument. They are gambling that the damages they will have to pay are more in line with what they were offering the estate than what the estate was asking for..

"You can't own the idea of a TV show set in an ER."

Correct. But essentially, that's what Team Crichton is trying to do. The creatives changed their show significantly, and the Widow Crichton didn't like being left out of this new show. What had originally been discussed was a follow-up/continuation of ER. The creative team went another direction (for whatever reason, and there were probably multiple reasons) and now the Widow Crichton is one angry sourpuss, especially after the show's turned out to be a great success.

No. They had a deal with Warner’s limiting Warner’s ability to produce an ER-like show. They can’t prevent anyone else from making the show, but they can prevent Warner’s, or at least make Warner’s pay them. Because Warner’s AGREED to this.

Sounds like everyone will be coming back.

We really don’t know the details of the contract. If the contract spells out “ER-like” show without details, then yes, they have a case. But if the contract calls out a continuation of the tv show ER, then no.

It’s neither. No one would be same lame as to agree to either of those. It’s more complicated, based solely on the two main causes of actions.

so lame*

Of course the contract is open to interpretation. That’s why there’s litigation. If you are really so interested, you can probably read about it (perhaps even read it) in the court filings.

I'm so glad that snack Patrick Ball is returning.

[quote]and now the Widow Crichton is one angry sourpuss, especially after the show's turned out to be a great success.

The gold-digging bitch was only married to him for two years and made out with a fortune.

Is it normal for hospital workers not to wear masks while working on patients? That one young kid got pissed on and blood spattered all over him in one day All I could think was "why isn't he wearing a mask?" Is this normal or a production decision for tv?

A YouTube doctor said that Whittaker would have washed his face right away. Not looked horrified and stammered for 30 seconds but right away.

And also the request of the patient who did not want medical student Whittaker to do a procedure on him would have been respected; because Whittaker isn’t an actual doctor, Dr Mohan was right there, patient rights are a thing and they could be opening the hospital up to a lawsuit if even a non-negligent negative result of the procedure had occurred.

He also said that Collins would not have done a second ultrasound on the fetish of the teenager, and that her panic about the medical abortion was for naught because drugs can be prescribed off label.

He liked the show very much, however, and said it was very accurate.