It's been touched upon in the TV reccos show but thought it deserves its own thread. Just caught up with all the episodes so far and it's easily one of the best shows of the last year. A medical drama, working a bit in the 24 format where each episode is an hour in real time. Most definitely worth a watch!
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It's been touched upon in the TV reccos show but thought it deserves its own thread. Just caught up with all the episodes so far and it's easily one of the best shows of the last year. A medical drama, working a bit in the 24 format where each episode is an hour in real time. Most definitely worth a watch!
Very good show. Tense as it gets
Meh. Too much medical lingo and talking too fast. I’ll give it another episode before i give up on it.
Quite impressive thus far.
Still yet to receive a UK air date...
I don’t watch medical stuff really but the ratings for this are very good. So might give it a go.
It's excellent.
It's the new ER and it's fantastic.
The medical lingo can get overwhelming initially but you get used to it soon.
It's certainly the best medical show that's come since then! Leagues beyond House and Grey's, imo. Also, a 14/15 episode season is a refreshing throwback to the older days of longer seasons. Plus, they've already promised that the next season will come out 8 months after this finishes. As long as they can maintain the quality of this season, I'm really happy with that.
It’s fantastic. Comfortably the best new show of the year so far for me.
Noah Wyle’s agent is an outside the box thinker. “What do you mean typecast? It’s a completely different hospital. Different city. Do you see George Clooney anywhere?”
Plus he has a beard!
Yup, it's even been better than new seasons of older shows like White Lotus and Severance.
I'm actually surprised it's so good given the whole original premise was probably some HBO execs going "hear me out, what if we just.. brought the dude from E.R. - you know, the guy who can't get any tv work anymore - back to do another hospital show?"
“Shiiiiit, why didn’t you mention the beard thing earlier. How many seasons do you want?”
Looks shite. Also the way they spell Pitt annoys me. Is that yer man’s surname?
It's set in Pittsburgh ya melt.
Ok. Slightly less annoyed now. Only slightly.
Christ, what a show.
Another great episode, the newest one.
It’s graphic to say the least. Babies coming out, open wounds, and operations. I’ve been covering my eyes in every episode. Easily the most realistic and best medical drama I’ve seen. The rest were just prime time soap operas disguised as medical dramas.
That was a little too much for me... But I'm OK with the rest.
It's an excellent show. It's hard for a show to stand out nowadays and a lot of decent stuff get too much praise, but this really is great and something I'm looking forward to every week.
Another good quality is that the show is a bit too heavy and intense to binge in one shot, to the extent that its hard to digest the litany of depressing stories of each patient situation and how the medical staff grapple emotionally between jumping back and forth between minor injuries and death.
I don't really binge shows but at first I thought that the nature of The Pitt really fits a binge because it's a continuous day, but it probably is better that it allows you a breather between episodes.
Also, they've been able to do that with relatively short episodes. Around 50 minutes at first, and even less than 45 in recent weeks, which is not a given nowadays with all sorts of shows doing episodes of an hour and more (without really justifying it). None of that here. Everything is normally very focused.
I know the show can be intense but I did find it binge worthy, tbh. Finished off the 13/14 episodes in around 4-5 sittings of 3 episodes or so each. It's not really made to binge but the acting all around was so good, I couldn't stop watching.
Love this show. Love watching all the youtube doctors break down the episodes as well. Made me start watching ER again.
I'd read some articles about this earlier but do these doctors believe the show is medically realistic in terms of how they portray the cases?
Season 2 has apparently been greenlit. Well deserved.
Absolutely.
Varies. I'd suggest watch the YouTube summaries from docs after each ep. I'm loving it.
It's quite interesting, you get one doctor that says "oh this is so unrealistic, this would never happen" then you get another that says "Oh my god this happened to me!"
Then you get one doctor that says "the trollies must have the sides up! They should never not have the sides up!" And another that says "you'd never get an ER doc with enough time to do this!"
So... No, it's obviously not perfectly realistic, it's still TV. But it's much closer than every other medical show? (Except ER?)
Yup! It'll take place ten momths after the events of this season and is set over the 4th of July weekend.
I like the bits of humour like the intern who has to keep changing his scrubs (albeit only watched five episodes so not sure how long that lasts)
Watched episode 1. Thought it was OK but nothing outstanding.
I'm 7 episodes in and it's fecking fantastic. Been moved to tears a fair few times.
A medical drama you say 
Really enjoying this - one of the best medical dramas I’ve seen. Though Dr Santos is quite annoying with all the risks she takes and just oh so happens to pull them off.
I liked her in Picard
Never seen her in anything before this.