Drama Noah Wyle Returns to His Roots in HBO Max's The Pitt

Going yo be sad when this season is done. Long wait for the next one
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Hope it's only a year. Pure torture to have to wait longer. :p
 
Amazing, praised for a normal television production.
 
Just binged watched this, I thought it was excellent. Funny, moving, managed to capture that early ER magic while still feeling like its own thing.
 
Definitely not going to be a "watch while I am eating" show.
 
I really enjoyed the 2 episodes I've watched, but man, does it hit some of my triggers.
 
Welp, I'm just going to cry myself to sleep after episode 8.
 
Just finished it. 15 hour long episodes feels luxurious in this day and age. And man, I love this cast of characters. Even the night shift as they started to come on. I hope we get an hour before and an hour after the shift rather than keep doing mass trauma incidents.

Next season is supposed to be a holiday, so fireworks are going to be really fun.
 
I finally got back to this show and finished it last week, and I'm happy to admit that my initial impressions were wrong. Once all of the plot threads started converging towards the end, the show was firing on all cylinders.

I'm still watching ER, but now that I'm in the final seasons (currently watching season 13), the show has been running on fumes. All of the original cast members are gone, and the network TV-ness of having no clear narrative focus has robbed the series of any creative focus. I'm also how at the point in the show's lifespan where other medical dramas were stealing its thunder (like Grey's Anatomy and House), and you can definitely feel interference from executive to try and emulate those more successful shows.

The Pitt is definitely a more refined version of ER. Because the scripts weren't written on the fly as episodes were being shot, the writers could plan ahead and give every character a meaningful storyline and make sure they had a fitting payoff at the end. They also didn't have to worry about actors leaving for better opportunities, which was a major problem on ER (it was so distracting how many times characters were recast or just awkwardly written out).

I'm just glad we have a proper TV show again, where the vision of the creatives is perfectly suited to the constraints of the small screen and is designed to showcase its strengths.
 
I'm still on season 1 of ER so it's still quite brilliant to me. Not looking forward to seeing those cast changes down the road. Makes me think I might not last all 13 seasons.
 
I'm still on season 1 of ER so it's still quite brilliant to me. Not looking forward to seeing those cast changes down the road. Makes me think I might not last all 13 seasons.
There's actually fifteen seasons. The cast changeovers are usually pretty gradual, so it's not such a big deal most of the time. Thankfully, the writing is more or less consistently solid, which helps smooth things over. That said, I think most (if not all) of the final season's cast is new, so I'm still not sure if I'll watch it or not. I guess it depends on if the writing is still good it not. I've never watched any show that was longer than eight seasons, though, so this is a new experience for me.

Season Thirteen has been the biggest jolt so far, though, as the show has become more overtly melodramatic and has started using pop songs like Grey's Anatomy was famous for. The opening credits have also been jettisoned, which might seem insignificant, but to me signifies a broader shift to try appealing to modern audiences. Even though season thirteen came out in 2006, it still feels like a nineties show. To me, that's a good thing, as it's more interested in grounded, human drama than being hip and flashy, but I can understand how executives would see that as a bad thing.
 
I binged this a few weeks ago and it was far better than I expected. Looking forward to season 2.
 

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