r/ThePittTVShow

So my wife is a massive medical drama nerd and beyond obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy etc.

I’ve never been a fan but dipped in when I’m cooking and such.

I wanted to watch this given the hype and the hour by hour thing had me intrigued.

Oh man the characters were raw and gripping. The acting was out of this world and we binged two seasons in two or so weeks.

I like how S2 changed the residents up and they were wildly different to S1.

Whittaker is my fave and I need that night shift spin off.

I was just thinking it might be kind of cool if they did a bottle episode of The Pitt. It could be a cool way to get a deeper dive on a couple of characters, and maybe have some characters resolve some issues (example: Santos and Langdon get stuck in the elevator). Good idea or not? And, if you could choose who a bottle episode would be focused on, who would you pick?

So i have started the pitt...And i love it, but theres one problem. I HATE ROBBY!

And i get its supposed to be a show where everyone is the main character, but with the recent interviews i'm genuienly worried that the show is gonna go downhill.

Is this just me?

I think Dr. McKay is a great doctor and I’m very intrigued by her backstory, I can’t wait to see more details of her personal life/pathway to medicine unfold.
So far it’s been revealed that Dr. McKay had an ankle monitor suggesting fairly recent trouble in her personal life, she’s also discussed her sobriety, as well as having experience with dangerous men.

I’ve also noticed that she works chairs/triage which we know Robby uses to ‘cast out’ doctors who have messed up in some way.

Dr. Robby of course had a very emotional response to Langdon’s addiction which could have been mostly due to their close relationship, but could it also indicate that Dr. Robby has a very negative view of addicts?

Is it possible he has similar feelings of disapproval or distrust with McKay? And if so, is that because of a prior mistake we weren’t privy to, or does Dr. Robby distrust her solely because of her personal history?

This stands out to me as the most unrealistic part of the show. You get off your 12 hour shift, and now have 12 hours to get home, get some sleep and eat a real meal before going to back into the proverbial Pitt for another 12 hours. Instead Abbot puts on a uniform to tag along on a raid and intubate under fire and the night shift charge nurse spends half the shift caring for the dying cancer patient. They're getting, what, four hours of sleep? If you're in your early twenties, then you can, to some extend, treat sleep as optional, and pull your weight after 3-4 hours of sleep. But Abbot and Lena are both at an age where your body is just not going to go along with this, not on the regular.

I see a lot of people disappointed with how the season focused on robby's mental health so much. I will admit that i have not watched season 1 so maybe season 1 was perfect and this season was disappointing to people. I for one found a lot of robby's scenes super impactful. I liked how unpredictable he would act, he was such a major dick during most of the season and i think thats super valuable. I think we usually get mentally ill characters who can do no wrong or are the big bad villain instead of complex complicated people who are capable of doing horrible things and who will not get better until they get help/accept help. And we just have to deal with that. I personally dont think he needed to die for that plot line to be considered important. I think its great that we get to see a character who cannot continue living like this and who does not want to live anymore end one of the worst days of his life choosing to live and to love and to keep holding on to hope. Thats just what everyday looks like for us suicidal people, at least thats what it feels like for me. But yeah i want to hear other peoples opinions. From what i can tell for the previous season i feel like the suicidality of robby and abbot was handeled in a weird way, the show started of with almost a suicide attempt very explicit and ends the same way but other than that did it come up again in the season?

A while back I posted about how I thought some of the patient names were a little too on the nose for me, basically that it was such thinly veiled symbolism you’d expect it from a high school writing class. Folks here were not appreciate of that take (the SWAT officer named hero and the deaf person they weren’t treating like a regular person named Harlow Graham…hologram)
I noticed a third one that isn’t really thinly veiled symbolism but couldn’t be a random name.
Later in the season a kid is wheeled in by EMS after shooting himself in the head, he’s singing loudly like an ass, maybe intoxicated?
That patients name…Elbridge Gerry. That is not a common name. It is, in fact, the name of a former vice president who is also where the term and practice of “gerrymander” comes one.
Perhaps the commentary is that gerrymandering is as dumb as this patient?

TL;DR: Pitt patient names are carefully chosen (even if not always cleverly). Patient who shot himself in the head is commentary on our current political turmoil.

I was expecting the >!cyber attack!< thing to be expanded but that fizzled out.

Also felt the >!fireworks!< thing was a missed opportunity.

Instead the major plot line was >!robby big sad without closure(and low stakes as nobody believes his character is getting written off).!<

Still a great watch but id give first season maybe 9.7, and second season maybe 9.3

Only complaining because the standard was set so high in the first season

reallistically how many seasons do you think this show will go on. For me personally i dont see this show lastying longer than 8 years, I would obviously love for this show to go on forever, but thats just not feasible. assuming something major controversial involving actors or the show ratings just tanking how many seasons do you see this show lasting?

As they start production next month (I think, I might be remembering wrong) I wanted to ask if anyone has any early predictions or any thing they’d like to see in season 3 :)

Am I the only one who feels weird at the end when he talks about a bright future while caring for the baby? The world is ending and we just keep pretending it's not. It was probably supposed to be reassuring, but the outright lie only makes everything more hopeless. Although nothing should necessarily be literal, but coupled with strange religious ignorant quotes about fatherhood and how every second character has a child, feels more and more strange. everyone just keeps pretending that everything is normal and recreating as if it is not outright ignorance and cruelty towards their children or even anyone, because there are not enough resources for everyone and if your child will survive, he will take from another.

Maybe in society it's still mostly normalized to have children despite the now and the future, so this is a reflection of it, but given how much social justice stories told through patients that are so on the nose, would have expected a more thoughtful approach. also all of that going on in reality around me too, this is expected, but we don't watch this show for ignorance, which will never be addressed (2 seasons behind already and not a word about what a serious, underestimated problem this is)

i feel like corporations are trying to gain people's trust, so they are funding a purely leftist show, but at the same time push through normalization of the way of life that benefits them. Who in their right mind can have a child these days? Especially educated people, through whom more and more people pass every day, that are on the verge of death due to the collapsing system. is it just laziness of the screenwriters? I wouldn't say that this series is supposed to explore this topic, it just seems so out of touch in our time, especially to do such an ending - i don't see a hopeful scene behind the pile of ignorance or just sad lie sticking out. should it be this way? What hope can there be in a dying world? Especially when people can't admit it to themselves, so there is no talk of changing anything