Recommendations of the Editorial team
At one point, in the first season of “The Pitt,” the doctor Dr. Michael “Robbie” Robinavitch – played by Noah Wyle –: “Doctor, help yourself!” Wyle says this with conviction. He wrote the episode. The first season is actually about the doctors in the emergency room of the hospital in Pittsburgh needing help. But there is too little money, too few staff and too few rooms: the doctors are overtired and work 16 hours a day, and the bureaucracy is excessive. And then the people from the administration come.
No private life, no way out
“The Pitt” shows everyday work in the emergency room, each episode is an hour long. There is almost no outside world. In “Emergency Room,” also starring Noah Wyle, the doctors’ private lives were extensively showcased. John Wells produced this groundbreaking series as well as The Pitt. Here and there the Steadicam moves in the middle of the action. You don’t get a feel for the rooms. The emergency room is a labyrinth: There are no rooms, but there is a grief room and surprisingly comfortable bathrooms.
Drastic, bizarre, almost unbearable
“The Pitt” has bizarre plots and shows drastic accidents and illnesses. Sometimes it’s hard to bear. Dr. Robbie’s red eyes evoke the tears he didn’t cry. His mentor died during the corona pandemic. The photo now hangs in the foyer of the clinic.
Season two: Doctors as bad patients
The second season is about, as Noah Wyle puts it, “doctors don’t make good patients.” The conflict between Robbie and the young Dr. Langdon, who stole medication, exemplifies the tensions in emergency medicine. Nurse Dana Evans holds the place together. In every hospital series, the power goes out at some point, followed by cyber attacks and assassinations.
The 4th of July – and four hours of time
And if it’s the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and it’s very, very hot, then we have the second season of The Pitt. Will Dr. Will Robbie ever set off into the forests of Canada on his motorcycle?
He still has four hours.
