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January 27, 2025 5:13 AM - Season 1, Episode 4 - Subscribe

Bets are taken on the whereabouts of a stolen ambulance, while Santos takes a hard lesson, and Whitaker helps to tame "The Kraken".

The Pitt Recap: The Four Most Important Things [Vulture / Archive]
posted by ellieBOA (7 comments total)
 
Written by Noah Wylie. Did not see that coming.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 9:53 AM on January 27 [2 favorites]


I am still enjoying this but definitely finding the pacing a bit of a struggle. It feels simultaneously too fast AND too slow, somehow?
posted by In Your Shell Like at 1:05 PM on January 30


I'm not going to say it's my favorite part, because I enjoy the show, but I always have a laugh when the show ends and the popup is "hey, wanna watch ER now?" and there's a picture of like 12 year old Noah Wylie from 1994.
posted by Kyol at 7:14 PM on January 30 [3 favorites]


I really like this show, I'm obsessed with doctor shows in general but I don't have 'tv' so I never see commercials and I found this via posts on FanFare. So thanks for posting it.

I did not need to, uhm, see the Kraken's, let's say, eel. Tentacle? Whatever.

Having been through some difficult hospital situations for myself and my kids, I like the way they portray the doctors' support of the patients and family members. Some shows have the docs do way too much, your doctor is not wheeling you down for a CT scan. But in the way they explain things, in stages, in being patient, in trying to put things in layman's terms, and in offering some emotional support alongside the medicine. I have had some good doctors do that really well. The 'slow' doctor brought back memories of different doctors and nurses who went above and beyond during some really difficult times.
posted by fennario at 11:06 AM on January 31 [1 favorite]


I have to say there's a certain value in Fanfare, even for shows that don't need much discussion, in having a "hey here's a new show, I think it's pretty good, maybe y'all might want to watch it too?" sort of post. Media discovery is probably about the worst it has ever been - general advertising is in the tank, water cooler discussions don't happen while working remotely, etc etc etc. Having a community highlight a thing is valuable.

And yeah, my wife was wondering what the hell channel is airing this after seeing the Kraken's knob, and I'm _pretty_ sure it's streaming only? How do you even tell, these days? I mean, the degloved leg in the first episode was a good indication that we're not in Kansas any more, but whuf. I was thankful that scene didn't go with the misapplication of meds, frankly - Dr. Whitaker has already had a bad enough day without dosing himself up with an antipsychotic.

And the actor who's playing Dr. "We have Chris Pine at Home" Langdon is growing on me, but man that was distracting for the first few episodes.
posted by Kyol at 11:47 AM on January 31 [1 favorite]


Dr. "We have Chris Pine at Home" Langdon

Brilliant!
posted by ellieBOA at 12:28 PM on January 31


Binged the first 4 yesterday; I'm in.

Glad Robbie finally got to piss.

The interns/students are still feeling a little sketched-in, I think. Like, you've got the bullying one; the spectrum-ey one; the precocious one; the sweaty comic-relief one.

The show has been telegraphing "Trinity's overconfidence is going to kill a patient" pretty much from the start and then pulled the punch at the last minute here, with her BiPAP overstep being discovered and corrected in time; I'm still about 50/50 on whether she learns from this and course-corrects or doubles down.

The settings all feel both fairly medically accurate but at the same time necessarily dramatically heightened? It's both gesturing towards the "just stay there and wait" reality of the patient experience and carefully avoiding it when it's necessary to make rapid progress on specific patients for plot reasons. Like: I've been to the ER for gallstone-related abdominal pain and ... they didn't whip out a bedside ultrasound for me! they rolled me down to the CT and ultrasound labs as slots opened up during the night.

Also on accuracy: it's intensely distracting that the ER's status board appears to be ... a Google Sheets spreadsheet?
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:22 PM on February 11 [1 favorite]


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