Is ‘The Pitt’ Building an Emmy Dynasty? Why Noah Wyle’s Medical Drama Is Poised to Make History Again

The only thing I hate about The Pitt is when the credits roll. I could easily sit and watch an entire 13-14 hours of the Pitt in one sitting 😄

I didn't follow shows like ER back in the day, but it seems like by sheer force of numbers and crowd pleasing factor massive ensemble casts in medical dramas almost by nature make for big Emmy numbers. Like in any given season you've got 4 members of each sex that could be competing for best supporting.

It's a great show and there is very little competition in Drama. I think a lot of people thought with Pluribus being a new Giliigan show, it might have come in and been the big new thing. I don't think Pluribus met those expectations though, and at least for now it is absolutely not dethroning The Pitt....not even close.

I was lucky to get into The Pitt season 1 when it was almost done. Got to binge the whole thing in a few weeks. Season 2 week by week has been a different experience.

The Emmys are one of the laziest awards out there, so if nothing new (and popular) comes along to catch the voters' attention, The Pitt is going to spend years sweeping the drama and acting categories. Most Emmy votes are pretty much on autopilot.

And it deserves everything. Truly a remarkable series, from someone that doesn't care about medical dramas, the show hooks you from the start and doesn't let go. Please do yourself a favor if you haven't seen it

Hoping we get like 10+seasons of this show. Very captivating.

Season 2 isn't close to the level of 1. Still enjoyable though.

Katherine LaNasa should go Lead, not Supporting. she's the heart of the show

Am I the only one not enjoying this season nearly as much as the first? I feel like the first one blended the social issues in to the narrative a lot better, this season is like half medical drama and half hot button social issues where they borderline look into the camera and say "wow isn't this just like what's happening in the news??" before shifting back into hard medical stuff. Season 1 it felt like the social issues were woven into the plot of the show instead of randomly showing up for an episode. Idk it's felt a lot more jarring this season, I definitely don't feel as "in the world" of the ER as I did the first season. Just me?

I’m so sick of hospital shows and the nonsense drama. Everyone is saying this is awesome. Is it awesome for a hospital drama or is it legit the best show on tv in general?

Please give us two seasons a year. Night shift and day shift

It's one of the very, very few shows where I don't have my phone out doom scrolling with it in the background. All the other TV shows my wife always wants to watch Law & Order / Chicago I can read my phone and stay up with the show, without losing track of what's going on.

I just don't really like this second season very much, writing feels way different than first season. 

I liked s01 considerably more when I could watch every episode back-to-back. S02 is perfectly fine. Bu watching it episodically really makes the show come off as worse to me. idk if I just don't like it as much, or I'm just more aware of how little actually happens when episodes don't bleed together. I think it's the latter. Also, relax, it's just a perfectly decent hospital drama show. They haven't done anything special or reinvented something interesting.

I thought season 2 was pretty meh.

I wish we got more tv shows with this high quality, like this is The wire, battlestar galactica, the shield, star trek deep space nine super quality.

doesn't hurt that you actually get a new season every year instead of every 3

my sister watches this show religiously, she's in the medical field(sports medicine); her co-workers all love this show.

Yeah, probably. Something to keep in mind when you wonder why this "crowd pleaser" keeps getting all this recognition is medical dramas are insanely popular. Like cop/detective shows, it's a versatile storytelling formula that audiences historically f****** love. While there have been other good prestige-era medical dramas (The Knick), The Pitt is basically perfects the formula. It's not a show without laws and it's not reinventing the wheel, but it's f****** good TV. It has a simple gimmick (15 hrs real time in a teaching hospital ER, all locked to the hospital setting) with a stacked cast of amazing actors. You'll hate some of the characters, but the performances are all great and their stories are compelling. So, of course it's going to sweep the awards. It's awards candy. I liked Severance more last year, and probably had more fun with Fallout this year, but it's foolish to deny what the Pitt has accomplished. Of course the Emmy's will love it. Don't give your hearts to award shows, fans.

Noah is so good I’ve put him down as my PCP.

As I get older, days, weeks, months seem to fly by. Except the next Thursday can't come fast enough! The Pitt has me hooked.

I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I think The Pitt is such a lazy, preachy show. Compared to ER, which actually has strong characters and plot lines, The Pitt is just a list of grievances about patients and medical how-tos with flat, stereotypical characters. The dialogue does nothing but deliberately set up soapboxes or in-jokes, and the faint semblances of a plot (e.g., the concert shooting, one doctor being addicted to pills) are all once again just setups to preach. The whole show is practically a montage of those “spend a day with me as an ER doctor” TikToks and some random doctor’s “here’s how bad the healthcare field is” TikToks. ER did everything with nuance and good writing, whereas The Pitt just regurgitates online talking points and occasionally shows you a p**** for shock value.

I honestly don't know if Noah Wyle is a lock for S2 of *The Pitt*. Maybe we'll see something in these last episodes that obviously gives him a showcase moment, but we haven't had anything on the level of his Post-Pittfest speech to the team, or his breakdown in the makeshift morgue. I do think it'll beat out *Pluribus* for Best Drama, but it could also be the opposite: There's a chance that the voters have realized they fucked up by giving NOTHING to *Better Call Saul*, and might be eager to correct that oversight with Gilligan's next show. Lead Actress is basically Rhea Seehorn's to lose, which (again) would also serve as Justice For Saul. Like other big ensembles, I feel like *Pitt* will mostly start to cannibalize its own nominations. I hope the producers are thoughtful and tactical about their For Your Consideration campaigns, and that they discuss their process fairly openly with the cast so no one feels burned.

It's gonna rack up an insane amount of Emmys every year just because half of the other prestige TV shows aren't even competing any given year.

I find The Pitt super interesting to watch especially knowing how accurate (relatively) it is. The cast is fantastic but man I just find it DRAINING. I find it’s just so much sadness constantly that it takes a lot of the ‘enjoyment’ out of it for me. It’s a bit of a shallow opinion of it given the subject matter but I feel like I can’t seem to view it the same way as many others. Which sucks because I really appreciate the quality of the production.

Maybe I’m weird and like multiple settings like the outdoors and other buildings. For that reason I can’t watch it. It just takes place in a windowless ER room. Like I can watch severance because at least half the time they’re outside of the windowless office

Noahs acting, specifically towards the second half of this season, is absolutely incredible. Some of these latest scenes have been so powerful.

The Pitt also has one thing going for it: 10+ hours of show per season. Not to say smaller sample sizes don't contend, but when your show is *very* character-acting oriented, your sure to see the best display of an actor's abilities showcased.

I still enjoy it but season 2 hasn’t been as good as season 1. The shooting plot was much more interesting than the cyberattack. Plus the side story of Langdon stealing drugs is better than any side story this season. As for Emmy competition, I think Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the best show I’ve seen thus far this year

I've always wondered why this sub is so obsessed with the Emmys. It's a terrible show with a terrible history of winners that are mostly political voted on by people who don't seem to watch a lot of TV. It's like caring about a Grammy.

For me it's deserved. Look at the other nominees and The Pitt is the most audience friendly critical hit out of them all. You can recommend this show to pretty much any casual tv watcher. Andor did have a case but The Pitt being a realistic feeling show puts it over for me. I wouldn't mind it winning best drama again. Noah and the head nurse should take some acting noms.

It's insane when you think about it, what they're accomplishing. 45-60 minute episodes, 15 episode seasons, no 3 year wait between seasons, and not to mention the show itself is better than pretty much anything else on TV in a long time. They deserve all they praise they receive.

S2 is a pretty big step down from S1 imo. That being said, it’s still the best thing on TV by a massive margin. It’s almost magical how good the show is.

It's found a sweet spot where it's the perfect marriage of the stuff network television does well and what streaming does well. It's heavily serialized in a way you need to start at the beginning like we get from most streaming dramas. But it's got the one location set, modest budget, quick turnaround, and full season every year that network television always delivered.

Watched season 1 episode by episode..then binge watched season one..season 2 watching episode by episode..waiting for the end..then binge watching it..btw I own e.r. all seasons..binge watched it 4 times..( season 6 and 8 my favs)..winter is long in northern ontario..

It’s one of those shows that just really pulls on my heart strings. I constantly find myself getting choked up during the emotional scenes and that is rare for me. Plus, as a medical professional, they keep it accurate which helps keep me in the moment.

It’s because it’s smarter and doesn’t have plot breaks to explain shit to people on their phones.

Pull a Bear and list it as a Comedy and will all the awards.

I'm just so happy they have a season every year. Waiting for shows like Severance or even Pluribus is rough. Always have to rewatch the previous seasons before the new seasons air because I forgot what happened like I did with Severance S1.

It’s kinda funny that I’m obsessed with a show where I don’t understand 85% of the dialogue—it might as well be in Chinese.