Noah Wyle on Negotiating With HBO Over ‘The Pitt’ ICE Storyline, Season 3’s Time Jump and Why Paramount Buying Warner Bros. Is ‘Not Good For Labor’

So based on the “different mode of cases that come with a change in weather”/winter statement I am guessing- Slip and fall/ shoveling injuries Icicle injury Frostbite Someone who isn’t able to afford their utility bill/furnace out, no heat type scenario, or a massive outage Massive multi-car/semi-truck pile up on highway due to weather and the hospital being overloaded again

**Noah Wyle on negotiating with HBO over The Pitt Season 2 ICE storyline:** > “The negotiation was being driven by political reasons, creative reasons, fear, uncertainty, all sorts of legitimate reasons. I’ll be honest and say that I was concerned about the edits we were making initially." > "When I saw what we had done, I actually think we arrived at something more elegant and a little bit more restrained, which leaves a little bit more ambiguity in it than we may have started out with. I think it’s healthier for the storyline in the long run. It ended up being show the bear, don’t poke the bear in a lot of ways, which is enough. Because the context came out after we’d filmed that episode, we didn’t have to do half of what we had done. That had already been imprinted into the mind of most Americans." **Noah Wyle on Paramount's WB Acquisition:** > “If there’s any concern, it comes from being a three union card holder who works with a lot of different people in this town who are looking at it very simply — fewer streamers, fewer studios, fewer networks, fewer shows, fewer paychecks,” he says. “It’s not good for membership. It might be good for shareholders, but it’s not good for labor, and that’s been an age-old battle.” **Noah Wyle on the rumours online that he auditioned for the role of Ross Geller in “Friends”:** > It’s not true. “My memory is a little spotty, but I would remember auditioning for ‘Friends,’” he says. “I had a little snobbery about doing TV.” **Noah Wyle on ER (1996), ER Cast Appearing on the cover of Newsweek and Healthcare System in America:** > "I used to tell my agent I would only do movies or plays." Then he read the two-hour pilot script for “ER,” not realizing it wasn’t a feature, since it was written by novelist Michael Crichton (“Jurassic Park,” “Sphere,” and many other bestsellers). > “I thought it was a movie, so I auditioned for it. When I found out it was a show, I didn’t really care, because I thought, it’s so good, they’re going to cancel it. There’s no way this is going to last,” he says. “But I kind of turned my nose up at the idea of a television career, which is ironic, because that’s exactly what I’ve enjoyed for the last 30 years. I love what I thought would be constricting. I found I love the consistency, and what I thought would get boring, I’ve managed to find infinite complexity. And instead of having variety, I’ve found family.” > “It was a big deal at the time because it was ’94 and [Bill] Clinton had newly appointed Hillary to revamp the healthcare industry,” he remembers. “Suddenly, everybody was up in arms, like ‘What does she know about healthcare?’ The headline on the article for Newsweek was: ‘ER,’ a healthcare program that really works.” > “Sadly, not much has changed". “Back in those days, we were talking about 40 million Americans going without health insurance, using emergency rooms as the primary source of health care. And here we are, 30 years later, and that number is doubled, almost tripled, and people won’t even go into emergency rooms to seek that health care for a myriad of reasons.” **Noah Wyle on Season 3 Time Jump:** > “The only time jump we’re interested in making is to get into a different weather season, to get into a slightly different mode of cases that come with a change in weather. If that was summer, then what happens in the winter when you get cold, snow and black ice.”

ER had some blizzard episodes (obviously, it’s Chicago) and those were always really good. I wouldn’t even mind and hour or two where it’s pretty slow before things pick up.

I personally enjoyed how they did the ICE storyline. It was apathetic structural violence. It resonated more with me because it felt almost bureaucratic and cold. It was akin to how the Medicare cuts made various patients suffer this season, and the cruel economic calculations other patients had to make. At the end of the day, ICE isn't a singular "bad" thing. They put people in camps, but the rest of the state apparatus also lets people die on the streets. It's all part of the same institutional beast with many heads.

I still think its funny that fans of The Pitt actually believe hes going to be absent for Season 3. I would almost bet money its his first day back after his sabbatical.

I’m hoping beyond hope Paramount’s buyout falls through such as Ellison losing a lot of his capital or that the state Attorney Generals manage to sue to block the buyout.

He mentioned winter and now I really want to see it be the setting for next season!

Call your congressperson, AG and representative and tell them to oppose the Paramount/WB merger, and explicitly tell them why. Tell them that This consolidation is bad for consumers. It raises prices, eliminates thousands of jobs, especially working and middle class jobs, lowers competition, and takes away consumer choices. Tell them to short the stock too before they reject it for an added incentive Here a list of the congresspeople, lawmakers, and reps of each state around to help [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_current\_United\_States\_representatives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_representatives) [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current) [https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/](https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/) Also make a meme stock out of WB

Love that he pushed for a more “show the bear” approach instead of a lecture. Honestly, biggest thing we can do about the merger is file antitrust comments when regulators open review.

I thought the ICE part was fine and felt realistic. Like if you're on listnook you can go to videos or public freak out and see what they really do making this interpretation pretty mild. Because what did we actual see them do in Pitt? Acted kind of sterile except when the nurse got arrested. And I've seen that on listnook! People trying to to the right thing to stand up to ice and they get arrested. So that's pulled from real world encounters. Robbie's reaction was realistic too. Basically saying "can you just f****** hurry up and leave as we don't want to deal with you."

Paramount buying WB is a tragedy for everyone, not just labor.

I would love a Halloween episode. Dress-up would be fun personality to film for both staff and patients. There’s all sorts of fun, dumb, or violent stuff that happens that night. My BIL was actually born on Halloween. 

Well, good to know I never have to worry about missing anything here.

The goal of capitalism is to not pay anyone for labor. This is why the end result of capitalism is fascism.

New Years Eve ice storm and blackout. Juvadi and Mateo have a big smooch in the break room at midnight.

Am I the only one who thinks he kinda looks like that guy from “The IT Club” in this photo? 

I don't like this season

Ask HCMC. I live in Mpls. Fkn deliver mfers.

The ICE storyline has been well handled.

aren't both daredevil and the boys refering to ICE in their shows?

I haven’t seen the 2nd season. Is the storyline actually good, or is this a Listnook situation where the people Listnook doesn’t like is portrayed as a 1 dimensional a****** and therefore it’s good writing.

So they tried to go modern woke, but the powers that be didn't want to go broke.

The time is ripe for someone to start an anti-political streaming service, as if that’s even possible, lol.