Noah Wyle reveals 'concern' after HBO quietly edited 'The Pitt's' anti-ICE episode

now under Ellison’s grasp, it’ll probably be highlighting how good insurance companies and medical debt are for America

Yeah, the episode was still pretty clearly anti-ICE so not sure what is going on here. OK, reading the article, this seems like it was script edits and they dialed it back a bit, and Wyle actually approved of it, and thinks it works better this way. Typical clickbait, I guess.

Gonna have to make this show my wife and I's next watch

this show makes a LOT of very clear points about many important sociopolitical topics. we should always be skeptical about their source, intent, and backers. i wonder if an effort to raise interest in the profession of nursing/medicine played a role in this shows genesis

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if you read the article Noah was happy with the changes. this is a nothingburger. To copy u/sageandginger "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,” said Wyle. “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." The episode filmed in December, the Minnesota ICE killings were in January, and the edits were done before the season premiere in March.

So is this click bait BS? Cause it sounds like he's happy with the final edits.

Glad someone else in the comments actually read the article.  Trashy title is completely misleading.

I’m surprised Bezos lets *The Boys* get away with all their commentary. Homelander and his side are basically Trump and maga now (and it’s hilarious).

Literally there have been so many moments where Fisk says something and I’m like oh hey, Trump said that before in a tweet/speech.

Exactly this. Daredevil has been... Intense.

Pretty sure I read both Daredevil & The Boys current seasons were written before all this bullshit started irl.

How is the new daredevil? The Netflix one was probably one of my favorite shows ever. It’s honestly been a little hard to give the revival a shot.

I’m incredibly surprised Disney let that slide. I thought the mouse had the boot firmly in its mouth at this point.

Lets not use this standard of measurement though… lol Born Again is as subtle as an unmuzzled shotgun and allergic to treating the audience like adults so maybe not Disney+

They’re only allowed to do that because it’s a fictional agency what lmao. Please don’t give them that much credit.

The only unrealistic thing about the ICE episode was that ICE cared enough about someone that they brought them to an emergency room. Otherwise it seemed to be a quite realistic take on it.

These conglomerates are the ones who choose the administrations. Not to be bleak, but we have a ways to go before it gets better.

Demonopolization is incredibly dangerous for people to do. The corporations will find ways to have them eliminated. They control everything. It’s really grim. I hope there’s people working against them.

And not 350lbs

And real ICE definitely wouldn’t have brought anyone to a hospital

My guess was dialog of the ICE agents being racist monsters towards the staff, because they already kinda touched on racist law enforcement with the rent-a-cop tasing the young college student earlier, and maybe also because it was just too on-the-nose?

Probably dialogue that made them more starkly evil.

It’s pretty realistic. I look away from the more gorier prosthetics when they are being used. They have all the typical ER injuries and complaints

So it can get cancelled like everything else?

Netfux is where good shows from other networks go to die.

F****** why?

You mean where they have a deal with the WWE who is in Trump's and the Saudi pockets?

It is a nonstory but no one read the article.

ER was on during the years GE owned NBC, when Phil Donahue got heavily micromanaged and ultimately fired for being too liberal and anti-war when the US was about to start the Iraq War.

Before. The title is bs. He was concerned when he heard about the edits and later liked it because they reached a refined state, as he puts it

I’d leave and I’m a citizen. I don’t feel like getting shot in the face when I try to stop one of them from beating up a green card holder. That’s also a takeaway is they scare everyone.