Noah Wyle: ‘The Pitt does something unique – it’s a stroke of genius’

I’m also subscribed to HBO for very limited shows. Check out The Gilded Age if you enjoy period pieces at all. It’s the same writer who did Downton Abbey, set in 1880’s NYC and focuses on “new money” vs “old money.” It’s very clever, the cinematography is beautiful, and the costumes are stunning.

Damn I have loved this show so much I have never even realized it’s basically one giant bottle episode until now. That is pretty wild.

Bottle movies are some of my favorite and this does a good job of scratching that itch

What about the Season 2 intro with Dr Robby riding that motorcycle bareheaded, crossing the median on a damned bridge, looking away from the road to nod to the ambulance? Talk about horripilation! Please-please stay in the Pitt yawl. Edit for punctuation

This show and Last Week Tonight are my favorites right now

Inspired by severance!

The Pitt has a WAY easier shooting schedule due to the highly controlled set/environment. The minute you introduce exterior sets, you’re at the mercy of the weather and the sun. The Pitt can shooting at 6am or 6pm, January 1 or July 1 and it doesn’t matter. There are just a handful of exterior shots over the entire season that they need to worry about.

HOTD and Stranger Things are absolutely full of visual effects requiring a huge amount of post production time. They’re also shot in multiple real locations. The Pitt is a naturalistic medical drama set in one place and using the same few sets (which are reused). It’s not full of dazzling CGI, and there are only a few outdoor sequences. Many of the props and setpieces are readily available or less ambitious in nature to construct (given it’s a medical drama) vs a fantasy or period setting. I get what you’re saying (the frustration) but the processes involved are very different. It’s the same reason a show like The Bear has been able to put out a new season each year.

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AND we get nearly double the episode count

The degree of difficulty in production of HotD is far, far higher than The Pitt. Those doctors and nurses can just roll up in hoodies and basic hair on their one set while the HotD characters all have elaborate, bespoke handmade costumes while filming on location in multiple countries or on sets that absolutely dwarf the ER. Not to mention the dragons (yes, plural).

I choose to believe Carter is wanted by the Chicago mob for letting a Boss die. He’s in witness protection and changed his name to Robby…. But ya catch take the Dr out of the ER.

And Scrubs

And the good doctor

Which is funny because Princeton-Plainsboro is a teaching hospital but the original cast (Chase, Cameron and Foreman) weren’t residents, they were all specialists with successful careers before joining House’s team, so it didn’t really matter if it was a teaching hospital or not.

It's never Lupus.....*unless*

Presenting with the sniffles? Gonna need to perform a lumbar tap

Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, ER, House are all set in teaching hospitals lol. Not sure why OP thinks this is so novel

That seems to be the consensus here, yeah! It‘s clearly a good idea for exposition etc.

It is a documentary, but that’s why it’s the most “realistic television ER drama ever…” :) There’s plenty of real life drama in the show.

I like how there isn’t any romantic subplot.

I love all of the characters. They feel so realistic to me, with all their flaws and mistakes and different ways of dealing with themselves, patients, each other, and all the shit's that's happening in the ER. It's such a compelling show.

I was literally on the edge of my seat leaning forward when the shit hit the fan in season 1. To me, all of that was incredibly intense. I felt like I was experiencing the chaos with them. The closest experience I could relate to it was working as a cook in a restaurant that had a positive review in the newspaper and we were completely slammed the next day. It was a newer restaurant and it completely caught us by surprise. I worked from 7:00am to 2:00am while there was a line outside the door almost all day and we were running out of food. We barely had time to prep for each shift. I took a couple small breaks to eat and use the bathroom. That was one of the most intense work days for me and there were no lives on the line, just hungry people.

Except it’s literally a claim that any show set in an ER is hers. Since pretty much all medical shows do that, my description isn’t an exaggeration.

And? Can fit same description to most medical shows. The ingredients of idea theft rakes more than similarities. It’s why so many of these cases end up tossed. She just wants a payday and chances are this will be settled so she will get it.

The idea that *anyone* let alone the spouse of someone, who (the spouse), didn't actually come up with anything should be able to decide what happens with any property is f****** stupid. There is *no good reason* for copyright to last after the death of the author.

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Physician here. I wouldn’t go that far. If it was real you would see 20 mins of patient care and another 30 of them sitting in front of the computer ordering and documenting and then another 10 minutes of them calling the hospitalist and specialist who actually treat the patient after they are admitted. The medicine part is realistic but the actual frequency of what they are doing, and the number of once in a career cases that happen per hour is bordering on absurd. I enjoy the show, but it wouldn’t call it a realistic representation of life in the hospital

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So they stole the format from '24' for as much as it gets praised by ER doctors if there's also a lot of people in the medical field who say it's completely inaccurate in many respects

It's undoubtedly a quality television show, I don't deny that. It's prestige TV.  I've never been big into medical dramas, but hearing the way this show was talked about piqued my interest. As I said, I do like much of what the show does. My issue is that the patient/interpersonal storylines often feel just as heavy handed and corny as any medical drama.  I expected something different, that's no fault of the show. 

its a stroke of my own ego - noah wyle

I mean I haven’t seen a more grounded and real feeling medical show, especially how they show the medical issues, being on Max. If that’s the first show to do that, isn’t that the definition of “groundbreaking”? Whether you’re entertained by it or not is a different thing. Some people need high voltage, firing on all cylinders, story moving at a ferocious pace, others need hyper dramatic, others need something they can just zone out to and enjoy while on their phones, and that’s what’s entertaining to them. Some people just like well made shows with grounded stories and authentic, organic feeling characters and setting. Some people like Grey’s. Some people like the Pitt. Different strokes.

I'm on the fence about this show's "greatness". When I heard a group of friends talking about the show, I thought we had another "Severance". It's certainly not in that league for me. While I find the timeline and how they weave in character's story interesting, I don't find most of the patients acting anything above a B+. I heard talk about realism and that's cool too but how would I really know unless I have first hand experience? I did find it odd that when doing an open heart operation on a guy, not one of them standing over him had on a mask. They had all of their other PPE on. I do think it's a good show, I'm just surprised of all the talk about it like it's something completely new.

It's pretty clearly a self-insert vanity project for Noah Wyle based on how Robby talks down to his residents, but then is also shown lecturing OTHER doctors on effective teaching. I stopped taking it seriously when I saw Noah Wyle claim that he's had enough ER training to actually save someone's life in an emergency in a physician's capacity... Anytime people outside of medicine try to claim that the lingo they passively picked up on = actual medical and procedural knowledge, I have to roll my eyes. Even as an EMT, the level of training we get that far outpaces the layman, is quite literally NOTHING compared to Medics, nurses, and obivously physicians.

The amount of politics they shove into the show is impressive. 

Physician here. It’s far from realistic. The cases are medically accurate but the frequency of once in a career cases that come in per hour is sensationalized to say the least. But a show watching doctors ordering tests reviewing charts and documenting would be boring

I agree

How so? 

Thank you! I’ll give it a try!

First of all, you're spelling Wyle wrong. Second, Warner Brothers absolutely did not do their due diligence because they didn't even realize Wells hadn't contacted Crichton's estate until they asked prior to the announcement, that's what held it up for another year and a half. I will leave this here since you might not have seen it on another comment.... "Wyle went to Wells in 2020 (when he was having trouble finding work and before he had to sell a lot of his stuff) with an idea to reboot ER which they did for a year and a half. Warner Brothers told Wells that he needed to get permission from the Creighton estate (which he knew) so he had to call her up and get her permission. She was then involved in the negotiations and everything leading up to it until WB/ Wells all of a sudden pulled the plug. They took the same pilot change the doctor's name and the city and put it out anyway. That's against hiscontract from ER called frozen rights. Had they not already had an ER reboot in the works, there wouldn't even be a lawsuit but they shot themselves in the foot. I believe Deadline has the ER reboot pilot and the pitt pilot on their website, they're identical with the exception of the city and doctor's name and that isn't enough of a difference. If deadline doesn't have it, the lawsuit will."