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CruzAderjc Apr 1, 2026 +1

ER doctor here. It’s the worst possible day we could get in the ER, which certainly isn’t every day, but the crazy thing about the ER is that a day like this is always possible. I’ve had some shifts that came close. The dozens of issues all happening at the same time is certainly real. And the medicine is the most accurate thst any tv show has ever done. It does feel good for people to watcb this show and realize that perhaps the reason they are waiting a long time to see me is because all of this other stuff might be happening too.

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sihouette9310 Apr 1, 2026 +1

My friend told me the same thing. Even the dosages are solid. At least from what she heard when she was watching it. The charting episode she thought was hilarious because she started right when computers were becoming the default. Allegedly the old dudes were not pleased that paper charting was going away.

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klinna1977 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I was genuinely thinking about this issue. I love this show and I mean I love those show. I like that there isn’t such drama between their relationships. It is only one day. There cannot be a lot of movement in any relationship in 12 hours, let alone those 12 hours of working.

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terrorrier Apr 1, 2026 +1

We all figure they pick the most interesting day, and then conveniently all the workplace drama unfolds on that one day. It has to be story, after all. But I can also see what the everyday must be like. Treating injuries, seeing regulars like Louie or Myrna, sorting out insurance, charting…

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Aggressive-Article41 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Probably for modern medicine it is the most accurate, but the knick was a really well done show.

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Juice___Springsteen Apr 1, 2026 +1

My first day training for RRT RN in my hospital pretty much went down like a day at "the Pitt." In my 12 hour shift I encountered at least 1 of every single "code" we could have at our hospital ER - trauma, stroke, STEMI, multiple Sepsis (sepsi?), and cardiac arrests, 2 of which happened simultaneously. It felt like a never-ending day, much like how I am sure Robbie and his team feel by the end of this shift. Nothing comes close the real feel that this show displays each week. It's the best medical drama on television in years, possibly ever.

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CruzAderjc Apr 1, 2026 +1

Yeah, it’s weird. Some days I do nothing except sit around and order ct scans on old people who fall or who are just old and altered, and I go home like it was nothing. Then other days it will literally feel like an episode of The Pitt. That’s why I chose Emergency Medicine. I can never get bored. Every day when I show up to work, I literally have no f****** clue what the day will be like.

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EnvironmentalCap1119 Apr 1, 2026 +1

fr that waiting room vibe is unreal, like how are we all just chillin while chaos happens

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Shepherd77 Apr 1, 2026 +158

(TV critic, who has never watched a medical procedural because she wasn’t interested in them, finds out she actually likes medical procedurals)

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Practical-Level-6265 Apr 1, 2026 +19

Yeah but this one isn’t on cable!

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ThimbleLife Apr 1, 2026 -5

Haha you so witty

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Shafter111 Apr 1, 2026 +1

7 episodes in season 1 and no one is sleeping with one another. i am perplexed ...isnt that what goes on in a hospital? /S

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bluehawk232 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Does happen off screen lol we've had a couple hook ups

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R_V_Z Apr 1, 2026 +1

Robbie and Dr. Collins *had* hooked up in the past.

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I_AM_ME-7 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Never got into any medical shows in the past they just weren’t my thing but I’m hooked on The Pitt.

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ExtremeToucan Apr 1, 2026 +75

I liked season 1 a lot, but season 2 hasn’t been quite as good. Feels repetitive of season 1 in some ways and I feel like not much has happened to move the overarching plot forward.

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Maverick916 Apr 1, 2026 +91

There's only so much overarching plot in a real time based medical drama.

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spikeroo59 Apr 1, 2026 +14

It’s only 12 hours in real time so far

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ExtremeToucan Apr 1, 2026 +26

There is, though. There’s the Langdon and Santos plot, Santos and the surgery attending, Robbie’s mental health crisis, etc. It’s just that they’ve sort of been dropping the same “hints” for those for several episodes without developing it further

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hhcboy Apr 1, 2026 +1

They dragged out that poor woman’s death with her kids and husband for like five episodes. I’m like why?

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Skeetronic Apr 1, 2026 +1

Because it took 5 hours 🤷🏻‍♂️

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ExtremeToucan Apr 1, 2026 +1

Seriously. It didn’t really contribute much to the show, and also seems totally absurd that they would keep her in the ER in this circumstance on a day as chaotic as this?

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Feisty-Donkey Apr 1, 2026 +41

Oh I disagree. Season 1 was one day of major trauma, season 2 is the after effects of that trauma and how it manifests on a day when the system is cracking for other reasons. I think it’s been very good

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MySmellyRacoon Apr 1, 2026 +25

Jesus Christ you’re complaining that a medical drama is repetitive? Have you watched any tv shows ever? Next you’re gonna complain crime shows are repetitive with crime.

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lawdjesustheresafire Apr 1, 2026 +1

This is probably the biggest challenge going forward. If every season is just a derivation of “14 hours of mayhem in the ER” it runs the risk of getting stale relatively quick.

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ExtremeToucan Apr 1, 2026 +1

For sure. I do feel like you can do a lot with the medium, but there’s a limit. Grey’s Anatomy is a good example. It expands to a lot of personal drama outside of the medical stuff, and they still just ran out of good, reasonable content eventually. So it just got increasingly ridiculous and now has hit soap opera status.

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AgonizingSquid Apr 1, 2026 +1

I just don't like how in season 2 everyone is dying no matter what, like the dude with the kidney issue. someone's gonna come in with a sore arm, boom dead

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IntelligentStyle402 Apr 1, 2026 +3

Totally, agree.

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Chin_Up_Princess Apr 1, 2026 +1

It's been like 2 days. Season 1 is Day 1, Season 2 is another day in the future.

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Wonderful-Athlete-83 Apr 1, 2026 -4

Agreed.

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jingowatt Apr 1, 2026

Is it a Bear situation?

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ClovieKay Apr 1, 2026 +1

Person who dislikes the medical drama genre here: This show is f****** fantastic. The characters are really the things I care about the most. Every one of them is written to perfection. That’s what brings me back, I still have to rewatch certain scenes or sometimes close my eyes because of my massive hypochondria, but damn it’s so engaging. Loving the realistic job cinematic universe they are building with The Bear and The Pitt.

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JMDeutsch Apr 1, 2026 +19

I love the show, but the Roxie storyline dragged on way too long and then was wrapped up very suddenly. It felt like it was going to be the Nick Bradley storyline of the season, but it underwhelmed with limited dramatic payoff.

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246lehat135 Apr 1, 2026 +27

The hard thing about watching this show, especially with weekly episode drops, is that the “hours in a shift” format can make it feel like the story drags out too long when in reality it doesn’t. Roxie’s story took maybe 8 hours or so to go from talking to the staff and family and considering going home to dying. Not really that much longer than the patient from season 1 who worked with Mr Rogers and came into the ED already unconscious from his nursing home.

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Wise_Quality_5083 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Agree. This show is best watched at the end of the season and binged as close to real time as possible. Maybe why season two is getting some criticism, it’s people who watched only after a full season and are now waiting.

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AshleyAshes1984 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I 100% prefer looking forward to this show every Thursday. Makes it feel special, a highlight of my Thursday night. Not a 15hr binge one weekend.

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Wise_Quality_5083 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I do too. But I wish I had the willpower to wait until they’re all released and binge

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246lehat135 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Why not both? 😀

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Wise_Quality_5083 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Nothing like that new episode smell.

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savorie Apr 1, 2026 +1

My best friend is doing the waiting right now and I'm so impressed at her discipline. Hoping that she will live-text me during her big Pitt binge.

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tender-butterloaf Apr 1, 2026 +1

I binged the first season shortly before this season aired, and I’m watching the second season week to week. I can’t tell if I think the first season is actually better, or if the show itself works better binged than week to week. I still like the second season and think it’s excellent TV, but I am not quite as locked in/enamored with it as I was the first.

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Wise_Quality_5083 Apr 1, 2026 +1

That’s exactly my point. Does the very hour to hour format actually watch better in a binge? My experience is it does. The tension and familiarity carries over much more organically since there are so many interconnected plots and subplots

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jarvis646 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I kinda liked that they didn’t dwell on it too long. Hits home the fact that this happens all the time there. Might’ve veered into melodrama if they leaned into it too much.

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Unlucky_Topic7963 Apr 1, 2026 +1

No plot device heroics, people die.

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Fabulous-Reaction488 Apr 1, 2026 +5

We started watching an episode and turned it off because we just don’t do hospital drama. THEN we went back to look at the Pittsburgh angle because we live in the Burgh. Got TOTALLY hooked and love the series!

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Accurate_Stuff9937 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I can't watch it. I don't want to come home and feel like im still half way through my shift.

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YarrrImAPirate Apr 1, 2026 +1

I consider myself a pot smoking tree hugging progressive liberal and I love the show but some of the messaging they might as well just break the fourth wall and say “SEE GUYS, THIS SHIT SUCKS, RIGHT?”. But solid 8/10 competency p***.

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ManateeNipples Apr 1, 2026 +1

I watched the first season and it was a completely average hospital drama imo lol if you like that kind of show you'll love it, I had zero drive to watch another episode after the first season 🤷‍♀️

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throwaway77993344 Apr 1, 2026 +10

The difference to most other medical dramas shows is that it has almost no relationship drama amongst the staff and the balance between personal drama and medical drama is much better. There's also no sex (in S1 at least). Additionally it is actually decently realistic.

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ThimbleLife Apr 1, 2026 +6

We appreciate your input

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 -10

I don’t get the hype. I watched one episode and went meh. I’ve worked in that setting so I just can’t handle the unrealistic mellow drama..

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abstractraj Apr 1, 2026 +15

Melodrama

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 -21

lol jeez dude I don’t like the show, get over it..

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Gnash_Vegas35 Apr 1, 2026 +12

Nobody cares if you don’t like the show. Your spelling, meanwhile, is appalling.

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Seems like a lot of people have gotten quite upset lol

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jotyma5 Apr 1, 2026 +8

What scripted shows would you say represent an ED/ER work setting more realistically?

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JohannReddit Apr 1, 2026 +18

There aren't any, because it would be boring. Every day on those shows depicts what would be a once-in-a-decade ER meltdown in real life. The real-world ER is 90% people with a basic illnesses or unjury that they can't wait to deal with in the morning. Or uninsured people that know hospitals can't refuse them care.

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uniquechill Apr 1, 2026 +6

I also worked in a hospital/er. The reality is much more boring than the show.

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Feisty-Donkey Apr 1, 2026 +5

Right, but the model on this show is that it shows a single shift so it doesn’t have to be representative of a normal day. And the show very much includes the basic illness and injury patients and the uninsured and unhoused patients

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Nerdlinger Apr 1, 2026 +1

>> The real-world ER is 90% people with a basic illnesses or unjury that they can't wait to deal with in the morning. Or uninsured people that know hospitals can't refuse them care. > > And the show very much includes the basic illness and injury patients and the uninsured and unhoused patients Do they make up 90% of the patients on the show?

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Feisty-Donkey Apr 1, 2026 +5

Probably not 90%, but a massive chunk. This season so far, off the top of my head, there’s a guy with diabetes complications from under medicating, three or four unhoused patients whose issues range from complications of liver failure to injuries at injection sites to mental health symptoms. They’re constantly showing an overcrowded waiting room with people who have less serious illnesses and have to wait as more serious traumas come through. They show sprains, broken collarbones, appendicitis, hospice patients having pain that can’t be managed at home hospice… lots of stuff that’s just pretty normal

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Dont-be-a-smurf Apr 1, 2026 +1

An another episode of minor broken bones and a kid with croup cough. All star tv.

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jotyma5 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Thanks. I was asking someone else

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Algorak1289 Apr 1, 2026 +7

I Have ironically heard from family members in the field that scrubs is fairly accurate to the vibe of an actual hospital.

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I actually agree, if you have the right teammates that day it can be fun and goofy

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SalemSound Apr 1, 2026 +3

None, but fixing one flaw isn't going to suddenly make me a fan of a genre I normally avoid.

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MCB1317 Apr 1, 2026 +1

While not an ER drama, Nip/Tuck is the most accurate medical show. Practically a documentary

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026

I don’t really watch any of them. Maybe that old ER show w Clooney? Wasn’t Crichton a Dr before becoming a writer? I’m sorry folks but they’re all just mellow drama. No ER Dr is going to run out of a hospital to look for a patient. It’s hysterical. When a patient leaves AMA the staff are happy they leave. The staff have a pretty unromantic/unemotional view of patients, like a mechanic w a car or something..

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jotyma5 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I’m not sure I would call ER more realistic lol

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Dude it’s been like 20 years since I watched it… that’s why I said maybe

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BeanieMcChimp Apr 1, 2026 +5

“Mellow drama.” Haha the drama in that show sure ain’t mellow.

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mrzoops Apr 1, 2026 +4

Watching one episode is just seeing the show at face value. It tends to get more intriguing as the character arcs develop over the course of the whole season.

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 -1

I’m sure it does. I’m just not into it. I thought some of the back story and inserted conflicts felt… well rather corny.

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Shafter111 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Apparently, this show is the closest to real life ER than the rest. And why folks like it. .

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LittleBoat9295 Apr 1, 2026 +1

So apparently still pretty far off..

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Candid_Koala_3602 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Medicine can be intense, especially in an ED, but this show depicts essentially worst case scenarios. Also of course Noah is amazing in it, he always has been.

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Sudden-Pressure8439 Apr 1, 2026 +1

I love the intro music

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VQQN Apr 1, 2026 +1

Show is awesome. If you have health anxiety and a phobia of death, stay away. It’ll mess with your head.

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-Palzon- Apr 1, 2026 +1

This is my first hospital drama since Quincy, M.E. I am enjoying The Pitt. It's not my favorite show on TV, but I like it.

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Fidrych76 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Best of television. Waiting for Paramount to ruin it.

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Less-Disaster-8465 Apr 1, 2026 -3

Season one was absolutely fantastic. Season Two fell off fast by slipping into too much of a focus on realistic medical medical speak and shifting from case to case that we don’t get to care about while forgetting to focus on the characters and their personal problems and how those are affected by the cases. Never made it past episode six because things were just boring. Love the guy but the episodes directed by Noah Wiley were the toughest to get through.

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jotyma5 Apr 1, 2026 +9

Yes, season 1 was more of an attention grabber. But I like the realness of season 2. Not every shift will have a “grey’s anatomy season finale” type event. You can feel the burnout in the characters this season, which is very real

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Pecos-Thrill Apr 1, 2026 +3

Yeah season 2 has been pretty hit or miss. Bit too silly at times, over the top dramatic, some of the characters I loved from season 1 are unbearable now. Bummer. I hope they change their “season every year” plan to spend more time on scripts.

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Luci-Noir Apr 1, 2026 +7

It’s been pretty shocking how some of the characters are basically wandering around doing nothing and others are bringing in friends and using it as their personal doctor’s office. Meanwhile the waiting room is packed with suffering people. What the f*** is wrong with these people?

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Classic-Session-9893 Apr 1, 2026 +2

They butchered Dr King 😩

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atomicalli Apr 1, 2026

It’s like Cocomelon for adults. Somebody somewhere is probably writing their dissertation on it.

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Dark-Ganon Apr 1, 2026 +1

Idk, to me it just looks like any other run-of-the-mill medical drama show comes out every few years.

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savorie Apr 1, 2026 +1

It's leagues better than that. Faster paced with interesting characters and a lot of realism. If you haven't watched an episode yet, you don't really know how much better it is than the older medical dramas

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Farfel_TheDog Apr 1, 2026 +1

Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...

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ComradeCabbage Apr 1, 2026 +1

I just started Scrubs, I think I prefer that a bit more.

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BromaEmpire Apr 1, 2026 +1

While I do enjoy it, I feel like it's a pretty mediocre show hiding behind ADHD pacing. As soon as it starts to geta little too boring they just wheel a new person in, rinse and repeat

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BillyButcherX Apr 1, 2026 -5

Way to American. Was kinda ok till the mass shooter episodes. Know all interns and students really kill this shows for me, actually most medical shows. And a girl first day on the job discovered a drug stealing / abusing doctor and got him fired in a couple of hours. Yeah, right.

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HummaKavula95 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Huh? If any doctor in any country was caught stealing drugs they would 100% be fired on the spot lol

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tuesdaysaretheworstt Apr 1, 2026 +1

It’s a pretty good show but let’s not take it too far

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Armandonerd Apr 1, 2026 -2

Any relation to Brad Pitt?!

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monkberry_moon Apr 1, 2026 +1

Second season is a bust, IMO.

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ayo816 Apr 1, 2026 +1

The best show currently? I just feel like there's nothing else to watch right now. Honestly the show is like a drug. Very fast paced and instant gratification but lacks any real development or growth. Still in the middle of season 2 but obviously not as good as season 1. Also the cliffhangers are so lazy. It's just literally a new case arrives

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TransmogrifyPictures Apr 1, 2026 +1

It is the best show on tv… now that Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End has finished its season

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