The Pitt is well worth the hype it got

The only problem with The Pitt is Dr. Abbott only shows up sporadically. That character is great and so is the actor.

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I hope it runs for a hundred years like law and order.

Even better than the show is asking your Healthcare working friends if they’ve even gotten through the first season… they all say it’s like watching work

it absolutely love the show. I'm on my first rewatch and I love it even more on the rewatch. there is so much storytelling done in the background. single sentences that resolve character arcs, and I am obsessed with the different transitions from scene to scene and how they tie together. I think the actress who plays Dr J deserves an Emmy nomination for her performance this season

Can’t handle the gore but do appreciate it’s an excellent show.

I 100 percent agree with you. I actually only watched it because of all the good things I heard about it. It’s not a show I think I would be interested in, but it’s just done so well that it has my drawn in and hooked

My wife says after watching the pitt, greys anatomy seems a bit flat. She (and therefore we) has watched Grey's at least six time since we've been together. Probably more cause if she missed a season she would go back and watch the whole series again. So her saying the pitt is better is high praise

There are some eye roll moments but I agree. I can't get enough of the show. I hate it when an episode ends and I dread the season ending. I'm obsessed and constantly rewatching the show more than any show. It's just got some weird hold on me.

Show is amazing. I’m hooked

It's good but idk how you could possibly compare it to Severance or Pluribus; they're just such wildly different shows. It's definitely miles ahead of any hospital drama that's come out for at least a decade

its not bad and the medical aspects are realistic but every character is a walking cliche/trope

As a huge ER fan this show is like the next step in evolution from that.  And becuase of it only covering one shift there's less of the soap opera drama like other shows but still a very good plot. The actors are killing it being able to give depth to the characters without drawn out character backgrounds 

I can see that it's a work of quality, but I couldn't get into it, personally. I watched the first few episodes and I found the characters super grating, and the show itself is just incredibly stressful to watch. Like if I get off work and put on an episode of the Pitt, I'm actually less relaxed than I was back at my job. I'm not saying it shouldn't be someone's cup of tea, just not mine.

I watched all three and The Pitt is my favorite. Pluribus is definitely not for me. I did like Severance but the gap between seasons is a bummer.

I'm sorry but The Pitt gets incredibly more hyped than those shows you quoted (and I do have qualms with season 2 of Severance), and more than it deserves given how clunky and cliché it gets. Severance and Pluribus are exploring far more challenging themes IMO, given they have sci-fi elements and have to navigate characters as well. The Pitt is a formula perfected and done competently. Pluribus & Severance are highly original concepts.

I like the show but I think season 2 is a step back. The writers are a bit too heavy handed on injecting every moment with a social or political layup. It feels very forced and unnatural whereas in season 1 it was a bit more restrained and organic, but still you get a setup for a social or political takes every moment. Great show just and I don't disagree with many of these messages, but it really needs a balance because some of these issues they're portraying need more time and room to breath. Edit: Also I don't have a problem with furries, but the quick exposition on what a furry is and that they are "actually fun loving and accepting people" was so random.

My wife is a trauma surgeon and leaves the room after about 30 minutes during each episode. She says it’s so close to being a good show, but the doctors end up being way too cavalier and confidently make diagnoses way too quickly. The fact that season 1 is the first DAY of the residency cycle doesn’t help. The show obviously has some decent medical advisors, but it seems they don’t have the ability to override many mistakes that are made by the actors, writers, and directors.

I have loved both seasons of The Pitt. I just wish they weren't so ham handed/on the nose in season 2 with the constant lessons they're trying to teach the viewer. I consider myself reasonably smart and I'd think anyone else watching this detailed of a medical show likely is too. They don't have to write in so much exposition all the time when trying to point out real life problems. It takes me out of it. Perfect example, the man who was too poor for health insurance but not poor enough for Medicaid. I assume 95% of real life doctors/nurses/hospital staff are aware of this gap in coverage. They likely see it frequently. There was no need for the attending to explain his situation to another doctor. They would've already understood. Show us, don't tell us via exposition. There are several other examples too.

Wife talked me into starting it and I was hooked by the end of the first episode. Were like 6 episodes in and its the first show in a while where I havent fallen asleep on the couch halfway through

Falls into the category of "Competency P***" for me. Definitely the most watchable show on television.

Perfection! I love the pace and style

Pitt good. Karma pls

My wife and I are really loving this show. Santos is even growing on me a little bit

I think you’re taking about season one. Season one was fantastic. I couldn’t stop telling people about it. Season two fell off a cliff into snoozeville and lost me before episode seven with all of its repetitive focus on appearing like a real life emergency department by drowning us in case after case coming through the door and meaningless medical medical talk all while forgetting about the thing that made season one so good, the interactions between the characters and their personal struggles.

I love the cast, but season 2 feels like template stuff, some of the great dynamics from season 1 just fizzle out or disappear, and then we’re left with the emergencies of the hour kind of thing. I’m still very entertained, though.

Unfortunately season 2 has not lived up to how great season 1 is/was. Feels like it’s been watered down for the masses or something. I haven’t enjoyed how several stories have been dragged out over multiple episodes. I get it in the sense that it’s one day, but from a tv viewing perspective it is annoying. Example, Santos being in a bad mood every episode. Like ok, she’s having a bad day so it makes sense but it gets repetitive as a viewer. How many episodes was she complaining about her charts? 8 or 9 in a row? Same with the lady they let die in the ER, when she finally passed I said out loud “thank goodness.” Didn’t strike a chord of emotion with me in anyway (contrary to MANY of the stories in season 1). I was just glad for it to be over with as it was so boring. I also feel like season 2 has a lot of weird direction. So many characters are cut to giving these bizarre looks and expressions that as viewers we are given zero context for. The new characters introduced are all annoying, and I do mean all of them. I will keep watching due to my love of season one, but the drop off in quality is shocking to me and I’m very curious if I’m the only one who has noticed this. I will say last weeks episode was maybe the first of the season that had me as interested as anything in season 1.

I prefer Scrubs

Season 2 hasn't quite lived up to season 1 imo. I still like it a lot, but the focus seems even more spread out with 4 new people added to the mix.

I'm still enjoying it, some topics are still a little too on the nose for me and I generally don't like how some I talk to glaze Dr Robby for being a Paragon when he can be an absolute piece of shit sometimes. His characters meant to be broken and coping not what people aspire to be. Apart from that the show is absolutely amazing, I miss Dr Collins and love Dr King and Dr Huckleberry.

It’s a very entertaining show, they ran the medical gamut in a 15 hour shift which seems unrealistic

Popular show is very good yes.

I’m pleased season 2 seems to be a much lower key affair. After the events of season 1 I was worried we were going to be having jumbo jets crashing into the hospital just to keep raising the stakes.

I tried getting into it, watched the first 5-6 episodes but reminded me way too much of ER and got bored of it. The acting is fantastic though.

I couldn’t get through the first episode. I should push through, but I have other things to watch. I’ve never enjoyed hospital drama, so that’s a big part of it. I loved Pluribus and Severance.

My biggest problem with this season is the reasoning and who they talked to for it to be a good idea to preemptively shut down the network

I hope emergency rooms aren’t really like this.  I’ve never had to go to one but i would be super pissed if I had to endure what they have to sit through. 

The Pitt is my comfort show and I absolutely love it. Only downside is knowing that it was censored during its ICE episode by the network which makes me enraged.

Length of the show will, maybe, depend on Mrs. Michael Crichton's lawsuit? I love the show although I have to hide my eyes sometimes. The special effects are so realistic. Kudos to them.

The Pitt is basically what I always wanted out of a hospital show and the reason why I didn’t ever watch the rest of the drama/relationship bullshit hospital shows. Glad to finally get a legit one even tho it’s not without its issues (over-acting to be one of them).

Do people who like The Pitt generally tend to enjoy medical dramas (ER, House, etc)? I tried watching the first 2 episodes and couldn’t get into it. The acting is great and I might go back to it…but I didn’t find it as amazing as most people seem to. I wondered if that’s because I’ve never been a huge fan of medical dramas.

I tried watching it and it just felt like any other medical drama. Is there something about it that makes it unique? I was thinking about revisiting it but the first episode seemed pretty average.

Seaaon 1 was great! Season 2 is putting me to sleep.

The first season is great. The second is just OK.

I like everything about it except Santos. Her character is just insufferable and any decent hospital would toss out a doctor with her shitty attitude and lack of team work.

I can’t get around it, think I got to ep 5 or something maybe and I just don’t enjoy it. I was curious about the kid writing the letters about abusing woman or whatever but nothing has come of it yet and the rest if the cast and story means zero to me. Which is weird because scrubs is my number 1 which I know isn’t to say they’re similar shows but more that the medical hospital series isn’t that far out of my wheelhouse.

I think the show is well made but the issue of the week feel holds it back. Every storyline has to have a message to the point where it is very predictable. You can just feel the writers trying to shoehorn every liberal issue into a storyline in a very hamfisted way.

Eh just another hospital show as far as I'm concerned or is it doing anything new?

What if you hated ER?

I say this as a progressive, but I feel season 2 had some more unrealistic wokey storylines that it felt less realistic than season 1, not sure if that took anyone else more out of it this second season? Or maybe it’s just the density of storylines, unsure. Still an entertaining show, I have enjoyed the new cast members this season as well.

I'm struggling with s2 just cause I hate Al Hashimi so much

'We have to intubate' ....... Meme-fest😂 Best show on any tv channel at the moment .... LOVE IT !!!

Workplace dramas veer too close to soap operas for me

The only problem is Isa Briones seems to have a singing career before the show and for some reason it has been popping up in my YouTube feed. The top comments on those videos are invariably "Dr. Santos needs to be doing her charting!"

We love it too. Spoke to an ER doctor friend to get his opinion of it, see how true to life it is. He said it was the most accurate hospital TV show he's seen so far, and gave it 2 thumbs up, I figured that was the best compliment the writers and cast could get.

How is it compared to ER?

My wife is a surgeon and refuses to watch a show about “work” lol so I’ll have to find the time to solo this one

Agree. It’s rare i agree with the shows that get the hyperbolic reviews (to your example, i didn’t really love severance or pluribus). But the Pitt really is a strong contender for the best show on TV.

Mediocre at best