I had never heard of this show, but apparently it's what people want these days. I'd watched "The White Lotus," which had a lot of nominations but won nothing.
It seems that people are worn out and done with snark and irony. They want to be reassured that there are sincere, competent, hard-working people ready to help. (Note: Everything seems to relate to Charlie Kirk.)
Reminds me of "Hill Street Blues." Or... more on the subject matter: "St. Elsewhere."
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Hollyweird is done. Participation trophies for the most woke!!!
ER meets 24.
Reminds me of "Hill Street Blues."
Or NYPD Blue? I used to call David Caruso the Oracle of Delphi because everyone came to him for answers to the imponderable.
Is it essentially Noah’s character from ER? They had a ready made audience..
My wife still occasionally watches him on ER. She pronounced that one the "best" of the med-dramas.
I don’t think it has anything to do with any of those things. It has excellent writing and acting. If a show has those two things it will, more often than not, be successful.
"Everything seems to relate to Charlie Kirk."
How long before FOX renames itself the "Charlie Kirk Memorial Channel"?
It seems that people are worn out and done with snark and irony. They want to be reassured that there are sincere, competent, hard-working people ready to help. (Note: Everything seems to relate to Charlie Kirk.)
The fundamental issue is the conflict between people who love the United States and feel patriotic about it vs the shitheads that hate this country and freedom and capitalism.
The killing of Charlie can just be viewed as the last straw.
If you really don like this country and you don’t like the people in it you really should just leave.
Damage control.
Reminds me of "Hill Street Blues." Or... more on the subject matter: "St. Elsewhere."
Two shows i enjoyed immensely. I was sorry when the genre died.
Is it essentially Noah’s character from ER? They had a ready made audience.
It is exactly this. He's an attending now in an ER in Pittsburgh. I don't know if they blatantly made him the same character with the same name, but it is basically an ER retread.
Don't have HBO but I've heard tremendous things about Wylie.
mryan said...
I don’t think it has anything to do with any of those things. It has excellent writing and acting. If a show has those two things it will, more often than not, be successful.
That is the underlying issue though. If the writing is good and the show is good that is great.
But most of our culture is dominated by people who hate the country and the people in it. They support censorship and then they demand the right to trash the country that gives them the freedom to trash it.
We are tired of the hate and people who think it’s ok to shoot and censor us.
I trained in medicine for seven years, in Chicago and the South. First episode I got through half. Second episode I broke down sobbing 10 minutes in. Yes, did therapy. Lots better. Still..,
I’ve seen the show. I think it is fairly well done. I watched with my wife, who has worked in a level 1 trauma facility like that depicted. I’m trying to recognize that quote with either my experience with the show or reality.
They are definitely dedicated. You wouldn’t last much more than a week if you didn’t have the dedication to see it through. Intelligent can be debatable. Healthcare no longer attracts the best and brightest. Standards may be higher in trauma care than other areas. Compassionate is interesting considering the setting, and the show does explore the levels of it and how it is expressed.
I think it is the angelic part that threw me off. I guess it is like the spiritual debate on thinking of Charlie’s death and what people make of it. Doctors and nurses in an ER can be seen to “play god” in who they prioritize for treatment, leave for dead so to speak, and seem to miraculously heal. The show does explore this, but I didn’t see it as angelic. It is a matter of resource management, and I don’t think it is fair to put that burden on healthcare workers that they “play god” in those decisions.
Similar to White Lotus, that explores the events of a single week, The Pitt explores the events of a single shift in a trauma center. The seasonal climax is handling a mass casualty event that was based heavily on the Las Vegas mass shooting.
In any event, I hope they get a second season.
The White Lotus. Barf. Does it get more low brow?
Wyle basically reprising his role from ER? This time he's older and wiser and doesn't have to play second (or third) banana to George Clooney or Anthony Edwards.
Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg were behind ER, but I guess they left the dinosaurs at home for that one.
I finally watched season 1 of The White Lotus. I didn’t finish it because I found it too hard to relate to any of the characters. The setting worked for me, because I was recently in Maui. But the characters were just too extreme to feel real, so there actions kept putting me out of the story.
100% St. Elsewhere.
There's a reason NCIS has been renewed for its 23rd season.
A dark and gritty medical show. Wow, never saw that before.
One problem with being 60. I've been watching TV for at least 55 years. Every new show seems like a retread of some old show that I either disliked or got tired of.
I never get tired of good comedies. Or (assuming they exist) good musicals. But dramas? Hard to watch now.
The doctor and hospital shows are one genre I've never paid any attention to.
One of several.
I remember being puzzled by Howie Mandel's character. And then he was vanished.
Last year I went back and tried to watch some of the old stuff. Hill Streets Blues, Kojak, Police Story, NYPD Blue, X files. God, is that crap dated. Some good actors and good scripts here and there, but anything good gets loss in the morrass of mediocre, grind-it-out weekly TV.
And I love Dennis Franz and Tele.
Perfect 2025. The co-star of some emmy winning comedy had to tell us "As a Jew" she had X opinion on Israel-Gaza about some other actor wearing some Arab clothing.
Why these people can't ever shut up sing is beyond me. Imagine reading the paper in 1952 and reading Marilyn Monroe popping off about the Korean War.
Last year I went back and tried to watch some of the old stuff. Hill Streets Blues, Kojak, Police Story, NYPD Blue, X files. God, is that crap dated. Some good actors and good scripts here and there, but anything good gets loss in the morrass of mediocre, grind-it-out weekly TV.
Rockford Files seemed to have held up well.
The only medical show I watched since 2000 is "House".
Same theme as "the Resident," which I watched for a while. Entertaining, but life is always more complicated than the narrative (whichever one the the show happens to be into).
Blair General Hospital - where life begins, where life ends, where life goes on . . . .
"The Pitt" was originally going to be a follow-up to "ER," made by the same people, with Noah Wyle reprising his character. But then some of them decided that wouldn't work, so they made it a show that was separate from "ER," even though it was still very similar. So the estate of novelist-filmmaker Michael Crichton, who had created "ER," filed a lawsuit saying the show had become an unauthorized reboot with multiple aspects in common with the original, plus the same executive producers and star. That lawsuit is ongoing.
Rockford Files did hold up well. So did the original Hawaii 5-O.
Rockford Files did hold up well. So did the original Hawaii 5-O.
Nice family TV time with our 13 YO watching the old 5-0. Watching Monk now. Speaking of Wylie, Librarians is next on our watch list.
Last year I went back and tried to watch some of the old stuff. Hill Streets Blues, Kojak, Police Story, NYPD Blue, X files. God, is that crap dated. Some good actors and good scripts here and there, but anything good gets loss in the morrass of mediocre, grind-it-out weekly TV.
It is pretty amazing how theatrical most TV was through the 80's and early 90's - deliver a line, hold for applause, deliver another line, hold for applause, and most everyone kinda faces the "audience" rather than each other when they talk. I remember a Dennis Leary show called "The Job" where Leary acted in a modern, realistic fashion and the rest of the cast in an 80's sitcom fashion, Leary's acting put them all to shame.
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