The Pitt

After finishing the excellent HBO Max show Hacks recently I was in dire need of something new to watch. I haven’t watched too many hospital series, but somehow I ended up selecting The Pitt – and pretty much binged it. 🍿 The Pitt is a show about the understaffed Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center and how the staff navigates the unexpected patients and events. It is a teaching hospital, so the staff includes medical students of various experience, and the older students help supervise the younger ones. There are a lot of characters, each with their own faults; doctors, students, nurses, and patients alike. Each season focuses on a single 12-hour shift so that each episode corresponds to one hour. The “previously on the Pitt” sections at the start of each episode are genuinely helpful, because there are so many patients so that if one of them has been waiting for their lab results for a couple of hours, it means you might have not seen them in a couple of episodes. So in a sense it’s like…