Max’sThe Pittis the next in a long line of medical dramas, but it’s unique for one significant reason. The TV series, created by R. Scott Gemmill, John Wells, and Noah Wyle, feels a lot like anERreboot and matches the 1994 classic in tone and theme. Of course, times have certainly changed, andThe Pittaims to explore the challenges of modern emergency medicine. Like most medical dramas, this series features a cast of characters, each of which has their own complicated relationships with their colleagues, jobs, and patients. Still,The Pitttakes advantage of its unique opportunity to be different.
The Pittstars Noah Wyle(ER) as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, the head physician of the emergency room at a hospital in Pittsburgh. He and his colleagues are at their wit’s end, faced with gruesome challenges and two losses for every win. Robby and his fellow veteran doctors must attempt to keep their heads as they train new student doctors and deal with an often heartless administration. ThoughThe Pitthandles its storywith a unique, time-stamped approach, the general premise here is pretty standard—thoughit’s far more graphic than other medical dramas.
The Pitt’s Home On Streaming Opens More Possibilities
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Medical dramaslikeERandGrey’s Anatomycertainly reel audiences in with their emergency-room drama, but the actual gruesome ailments these patients present are typically left to the imagination.The Pitt, however, is different. The Max series' very first episodeprovided audiences with graphic images of burned hands and, even worse, a degloved leg, which was enough to make anyone’s stomach churn.Typical network medical dramas can’t get away with such a thing, but as a Max series released on streaming,The Pittcan bring the terrible reality of the ER to audiences' home screens.
Max’s Medical Drama Aims To Be Realistic
Of course,The Pittdoesn’t feature such graphic and gruesome medical scenes simply to make audiences gag. The Max series is wholly focused on realism. The hour-long episodes don’t jump through an entire shift at the ER but instead explore a single hour in these doctors' lives (theepisodes ofThe Pittare named for the hour they explore).This allows audiences to look into the unending chaos of the modern emergency room, with several patients (some who live and some who don’t) on the rotation within only 60 minutes. Naturally, their injuries have to look realistic too.
The Pitthas gone to great lengths to portray the ER realistically, and it couldn’t do this without the gritty, bloody, ugly truths of the human body.
To make these atrocious moments all the more unsettling,The Pittdoesn’t depend on a dramatic musical score to get audiences to feel for its characters. There are no voiceover monologues or montages exploring the doctors' relationships with one another. As the characters ofThe Pittattempt to save their patients' lives, only the sounds of background chatter and emergency room chimes and alarms can be heard.The Pitthas gone to great lengths to portray the ER realistically, and it couldn’t do this without the gritty, bloody, ugly truths of the human body.
The Pitt - Season 1
The Pitt is a medical drama developed by veterans of the television series ER. The series will follow healthcare workers set in Pittsburgh, showing he challenges faced in the modern-day United States by nurses, doctors, and other medical professionals.
