Lamar Reviews - "The Pitt" (Airdate 1/24/2025)

I keep hearing about this new TV show, a medical drama called The Pitt. It is from the studio behind “ER”, the famous medical show that ran from1994 to 2009 with 331 episodes. The critics and fans loved the show. It gave us Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Maura Tierney, John Stamos, and Noah Wyle to name a few.

30 years later Noah Wyle stars as ER Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch. This show even though it is being produced by the same Studio as ER, and has an actor from ER, it is definitely not ER.

This first season consists of 15 episodes that chronicle a single shift at Trauma Medical Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Each episode is one hour of that shift. Sorta like the show 24, you will have watched 1 shift in real time.

Dr. Robby is a compassionate and driven physician that oversees the ER.  He is still suffering from the loss of his best friend and mentor from Covid. Whose job he now has.

He is supposed to improve efficiency and patient satisfaction at the same time. Which is an all but impossible task. The waiting room is overrun, there are no beds available, patients are being treated in the hallways. He is over a group of veteran doctors along with a fresh set of med students. There is nurse Dana played by Katherine LaNasa, who is wise beyond her years, and knows everything. There is Dr. Frank Langdon, the Ken Doll of the ER, played by Patrick Ball. There one med student who is barely 20, whose mother and father are both surgeons at the hospital. The rest of the med students all have other personal situations that give them challenges.

As you would expect, there is a revolving door of patients, none of which have a stumped toe, but every other exotic malady, overdose, severed limb, mental problem, or disease you can imagine. It is of course still a medical drama. If you say it looks like ER, I say every medical drama made since ER, looks like ER because that was the standard. But this is different.

It is 15 episodes, 50 minutes each, Rated TVMA for language, graphic bloody injuries, some medical nudity, and scary themes.

At this point because we don’t see any of the characters outside of the hospital, this is not a Greys Anatomy type medical show, with all the relationship drama. That makes The Pitt less like a medical soap opera, and more a medical procedural.

It is streaming on Max, which I did not have a subscription for, but signed up, so I could watch this show. So, I could give you the scoop! They release a new show every Thursday.

It is a fast paced, exciting show that has a real feel to it. And Noah Wyle is great.

My Score: 5 Ice Cold Buds