The Pitt

I'm a physician / psychiatrist, and I am so happy to have a medical show I enjoy!

I spent three months in the trauma bay of a busy inner city ER, as a med student, and many more many more years in the ER for other rotations and for work.

It's refreshing to see the ER portrayed in a realistic way. Also, mental health patients and their issues are handled appropriately and with empathy. I wish they showed psychiatrists and other specialists as they consult in the ER.

I experienced burnout and took time off, this show has been a major factor in me reconsidering returning to work. It has reminded me of the redeeming part of my work and all the wonderful colleagues I had. As medicine becomes increasingly monetized and scrutinized for productivity and bled dry by private equity it helped me remember why I have so much to do this job.

I'm honestly so surprised more people aren't talking about The Pitt. It's one of those rare shows that lands quietly but hits like a freight train. Think 'The Bear', but set in a hospital - emotionally raw, tightly wound, and totally absorbing. The concept is so clever: each of the 15 episodes unfolds in real time over a single hour of a chaotic, life-altering shift in an emergency department. That structure alone creates this brilliant sense of urgency and claustrophobia, but it's the writing and performances that really elevate it.

It's heartbreakingly real - not just in the way it handles the medical cases, but in how it captures the emotional toll this job takes on the staff. There's no glossy hospital drama sheen here. It's intense, gritty, and unflinchingly human. You feel the exhaustion, the heartbreak, the fleeting moments of hope. Some scenes genuinely left me breathless.

The entire cast delivers, but Noah Wyle is in the league of his own here. He brings such gravity and compassion to his role - one of those performances that just sticks with you. There's a quiet depth to his character that anchors the chaos, and you can feel the weight of every decision he makes. Tracy Ifeachor and Supriya Ganesh are also brilliant - complex, conflicted, completely believable.

A few episodes are honestly up there with the best things I've ever seen on TV. There's one in particular (I won't spoil it) that had us sitting in silence for a good while after the credits rolled. Just devastating in the best way.

'The Pitt' is peak modern television. Smart, emotional, beautifully acted, and entirely unforgettable. Watch it.

I never watched many medical shows until I retired. Didn't want to bring the hospital home with me. Shows like House may have had good actors but were unrealistic fantasies when it came to real medicine. After retiring I watched all 15 seasons of ER over a few months. That show captured the reality of ER medicine as well as hospital politics, although it compressed time. Things happen fast, but not that fast or intense over an entire day, and not nearly as many open chest heart massages occur. But you really did get to see what it was like. Now The Pitt brings the same flavor of show as ER was. So if you enjoyed watching ER, you will like this.

I worked in EMS after training at a large teaching hospital. I rarely watch medical shows because the portrayal of medicine is so dumbed-down and inaccurate. I understand that it's a show and some license will be taken, but at least put in some effort to help me suspend disbelief. The Pitt puts in major effort to get it right (which I expect from creator of 'Southland' John Wells, one of the few cop shows that did it more accurately than most). ER's are places of extreme excitement, sadness and humor (the rat scene alone beat many comedies made today). It's fun to be a couple episodes into a medical show and looking forward to more instead of rolling my eyes and moving on.

Being Hollywood we get the usual moralizing, but most shows lecture while delivering inane dialogue with one dimensional characters. Give me a solid story in a realistic setting with great characters and I can sit through a fair share of finger-wagging. It's great seeing Noah Wylie in a hospital again, especially as a veteran doctor surrounded by fresh-faced medical rookies like he was in ER. The acting has been great from everyone. I recognize so many of these personalities from a career around this environment. The Pitt is a great new show.

There are a million doctor/hospital shows out there so you really need to be special to stick out and The Pitt absolutely does that. It's not hyperbole when I say it's by far the most realistic hospital show that's ever been made. I'll be shocked if this show doesn't get nominated for a bunch of awards, especially Noah Wyle in the lead role. I've always like Wyle but this is career defining performance. He's fantastic in every scene. I'm a binged, I love to binge watch shows, so much so that even for the shows that come out weekly I wait until the entire season is over before I start it so I can binge it. This is the first show I've ever seen that I can only watch a few episodes at a time because of how intense each mood each episode is. I'll still watch a few episodes each day and binge the entire season within 5 or 6 days but it's a work out doing it. I'm so glad that people have enjoyed it so much that it's already been renewed for another season.