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Throughout history we have seen things like: Dr House, The Good Doctor, The Resident, New Amsterdam, Grey's Anatomy, ER and a long etcetera and with just one season I can say that none of those series comes close to The Pitt. These series are incredibly addictive but the thing about this one in particular is that it focuses almost 80-90% on pure, hard and above all real medicine. I have a friend who is a general practitioner and I asked her to watch it to see how realistic it is and she was very surprised by the good handling of treatments, diseases, diagnoses but above all, the gore it has and if you are weak with blood, you may have a hard time watching an episode.
Here we have Robby (Noah Wyle), yes, the same from ER but this time in the role of the head doctor of the emergency room of a public hospital in Pittsburgh. The series does not have much mystery in terms of plot but it does innovate in something and that is that there are 15 chapters, each of them being an hour of the day shift in that room, ie, episode 1 (6am-7am) and so on. This makes the series, as I said, focus mostly on emergencies and leave aside the lives of each of the protagonists. This does not mean that we do not get to have context of each of them, as the hours go by we get to know them more and more as we see them treat each patient that arrives.
Beyond the medical aspect, which is the center of everything, one of the most accurate things is the atmosphere that is lived and breathed in an emergency room, and the ability they had to capture all that is great. The situations that can occur there are very particular and infinite and here are all or at least the most common, from people who trust Google more than doctors, to those who for fear or embarrassment are not able to talk to doctors clearly to treat them as they should. Each patient is unique and is a different world, the way to treat them on a human level with patience and tact is also part of the functions of a doctor and many of the cases that aça will see has a lot to do with that.
But the atmosphere among the doctors is also complicated, there may be a lot of ego involved, sometimes everything can be very hostile because of the competitiveness that exists or because the residents always tend to be very hard on the medical students. Those relationships between them are part of the plot and their development within the shift. In fact there are a couple of complex situations between a couple of them that completely change the dynamics of the ward. I think showing the human side and showing people that these doctors, nurses, etc. have a hard time and do what they can with what they have by taking their physicality to extremes is one of the great things about The Pitt; the real overwhelm of the doctors by situations that overwhelm them is very evident to see.
Part of the success of this series lies in how realistic it is. She particularly mentioned a scene of a birth that gets complicated and has to be done in the emergency room. It's so graphic that the delivery looks perfect, the whole process. To achieve that level of precision and for everything to look so authentic is impressive. And so it is with everything; medical maneuvers, terminologies, use of medical equipment, everything is accurate. And this brings me to the actors. The script that these people have to memorize is probably more complicated than the average movie because it's not fiction, as I said, everything that is shown is just like reality. I think they all do a spectacular job, I do not leave out any of them. All of them with their personalities and problems make the story a little deeper at times.
In short, we are facing a series that if it follows the same line will be one of the great things on television. This first season was perfect, for me it is a 10/10, The format, the realism, how raw it can be, how graphic and above all how human it is make The Pitt the best medical drama I have seen in decades. It's on HBO Max. I leave you the trailer below. Please watch it, recommended 1000%.
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Well my people, that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
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