We watched the first episode of The Pitt last night (yes, very late to the game), and thus far, I don’t see why it’s so lauded. It’s a hospital show, grittier than most, but not really “better” than ER or Chicago Hope or even Gray’s Anatomy. Yeah, it does the real time thing, more or less, but so did 24. Does it get better?
There was also a pretty glaring bit of illogic in this episode: the mother faking gastric distress in order to get her possibly murderous teenage son some sort of help. From an ER. Where she had no plan to talk to any doctor or social worker alone - she just kind of lucked into that. And then when a social worker appears, she talks to the kid in a public space. I do not think any of this would happen!
