Special Issue: "The Pitt" Is Over, Long Live "The Pitt"

Discussing season one.

It’s hard to guess which shows everyone will want to discuss and dissect, but with Severance and The White Lotus on our lists, The Pitt — airing concurrently with both — wasn’t even in consideration. Maybe it should have been; maybe it will be. Because the 15-episode season, which uses a 24-like realtime format to get through one hella long overtime shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room, ended up being engrossing, excellent, juicy television that reminded me how exhilarating it can be when everyone in the game — both behind the cameras and the scenes, and in front of them — is at the top of theirs.

We talked about The Pitt twice at length: Once on Extra Hot Great, and once here in which we got into the nitty-gritty of the Michael Crighton estate suing because they believe they’re owed ER royalties for it. Otherwise, this is our first chance to dissect it en masse. The format mostly worked — it allowed patients to weave in and out of episodes the way they naturally would when you’re wait…