Sixteen years after the end of “Emergencies”, two of its producers team up for an absolutely fantastic fiction taking place in real time.
The first season of “The Pitt”, launched this Friday, January 10 on Max, follows the entire shift of emergency doctors at a Pittsburg hospital.
Fifteen episodes and fifteen hours to discuss the flaws in the American health system with the unforgettable interpreter of Doctor Carter at the head of the team.
He made his name playing the youngest member of a team of emergency doctors. He is now the eldest. Noah Wyle returns to the hospital environment in an addictive medical series that takes no precautions with its heroes or its spectators. The Pitt – translate “the pit” – enters the arena of a Pittsburg emergency department where she brings the day to life in real time. Each of the fifteen episodes corresponds to an hour in the lives of these doctors. As if EMERGENCIES was modeled on the unbearable rhythm of 24 Hours Chrono.
He’s not quite up to the task, and today you catch him on a very bad day
Noah Wyle on “Robby”, his character
The Pitt does not escape comparison with EMERGENCIES which was the longest-running medical drama on American television until Grey’s Anatomy does not succeed him in 2019. It shares with the cult series (1994-2009) two of its producers, John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill, its star Noah Wyle of course and his way of walking his camera among the stretchers as if for better immerse us in the heart of the action. But that’s about it and that’s undoubtedly what contributes to the success of this work, which is so realistic that it approaches documentary at times.
Preferring a hooded sweatshirt to the sacrosanct white coat, Michael Robinavitch, known as “Robby”, doesn’t have much in common with the young leading man from a good family, John Carter. “I was interested in the role of a man who came from a much more working-class background and who hadn’t had those early opportunities, who had come to medicine for completely different reasons”explains to TV Insider (new window)Noah Wyle, who also wrote the script for several episodes.
“This is a man who should probably no longer be doing this job, but who had to return to service during Covid and who continued to take on the responsibilities of the job without really doing the therapeutic or analytical work necessary for it. optimizing his mental health He’s not quite up to the task, and today you catch him on a very bad day.”he adds.
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Available this Friday, January 10 on Max, the first episode sees him return to work after a long interruption, four years to the day after the death of his mentor in the middle of a pandemic. Barely arriving at 7 a.m., this doc, as frank as he is a teacher, meets the new group of interns who will discover, with more or less happiness, the daily life of a service totally asphyxiated by the lack of resources. Exit the romanticized personal stories of its characters, The Pitt focuses solely on the practice of medicine and its consequences. Treatments to provide to the endless wait of patients who become less and less so until they develop an attack of violence.
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“It’s interesting to see how much medicine has changed since EMERGENCIES. Many procedures are done differently and many medications we used to administer are no longer administered.”notes Noah Wyle, whose character never ceases to expose the flaws of a health system which wears out patients as much as practitioners. The Pitt does not lack finesse, emotions and protagonists that you will love to hate. Already one of the best series of the year.
>> The Pitt – An episode every Friday from January 10 on Max
