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‘We Try to Keep the Sensationalism to a Dull Roar’
As The Pitt shuts down season one, the next shift is taking shape for creator R. Scott Gemmill.
Up to this point, Noah Wyle’s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch has managed a mass-shooting event, a patient sucker punching his charge nurse, a brooding teenager whose mother worries he might cause harm, a resident’s near arrest for tampering with her ankle monitor, and his own unprocessed pandemic PTSD. We’re trying to be a voice for the health-care frontline workers, and one of the last questions we always ask someone is “What is the one thing you want people to know that they don’t know about your profession?” It’s shining a light on a situation so everyone realizes how tenuous it can be. We did a measles story because disinformation and a lack of faith means that people aren’t getting their kids immunized and these diseases start to come back, and it can be devastating and deadly.
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