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ER Vets — and ‘ER’ Vets — Know What They’re Doing in Real-Time Medical Drama ‘The Pitt’: TV Review
Noah Wyle leads a team of 'ER' veterans in Max medical drama 'The Pitt', a real-time chronicle of a 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room.
“The Pitt” doubles down on the realism that made “ER” a sensation, working topical issues like opioid abuse and the pandemic into a frantically paced plot that effectively induces the same sense of overwhelm in the audience that its exhausted characters live with every day. Where they might appear for a single episode on a standard medical show, these charges instead linger for several, giving “The Pitt” room to make them more developed and less interchangeable — a subtle counterweight to how people are too often treated as numbers once they pass through a hospital’s doors. Naming every ensemble member would take up the rest of this review, but Robby’s colleagues include Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa), a charge nurse who runs the floor like she’s in the Navy and with a soft Yinzer accent; Dr. McKay (Fiona Dourif), an older resident and single mom from an unconventional background; and Dr. Santos (Isa Briones), a cocky new face gradually humbled by the pressures of her first day on the job.
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