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The Era of Network Nostalgia Is Here, and The Pitt Stands to Benefit
The Max Original is gunning for the Emmys, backed by a big star and a satisfying narrative.
It’s become impossible to talk about The Pitt and its 15-episode first season, tracking the course of one shift in the emergency room under the supervision of senior attending physician Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch ( Noah Wyle), without name-checking its spiritual ancestor, the landmark NBC series ER. There’s also the fact that The Pitt is written as one continuous story broken up into multiple parts — a staple of streaming TV — but within that narrative, Gemmill and Wells managed to build in mini-arcs that play out and resolve over the course of a few episodes, before the characters move on to the next patient. The best odds, were I gazing into my crystal ball, would go in this order:• Katherine LaNasa as tough-but-kind nurse Dana Evans• Fiona Dourif as single mom Dr. Cassie McKay• Gerran Howell as overwhelmed rookie Dennis Whitaker• Taylor Dearden as the stealthily capable Dr. Melissa King
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