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The Pitt Was Testing Us
This is a teaching hospital, after all.
And that consistency is incredibly clever because, by stoking viewers’ dislike of Santos — she’s too rude, too young, too ambitious, too much — and then proving her right about Langdon’s drug thieving, The Pitt turns around its thematic interest in bias so that it also implicates us. The Pitt attempts a level of accuracy that has been praised as “ absolutely ” reflective of how actual emergency departments run, and that fast-paced, real-time nature lets the show take on a variety of cases, and their accompanying biases, per episode. Even with her admission early on that she uses “sarcasm and comedy as a shield,” it has been hard as a viewer not to get irritated with her constantly cringe behavior: her flustered defensiveness when Mohan criticizes her flippant small talk with a college student whose friend died of a drug overdose; her unpolished questioning of a young girl about whether her father is sexually abusing her; and her ordering medical tests without Langdon’s approval.
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