Those “graphic medical imagery” scenes, including the depiction of a birth in Episode 11, “are integral to the show’s portrayal of the raw emotional toll that such work has on those who commit their lives to the medical profession,” the cabler said.
That answers my first question after reading this headline. I’ve watched a lot of medical shows over the years and I was surprised by this one. I applaud the decision to air The Pitt as is.
I like intense shows but can’t handle medical shows because I cannot handle looking at surgery scenes or anything involving cutting someone open and seeing their insides. I can barely handle cutting chicken bones.
I really wanted to like Dr. Death but they had pretty extensive scenes showing the extent of his malpractice and I couldn’t do it. If The Pitt has more drama and less surgical stuff, I’ll give it a shot.
It’s eye surgery that gets me. I don’t think The Pitt has that (but it might), but I know several medical shows do. Everything else is just “meat” and I can handle it but eye stuff is always too much.
(And The Pitt birth scene is also a shock, but mostly just because so many shows handwaved it. If I remember correctly the Seth Rogan film Knocked Up also gives you a visual. But in X years of film and TV that’s it.)
Let me tell you, seeing your own insides is a completely different experience than seeing them on TV (my big vertical abdominal scar started opening up after one surgery)
Not every show needs to be for everyone. I appreciate at least that these guys are doing something different and risky. There are dozens of medical shows that are purely drama. I don’t think we need another.
I wonder if it’ll be CG or practical effects.
You can already watch it, the show has been on HBO (and thus the seven seas) for months now. The show is REALLY good.
Probably a combination of both practical effects and CG. For some reason we have this warped notion that CG is bad, and filmmakers like to lie and say they didn’t use CG when they did. Pretty much EVERYTHING uses some amount of CG these days.
No lie. Good CGI is utterly indistinguishable from the real, been that way for years. The Walking Dead was great at it and even silly shows like Ugly Betty used it. Ugly Betty ended 15-years ago!
I envy anyone who gets to see if for the first time. It is so good.
I barely watch medical dramas. I absolutely loved this series and binged it in about 4 days. Seriously good stuff.
Michael Crichton’s widow has to be raging so hard right now
Im out of the loop here. Why would she be?
From what I vaguely (and probably at least somewhat incorrectly) remember from a Legal Eagle video:
They approached her asking to do an ER reboot, because she controls her deceased husband’s estate/IP. She was mad about how he hadn’t been given a “Created By” credit for HBO’s Westworld, so she demanded a “Created By” credit and a lot of money (IIRC).
They were like, “Um, no, but we will give him a credit and we will pay you a lesser amount.”
And she said no.
So they completely retooled the show. Changed from Chicago to Pittsburgh, changed the name of Noah Wyle’s character (and potentially others) so it isn’t ER anymore, then made The Pitt.
When it came out she tried to sue them for infringing on ER by making a TV show that takes place in an emergency room, stars Noah Wyle, and has some of the same writers as ER did. Which is absurd, because they’re expressly NOT making ER because she refused to be cooperative. She caused them to give up a valuable IP and now thinks she has a monopoly on medical dramas starring Noah Wyle.
(I’m actually glad that happened because I probably wouldn’t have watched an ER reboot, having not seen the series, but I loved The Pitt.)
Edited to add the link to the Legal Eagle video.
She recently brought suit claiming that The Pitt infringes on the E.R. intellectual property.
It might get more viewers if it was a Fallout spinoff.
It’s already an ER spin-off
That beat-down in a latter episode is the roughest part of the show.
Still not going to save cable tv.
