Medical dramas as a tried and true TV style, and there are a variety of them at the moment on TV. I am a hardcore Gray’s Anatomy fan, who had continued to observe new seasons on ABC and streaming with a Hulu subscription. I’ve lastly begun watching The Pitt on HBO Max, and there are just a few the reason why that new drama appears like basic Gray’s. Let’s break it down.
The Pitt Season 1 is obtainable now for these with a HBO Max subscription, and I’ve spent the previous few days binge watching it. Whereas it is thrilling to see Noah Wyle return to the style, I am actually feeling the identical vibes of early Gray’s Anatomy. Particularly as a result of there may be such an enormous concentrate on the medication of the Emergency Room.
The Pitt Is All About The Medication
As a result of early years of Gray’s Anatomy have been centered on surgical interns and their training, the medication was key. Meredith, Cristina, Alex and the remaining competed for surgical procedures, and to indicate their breadth of data. And alongside the best way their circumstances would replicate again their very own private lives and transfer a bigger story ahead.
Whereas The Pitt does have compelling lead characters, the medication and work of the hospital is extra of a spotlight than their private lives. That is one thing I’ve felt was lacking for a while on Gray’s. Whereas there’s all the time new sufferers, they’re hardly ever featured multi-episode arcs the best way the present did in its early seasons.
Since The Pitt is not on community TV, it is also to shore extra horrifying gore and graphic surgical procedure footage than Gray’s. That, in addition to its format that is like a medical model of 24, and The Pitt is completely bingeable.
Plus, Excellent Penny is within the forged.
Except for their apparent, similarities The Pitt additionally harkens again to basic Gray’s Anatomy with its casting. Particularly Samantha Sloyan, who performed Dr. Penny Blake all through Seasons 11 and 12. This time she’s on the opposite aspect of issues, because the mom of a affected person who goes mind useless throughout Episode 2. Her grieving course of is a recurring plot line all through Season 1, and I liked seeing the connective tissue with Gray’s.
These days Sloyan is finest identified for her work on Mike Flanagan initiatives like Midnight Mass and Fall of the Home of Usher (each of that are streaming with a Netflix subscription). However she’ll all the time be Excellent Penny to me, Callie’s girlfriend and one of many docs accountable for McDreamy’s dying. So seeing her again in a medical drama was an sudden enjoyment of catching up on The Pitt.
The Pitt was already renewed for Season 2, and the primary is streaming in its entirety on Max as a part of the 2025 TV schedule. Hopefully we get much more Gray’s Anatomy connections within the subsequent batch of episodes.