The 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards have come and gone, however not with out their share of surprises… and I don’t simply imply Nate Bargatze’s try to hold acceptance speeches brief failing or Andor profitable a much-deserved writing trophy. Primarily based on hype and variety of nominations, I used to be anticipating both Severance or The White Lotus to take a lot of the Drama classes. As a substitute, The Pitt (out there streaming now with an HBO Max subscription) received in some main classes, together with Excellent Drama and Noah Wyle for Excellent Lead Actor.
Contemplating that I’ve been ready for Wyle to get an Emmy since means again in ER’s sixth season in 2000, I’m simply grateful that The Pitt lastly took him all the way in which there. The medical drama was nominated for 13 Emmys whole, profitable 5: Excellent Drama Sequence, Excellent Lead Actor for Noah Wyle, Excellent Supporting Actress for Katherine LaNasa, Excellent Visitor Actor for Chicago P.D.’s Shawn Hatosy, and Excellent Casting for a Drama Sequence. As an government producer, Wyle can also be amongst these credited for the Excellent Drama win.
However I’m nonetheless targeted on Wyle finale getting an performing trophy, 26 years after his final nomination for taking part in John Carter on ER. With new significance to the actor in 2025, I actually might need been rooting for him irrespective of who he was up in opposition to, and that’s due to a really particular episode from Season 6 of ER.
Whereas Wyle wasn’t nominated for Season 6, I nonetheless take into account it one in all his strongest seasons on the long-running NBC sequence, which is presently streaming with a Hulu subscription. This was the season that featured – spoiler alert for a plot twist from February 2000, I assume, should you’re simply watching now – Carter and Lucy (Kellie Martin) being stabbed by a psych affected person, with Lucy dying and Carter being left with persistent ache.
The episode instantly following Carter and Lucy being attacked stands as one in all my favourite episodes of ER, however Carter was unconscious for a lot of the hour. His arc for the remainder of the season concerned dealing (or not dealing) with Lucy’s loss of life and coming to depend on painkillers. It got here to a head within the Season 6 finale, referred to as “Could Day,” when a few of the individuals closest to him at County Common staged an intervention.
He was too far gone at that time to hearken to motive, and stormed out, ready to lose every thing relatively than admit his drug drawback and settle for assist. Benton (Eriq La Salle) chased after his former protégé and wrangled him into agreeing to go to rehab, however not earlier than taking a punch to the face. Noah Wyle switched between anger, aggression, anxiousness, and devastation in the middle of one prolonged scene, whereas maintaining it clear that Carter was fully on edge the whole time. Have a look:
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I admittedly missed the unique primetime broadcast when “Could Day” aired on NBC in Could 2000, however I caught it by way of rerun not too lengthy after and was about as close to tears as Carter was by the tip. Noah Wyle completely crushed it, and to this present day I can’t consider that he wasn’t a minimum of nominated for Season 6. So, my ER-loving coronary heart was greater than prepared for him to win an Emmy for completely something to make up for it. How good is it that he lastly received the trophy for his return to enjoying an emergency division physician?
The primary season of The Pitt ran for 15 episodes from January – April 2025, and the wait received’t be too terribly lengthy for extra. Season 2 will premiere after the tip of the 2025 TV schedule, however very early within the new yr: January 8, 2026. For now, you may all the time discover The Pitt streaming on HBO Max and ER streaming on Hulu.