From its collection premiere on HBO Max, one factor turned evident about The Pitt: That is the very best present of 2025, with Emmy-worthy work each in entrance of and behind the digicam. Not solely does it excel in showcasing the docs and sufferers on the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Heart, however it additionally does so in a means that’s recent and distinctive: in real-time, with every Season 1 episode masking one hour of a 15-hour shift.
Main the cost is Robby (Noah Wyle), the attending on shift grappling with it being the anniversary of his mentor’s loss of life (a day he normally takes off), the standard pressures of the ER, the added ones of particular traumas, and a mass casualty capturing at which his stepson was current. All season is constructing as much as a breakdown, which is available in Episode 13, top-of-the-line of the season. Every episode tracks the burden being added to his shoulders, however none extra so than this one, superbly directed by Damian Marcano (who additionally was behind the digicam for Episodes 3, 6, and 10, and can return for Season 2).
“I all the time was involved concerning the human thread. The drugs that we do on the present is good. I can’t even take full credit score for that as a result of we’ve precise physicians that come and provides us a medical rehearsal proper earlier than we shoot a scene if we’re within the heats of a trauma or one thing like that,” Marcano tells TV Insider. “After I’m directing all of these scenes, I attempt to remind our performers, ‘Hey, you’ve got this happening with this particular person.’”
He notes that the real-time side additionally permits the continuity to stay “so recent,” corresponding to in Season 1 Episode 6, when Santos (Isa Briones) drops the scalpel into Garcia’s (Alexandra Metz) foot, then we see her stitching it up.
Under, director Damian Marcano takes us inside some key moments from his Season 1 episodes.
The Pitt, Season 2, TBA, HBO Max