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It s not just the demographics. It would be a stretch because a mass shooter is either having a crisis and does something impulsive and devastating, which in most cases would lead them to kill themselves; or they do the impulsive thing and get shocked but then would likely change the attitude, not remaining shocked and looking distressed. Maybe trying to conceal by over-acting some pain or talk too much, or something that they would believe could distract anyone from looking into them; or they are sociopaths/psychopaths, in which case they would not be able to disguise their elation with the results of their carnage. If the writers decide togo with the woman, then the show would lose points on my personal meter of quality writing. As for David, I guess they made him go to the hospital for the dramatic scenes. He would likely know about the shooting so it makes no sense that he walks in the hospital as if nothing is happening - which I think is your point. A silly attempt coming from the writers to make us believe he is the shooter. My guess is that the shooter will be caught off camera and we will just hear that they got the shooter. I don't want to see a law enforcement procedural.

There was at least one moment when she was following instructions from King. I want to believe that the producers did do their research and talked to people about a situation like this. My guess is that nothing is as it should be, the adrenaline is too high, people are just looking for the most serious cases to try and save. Mistakes will be made but possibly never really acknowledge because the chaos is overwhelming. We still don't know what happened to Myrna. She should have been shipped somewhere else, the clinic or upstairs but then why was someone asking where she was?

Anyone in the US? Firearms are easier to get than some allergy medications, there is little to no regulation and, perhaps most importantly, people in the US are too individualistic and one of the least happy - as in satisfied with their lives - in comparable countries in the world. It is a perfect storm for some to either just lose it completely - not an excuse, a plausible explanation - or to act on their sociopathy when life is so terrible and they cannot get their scapegoats out of sight fast enough. This country has a pathological unhappiness and a pathological sense of entitlement. This can manifest itself in some people

The law is not that forgiving. They go by procedure and don't really care if the person is saving lives. They could throw int here that there was an officer and try to make a case but they would certainly try to punish her. Most of them are not really naked. Depending on the budget, the ones without lines might be dummies. I don't think so. It would be a big stretch. She is there to either show the different ways people are affected or she will be the one able to identify the shooter, maybe. I have a feeling that they already know how many seasons they want to roll with this. I hope they don't go on forever because it is very rare that a show can be good for more than 5 seasons. And they will definitely not change the cast each season because, at least for the first two seasons, Noah Wyle is the anchor of the show Her anklet is problematic and she complain about it in the first episode. It goes off for no reason, anytime, even when they know where she is where she is supposed to be. The amount of trauma in this last two episodes is visible, even the ones that are still to come. I can almost see the adrenaline rushing through the veins of everyone as they go from one victim to the other without time to process. Plus the trauma on each patient, the social workers having to identify bodies, the families waiting for any news. There is so much, and I 100% believe this is close to what really happens. I wonder if they had special consultants for this situation. No wonder we are a very traumatized country. I remember being in a hospital as a companion and talking to a nurse in 2021. The uncertainty of COVID still there but not like in 2020, when nobody really knew what that virus could do, was doing. One nurse said that in 2020 the hospital had one room where the medical workers could go and just scream. And the nursing staffing has never really recovered. On the other hand, kind of, there are plenty of doctors and nurses who are not qualified and rude. I had experience with both. Once a doctor not able to explain to me something, then blaming me for not understanding, in an ER visit when I was upset and nervous. The other time someone I know going to the hospital for what I discovered on the INTERNET! that it was Drug Induced Liver Injury, which any specialist on the case could have seen by actually reading the chart and the list of meds. All this is to say that I see how some people here are hoping that Santos fail because the character is unlikable, this show has so far being pretty realistic so anyone could fail and hurt patients, even the most likable one. It is devastating either way because the patients have nothing to do with it.

I am glad they didn't go with a reboot. After all those seasons, even a show that I think has more good things than not good gets boring. The Pitt is a much better concept, imo

That's weird, that someone thinks of the show as a reboot. It sounds a bit whoever wrote the piece is extrapolating or not being truthful to what was actually said. As for footage, as far as I understand this industry, actors do not have ownership of their characters so no footage of Carter would be used, unless HBO/MAX bought the rights to ER and even then I am not sure of the details involving creators, etc

Yes, I know but she was just mentioned once, so I was wondering if this the writers have some surprises or if it is a red herring.

Where is Myrna?

Interview: Noah Wyle with Marc Maron. From January https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1613-noah-wyle

someone mentioned that the episode was short and I think it is because so much happened, they probably filmed this and next episodes together. It was pretty intense and I thought very well done. It showed the confusion but also showed compassion and improvisation, nothing was confused to the viewers. Well written, directed and acted. The faces of the interns when Robby was instructing them was the right mix. For the first time I thought the acting from "Santos" was on the mark. I could almost see the adrenaline building, just by her facial expression. The props department seems to be having a lot of fun with the fake vaginas and fake penises. Another first was the catheterized penis. I guess someone also mentioned the woman who just starts crying on her chair. That was heartbreaking. This country, destroying what could be fixed if common sense didn't disappeared when powerful lobbyists arrive with their bags of cash I am going to guess that the shooter is not the kid who run, but he will die as a victim.], and that Jake is fine. His lack of communication is there to add to the heaviness in Robby's shoulders that day

Except that he did admitted to being using and/or taking the medication No idea how it works in real life but I believe Robby sent him home and would follow up with a formal incident report (or whatever the documentation is needed) later. There is no way of decisively saying that allowing Langdon to come back is the right or the wrong decision. Like a lot of things in life, it all depends on the outcome, the aftermath, the consequences. If things go well, if he saves a life that would have been lost if not for him, then the decision to allow him back was the right one (and a right decision can be completely different from a correct procedure). If something happens because of him, then it was the wrong decision. This is the kind of nuance I like in TV writing.

Except that even Robbie, who is fighting the system that oppresses, know that every single person who dies in that ER, that day, will have a case against the hospital if the situation - doctor might be high on stolen drugs - gets out and Robbie would lose his job, possibly his license. He didn't know before, as soon as he knew he sent Langston home, but then allowing him to come back? On the other hand, it conveys the chaos created by situations like that and how people's judgements play a part on how to respond. It is a good thing that the show went there because there is not a satisfactory answer.

I think one contrast is that ER was character centered and The Pitt is plot centered, at least for the most part. ER had all the jargons used in medicine - maybe older shows had it too but I never watched the older medical shows. It had the back stories and family relationships of the main characters. It touched on the problems of the system but that was part of a plot but not the main issue. It had al the exaggerations like helicopters falling off the roof to hit the villain of the show, or explosions. The cases were there, many of them well developed, but the focus was on characters. The Pitt has is the reverse. The focus so far has been on the procedures, the cases, how a student (supposedly) learns, how a day is in a public ER. I am not in the medical field but like I mentioned, compared to Code Black, The Pitt is pretty close to reality. Code Back was directly taken from a documentary about a real ER. It is not a matter of which one is better or which one pales in comparison. It is a matter of preference, of contrasting them.

I will start. I like the show a lot, and it reminds me of Code Black. I already mentioned it somewhere. The show was super realistic, some glimpses on personal lives and based on a real ER, and on a documentary about it. The first season is like anything else I have ever seen, but then they completely lost it in seasons 2 and 3. I blame Rob Lowe coming into the show as an executive director and playing the hero she believes he is, completely tanking the premise of the show. They decided to dive into the heroism of yet another war veteran (lowe) and in characters personal lives. Rob Lowe was solving crimes and all that, which made the show pure crap once he joined in I hope The Pitt can avoid the trap of caving to egocentric actors with executive production power.

I like the format because I don't really need to see character development in depth. I prefer to get glimpses in their lives but with the focus on the events inside the ER. It is what differentiates it from other shows. Like Grey's, which I could never get into, they are surgeons that are everywhere all the time doing all things. Or The Good Doctor, which had the most complicated surgeries with two doctors and one nurse. Or even ER, which I like more than I don't, with too much personal drama. The way it is, the show can primarily focus on the system and its many failures, and the personal stuff can be just a footnote. Personally, I prefer the way it is - as long as we don't have to see ex-husband plus girlfriend again