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How different can they be, really?
The basics will remain the same.
Guy with heart attack.
Tragic death of a young person.
Rare and improbable injury.
TV has produced thousands and thousandsof episodes of exactly this.
Its not just another French fry.
Maxs new medical drama,The Pitt,is that Proustian French fry.
The lighting is fluorescent and often unforgiving.
Gurneys are parked in the hallways, and the scrubs get wrinkled and dirty.
And the storytelling structure matches that overall approach.
And, yes, its fantastic.
Several of the younger cast are also stellar, despite (or because of?)
There are missteps along the way.
She has to show up multiple times to remind us of the stakes, realism be damned.
Theres also a haunted-by-COVID backstory that givesThe Pittan uneasy parallel toDoctor Odyssey.
This one element is too precious by comparison.
Whats most strange is thatThe Pittshould feel intensely familiar.
Its a medical drama.
And yet,The Pittfeels like an oddity.
