I just watched the pilot of ER. Noah Wyle looks like a high school kid!
I’m glad this show went in the “brand new show” direction. I believe when The Pitt was in its earliest stages, Noah Wyle was going to play the same character he played from ER.
I’ve never seen ER, but agree everyone looks like babies in the early pictures.
We finished season 1 last night and it was very good and very satisfying.
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The little girl(Amber) who drowned was the most intense and anxiety-inducing moment in the whole season. It took up 20-25 minutes of screen time, but was terrible…but gripping.
Tried out His & Hers on NFLX last night. Really couldn’t get into it at all. Cop, ex-wife, dead kid: nothing out of the ordinary here, and it’s been done better.
I may have been talked into re-upping HBO after reading comments above about The Pitt. Their subscription price is off-putting, but we’ll binge and dump.
I’m 4 episodes in and only half invested. For me, there’s a bit too much “Mare of Easttown” in it. At least WRT everyone knowing and/or being related to each other.
I haven’t seen the first few seasons of ER (the Clooney years), so it’s new to me too. It actually feels pretty fresh, although a couple of things seemed dated so far:
- In the first few episodes, there’s a scene where a flirtatious young woman gets Dr. Greene to rub burn cream on her inner thighs AND a scene where a flirtatious young woman gets Dr. Carter to rub rash cream on her bum (and she later sneaks into his car and tells him “let’s go to my place”). Moral: women be horny for doctors.
- The small amounts of money that get mentioned when they talk about how expensive health care is. “You want to see a neurologist? You don’t have insurance so that would cost you $180!!!”
So in 2026 women don’t be horny for doctors?
Nowadays I think they at least would have made a few more episodes before going back to the same well!
Sirens (Netflix) A 5-episode mini-series that ran last year but I’d never heard of it.
Julianne Moore is a billionaire philanthropist (and possibly leader of a cult….I’m only 1 episode in). Milly Alcock is her personal assistant; Meghann Fahy plays the assistant’s older and more grounded sister who suspects Something Is Up.
It may or not may not turn out to be fun and worthwhile, but I can’t get past the casting. The personal assistant is supposed to be a high-powered professional dynamo, but Milly Alcock has the face of a 12-year-old girl and I can’t get past that.
How to Get to Heaven From Belfast (Netflix) From the creators of Derry Girls, which I loved. Appears to be a mystery-comedy….one episode in, looks promising.
Maybe spend some time looking at pictures of 29-year-old youngest female (non-heiress) billionaire Luana Lopes Lara to help acclimate yourself?
I mean, it’s not just you: we’re conditioned to accept the idea of “precocious”-looking young male high-powered professional dynamos (“boy genius”), but not female ones. Childish-looking women are just perceived as little girls, full stop.
Luana Lopes Lara looks her age. Milly Alcock is 25 but could play Pollyanna or be in the cast of Stranger Things.
I finished watching season 1 of The Mighty Nein on Amazon Prime, another animated series from Critical Role (in the same world as The Legend of Vox Machina). Entertaining and engaging, if you’re into D&D-style stories.
Kinda my point?
We see a boyish-looking male actor playing a high-powered professional and think ”wow, that high-powered professional looks about 12 lol!”
We see a girlish-looking female actor playing a high-powered professional and think ”wow, that actress looks about 12, she needs to be playing child or teen characters, not high-powered professionals!”
We started The Pitt last night. Seems like a typical medical series, but with more profanity and gore than network efforts. I’m impressed with the cast’s ability to memorize the medical jargon. One part that really hit home was the couple trying to decide whether or not to let their father die peacefully. I went through that with my son.
We’ve been watching the 2020 version of All Creatures Great and Small on PBS. It’s charming, well acted, and surprisingly moving. Several episodes have inspired a few sniffles from both of us. Just the thing to help us escape the stress of current reality.
They did a good job of making the adult children sympathetic while frustrating as hell.
The Pitt is a testament to the power of good storytelling. It appears to be having a real impact on how people think about such situations. They’ve done surveys in which people said the show has convinced them to act differently in how they approach end-of-life-care and organ donation. It may actually be the most important show on television.
No, I somewhat disagree. The typical medical drama is mostly the staff having affairs with each other, and relatives (that we never knew existed until this episode) being brought in great medical distress. The Pitt is far more medical than drama.
I liked the “walk of honor” where the staff lined up and applauded the new organ donator.
Season 2 was quite a watch! Finished it tonight.
Seems like there will be a Season 3 in the future.
Nah, I would think the boyish actor looks like he should be playing a younger character, too. Sometimes people are just miscast.
Just finished His and Hers. Kinda meh, but for such a violent/action oriented show, it’s surprisingly easy to watch. It would’ve been easy to blast through the entire thing in a single day.
Regarding the ending…
Summary
I’m not one of those people that tries to figure out a whodunit on my own, I generally prefer to go along for the ride. However, in this case, I saw mentions of a twist ending or something otherwise unexpected happening. At that point, my money was on mom, but mostly because there was absolutely zero other reason for her to be in the show.
Do we know why Jack cancelled the phone records request on…someone, don’t remember who? Do we know why Jack was so desperately trying to steer the investigation towards Clyde? One thing I read (not about that, just about Jack, in general) is that he’s not a good detective. Is it just that?
And I’ll reiterate what I said earlier. I felt a lot of it was way over complicated. Too many people, too many relationships, too many people fucking someone other than their SO, with or without them knowing and with or without them being okay(ish) with it. Everyone knows each other etc. It means there’s a lot of complicated relationships and we’re just jumping into the middle and having to pick up bits and pieces of the history as we move through the show. I know it’s a small town, but they could’ve set it anywhere. They did use Priya as a way to get information to us, but I wished they would’ve used her more, or better.
Maybe the answer really does come down to that last line “Forget it, Boston. It’s Delhonega”.