The Pitt (2025) Season One Review

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hello everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the kb radio network i am your host kevin reed

and this is the review of the max medical drama starring noah ryle going back to his er days the pit of 15 episode series which is screaming on max right now just

wrapped up his first season this past uh thursday and man you want to talk about premiere week to week viewing

This was old school television viewing for me and my wife watching this show on

HBO Max or just Max,

whatever it is.

What a show.

It's no point sitting here and lingering on with keeping you in suspense whether I liked it or not.

I love this show.

The series follows an emergency department staff as they attempt

to overcome the hardships of a single

15-hour work shift at the fictional pittsburgh trauma medical hospital all while having to navigate staff shortage underfunding and insufficient resources each episode of the season covers approximately one hour of

the work shift and i didn't know anything about this going in i wasn't an er guy i'm not a medical drama guy

you know i never watched uh gray's anatomy i didn't watch er i didn't watch uh chicago hope and all that other good stuff i i'm not a medical drama guy but every now and then i'll peek it now i did love house i watched house but

that is as fictional as fictional can get in that show but i i enjoyed it because it was more of sherlock holmes than it was a medical drama for me but i don't know what it was

they got me to watch the pit but i'm so happy i did uh another show i can compare to this would be 24 if you remember that show with keeper sutherland came on fox i

don't know about 30 years ago and my god i can't believe i uttered that yeah it came on so long ago but that show was fire and what made it so good was that

24 the season had 24 episodes every episode was an hour and you followed uh a jack bauer on this mission and every season was great i loved it and maybe not the

last season but all the other ones were great and so i didn't know about this show going in and what the setup was what the what the hook was of it you

and it's basically 24 in a emergency room of a hospital and we are following these doctors and nurses as all hell breaks loose you know and man this

is the most stressful viewing you ever want to watch but stressful in the sense of watching these doctors and nurses go through their day

you know trying to help their patients and at the same time navigate what's going on in their life you know they're they have to end like they can shut off the outside world and for every little thing some things you just can't shut off you know things

that's going on in your life uh marital issues or you know children and so on and so forth or ptsd from things you have witnessed

On this job and it's still eating away at you from the inside out all of that is displayed here and it's so stressful and

I just this isn't more of a review than it is a

Acknowledgement of the hard work the sacrifices that medical staff go through every single day and you think about

I'm pretty sure everybody has

been to a hospital,

doctor's office,

whatever.

They have some point in their life.

And you've been there and you've seen some unruly patients.

you know being impatient being unruly being uh uncooperative and all all these other things until the staff and the staff are doing the best they can and this show finds

a little corner to talk about that it finds a little corner to talk about the ptsd the trauma the past uh trauma that these doctors and nurses have went through you

you know even going back to covid you know we have a doctor that is dealing with the ramifications of what happened during covid and another doctor that is dealing with uh uh uh a pregnancy and she's

a uh a high-risk pregnancy you know she she's tried in the past and all these other stuff and there's a there's a lot of uh stress that comes with that you

and there's consequences to all of that as well and it just brings up so many topics but it's topical and it's real because these are things that if not you i hope nobody has to go through the things that these patients were going through here but

you know somebody who has you know and who knows knock on wood we may have to go through things like this you know and this was hands down

the most realistic medical show i've ever watched now like i said i didn't watch a lot of medical dramas you know the graze anatomies and all that other good stuff but i've seen episodes because my wife watched great graze uh

i caught an episode or two of uh er in the past and so i've seen them i just never uh committed to watching them

this is the first time i actually committed to watching it and i can honestly say just by seeing little tidbits of those shows they can't hold a candle to what we saw in season one of the pit this was so real and

i'm so glad it was such a genius move by max to release it week to week every episode week to week because if you had to sit down and binge this i don't think you can make down honestly

well i'm saying you i'm picking on all of you you probably could but me i couldn't there's no way it was hard to get through a couple of one hour episodes every week you know with all of the things that was going on then you had a mass shooting event that took place during

the later half of the episode where you're getting hundreds of people coming to the hospital from gunshot rooms and being trampled over by

fleeing people and stuff like that and they have to deal with it is it is brutal and it is so refreshing to see characters to see these doctors on on this particular show um

actually care you know there wasn't any twist we didn't have a evil doctor working behind the scenes to sabotage and you know all that all that stupid stuff this was real this was doctors

actually trying to help doctors who were doing everything in their power to save people's lives and uh that could be physically and it could be mentally and in a couple of cases even spiritually and

it just it just checked all the boxes man i mean the acting here the acting in this show like i said noah wow this isn't his first rodeo with medical dramas he was you

he co-starred in the medical drama from uh my god uh 40 years ago i forgot when er came out i know i was in high school so that says a lot but uh yeah he he uh he's

coming back to the fold here i know a lot of rumors were when this show was first coming out that this was a continuation of his character from er but that was debunked that this thing this is not related to er but uh

man no a while bro wow you want to talk about a good job you want to talk about a protagonist that you can follow that you can root for that you can get mad at that you can cheer for um when he does something right and you

know it's it's like i know this dude this is a dude who i can rock with you may be this dude you know he is just a guy you

doing his job he's not super doctor he's not house you know he's not that but he is he is just a guy trying to save people's lives and trying to get everybody around him

to save everybody's lives um we had some legacy act actresses in this show and it blew my mind um upon researching for the review i did not know well i knew of one and

that was uh fenona dorff uh she plays uh uh cassie on the show she is the daughter of steven dorff or brad dorff not steven dorff uh brad dorff

who is the voice of Chucky in Child's Play.

And so

I knew who she was,

but I didn't know who Taylor

Dearden is.

I didn't know who she was,

but I was so impressed with her.

She acted,

she almost stole the show for me.

She is probably

1A or 1B,

my favorite character from the show.

And it was all because of Taylor.

Dearden's performance.

If you don't know who Taylor Dearden is,

she is the daughter of Bryan Cranston.

Did not know that.

Yeah,

breaking bad,

Bryan

Cranston.

Did not know it,

but once I found it out and went and looked,

I was like,

okay,

oh,

no wonder.

It's in her DNA.

Yes,

of course she could act.

I mean,

she acted her behind off,

but quite honestly.

everybody did there wasn't one bad performance now there was one character that i wish i could have strangled um that i didn't like uh trinity santos i didn't too much care for her character but it wasn't the actress fault i just didn't like the character she was annoying she

was just so annoying but she was supposed to be so i'm not mad at i'm i'm really not mad or at her she was

you know you know that annoying that's just overconfident like like oh oh i can do anything you know i can do any and everything that's that's her you know and it didn't matter if the head doctor the head resident was telling her different or whatever the case she just knew the answer and

people like that just drives me insane you know to say that that was her first day on the job or her first year uh i think she was an intern

on the show but yeah she she made it seem like she was the head honcho in the er but whatever the case may be she did a great job at it everybody did i love the character of whitaker uh uh uh i

can't think of the actor thing who played him but he did a great job you know uh he's he's the doctor who he's a medical student but he he he lacks confidence as opposed to

uh trinity you know they're they're the yin and yang she is overconfident whereas uh whittaker is he has zero confidence but he is so good at his job and it was a running joke that ran with him every

episode he had to change scrubs because something happened either he got bled on or he got vomited on or he got peed on or it was something that happened uh to him

throughout the entire show he was really the comic relief until things started to pick up and things got more serious and serious as the season went along but this was a well put together show like i said it is if you're a big fan of 24 and you like medical dramas this is this the bee's knees man this is the best thing since sliced bread and i enjoyed every single

episode of this show i did not there wasn't one episode i was like ah this was a filler no did every episode knocked it out of the park you will laugh you will cry you will uh you will be uh uh entrenched

you know you would cheer cheer for characters you will mourn characters you will i mean it's so much going on yet nothing was left

you know,

ambiguous.

Nothing was left in a cliffhanger fashion.

You know,

we got resolutions to,

I will say,

99%

of the issues.

I say 99 in the event that I missed one,

but I really don't think we missed one here.

Everything worked.

Everything was flushed out.

And well,

yeah,

no,

I do have one.

There is one,

but it's a spoiler in case you didn't see the season.

So I don't want to.

I've mentioned it,

but there's one,

but it's not.

It is what it is.

I know I'm getting a season two,

so I'm not sweating it.

So it is what it is.

But this,

hands down,

we in the middle of April right now,

this is hands down the best show to come out in 2025.

I know we have a lot of 2025 left,

but this is a high,

high,

high bar to clear remaining.

in this year uh for uh tv shows to come out and try to topple the pit congratulations to noah wow congratulations to the showrunners congratulations to the rest of the cast and max

for giving us this gem the pit gets a letter grade of an a plus amazing show i'm telling you i cannot recommend this show enough

amazing amazing series i mean every box man i'm telling you the truth that the the the writing the acting the direction the the the tone you know the pace uh

no wrong no notes people no notes of i would love to know did you see the pit that's on max did you watch all 15 episodes

Of this series,

I would love to know your thoughts.

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Thank you for joining me for this review of the first season of the pit.

Want you all to know that I love you continue to love everyone.

And until we speak again,

you all be blessed.

The Pitt (2025) Season One Review

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