Plenty of shows claim to be groundbreaking, but few are as committed to actually breaking ground (and occasionally, their viewers) as The Pitt. The show’s Emmy-nominated first season ran through a gauntlet of storylines that would take most medical dramas years to wade through: a mass shooting that turned the ER into a war zone, a heartbreaking fentanyl overdose that seemed ripped from the headlines, an anti-vax episode that felt frustratingly real, and, of course, a birth sequence staged with prosthetics and puppeteers that looked so realistic, we’re surprised the FCC didn’t receive some calls. It wasn’t melodrama; it was prestige TV daring to be as messy and brutal as the world it mirrors.
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