Welcome to 'The Pitt'

You don't need me to tell you about The Pitt, the Pittsburgh-based medical drama that swept recent Emmy nominations and features not one but three Filipino characters, but it's worth talking about anyway.

- SCOTT GARCEAU

Created by the team behind the '90s hit show ER and bringing back Noah Wyle to a completely new medical drama (this time playing attending physician "Robby" Robinavitch), it's like a snapshot of America at the beginning of 2025, when the show premiered and (not incidentally) when Donald Trump began his second term as president.

Things are a mess at The Pitt, the wry nickname for Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital, where people are parked for hours in the E.R. waiting area and the trainee doctors are beset by crisis after crisis, some semi-comical, some deeply, well, traumatizing.