For a while now in television history, medical dramas have been popular among audiences. From hits like ER, Scrubs, and Grey’s Anatomy, now there is a new and more realistic drama; The Pitt. The Pitt stars ER actor Noah Wyle and takes place in an ER of a Pittsburg hospital. Each episode of The Pitt is one singular hour of the shift for the doctors and nurses working that shift.

In season 1 of The Pitt, we get introduced to Doctor Michael “Robby” Robinavitch and how he runs The Pitt as the Emergency Attending Physician. Throughout the season, the audience gets to see real life emergencies come through the ER and get to meet some of the new interns and other nurses and doctors. With the tense up close action, the audience feels like they are a part of the action as well. With the style of show that The Pitt is, seeing that each episode is only one shift lets the audience see how much doctors and nurses go through in a single day.

Season 2 starts with Dr. Robby riding his motorcycle across the Roberto Clemente bridge to the tune of “Better Off Without You” by The Clarks. The main plot point of season 2 is that Dr. Robby is trying to leave on his three month sabbatical to Alberta, Canada on July 4th. We also follow the mental health journey of Robby throughout the season as well which is the reason for the sabbatical. To fill in for his absence, the new attending Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi has come along to cover for him, but later on in the season we see that she has some problems of her own to deal with.

Throughout the whole season, it shows a lot of how Dr Robby is handling his mental health. Though this way is not the healthiest, he takes a lot of it out on his fellow doctors. As he gets closer and closer to leaving, a lot of his friends come to talk about their concern with him leaving on such a long trip. They also mention the fact that he has been making comments that he might not be coming back after his retreat. At the end of the finale, he is holding a baby that had been abandoned at the beginning of the season. He gives a speech about how he and the baby are similar to one another. He began to think that maybe there is a reason to stay.

Following season 1, the interns: Dr. King, Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Javadi and Dr. Santos have had developments as well. Dr. Whitaker is a first year resident and Dr. King is a second year resident, while both Dr. Javadi and Dr. Santos were held back. As the season progresses, we see how they have become more comfortable working in the ER and how close they have become with each other, and with the other doctors and nurses as well.

There are also some new interns this season as well. Ogilvie is a 4th year med student, Joy a third year student and Emma is a graduate Registered Nurse. On their first shift, they get their taste of the ER. Joy and Ogilvie follow Dr. Robby and Al- Hashimi around and pick up tips and receive hands-on experience with emergency procedures. Emma follows Charge Nurse Dana around and gets taken under her wing and learns all she needs to know.

The Pitt is also one of the most realistic medical shows to date with real life doctors and nurses becoming actors and playing doctors on set, making sure everything happens just as it would in a real life situation. The cast and crew have received praise from real doctors and nurses like Matthew Strehlow, a professor of emergency medicine at Stanford University. He stated that the show is “very real” and that it really captures what it’s like to be an ER doctor. The Pitt has been renewed for a season 3 on HBO and is currently already in production.