In case you’ve missed it (you would be fortunate), The Pitt is a Max/HBO production of an ER-esque remake, except entertainment takes a waaay back seat to wall to wall, top to bottom, side to side woke pieties. It’s set in my home town Pittsburgh. Heck, the outdoor footage shows Allegheny General Hospital (NOT the name of the fictional facility in which the woken incessantly instruct us), where I worked as an anesthesiologist for about 15 years. It was and remains, a Level III Trauma Center.
It was there I learned one of medicine’s singular lessons. Before my stint at AGH, I naively thought “shock/trauma” referred to the condition of injured patients. How wrong I was! In reality, it was what the surgeons IN CHARGE!! inflicted on the entire rest of the staff trying to help them. Talk about oppression in action….
Anyway, in The Pitt ER, we find all the usual diverse suspects, every one - doctors, nurses and patients -they are, to a man (sic), wonderful, cloyingly caring (sometimes ill-treated because of their “diverse” status and underlying ‘whiteness’) - downright saintly. As in every story, there are, of course, villains: just about every white male. Their main role in The Pitt, it seems, is to endure regular reminders of the manifold ways they sin or run afoul of woke pieties. The smug, self-righteous certainty of several of the characters preaching is positively nauseating. For fear of offending someone, somewhere, they are self-consciously humorless, to boot. Thinking it might improve, I watched episode one and got through half of episode 2 before I gave up.
My advice, spare yourself. I have received this as a sort of cowpox inoculation against the smallpox of watching the Stupor Bowl. Aside from when my wife watches the Steelers and I don’t want to absent myself from her, I got sick of the NFL reminding me what a racist I am with its slogans imprinted in the end zones. I won’t miss Mike Tomlin either. While earning in one year some multiple of my lifetime earnings as a physician, he found it ever necessary to display political messages on every article of his clothing - reminding us again of our moral inferiority.
I am not (yet) required to financially support people and organizations (like the NFL) which despise me and the decent political system in which they prospered far beyond 99.999999+% of the humans who ever lived. The NFL is of a piece with the producers of insipid woke crap like The Pitt. I abstain from supporting, watching, etc. In fact, since the woke left’s idea of dialogue was shown by murdering - and enthusiastically celebrating - Charlie Kirk, f%#k ‘em. They deserve the uncivil war they’ve been trying to start for more than a few years. They’re mistaken if they think violence only flows one way.