The Pitt. Can we please just make good TV?
The Pitt is a medical drama streamed in (Cine)Max and it has the making of being a great show taking off from what the old E.R. left off, but they just could not leave the DEI/Woke shit alone.
From the Moral Virgin Doctor working In The Whorehouse of the Medical Industrial Complex character played by Noah Wiley who had the obligatory failed mixed racial relationship with a black female doctor who keeps reminding him she is superior, to the staple cold, distant and uncaring surgeon which happens to be a lesbian with heavy hints of predatorial tastes hitting on a Med student while “caring” for a patient.
There is the obligatory racist white male in the waiting room and the obligatory white teen incel who has threatened to hurt females. Young doctor of color who gets all triggered when a colleague gives her a nickname dutifully earned, and the list continues.
Are there greatly performed characters? Shit yes and of all colors and very believable and add to that what seems to be a very realistic portrayal of what happens in an ER injuries, blood and drama, but the Woke stuff is just enough to having to swallow hard to continue to watch the series.
You can add the plight of individuals and their defects but do it gracefully like a Japanese watercolor and not like you were painting a figurine with a pressure washer.
this is why modern tv shows are called “programming “…. you are being programmed.
Did they get a victim with his lungs blown out by a 9mm yet?
Because if there aren't any 9mm lungblowers, it's just not a realistic medical drama.
ETA: seriously, if we keep watching it, they'll keep making it, whatever "it" is - what the market demands, yes? And if there's evidence of demand...? I never thought I'd see myself writing that there's an advantage to ads on TV, but, you can write the advertiser and tell them if they keep associating themselves with messages you disagree with, you'll stop buying their product. If there are no ads, all you can do is not tune in. (You can write, but if you still pay the subscription fee they won't care.)