{"id":374423,"date":"2026-03-31T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:18:13","slug":"ksenia-samotiy-for-a-long-time-the-us-has-been-a-benchmark-but-the-pitt-is-a-sobering-look-at-its-issues-beneath-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374423\/","title":{"rendered":"Ksenia Samotiy: For a long time, the US has been a benchmark \u2013 but \u2018The Pitt\u2019 is a sobering look at its issues beneath the surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">HBO medical drama shows an America grappling with societal crises like addiction, poverty, reproductive rights and gun violence\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noah Wyle and Patrick Ball in 'The Pitt'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20822d83-1a97-4a6f-a54e-c2547072d623.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Noah Wyle and Patrick Ball in &#8216;The Pitt&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You\u2019ve probably heard people talking about The Pitt. It\u2019s been out in the US for ages, but for some reason it has only just found its way onto Irish screens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Set almost entirely within the confines of a US emergency department, each episode rolls out more or less in real time \u2013 covering an hour of a shift. It\u2019s sort of like 24 in a hospital, with each season covering one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO medical drama shows an America grappling with societal crises like addiction, poverty, reproductive rights and gun violence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,99023,282,812],"class_list":["post-374423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ksenia-samotiy","tag-tv","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}