The idea for the show was sparked by the global pandemic.<\/p>\n
“It was during Covid, which was a tricky time for everybody, but first responders in particular were being hit extremely hard,” Wyle explains.<\/p>\n
“And I was getting a lot of mail from them, sort of chronicling what that experience was like. And I assumed they were reaching out to me because they felt that I had a relevance to their career, having been part of what motivated them to go into that line of work. <\/p>\n
“It didn’t sit well with me that I didn’t have current relevance. I had nothing really to offer back except empathy.”<\/p>\n
So he got in touch with John Wells, who had been the showrunner on ER, and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n
“He agreed immediately that everything was going to be different after Covid. So that became the focus, can we do a version, a very up-to-date look at the American healthcare system?”<\/p>\n
Wyle muses on the profound effect the pandemic had on so many in different ways.<\/p>\n
“You don’t really forget about it, it lodges somewhere within you, unexamined, un-exhumed, it turns into something that becomes quite toxic. <\/p>\n
“The Pitt is a sort of proverbial pit that we’ve all found ourselves in since Covid that we can’t quite climb out of. And Robby is at the centre of this narrative. He’s a guy who’s on a mental health journey he doesn’t know that he’s on.”<\/p>\n
Dr Robby is, in fact, suffering with PTSD following on from his experiences working through the pandemic.<\/p>\n
“We’re using Robby as a bit of an avatar for everybody who doesn’t quite recognise themselves or why they’re behaving the way they are,” Wyle explains.<\/p>\n
The Pitt covers everything from a measles outbreak, a shooting at a festival, the opioid crisis, medical abortion, black maternal care, homelessness and more besides.<\/p>\n
“Emergency rooms are the catch-all of all of society’s bad choices, and who helps the helpers becomes a really interesting question when these people attend the worst day of your life four times an hour, 12 hours a day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea for the show was sparked by the global pandemic. “It was during Covid, which was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-499383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}