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The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt” February 10, 2025
On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting room is full by 7 A.M., and it can take as long as twelve hours to be seen...
'The Pitt' Is a Defiantly Different Hospital Drama January 29, 2025
I did not watch ER in the 1990s because it was too gross. Or, at least, I assumed it would be. I’m a pretty squeamish person so, despite the fact that the show had become a watercooler series even among some of my friends in high school, I took a pas...
Piety, Love, and the Permanent Things January 16, 2025
In the closing sentence of his article for the 2019 Christmas issue of The Spectator, Sir Roger Scruton wrote, “Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.” He wrote these words as a dying man who believed...
The 31 Most Anticipated Scripted TV Shows of 2025 January 08, 2025
The after-effects of media conglomerate cost-cutting and 2023’s labor strikes showed up in noticeable ways for TV viewers last year. Networks and streamers made fewer shows — the Peak TV era truly seems to have passed for now — and those that did mak...
