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Critic Reviews
Apr 7, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt is the product of veteran TV writers, actors, and directors firing on all cylinders. Equal parts thrilling, devastating, and entertaining, it’s just as likely to make you laugh from a particularly gross injury as it is to rip your heart out if you aren’t careful.
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Jan 9, 2026
Season 2 Review:
The second season proves that the show (helmed by Wyle, creator R. Scott Gemmill, John Wells and Joe Sachs) understands its strengths - and its limits. .... It's a testament to "The Pitt's" workaday competence that the show feels like a well-oiled machine - watchable and rewarding - even without one [a crisis].
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Jan 8, 2026
Season 2 Review:
As season 2 reminds us, the secret to “The Pitt” lies in the flawless execution. Every character, from the series leads to the smallest bit player, is perfectly cast. The writing packs a world of tightly woven drama into each hour (of airtime and work day). The editing and cinematography are uncommonly crisp and expressive, even by HBO’s high standards.
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What's Alan Watching?Jan 5, 2026
RogerEbert.comJan 5, 2026
Season 2 Review:
The really good news is that “The Pitt” hasn’t faltered at all to start its second intense season. .... It’s remarkable how much “The Pitt” already feels like a show that’s been on for years. And the one true new major character this season, Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi, is brought to life with a performance that stands among the year’s best from the fantastic Sepideh Moafi.
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Jan 5, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Based on the first nine episodes provided to critics, creator R. Scott Gemmill and the show’s writers (which include Wyle) have preserved all the aspects of the first season that helped it click so well, while adding just enough new elements to feel like the show is continuing to evolve. In short: What the best shows do, especially after a stellar first season.
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Jan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt will only work if viewers want to spend 15 hours in close, unchanging quarters with these characters — something that would be difficult to pull off if the cast weren’t so good. Wyle, a master at compassionate calm, makes Robby the perfect counterbalance for the series' often-bleak setting.
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Jan 6, 2026
Season 2 Review:
The experience of re-entering this world, then, feels akin to catching up with an old friend. Over the nine episodes sent to critics (of a 15-part season), I delighted over and over again in the things that haven’t changed about this place, and the things that have.
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Jan 5, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Though the show strains a bit when working to match the festival shooting as a crucible that pushes its cast to the breaking point. (All the old “24” jokes about how many terrible days Jack Bauer can have still apply.) “The Pitt” instead thrives in quieter moments, especially as the actors ever so slightly modulate their performances to reflect the evolution of their characters.
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Jan 5, 2026
Season 2 Review:
It doesn’t rest on its laurels, delivering episode after episode of muscular storytelling, grounded performances and emotional honesty. In a TV landscape cluttered with distractions and noise, “The Pitt” remains one of the most consistently compelling shows to watch — whether week-to-week or binged in one go.
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Jan 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The life-and-death reality of the setting gets played for the sacred and yet utterly quotidian thing that it is, rather than for operatic highs and lows. Yes, this is the ER special sauce, a story density reflected in a crowded set design and so many scattered shifts in focus that even the most emotionally blunt lines barely have time to register. And, yes, it’s fantastic.
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Jan 8, 2025
Season 1 Review:
What distinguishes one show from another is whether the writing and casting is any good. And “The Pitt” lands enough on both fronts to make it essential viewing. I’m just so pleased that someone finally decided it’s possible to take all the things that people love about network TV and make it work for streaming.
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Jan 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
With the cameras swirling about in docudrama fashion and the captivating cast moving about in intricately choreographed fashion that must have been carefully blocked but feels utterly spontaneous, “The Pitt” is near-great TV. There are instances in which the real-time gimmick seems a bit forced and creates a situation where there’s an awful lot of character development and exposition crammed in, but it’s poetic license well-earned.
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The PlaylistJan 9, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Even when it’s messy, occasionally overplayed, or a little too broad in its character strokes, season two still lands because it refuses to confuse cynicism with realism. It keeps returning to the dignity of the living, especially the ones forced to keep showing up.
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Jan 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt sometimes struggles under the heft of its obligation to all of them [characters], especially in this first episode. The show is best when it’s in motion and when it uses patient encounters to provoke more meaningful character moments and growth. .... Yet The Pitt is, ultimately, Wiley’s series, a showcase for him to shade layers of brilliance, fatigue, anger, compassion, and despair into a lead performance that feels truly lived-in.
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ColliderJan 5, 2026
Season 2 Review:
The Pitt Season 2 ultimately doubles down on what made the series good when it first premiered — more heartfelt moments between the staff and their patients, more heart-pounding cases, and more surprise twists that leave the hospital rushing to keep up. That said, if you've spent any time between seasons cooking up headcanons about potential romantic relationships, the show's return could be a disappointment.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt may not reinvent the medical drama, but by following patients (and those impatiently waiting in chairs) over a long day, we feel their pain in a new way. [20 Jan - 9 Feb 2025, p.6]
The Daily BeastJan 13, 2025
Jan 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It has a convincing energy. The actors have an easy way with the medical dialogue, the various needles and knives and tubes and paddles their characters need to use, the Purell they casually pump onto their hands on entering a room. .... In its mix of cool authenticity and hot theatricality, of cases to solve and personal business to arrange, “The Pitt” reminded me of “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
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Jan 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
We are meant to view the show as docudrama, but then some new big plot is wheeled in through the doors and the show swoops up into melodrama. Melodrama is, however, preferable to another of the show’s modes, which is didactic moralizing on a pertinent social topic. Still: The Pitt is awfully engrossing throughout, a show that strangely but effectively intertwines prestige TV trappings with the more basic tropes of network workplace dramedy. Wyle is an endlessly compelling lead.
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Jan 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt isn’t doing anything fancy — and, in fact, its biggest deviation from the familiar is by far its biggest weakness. But for the most part, it’s a powerful reminder of why certain formulas are so durable, how satisfying they can still be when done well, and why we shouldn’t be so eager to throw out all of the things that have made TV TV for so long.
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IndieWireJan 5, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Periodically, “The Pitt’s” relentless pace can get the better of its more compact messaging. Too many episodes end with arbitrary cliffhangers meant to propel you forward, and too few hours in Dr. Robby’s shift feel appreciable on their own. .... Still, some of these foibles are easier to forgive when seen in service of the greater good.
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Jan 9, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Perhaps Baran is portrayed in an overly antagonistic light early on, but the hope is that this will change as the season unfolds and the stakes at the hospital grow more urgent. All that really matters is that Episode 1 establishes a strong foundation on which the new season can easily build from hour to hour.
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Jan 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt features clunky dialogue, ridiculous cliffhangers, and overly obvious messaging associated with easy primetime viewing. It also boasts propulsive filmmaking, endearing characters, and one seismic performance from star/EP Noah Wyle. Whatever ingredients The Pitt did or did not poach from E.R. come together to make a slight drama that nevertheless speaks to the existential angst of seeking or providing healthcare in 2025.
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Season 2 Review:
Where the first season felt genuinely searching, extending its ideas with the elegance of a team still working to win you over, the second has the arrogance of one that it believes it already has. Such self-assurance brings nagging blind spots. The Pitt extends enormous empathy to its protagonists — it clearly views Dr. Robby as a flawed saint, Jesus Daddy — but its generosity toward patients is more uneven.
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Jan 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s a decent enough medical drama with promising episodes as it develops. There are worse things to be, and having Wyle as the star and beating heart of the show goes a long way. .... I would rather watch “The Pitt” figure itself out than watch an “ER” revival that is “Weekend at Bernie’s”-ing a premise.
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IndieWireJan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
With so many subjects and so little time given to developing them, it means suffering through a whole lot of blunt exposition and even more clichéd or half-formed characters. That may feel familiar, even comforting, to fans of broadcast dramas, which thrive by creating self-contained arcs every week, but “The Pitt” isn’t operating at a high enough level to make them work.
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Jan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Pitt wants to be all things to all audiences, but it’s an ungainly hybrid, not sophisticated enough to be a great show, not satisfying enough to be a fun one. .... There are moments when The Pitt tries for something new, but it’s at its best when it’s in a well-worn groove. It’s not HBO. But it isn’t quite TV either.
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ColliderJan 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The one exception to The Pitt's characterization struggles is Taylor Dearden’s Dr. King. .... Unfortunately, Dearden's Long is a light in an otherwise very dark, mostly mind-numbing trudge through fifteen episodes. The Pitt isn’t necessarily a show you want to watch going into the new year — it’s brutal and unkind, with very little going for it in the emergency department.
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The GuardianJan 9, 2025
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