What are these huge pants you speak of?
Let’s see. King of the hill, scrubs, and Malcolm in the middle all have new episodes…
Now all we need to complete the vibes is a recently popped tech bubble…
Arrested development should come back as well, we can just collectively decide that the Netflix seasons don’t exist.
The woman next to me on the plane was watching this show, with her earbuds so loud I could almost hear it clearly. She kept rewinding to watch this part where a guy was full on dick out with an erection on his ER bed.
Thats funny, i remember that scene. It’s funny because in the entire show i believe thats only 1 of 3 moments of any nudity. I missed some episodes in season 1 so i could be wrong but definitely rare that anything like that happens so great timing to see it in a public setting like that.
I haven’t caught up to the most recent season 2 episodes, but having slow-binged (like regular binging but for parents who maybe can eke out 2 hours of TV every few days), I’m pretty sure they’ve shown two dongs, one pair of boobs, a handful of butts, and one baby being born. It’s uncommon enough that, dork that I am, I’ll say something dumb, like, “Whoa, that’s a dick.” (to which my spouse rolls their eyes and calls me a dork)
Yeah, must have been in the earlier episodes of season 1. My wife watched the show and i didnt really watch it with her until like episode 8 so i guess I missed some stuff. Latest episode had 1 more pair of boobs btw. I have watched all of this season and i think that plus the dong was it so far. Honestly feels like something that would be seen more in this setting but i guess not unless its directly related or your dying.
People are wearing huge pants?
'90s are back in Canada for sure, at least among teenagers. I haven’t lived in the US since 2016, but it can’t be much different. Grunge and Korn shirts galore. I kind of love it. Makes me feel like a wisened old sage who nods knowingly at the new generation picking up the pieces of their ancestors. Just waiting for them to discover Bush.
This is great news tbh
Baggy is back. You can even buy jnco.
But in 2003… maybe straight and boot cuts were popular and maybe skinny hadn’t taken off … jnco was a jc penny brand by then… far from its hayday
Yeah, by '03 JNCOs were just kind of baggy jeans at Kohls with cringe ‘urban’ embroidery on the back pockets.
Mainstreamers wore distressed bootcut jeans with the goal to look like you had stolen them off a rodeo clown that never washed them. (See also huge belt buckles and straw cowboy hats that looked like they were found at the bottom of a forgotten silver mine.
‘Girlfriend’ jeans started getting popular with skaters, the skinny cut and stretch denim were supposedly easier to skate in than the big baggy jeans that had been popular.
Yeah I was gonna say, I think huge pants were on the outs in 2003.
Thanks i came to say the same. Huge pants kinda fell out around 97/98. At least that’s how i remember it.
I was in art school in 01 and we were switching to skinny jeans and torn punk stuff from just around when most of us were born (early 80s punk/new wave)
Not surprised art school students were ahead, but this didn’t reach my part of the US / suburbia until like 2005
At least the medical drama is really fucking good.
I found it unbearable. Watched like 2.5 episodes and had to give up. I couldn’t get past the part where people were waiting for so long they were literally collapsing in the waiting room while the nurses where just chatting and doctors were gossiping, flirting and doing anything but actually treating people. All the time a just wanted to scream “GET TO WORK YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!”.
My wife and I had just finished rewatching ER and tried The Pitt. It was too quiet, there was no noise or music, it felt sterile. I think we gave it 2 EPs as well.
My only problem with ER is they never bother to resolve most of the plots.
They had this one really interesting one where a mom is beaten to death and it’s revealed her daughter did it and then we never see that family ever again
How does ER hold up? Still worth watching?
It’s pretty good, especially if you have nostalgia for the mid-90s
Oh ER is still excellent. An Australian TV station plays an episode a night 5 nights a week. Repeating back to S01E01 after the season finale. We looked forward to finishing the day with another ep.
Are you talking about The Pitt? Because it seems like you watched a completely different show than me.
Did you watch ER by mistake?
I watched ER decades ago. I think the amount of personal dramas was similar but I don’t remember if one of the main plot points of ER was totally collapsed waiting room. Maybe I’m miss-remembering it but I think in ER they were moving fast when it was needed. In The Pit it’s clearly needed but get to work a bit faster but everyone takes their time with everything.
They move too fast on er. Everything is life or death high stakes, dead bodies are laying around in the hall, gangbangers are barging into surgery rooms to finish off their victims, doctors and nurses should be burning out left and right.
The Pitt feels more like an actual ER where it’s just a job for the staff.
It’s pretty fucking tragic if that’s what ER in US looks like. Which it probably does. Which is not surprising because healthcare in US is tragic in general.
I think with any ER it must be like that. You’re doing a 12 hour shift, it’s a marathon not a sprint. Slow and steady wins the race. Other platitudes.
Nurses weren’t just chatting. The chapter depicts 1h of a shift and lasts 40m. You aren’t seeing everything a nurse is doing. Also, they deserve to talk in their workplace, they aren’t slaves? Remember that they are pulling +12h shifts man.
I think we’re talking about different shows. In The Pit I remember an episode where someone stole an ambulance and for the rest of the episode a bunch of employees where constantly standing there making bets about where it’s heading or something. When a patient needed some basic stomach medicine two nurses standing next to a counter and just talking told the doctor “it will be easier if you give it to him”. The doctor ended up spilling the liquid on himself and wasting what seemed like half an hour to change his clothes. All done without any hurry, like his actively trying to avoid work. All this time I’m thinking “why the fuck a nurse can’t give a patient some basic medicine from the first aid kit?”. Because they where busy chatting. The whole show is like this. They work like they are in IT department of a bank on a Friday evening while people wait 4 hours in the waiting room. That was the worst organized ER I have even seen and/or people with the worse work ethics I’ve seen.
Sounds realistic af.
If that’s what healthcare looks like in US it’s even more tragic than I thought. I don’t mind gore in shows but this type of pointless suffering I do not like.
In one of the episodes one doctor really had to go to the bathroom but he would get pulled into some pointless tasks and conversations all the time. I just couldn’t stand it. The whole episode I was just thinking “did the other guy managed to pee?” or “dude, go! pee! NOW!”. I’m strangely empathetic for this type of things. Same with people sitting in the waiting room while the doctor invades personal life of his coworkers. It all bothered me a lot.
Brother, that’s just life in the US.
Those employees were assistants, not even nurses. They couldn’t help with patients even if they wanted to. It’s not that big of a deal Sheesh.
The nurses can’t legally provide that medicine, it has to be a doctor. That’s the first day for that student doctor, he fuck up and changes way faster than in 30m. Again, first day, has to search for changes and everything himself.
Idk why you think that they are lazy, did you expect everyone to be stressed out of their minds in the first 1-2h of their shift? Considering that the first and second hours is when the night shift gives their hands off to the day shift, there’s a bunch of doctors and nurses that are out of the clock in those episodes, ending their shift and winding down before getting out.
You are allowed to dislike the show off course, but have you seen a workplace?
Also, edit:
Watched like 2.5 episodes and had to give up
The whole show is like this
How’d you know?
I’m not saying they are lazy. I’m saying they are extremely relaxed, like there’s nothing to do. 90% of the show is doctors talking about personal stuff, bullying other doctors, dealing with feelings (theirs and others’ people) and doing anything else than treating people. You’re probably right that there’s time for that in a workplace and even with people collapsing in the waiting room they have to stop and have a personal conversation with someone every now and then. Maybe they are treating people off camera and the show just focuses on other things. For me this focus was unbearable. It made it look like no one is being treated while doctors move around slower then me on a coffee break.
It could also be that I’m used to ERs in Europe. Here when I go to ER doctors sit in their rooms and people get assigned to a room. So doctor will see one patient after another without walking around, wondering what case to pick next and chatting with people all the time. For me that’s how hospitals work and The Pit just looked like a disorganized mess to me.
What you described isn’t an ER, it’s called another thing that I can’t recall in english sorry.
I’m Spanish and we have one of the best healthcare systems in Europe even though other Spaniards complain. Here you call and can see your family doctor in 1-2 days where they see a patient every 15 mins non-stop almost, or go to a small ER-like thing where they only do triage work. They are almost nonstop in triage too, think McKay on The Pitt.
If you need to go to the ER though, Urgencias here, there will be multiple doctors ready to take care of whatever is happening to you. Last time I went with my mom, we were in a room called a Box where the doctor came about every 30 mins to review the case or present results. Idk what they were doing out of the room but they looked busy.
Also, for context, Whittaker (the dude that gets the drug skilled), Santos (the woman that’s the bully kinda type in the first chapters) and Javadi (the youngest girl that gets sent to triage after fainting) are student doctors who still haven’t finished their degree, they are doing internship. Those are usually more free than others because they mostly need to shadow actual doctors.
Also the reason there’s so many people waiting is because most patients that aren’t in need of urgent care should be sent upstairs, where more nurses would take care of them; it’s not that the ER doesn’t have the manpower, it’s that they don’t have the room. The show does explain that but maybe not fast enough for you, idk.
Aaanyway, sorry if I’m being overly verbose, I really don’t feel like working RN :)
I also live in Spain. I’ve been to public and private hospitals and I think sometimes it’s like you describe (doctor comes to the box) and sometimes the doctor is in the box and just sees one patient after another. Depends on a hospital. In general my experience is that you get in, wait for maybe 30 minutes, get treated and leave (I know it depends on the day and hospital). The Pit looked like hospitals during Covid yet they were relaxed, like it’s not their problem, just business as usual. For me it felt like the doctors were immediately emotionally attaching to every patient they see but people suffering in the waiting room didn’t matter to them.
In the end it just depends on what you like. If you like personal dramas then you will probably enjoy The Pit. I don’t like shows about personal dramas and watching an episode were doctor spends most of his time working as a psychologist for the family of a dying person instead of treating people waiting in pain in the waiting room was unbearable. I had the same issue with The Walking Dead (too much focus in personal dramas) but I enjoyed The Strain which had way more pragmatic characters.
Bare in mind that I’m not saying it’s a bad show. Acting, writing, production and all is top level. I do realize the show is very popular because a lot of people like stuff like that. I’m just not one of them.
That’s one of the major plot points.
Tap for spoiler
Nurse steps out for a smoke and a patient that had been waiting all day punches her in the face
And that’s why they stop working?
For the people going to the er, it’s one of the worst days of their lives. For the people who work there it’s Tuesday.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
