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Karate-chopping '70s heroine Cleopatra Jones trailblazed the modern action-comedy Cheeky, self-effacing action is the tone du jour, but it's been coming back around for decades since '70s films like Cleopatra Jones.

If you want to watch a movie that absolutely rules, might I suggest Cleopatra Jones?

In that sense, The Pitt is like the Schrödinger’s cat of TV dramas—simultaneously nuanced and simplistic, intentional and accidental. In fact, part of the reason everyone is so sure everyone else is watching wrong is because the vibe of The Pitt is often at odds with the actual text of the show. The feeling of this season is that Dr. Samira Mohan is considering leaving emergency medicine for an entirely new career in geriatrics sometime soon. What’s actually happening onscreen, however, is that she’s deciding whether she wants to accept an ER attending job or do a specialized fellowship when she graduates from the Pitt’s residency program a full year from now. It’s the same way Langdon feels like a guy who just swiped a few spare vials of benzos here and there, even though the text of the show is that he also actively diluted drugs then put them back into circulation to treat patients. The show rewards a close reading when it comes to its subtly deployed character arcs and yet suffers under one in other ways too.

This is the crux of The Pitt divide, I think. Casual viewers are (understandably) following the show's vibe and assuming others are reaching. Meanwhile, the fandom folks are (sometimes a little too obsessively) digging into the text of what's being said www.avclub.com/the-pitt-is-...

The Pitt is the Schrödinger's cat of TV dramas The Pitt is the Schrödinger's cat of TV dramas

Hello, I'm here to resolve #ThePitt discourse by telling you you're all a little bit right and a little bit wrong—just like the show itself

Thank you!! And yes, I think you're spot on with how both sides of the discourse are pushing things a little far at the moment.

‘The Pitt’ failed Dr. Samira Mohan How season two forgot the character it built and then wrote her off

On who Samira Mohan was in S1 of #ThePitt, who she became in S2, and why I was shocked to discover the show was writing her off when it felt like the finale was setting her and Robby up for a major arc in S3

While the memory of the mass shooting looms large, more than anything, the first season of The Pitt was about the many different relationship dynamics that shape the wide world of PTMC’s ER. There was the warm friendship between Dana and Collins; Robby and McKay butting heads over the incel kid; Collins mentoring Samira by reminding her that Robby can be wrong sometimes; and all the different ways McKay, Samira, and Langdon approached teaching Whitaker, Javadi, and Santos in various combinations. This season, however, has re-anchored its thematic center around Robby (and, to a lesser degree, Dana), which has changed the overall flow and structure of the show. Where last season might have had Samira mentor Javadi as another South Asian doctor dealing with an overbearing mom trying to shape her career, this season has decided to emphasize that Whitaker is Robby’s new protégé by having him handle pretty much all the teaching storylines, even though he’s just four days into his internship and Santos was still very much the one being taught in her equivalent year last season. Here Whitaker helps steer Javadi toward a mental-health specialty, which Robby greets with general approval after switching his stance on her TikToks. Meanwhile, Santos, McKay, Samira, and Mel have been largely siloed away into more isolated storylines this season, with McKay at least getting a handful of nice moments with Ogilvie.

In S1, Robby was the main character but the hospital was the thematic center of the show. In S2, Robby is the main character AND the thematic center of the show, which has had a downstream effect on how the entire series is structured www.avclub.com/the-pitt-sea...

The Pitt's quieter sophomore season ends with an air of ambiguity The Pitt's quieter sophomore season ends with an air of ambiguity

Tonight's season finale of The Pitt is an excellent installment of a more Robby-centric version of the show I like slightly less than S1

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Maybe the show thought it would be too sad to have Foggy leave a family behind, but my hill to die on is that he and Marci should have been married with kids when Born Again picked up.

Foggy is his true religion!!

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Tonight's flashback-heavy episode of Daredevil: Born Again helped me realize Foggy Nelson really is one of the best characters in the entire MCU

Turned on subtitles on this movie to see if the character's name is Curt or Kurt only to discover that it's his last name Kert. What a plot twist.

I'll give Euphoria this: Sydney Sweeney has a spark on this show I've yet to see her recapture in any other project.

It’s funny that one of the main selling points of The Pitt is that it’s “not like Grey’s Anatomy” when this season is built around a brilliant but traumatized doctor grappling with passive suicidal ideation due to their unresolved mommy issues. Like, that’s pretty Grey’s…

‘You, Me & Tuscany’ is sweet enough to counterbalance its flaws Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page’s okay romance is elevated by a great story about found family

You, Me & Tuscany is for the While You Were Sleeping fans!

The main guy not being able to really act was okay when the show was just a vibe-y ‘90s courtship romance, but is pretty disastrous in the back half of the season.

I finally finished Love Story and I think they should have called it American Horror Story.

One of the most quietly insane elements of modern life is grocery stores trying to rebrand Egg Nog for Easter.

It's funny to think that in the world of The Pitt, Whitaker and Joy have spent more time together (4 consecutive days) than either Mel/Langdon or Santos/Langdon (2 days, 10 months apart).

‘The Drama’ isn’t worth the fuss A spoiler-free review of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s provocative new wedding dramedy

My cynical take is that The Drama doesn't actually care about anything that happens in the first half its runtime, it's all just an excuse to get to the Emma/Charlie/Misha dynamic

This header really made me laugh

Also, if the "plan" was always to write Samira off (which I don't believe it was), why have her spend all season trying to find a way to stay in Pittsburgh? Why not say she's leaving for New Jersey next season and give her an arc about making the most of her last year at PTMC?

They randomly made Abbot a cop who helps stop Fourth of July robberies on the day he's working the nightshift just so they could get Shawn Hatosy in there for some extra episodes. This is not a realistic show!!

The idea that The Pitt is a show designed to rotate its cast in and out is demonstrably untrue. They literally timed S2 specifically so that Langdon, Dana, Whitaker, and Javadi could all be there again even though it would be realistic that none of them returned this season.

"The Drama aims to provoke, but ends up as another entry in the male auteur “would you still love me if I were a worm?” cinematic canon."

I'm dying

The Pitt heads into overtime in a heavy hour The Pitt heads into overtime in a heavy hour

There are many recaps of #ThePitt out there for you to read, but mine is (maybe?) the only one that compares this week's episode to Waiting for Godot and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

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I've only seen snippets but it seems grim

Truly, are men okay