“A Device That Felt Intimate”: Noah Wyle Explains Why Each Episode of ‘The Pitt’ Takes Place Over a Single Shift

The Pitt Season 1 finale is set to premiere on Max tomorrow, and leading star Noah Wyle is pulling back the curtain on what has made it such a popular show. The Pitt has garnered praise from viewers around the globe not only for its authenticity and commitment to telling a story grounded in its practitioners but also for its episodic structure. The 15-episode show covers 15 hours at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, with each episode covering an hour for doctors and nurses in the ER. This is usually not how other medical dramas are structured, and during a recent interview with PBS, Wyle spoke about what led him and the creative team behind The Pitt to settle on this method of storytelling that adds such urgency to the plot: