Watching ‘The Pitt’ Feels Like You’re Living a Never Ending Nightmare and That’s the Whole Point

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Pitt Episode 12So far, The Pitt has juggled its confined structure perfectly. Within it, each episode encompasses an exact hour on one of the most catastrophic days for the ER of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. In the latest chapters, the doctors were looking forward to finishing their 12-hour shift and – since that meant 12 episodes – it raised the question about how the first season was supposed to continue given its 15-episode count.