rewatching buffy with my sister (she saw it 10 yrs ago and barely remembers it). we just watched 5x1 and she’s like “i forget, do they ever even explain why dawn suddenly appears?” lol
looking at patients charts and seeing constant ‘smoking cessation education’ additions in there and it’s so annoying like yeah im sure it’s super helpful to come in for knee pain and have to sit thru the doctor saying smoking is bad for u. just seeing it on my screen seems so condescending and im not even in the room. people know!! cant they just be seen for their orthopedic pain without being guilted
btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv “haha sorry ive never done this without help before… can you show me how to do this?” the employee will not care. if that means anything to you
honestly i didn’t make it past episode 3 i just immediately hated it a lot. it’s poorly plotted/paced, which makes the propagandistic nature the only thing left to think about, and the propaganda is so unsubtle and facile that it just feels like watching an annoying public service announcement. doctors are heroes but hospitals are so underfunded that they can’t spare the time to properly condescend to their patients. in itself this is not a statement unique to the genre (greys has also done it like 50 times) but the personal dramas are at best unoriginal and at worst so thinly written they beggar belief, so all i am left with is noah wyles and his beleaguered blonde nurse looking directly at the camera and explaining how the emergency department staffing table works. every medical show is also pro psychiatry, loves social workers, hates patient autonomy and disabled people, etc, it’s part of the fun it’s like being a sociologist. but the pitt REALLY cannot go twenty fucking seconds without reminding you that crazy poor drug users are so pathetic and stupid and naked and need to be locked up and restrained and drugged because society is falling apart, because hospitals don’t have enough money for doctors because they are owned by private equity. it’s just fucking insufferable. usually the medical drama gets its rocks off by appealing to your voyeuristic impulse to see things that could hypothetically go wrong in the human body, layered over with soap opera romance and like one line per episode where the nice character morally exculpates the viewer by telling off the other doctors for dehumanising the patients in a way you on your couch can agree with… the pitt is like straight up patients are moron animals but that’s not because of my disgust politics it’s an objective scientific determination so you’re also a bad person if you tuned in to watch this for enjoyment instead of for a searing meditation on milquetoast usamerican tv show anticapitalism. the only good thing about it is the gore is better than on the avg television set but the truth is you can also just watch surgery on the internet and it doesn’t even have shaky cam
