At the risk of being self involved and overly dramatic, I read this as a commentary on my life in Higher Education. I suppose this is the point; medical dramas are just heightened, neon-lit pictures of The Way We Live Now. Better this than The White Lotus, I suppose. I watched a season and a half of the latter and could never get past a sense of “but who _are_ these people”. With things like The Pitt, I know: people like me.
I had the same reaction to White Lotus. But a million years ago I also wondered the same about Sex in the City. I lived in NYC at the time and knew absolutely zero people who were like those women. Where are these plot lines and characters coming from?
This made me sad. Is it because I’m an American Gen Xer?
Firstly, for Gen X to be held with contempt for breaking a system, any system, is rich. We are the generation stuck taking care of ourselves because our parents were the first free love/ lots of divorce generation. And we are the first generation to have to also take care of those aging narcissists while still dealing with our own lives and our children, who, meanwhile, the Gen Z crowd, are depressed at over the mess the world’s in thanks to Boomer psychopaths like T and the monster class he surrounds himself with (which are mostly Boomers and Millennials so fuck off, haters). What I’m saying is, we didn’t as a generation do anything except pick up the pieces for everybody else.
And because I love the UK but am so tired of being told that as an American I must always be accompanied by an adult, I have just two words: Boris Johnson.
Also, my other uncle (you know who the first is) cast ER. 🇺🇸
Having walked the pup and cooled off, it occurred to me to caveat my rant by saying it’s not at anyone in particular other than generally. In America, I know there is more solidarity with those critical of us, than not. We don’t like him either.
I’ve liked it because I know I would, but I’m not reading this while Season 2 is only on its 4th episode in the UK. I’d question the wisdom of covering it so early for your (mainly?) UK audience. Feels graceless. (I guess I’m just peeved because I’m trying hard to avoid spoilers, and then here you come all loud and proud 😐)
Just to say, I really want to read this piece but I love The Pitt so I don’t want to subject myself to spoilers. Do I have to wait for the end of the series before I come back to it?
At the risk of being self involved and overly dramatic, I read this as a commentary on my life in Higher Education. I suppose this is the point; medical dramas are just heightened, neon-lit pictures of The Way We Live Now. Better this than The White Lotus, I suppose. I watched a season and a half of the latter and could never get past a sense of “but who _are_ these people”. With things like The Pitt, I know: people like me.
I had the same reaction to White Lotus. But a million years ago I also wondered the same about Sex in the City. I lived in NYC at the time and knew absolutely zero people who were like those women. Where are these plot lines and characters coming from?
This made me sad. Is it because I’m an American Gen Xer?
Firstly, for Gen X to be held with contempt for breaking a system, any system, is rich. We are the generation stuck taking care of ourselves because our parents were the first free love/ lots of divorce generation. And we are the first generation to have to also take care of those aging narcissists while still dealing with our own lives and our children, who, meanwhile, the Gen Z crowd, are depressed at over the mess the world’s in thanks to Boomer psychopaths like T and the monster class he surrounds himself with (which are mostly Boomers and Millennials so fuck off, haters). What I’m saying is, we didn’t as a generation do anything except pick up the pieces for everybody else.
And because I love the UK but am so tired of being told that as an American I must always be accompanied by an adult, I have just two words: Boris Johnson.
Also, my other uncle (you know who the first is) cast ER. 🇺🇸
Having walked the pup and cooled off, it occurred to me to caveat my rant by saying it’s not at anyone in particular other than generally. In America, I know there is more solidarity with those critical of us, than not. We don’t like him either.
I’ve liked it because I know I would, but I’m not reading this while Season 2 is only on its 4th episode in the UK. I’d question the wisdom of covering it so early for your (mainly?) UK audience. Feels graceless. (I guess I’m just peeved because I’m trying hard to avoid spoilers, and then here you come all loud and proud 😐)
You’ll live. And you’ll celebrate Rowan’s insights into the political metaphors.
Just to say, I really want to read this piece but I love The Pitt so I don’t want to subject myself to spoilers. Do I have to wait for the end of the series before I come back to it?