‘The Pitt’ Is Giving a Dose of Humanity

“The Pitt” is back for a second season, and it’s appointment viewing for Wesley Morris. Every Thursday at 9 p.m., the show serves up an emergency room’s worth of maladies and realities — sparing us none of the naked truths about being a human in a vulnerable body. Sasha Weiss, the culture editor at The New York Times Magazine, joins Wesley to talk about how the show is making an old-school television genre feel not just contemporary, but vital. Plus, a conversation with the writer and novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner about when loving a work of art becomes an obsession. And Wesley has an unexpected reaction to the Grammys.

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‘The Pitt’ Is Giving a Dose of Humanity is an episode from Still Processing by The New York Times.

This episode is 00:47:26 long.

This episode was published on Feb 5, 2026.

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