"The Pitt" Just Finished A Perfect First Season, And Everyone Is Making The Same Jokes Because They Are 100% Correct
There are obviously MASSIVE spoilers ahead for The Pitt Season 1!
Well, the best new TV show of 2025 has just finished its first season. That's right, I'm talking about the impeccable masterclass that was The Pitt Season 1.
The first season followed one shift at a Pittsburgh trauma hospital's emergency room. And it had everything. From a woman giving birth to a little girl drowning in a pool to, well, rats in the ER, every single episode — which chronicles one hour of a 15-hour shift — was somehow better than the last.
The Season 1 finale, titled "9:00 p.m.," dealt with the fallout from the PittFest mass shooting as Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) and the morning shift began to clock out, and the night shift took over.
And while this was a finale, not everything was wrapped up in a neat little bow, which I honestly loved. We aren't quite sure who we'll see when The Pitt returns for Season 2 in January 2026 — with the season taking place over the 4th of July weekend — but I've fallen in love with this found family and every character so much.
Dana, if you can hear me, PLEASE come back to work!
So, because The Pitt just wrapped Season 1, here are 25 of the funniest and best reactions to the finale and more:
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However, it did come out to the public in 2013, and it is anachronistic in that it should not exist in our timeline. Initially, when we were making this episode, there would have been a different song. As we were exploring it, just felt like we were prioritizing the wrong thing, this timeline of events and when things would be available. Clearly, we're not in the same timeline as our universe, so we have some leeway. And that song felt so important. Because it was in the game, because it has so much association, not only for fans, but even for myself, we changed course. The thing that we thought we cared about, we ultimately didn't care about, and the emotional truth of the song was more important than the timeline truth of the world that we live in. No. When we were making the game, I knew that scene should exist. I didn't know where it goes. That was true for all the flashbacks. Even pretty late in production of the game, we were moving those flashbacks around. In talking about it with Craig, it's the first time I really thought about the time between seasons. So much of writing is set ups and payoffs, and we would have set certain things up that get paid off years later. That felt too long, especially because this season focuses so much on Ellie's journey and this emotional truth of what did she know? What didn't she know? To wait additional years until Season 3 will come out — or maybe even Season 4, it depends where all the events land and how many seasons we have — I was easily convinced by Craig that that would be too long. It was a day's worth of conversation of us wrestling with it. The way I work is, when a suggestion like that is made, I say, 'Let's play it through.' I just assume that it's correct, and then we play it through and not only talk about this season, but talk about the future seasons, and then say, does it make sense? If the answer is yes, we go with it. 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