The Watchers are back at PTMC for Season 2, Episode 5 of The Pitt, making our “11:00 AM” rounds. Jodie and Andrea check in on Ogilvie’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Whitaker’s continued quiet glow-up, and Santos as she gets closer to investing in Dr. Al-Hashimi’s AI startup. Plus: a gridlocked granny, some extremely Pittsburgh sports fan behavior, and why Donnie’s sink hole bet might not be as foolish as Ahmad thinks. We also dig into how this season is less about one big dramatic event and more about the less sensational long-term effects of trauma. And Jodie asks the most important question of all: if you ended up in this emergency department, which doctor would you actually want treating you, and why is it Dr. McKay?

Recommended in this episode:

This season, The Pitt is About What Doesn't Happen in One Day - Linda Holmes

The Pitt | Cinematographer: Johanna Coelho - Darektor's Cut

The Death Thing Is a Bonus - Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End - Alua Arthur

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Sorry for the late post on this one, folks, but The Watchers are back on duty! Jodie and Andrea are clocking in for another shift at PTMC to recap Season 2, Episode 4 of The Pitt. We make the rounds on our patients, learn more than anyone should about what Whitaker's getting up to on that farm, and try to determine whether Robby's dad jokes are a coping mechanism or a cry for help. Zoom zoom.

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The Watchers are clocking in for another shift at PTMC to recap Season 2, Episode 3 of The Pitt. We issue a very serious PSA about keeping your emergency contacts updated, unpack why even Dr. Robby is completely powerless in the face of a tough Jewish woman from Pittsburgh, and note how a piece of flair manages to crack (pun intended) the case wide open on the mystery of our dearest Dana’s accent.

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Recommended Reading:

“Pittsburgh’s Darkest Day and the Mass Casualty Response” - Gavin Jenkins

“How a Russian Samovar Connects Me to the Old Country — and My Black Market Dealing Great-great-grandmother” - Olivia Haynie

My Samovar: A Connection to Soviet Jewry - Beth Dwoskin

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We’re back at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center for Season 2, Episode 2, “8:00 AM,” of The Pitt. Jodie and Andrea track the Gut vs AI debate, Santos wins the Funniest Person in the Emergency Department award, and Whitaker stars in a very bleak 50 First Dates reboot. We finally learn one single fact about Dr. Robby’s personal life, Andrea’s birthday wish comes true, and we deliver a very important PSA about personal space.

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We’re kicking off Season 2 of The Pitt with our recap of Episode 1, "7:00 AM." Jodie and Andrea break down a premiere that’s as confident, efficient, and compelling as we’d hoped. Last season’s newbies feel more settled, Robby’s glasses make a strong case for themselves, and finally, we get our Jersey connection. New faces, old friends, and some subtle choices that hint at where The Pitt Season 2 might be headed.

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Everyone's new favorite Pittsburgh-based medical drama, The Pitt, is back for season 2 and yinz KNOW Jodie and Andrea couldn't resist a show about some overworked, highly competent folks who love each other but don't always know how to express it and share a wicked sense of gallows humor. We're recapping season 1, and then we'll be back every week to check in on our second shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.

Recommended Reading:

Bury Me in The Pitt - Kathryn VanArendonk

Nothing Sounds as Good as The Pitt - Jeremy D. Larson

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This week on The Watchers, Andrea and Jodie finish up our Pluribus recap with episodes 7, 8, and 9. The hive mind plays hot and cold with the unjoined. Carol tries to make a friend. We get to see a dog! We talk isolation, loneliness, belonging. Communication barriers, trust, investigation. It''s all in here. What a show, huh? What a season.

Next week, we scale our problems down to one single shift, in one emergency department, in one hospital, in one city. Ahead of its season 2 premiere (January 8th), we’re recapping season 1 of the tense and unsentimental, deeply compassionate and totally human, medical drama The Pitt.

The basketball video Andrea mentioned: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo

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It's that time of year again! We're looking back on 2025 and sharing what we loved the most. This year, Andrea loved too many things to narrow her list down, so she's fully cheating and sharing a bunch of stuff in a variety of categories (Check out her music playlist here). Jodie took the opposite approach and went SO specific. Between the two of them, you should have plenty to fill the liminal space that is December 26th through, let's say, January 5th. Check below for a list of all of our recommendations.

What Jodie Loved in 2025

Taskmaster

Game Changer: “One Year Later”

British crime shows, in general

“Niche crafting shows and their watching culture.”

The Pitt season 1

Honorable Mentions:

Choreography and Merriment

And this friendly reminder

What Andrea Loved in 2025

Comedy specials

Atsuko Okatsuka: Father

Robby Hoffman: Wake Up

An Intimate Evening with Adam Pally

DROPOUT PRESENTS:

Aparna Nancherla: Hopeful Potato

Demi Adejuyigbe: Is Going to Do One (1) Backflip

Cameron Esposito: Four Pills

Documentaries

John Candy: I Like Me

Thank You Very Much

Come See Me in the Good Light

Deaf President Now

Music

Pool Kids: Easier Said Than Done

The Wonder Years: Burst & Decay (Volume III) 

Motion City Soundtrack: The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World

Hayley Williams: Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party

The Starting Line: Eternal Youth 

Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought

PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? 

Anxious: Bambi

Gully Boys: Gully Boys

The Business Casual Show

The concept: livestreaming live improv

DynastyTypewriter.com and ucbcomedy.com are good places to start

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This week on The Watchers, Andrea and Jodie break down episodes 4, 5, and 6 of Pluribus. Carol starts testing the hive mind and catches a bad case of FOMO. We get into resistance vs. assimilation, art in a flattened world, whether or not it counts as consent if you have to split hairs, and this show’s careful mix of dread, slapstick, and quiet humanity.

Next week, we’re bringing you our 2025 edition of our yearly “What We Loved” series. And then, we’ll be back to review the last three episodes of season 1 of Pluribus.

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This week, Jodie and Andrea watched the first three episodes of Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s eerie, uncanny, offbeat new series about a virus that turns humanity into a hive mind—and the handful of people left out. (Please let me have that em dash. I swear I'm a human being.)

We talk about the show’s inception, some behind-the-scenes stories, and the cast that fills out these early episodes. Also, what Pluribus has revealed about its world so far, how grief and defiance fuel the early story, and why it matters that a cranky lesbian is at the center of this show.

Next week, Pluribus, episodes 4 - 6

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