I might not have wanted to be a doctor growing up, but man oh man do I enjoy watching a medical drama. Something about the literal life-or-death stakes in the operating room makes the personal stakes feel even juicier,

Even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good. Since the glory days of ER faded in the late ’90s, there have been plenty of TV series of varying quality set in hospitals. But the best ones have always taken a flashier storytelling approach: the elaborate mystery-solving of House,

Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk talks about what The Pitt is doing to the medical drama format in a post-pandemic world.