It is funny to think that, with how many medical plays there are, all you have to do to emphasize is just to show the audience how it is actually to be a doctor. HBO MAX Hit Series Pete is praised as one of the most accurate medical The plays have ever done, with the show proving that it is a huge success for general audiences and real doctors. The secret, it seems, was to make the show as realistic as possible. Not only does Pete makes a point not to use music at allBut Pete's cast is mostly current actors without a very public profile. Naturalist, a manual shooting style strengthens the sense of realism, as well as the design of the production, which is so good that you may be convinced that the series is filmed in a real hospital.

Woulde make sense, after all. If you want to make the most realistic medical drama ever made, you may consider finding an unused medical space and customizing it to your needs. Instead, the Air shown in Pete is actually built on sound stages at the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, California. But that set is built with such attention to the details that can be the right place.

The fictional Medical Center in Pittsburgh Trauma, where Dr. Michael Robbavich (Noah Will) and his team of practitioners for emergency medicine work, is as submersible as anyone shown on the screen. Most of it comes down to production designer Nina Rucio, who based her designs at the ALEGENI General Hospital in Pittsburgh. However, creating such a real set did not come cheap.

Prior to Pete he debuted, there was no indication that it would be the sensation that has since become. Just before the show's debut, Noah Will, who had previously starred in the seminal medical drama, led Epic fantasy franchise made for TV In the form of the so -called TV "Library: Looking for Spears", and his "Air" days were far behind him. But after joining forces with colleagues "Air" Alumi R. Scott Gemil and Johnon Wells, Will revealed that he has a story, worth telling about doctors and their experiences today. That is, he was eager to convey how many emergency doctors in trauma endure a real job, especially in the wake of the global pandemic. As the actor said Steven Colbert"Three of us (Vile, Wales and Gemil) returned together just because during Kovid we admitted that there was another story of storytelling and that it was important for us to say it. This is a community we care about."

The trio entered the "pete" with verissence in the mind. While they made a HBO MAX drama, this was essentially a true story that they told about real doctors. As such, dealing with their visceral medical drama in a set that did not emphasize that dedication to realism is never an option. This is where Nina Rucio entered. The designer of production created what was a completely credible medical set of Warner Bros., full of marble dressed, claustrophobic waiting room and realistically sterile, lived in Air. Rucio took big signs from the General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Allegeni, especially imitating the marble pillars of the hospital in real life in its Burbank -based version. "Pete" was filmed Almost entirely on this set (with a few footage trapped at the Real Pittsburgh hospital).

Creating such a submerged and expansive set, which covers two stages of sound in Bros. Warner, was not the cheapest project. According to Wall Street JournalournalCreating Faux-ER cost $ 4 million and was one of Pete's most expensive items.

Talking about the creation of a "pete" set with DiversityNina Russio explained the central principles behind the design. "The intention of this was to create a level of realism that will make it almost more documentary than the narrative," she said. "It's an extremely blanched palette." She and the crew certainly managed to withdraw the aspect of realism, but building everything from scratch came at a price.

That said, it seems that building its own set has allowed the show runners to save in the long run. Executive producer Johnon Wells previously revealed that Pete costs about $ 4 to $ 5 million per episode And that the team was able to keep the costs low thanks to the set itself, which means they do not have to spend an inappropriate amount on their budget on the expensive CGI. As such, Pete is actually a relatively cheap series as streaming series go. "Grade", for example, cost $ 20 million episode In its second season, and Netflix reportedly spent $ 30 million in episode of Stranger Things Season 4.

Then, it was expensive as the Pete set was also one of the main reasons why the creative team remained in the budget. With Season 2 "Pete" 2 officially greenIt will be interesting to see how much HBO Max invests in the forward series, D now, when it proved to be one of the most exciting and popular new shows in the year.