What sets the HBO Max original series "The Pitt" except for other medical shows - including "Air", a show that paved the way for Pete in many ways, but did no Inspire it as a spin-off, for legal reasons - is its unique narrative structure. During the first season, which began in January 2025 and concluded in April, we monitor the trauma doctor's presence, Dr. Michael "Robbie" Robbavich (Noah Will, who helped create a series and work as an executive producer) through a 15-hour replacement in the crowded room. Each episode takes place "in real time", with the season starting at 7:00 am and ends at 10:00 am, so why Wayel, executive producer and director Johnon Wells and shower R. Scott Gemil, who all worked together on Air, came to this exact idea?

"We have done ... Type of Mac Dad on all medical shows," Gemil said during an episode of Emily Silverman's podcast "Night nights" In addition to his associate OEO Sachs (who worked on Air and is also part of Pete) and Mel Herbert, founder of EM: Rap, which helps support medical education specifically for emergency premises.

"So, when the opportunity to rethink another medical show, the one we wanted to do quite differently, looked, how can we tell these stories differently than we have in the past?" Gemil continues. "And as soon as it became a stream, because it was HBO Max looking for it, we knew it would be different in terms of what you can show language, but also how many episodes you are doing." He continued:

"So, we look at shows that are now (six to eight episodes, 10 to 12 episodes) is perhaps the most, and if we weren't streaming, I don't know if it would come up with that idea, but it was because it was 12 episodes, and the change was 12 hours, it seemed like it was really logical. the time element.

In the end, R. Scott Gemil says the concept of time was huge for Pete, because things are taking while in a real emergency room; During the season 1 of the show, we see that the same patients receive more episodes and we also see that people throw fit into the waiting room because they have not yet been seen. As Gemil said, this is a phenomenal way to ensure that the play remains as authentic as possible.

"So time seemed to have become such an important part of the whole process," Gemil said. "One of the things with Air doctors, and these guys can talk about it much better than I can, but how often they retire in another situation, another case, someone else needs that every three to five minutes they are in something else. So they became really important, as we talked about authenticity, and so on, We experienced and wait.

Gemil said this is some understandable challenges - it can be imagined that, you know, the cast had to look just one day despite the time that passed during the filming - but it all paid off comfortably. "And no matter how challenging it was, and we weren't sure to work, I think he really elevates the show," he concluded. "It is very difficult to catch that feeling of the emergency department, because it is so alive and so electric, and it happens so much. And it seemed that if we took the audience in that environment and we didn't let them go, we wouldn't go for commercial breaks. We don't come back two hours later."

"We do not enter their private lives at all," said host Emily Silverman. "No, and so it is like slaves can not find time to use the toilet. The audience does not get a chance to withdraw. They are a kind of juggling cases in the same way as doctors and I think it really helps to withdraw in telling, because you can't go to that hour or that change is over." Silverman is right; It makes Pete particularly busy seeing him unfolding in "real time".

Oeo Sachs, who works as a co-executive producer and wrote more episodes of Season 1 of Pete, then weighed and said that the "Real Time" element helps create tension throughout the play. "The other thing that real time allows us to do is keep the audience to guess," Sachs revealed. "When you meet a patient, is this pathient going to be one-and-done (in) one episode? Everything going on, and having to pay at what's going on. We wool just actually pay the actors sit in the waiting room for one scene and then return much later. "

"And also when Scott and Noah and Johnon first approached me for emergency medicine in 2024, I said: (We have) to enter and see a waiting room packed to gills," Sax continued, talking about a very disturbing reality. "We have to get in and see every inch of a wallpaper filled with boarding patients who can't go up because there is no room up, and we have done so, and the volume of volume is real, and I think people react."

Sachs continued to say that a performer playing a nurse in the background of Pete worked as a nurse at Uzla Santa Monica. They used to follow those patients with boarding on patients who were admitted, but for whom the hospital still has no room. This ended with presentation Another one Challenge for a variety of actors, according to Sachs, talking about the fact that People working on Pete always had to be ready to be on camera. "And then, the artists in the background, also known as accessories, when they first appeared to say:" Oh, I would like to work on this show, "Well, if you want to be a couch patient, you will be in your gurning for the next seven months, because we will shoot 15 episodes, and sit all the time." "So it's another interesting aspect of production."

Honestly, all the details behind Pete's scenes, A series dedicated to medical accuracyThey are fascinating, and this is just another piece of the puzzle. Season 2 is set at premiere in January 2026, and Season 1 of Pete is now moving to HBO Max.