Dave Davies

Noah Wiley recorded last year talking about the HBO Max series The Pit.

Its second season premiered last night.

We'll hear more after this short break.

This is Fresh Air.

The next clip I wanted to play is a painful moment in the emergency room where a young child has died.

And in this case, she drowned, I think, after jumping into a swimming pool to try and save her sister who survived, right?

Yes.

Right.

So after the child dies, you gather the medical students and residents into a room for a moment.

And let's listen to what you say.

What an interruption.

You wrote this scene, didn't you?

This was your episode, right?

Your speech about how to overcome a loss like this is interrupted.

It's because they say patients are throwing chairs and fists.

And it turns out to be two women who are fighting because one has – in the waiting room, I guess.

One woman has asked another woman to mask her coughing child.

And the other mom calls her a Fauci zombie and slugs her.

This is one of the many topical issues that you get into in this series, which weren't even around in ER.

I mean, people listened to their doctors.