Joe Sachs

And these doctors and nurses who are trying to deliver quality, compassionate care, have the deck is just stacked against them so i said to them you want to make it real this is how it's real and they embrace that that um number one there's a crisis in emergency medicine and we're going to show that warts and all and um and number two post-covid there's tremendous

post-traumatic stress on emergency workers who worked during the pandemic before there was any effective treatments and who just watched hundreds and hundreds of people die.

post-traumatic stress on emergency workers who worked during the pandemic before there was any effective treatments and who just watched hundreds and hundreds of people die.

post-traumatic stress on emergency workers who worked during the pandemic before there was any effective treatments and who just watched hundreds and hundreds of people die.

Yes. How can we make the show different from anything you've seen before? And that's to do a 12-hour shift in 12 hours where every episode is an hour of the same day.

Yes. How can we make the show different from anything you've seen before? And that's to do a 12-hour shift in 12 hours where every episode is an hour of the same day.

Yes. How can we make the show different from anything you've seen before? And that's to do a 12-hour shift in 12 hours where every episode is an hour of the same day.

Yeah, and the powers that be at... HBO max decided that they wanted this show to be unique from what people are used to seeing the seven or eight hours and 12 just wasn't enough. So they wanted 15 to say, wow, here's a streaming show that can give you 50 in a year. And, um, And one of the reasons we can do 15 in a year is because we're in the same place, same set. We don't go out on location.

Yeah, and the powers that be at... HBO max decided that they wanted this show to be unique from what people are used to seeing the seven or eight hours and 12 just wasn't enough. So they wanted 15 to say, wow, here's a streaming show that can give you 50 in a year. And, um, And one of the reasons we can do 15 in a year is because we're in the same place, same set. We don't go out on location.

Yeah, and the powers that be at... HBO max decided that they wanted this show to be unique from what people are used to seeing the seven or eight hours and 12 just wasn't enough. So they wanted 15 to say, wow, here's a streaming show that can give you 50 in a year. And, um, And one of the reasons we can do 15 in a year is because we're in the same place, same set. We don't go out on location.

We don't go home with people to see their personal lives. So we are literally in this submarine for 15 hours. And that saves you a lot of time and money with location work and sets and costumes because everybody is wearing the same thing for the whole... The whole run, except for Whitaker, of course, who gets bodily fluids on his scrubs every now and then.

We don't go home with people to see their personal lives. So we are literally in this submarine for 15 hours. And that saves you a lot of time and money with location work and sets and costumes because everybody is wearing the same thing for the whole... The whole run, except for Whitaker, of course, who gets bodily fluids on his scrubs every now and then.

We don't go home with people to see their personal lives. So we are literally in this submarine for 15 hours. And that saves you a lot of time and money with location work and sets and costumes because everybody is wearing the same thing for the whole... The whole run, except for Whitaker, of course, who gets bodily fluids on his scrubs every now and then.

I honestly had no idea. how the public was going to respond to our show. I just wanted to do it as realistically and as accurate as possible. And that was the bar that I sat for the medicine, but what a delightful surprise to see that people responded in a way to seeing what we worked so hard to create.

I honestly had no idea. how the public was going to respond to our show. I just wanted to do it as realistically and as accurate as possible. And that was the bar that I sat for the medicine, but what a delightful surprise to see that people responded in a way to seeing what we worked so hard to create.

I honestly had no idea. how the public was going to respond to our show. I just wanted to do it as realistically and as accurate as possible. And that was the bar that I sat for the medicine, but what a delightful surprise to see that people responded in a way to seeing what we worked so hard to create.

I can say that people in medicine are saying, this is the first medical show I've been able to watch that feels real. And I can also say that for many emergency workers, they're saying, For years, I've tried to explain to my friends and my family what it's like, and I've never been able to put it into words. And now I just say, watch an episode of The Pit and you'll know what my workday is like.

I can say that people in medicine are saying, this is the first medical show I've been able to watch that feels real. And I can also say that for many emergency workers, they're saying, For years, I've tried to explain to my friends and my family what it's like, and I've never been able to put it into words. And now I just say, watch an episode of The Pit and you'll know what my workday is like.

I can say that people in medicine are saying, this is the first medical show I've been able to watch that feels real. And I can also say that for many emergency workers, they're saying, For years, I've tried to explain to my friends and my family what it's like, and I've never been able to put it into words. And now I just say, watch an episode of The Pit and you'll know what my workday is like.

And that's a big compliment. And then there are the emergency workers who see it and see the flashbacks to COVID and say, oh my God, I have been dealing with such post-traumatic stress disorder and I've been denying it and I need to get help. And that's a wonderful thing.