Sean Rameswaram

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Something's afoot with all these seemingly unrelated television programs.

Something's afoot with all these seemingly unrelated television programs.

Something's afoot with all these seemingly unrelated television programs.

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Water Cooler TV is back on Today Explained.

You're listening to Today Explained. All right, so TV's got people talking again, and one of the shows they're talking about is The Pit. And if we're going to talk about The Pit, we got to talk about ER.

You're listening to Today Explained. All right, so TV's got people talking again, and one of the shows they're talking about is The Pit. And if we're going to talk about The Pit, we got to talk about ER.

You're listening to Today Explained. All right, so TV's got people talking again, and one of the shows they're talking about is The Pit. And if we're going to talk about The Pit, we got to talk about ER.

For people in our audience who maybe weren't even alive in 1994, can you just help people understand how big a deal ER was and why?

For people in our audience who maybe weren't even alive in 1994, can you just help people understand how big a deal ER was and why?

For people in our audience who maybe weren't even alive in 1994, can you just help people understand how big a deal ER was and why?

Joe had half the TV-watching country eating out the palm of his hand in the 90s, a feat that's basically impossible to pull off now unless you're the Super Bowl. So we asked him why he wanted to return to the medical drama with The Pit.

Joe had half the TV-watching country eating out the palm of his hand in the 90s, a feat that's basically impossible to pull off now unless you're the Super Bowl. So we asked him why he wanted to return to the medical drama with The Pit.

Joe had half the TV-watching country eating out the palm of his hand in the 90s, a feat that's basically impossible to pull off now unless you're the Super Bowl. So we asked him why he wanted to return to the medical drama with The Pit.

And in order to tell this story of what it's like to be an emergency medicine physician in 2025-ish, you guys decide to tell this show in this continuous fashion where every episode is picking up exactly where the last episode left off, depicting the course of one long, chaotic, gnarly shift. Yeah. at one hospital.

And in order to tell this story of what it's like to be an emergency medicine physician in 2025-ish, you guys decide to tell this show in this continuous fashion where every episode is picking up exactly where the last episode left off, depicting the course of one long, chaotic, gnarly shift. Yeah. at one hospital.

And in order to tell this story of what it's like to be an emergency medicine physician in 2025-ish, you guys decide to tell this show in this continuous fashion where every episode is picking up exactly where the last episode left off, depicting the course of one long, chaotic, gnarly shift. Yeah. at one hospital.

I wanted to ask you about that. It's funny, you know, I'm used to shows on HBO being six episodes, eight episodes, ten episodes. I just watch Adolescence. It's four episodes. This show is 15 hours, which, it's HBO, it's Max or whatever, but it feels kind of like old-school network television where there's a lot of episodes.