i didnt really know that i needed a show about a suicidal old man but it turns out thats what you need when you feel like a suicidal old man. uhhh or like, if you just like shows with characters going through shit.
theres honestly a lot i can say about this show and how it makes me feel. probably lots of things i could criticize too. i feel like i like the pitt for very similar reasons to why i liked the bear (which oops is not in my movie diary because ive not updated my website for the past year), because of the way both shows capture such complex internal emotions so well. i have a panic attack when i watch the bear and i get thoroughly depressed watching the pitt. in like a nice way. there arent any other shows that have ever really captured those emotions quite as well as these shows have for me.
especially from season 1 to 2, i love the way it shifts the perspective and goes from showing us robby's internal experience to only showing us how he looks from the outside. i love how the show has never shown us robby at his best, only his worst, and all we can do is infer he hasnt always been this way by the way others speak to him. i love that nothing beyond maybe the immediate immediate crisis is resolved by the end of the season, that the show is committed to robby's recovery being a that will take time. just as i loved the bear for how non-linear carmy's development is. you dont just become better. you work hard and you do your best and still you fuck up and you fall back down, and it feels like youre a failure in the moment but you just have to keep trying and eventually you wont fall so far anymore.
also i missed shows releasing episodes weekly. i love tuning into an episode every week. i also initially thought it was extra fun cuz i could go online and see people's thoughts and it makes the whole thing feel so much more alive. buuuut i forgot that people on the internet have bad opinions and hold them very strongly. so it was fun for a bit until it wasnt. but being excited for the next episode to come out was fun. sitting with the emotions of the last episode for a week and letting myself process it first. now its the painful process of waiting like FOREVER for the next episode. cries cutely
i might update this post later honestly. theres so much more i could say about the pitt but i might be saving it for when i miss the pitt and i need to just sit down and ramble about it more