The realities of streaming keep us from knowing how well the series is doing, ratings-wise, but The Pitt has made a strong impression on critics: Our own Laura Bogart has written about the ways the show adopts the familiar beats of the medical procedural to a more robust and realistic pace,

Midway through its first season, Max renewed Pittsburgh-set medical drama “The Pitt” for a second season. The series, which films almost entirely in Burbank, Calif., shot at Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side for a week in September,