It’s Friday, and every day from now until The Pitt returns in January we’re going to be thinking about how to be more like Dr. Robby.
In the meantime, here’s your agenda for the weekend.
If you haven’t already watched all 15 episodes of Max’s The Pitt—well, first of all, congratulations on your immunity to hype and buzz. Second: Watch The Pitt already—it’s great. Then come back here for the veritable IV push of Pitt-finale content we served up this week. Shea Serrano paid tribute to Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby, the show’s walking-wounded senior resident, while Esther Zuckerman stuck up for Isa Briones’ Dr. Santos, who’s emerged as the show’s most polarizing character. Carrie Wittmer recapped of the finale and its subtle cultural messaging. And GQ’s Tap In columnist Frazier Tharpe modestly proposed one change that would make the show just a tiny bit better, or at least more nerve-racking than it already is.
Watch Seth Rogen tripping (over furniture and other things, that is) on AppleTV+’s The Studio, which despite being an extremely inside-baseball show about Hollywood people talking in conference rooms and one studio exec’s probably-doomed attempt to stave off of the death of cinema, is also—as Corey Atad pointed out this week—reviving the semi-lost art of the pratfall.
Celebrate today’s 30th anniversary of the release of Wowee Zowee, the very best Pavement album (don’t come around the GQ offices looking to fight us, Crooked Rain and Slanted people—we work from home) by reading Will Schube’s Real Life Diet Q&A with Pavement/Hard Quartet co-founder Stephen Malkmus, who outlines the diet, exercise, and pre-show tequila regimen that’s long made him one of indie rock’s most infuriatingly young-looking elder statesmen.
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