Sometimes people talk about diversity on the Pitt as if Robby is not a part of it and I’m honestly not sure if it’s always antisemitism or if some of it is people having the attention span and memory of goldfish and forgetting that he’s Jewish.
Despite the Jewish doctor stereotype there was one Jewish main character in 15 years of ER and he only had one Jewish parent and it rarely came up and the writing was kind of inconsistent when it did. He was the original lead but he also left halfway through.
Grey’s Anatomy, for all its diversity, had one Jewish character in the original main cast and it was mostly played for the humor of the unexpected. She has a Jewish stepfather and her mother is implied to have converted when they got married. It doesn’t come up a lot and her name is literally Cristina. I haven’t kept up with the show, I think there has been at least one other Jewish character in the main cast since, but Cristina was it for a long time.
House had two Jewish characters in the original main cast but it rarely came up, even when Cuddy and Wilson became more central to the story and certainly never had the significance. Chase’s Catholicism did. I think Taub is Jewish but that also barely comes up and again his name is Chris.
I haven’t seen Chicago Med so I’m not sure what the situation is there but that’s the only other big medical drama I can think of in recent years. Not sure about Scrubs either, but the current hospital sitcom St. Denis Medical doesn’t have any visibly Jewish characters so far.
#i love that neither robby nor the narrative downplay his judaism#he prays the shema he wears a star of david he actively talks about being jewish he has an unmistakably jewish name#it's sad that's so rare on tv but it means so much to me @boasamishipper
And they do all that while portraying him as someone who has a complicated relationship with religion!!! I feel like you see the Christian--especially Catholic--equivalent of that all the time but with Jewish characters it's like uhhhh he's not sure about god that's why it never comes up.
