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LMAO

Rocky knows damn well what they're doing and keeps doing it

Where’s that one post that’s like Reasons Why My Wife Cried This Week and when are we gonna get a fanfic of that but Ryland Grace.

fucking love the pitt. they let the autistic girl chill with a dog fo a bit then her boss came in like "fucking love u girl my least troublesome intern wanna pick sooo much gravel out a dudes leg wound?" and she was just like 😀😀😀 incredible. banger autistic rep shes so me.

Only been watching The Pitt for a few days but Mel King is THE best autistic character ever written in a medical drama. She doesn't "make connections no one else can" or "just see things differently" or any other Savant with Special Abilities stereotypical bullshit, she's a resident physician who's exactly as intelligent and capable as any other resident physician in the same year. She hates unnecessary yelling because it's loud and annoying, not because she's completely incapable of handling conflict. She usually keeps her stimming subtle enough to hide but sometimes she can't. She loves having a furry critter to pet. She accommodates an autistic patient by lowering the lights and closing the doors because she understands the sensory nightmare of an active medical setting. She speaks in a straightforward and honest way but she isn't an overtly rude inconsiderate asshole. She misses some jokes and takes things too literally on occasion but she does have a sense of humor and she is funny. She speaks up against misinformation and parent panic about autism and other developmental disabilities. She has emotions. She looks at a video of a lava lamp on her phone to chill. Doctor Mel King you have my entire heart

i LOVE that the pitt has stuck with not showing us anything outside of the hospital (and it's immediate radius). you get to see these characters in this context ONLY and the personal information we get about them is either peppered through organic conversations between coworkers, or shown to us in ways that we have to decipher!! like frank's absent wedding ring, religious/faith symbols, santos/garcia hints. it fucks so supremely i hope they never go back on this decision

seeing only the hospital is one thing but there IS something oddly sinister about the pov of the show being limited almost entirely to Just the emergency department. like yeah we see the helicopter base, the elevator, and one single scene on the abandoned eighth floor, but nothing else of the hospital. mckay and ogilvie go to find a scale for howard knox but we only see them returning. surgeons come downstairs for consults and vanish once they leave. mel's deposition happens off screen. noelle, dr shamsi, the CEO, orlando diaz – the moment they step outside of the emergency department, they cease to exist. it's isolating, and intentionally so. it narrows our focus but it also traps the characters. and in a meta sense, it's bizarrely.... well, it makes me think of severance. of the innies and outies, and the sharp delineation between Work and Life. they exist only in these 12 hours and when they leave, they disappear. like they don't get to have a life outside the pitt. like they're trapped there. I don't really have a point, it's just......eerie