The Pitt Supremacy is Here

Last year, The Pitt made a clean sweep of awards season, winning every major drama series award at every major awards show. This year, The Pitt still won a lot—six total Emmys for its second season—but it wasn’t QUITE as dominant as last year. In a sign that Emmy voters can, in fact, keep up with new shows, Pluribus won a couple notable trophies, but more on that later.

For The Pitt, Noah Wyle repeated as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and the show repeated as Outstanding Drama Series. The show also picked up four Emmys during the untelevised Creative Arts Emmys.

Given that The Pitt bagged best drama series two years in a row, I think we can officially declare this The Pitt supremacy; it is now the premiere prestige drama on television. I can feel you wanting to argue about this or that other series, or the Heated Rivalry of it all, but while we all have our personal favorite shows, winning for best drama series two years running, after two enormously successful seasons in which ratings only ever grew, does mean The Pitt is dominant in the dramatic television space.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens going forward. How much and how long can The Pitt dominate like this? The Emmys do have that thing where voters get comfortable and reward the same shows over and over. It can get quite tedious, frankly, even when the shows are excellent. Mad Men, for instance, won four years in a row, even up against shows like Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights, and the early seasons of Game of Thrones. Will The Pitt keep blocking Slow Horses—though that series has won three Emmys since 2024, two for directing and one for writing—from the series prize, or prevent Pluribus from establishing a toe hold?

In his second Emmys acceptance speech for acting, Noah Wyle mentioned being “raised on a television” and that movie theaters were his “place of worship”.

The Pitt is an HBO series, and it’s produced by Warner Bros. Television. If/when the Paramount/Skydance merger goes through, I’m not so worried about The Pitt being cancelled—it’s so successful, that would really be cutting your nose off to spite your face—but I do wonder what happens to HBO, which is already not the same since the AT&T merger. Casey Bloys took over from Richard Plepler, the tastemaker who made HBO into the premium television destination we know it as now, and Bloys has more or less managed to hold onto to HBO’s reputation as “not just TV, it’s HBO”. But if Bloys is ousted? Who the f-ck knows.

Wyle didn’t call out the merger, but I wonder what kind of conversations are happening around The Pitt as they film season three. At this point, I don’t think anything can mess up The Pitt’s supremacy as THE television drama of the moment, except outside interference. And mergers always bring interference. Something to think about as that process continues.

As for The Pitt cast, they were out in force, from Wyle to Katherine LaNasa, to Shawn Hatosy, to Supriya Ganesh, who turned up even though she’s been written out of season three. She still looks friendly with the cast; there doesn’t seem to be conflict there as was rumored before with Tracy Ifeachor. It really does seem like the producers just decided to cut Dr. Mohan from the show for no good reason.

Best dressed of the lot is Fiona Dourif in Thomas Hanisch, though Katherine LaNasa’s powder blue Louis Vuitton gown is also very good, as is Taylor Dearden’s crimson Naeem Khan look. Meanwhile, the less said about Isa Briones’s dress, the better.