The Pitt review: Irish viewers at last get to enjoy the gritty medical drama

The Pitt is among the top shows on the recently-launched HBO Max channel 

Noah Wyle in The Pitt, on HBO Max. 

It’s here at last. The medical drama that took its native US by storm last year has finally crossed the pond. 

All 15 episodes of The Pitt’s first season, set in almost real time over a single shift in the overstretched emergency department of a busy Pittsburgh hospital, are being offered to tempt us all into subscribing to yet another streaming service — HBO Max, which also promises other baubles, such as the new Harry Potter series and the adaptation of DC Comics’ Lanterns plus rich pickings from its prestigious back catalogue, such as The Sopranos, Succession, Game of Thrones and Friends (which departed Netflix last year, giving many viewers the first insight into the true transience of life).