Hello, welcome back to the Prestige TV podcast feed. I'm Joanna Robinson. I'm Rob Mahoney. It is

2026 and we're here to talk about the pit. Rob, we're back. Thank God, which is to say thank

Robbie. Thank everyone involved in making the pit for making TV on an actual TV schedule. We are so

blessed. We are so blessed.

We're going to start kind of unusually for us with just a sort of big picture,

Hey, the pit's back, Rob. Did you like this episode of television? How did you feel about it?

Guess what? I did. I'm glad to be back. I will say it's perfect timing. I'm ready to be stressed out again by the horrors of living in an ER and basically real time.

And I think it's, you know, Joey, it was so comforting, strolling into last season and just like this well-run TV machine that was so sure-handed from the start.

And I feel like we're getting it now, but also with the comforts of knowing these characters so well, it's really a brilliant place to be.

I believe the accurate Mahoneyism was well-made furniture.

It was well-made furniture.

Well-made furniture.

I believe you tried to compare it to particle board.

Oh, and you know what?

Listen, here we are.

The Television Academy does not agree with me. No, I mean, I obviously came to really, really appreciate and love the pit. I think I, to your point, I think the beginning of season one, I felt a little lost at sea because I didn't feel like I had a grip on all the characters and there was just, the know, it's the point of the pit is that it's just go, go, go, go. And I felt like I was sort of sinking a little bit. And then I learned to swim and everything was great. And on the rewatch, you know, I just rewatched the first season over the last couple of weeks. And that was like a really great experience because to your point, coming into season two, when you rewatch season one, knowing everyone, and especially knowing where things are going, there's a lot of like, ahah moments at the beginning

of the season that feel like they pay off later.

And a lot of just like, it's so much more comfortable to be familiar with the characters,

familiar with their foibles, with their strengths, all that sort of stuff.

So we are coming into this season with a couple major Emmy Awards on the shelf for The Pit.

It won drama series at the Emmys.

Kathleen Lanasa won both the Emmy and very recently the Critics Choice Award.

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