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Podcast: Women in Entertainment
Episode: Valerie Chu on Writing The Pitt & Why It Feels Like Comfort Viewing | Women in Entertainment Podcast
Description: What makes a high-stakes medical drama feel unexpectedly comforting? In this thoughtful and fascinating conversation, The Pitt writer Valerie Chu unpacks the answer and takes us inside the creative process behind one of television’s most resonant shows.Valerie shares her unconventional path to the series, from starting as an assistant to breaking into the writers’ room with a sample that had nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with character. She reflects on building stories in real time across a single hospital shift, writing before the cast was in place, and why...