There’s an terrible lot of hospital horror occurring in Max’s new medical drama “The Pitt,” so it solely is smart {that a} horror legend is becoming a member of the unimaginable ensemble solid. “The Pitt” follows the emergency room workforce of a fictional Pittsburgh hospital in close to real-time, with every episode of the present serving as one hour within the season’s single, obscenely chaotic day. (If that sounds an terrible lot just like the basic NBC drama “ER,” you are not mistaken and it is, uh, sophisticated.)
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Within the first season up to now, the workforce underneath senior attending doctor Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) have already dealt with their fair proportion of trauma and dying earlier than a mass taking pictures occasion at a close-by music competition takes the already stretched-thin docs, nurses, and hospital workers to their very limits. “The Pitt” episode 13 noticed Wyle give a career-best efficiency within the heart of all of it, delivering human pathos amidst the entire nightmarish bloodshed as he tries to assist his stepson cope with unimaginable tragedy. Parenting appears to be a theme, as Dr. Cassie McKay (Fiona Dourif) can also be making an attempt to guard her youngster, who ended up on the hospital along with his father (her ex-husband) earlier than the mass taking pictures started. Determined to maintain him away from the horrors however unable to depart, she calls her mother and father for assist.
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It appears like Cassie’s father might be performed by none aside from Dourif’s personal real-life father, actor Brad Dourif, who’s greatest recognized in horror circles for enjoying Charles Lee Ray/the voice of Chucky within the “Kid’s Play” franchise. In a press picture for the sequence we are able to see the 2 of them collectively within the hospital, hopefully on their technique to get her son Harrison (Henry Samiri) someplace secure and fewer prone to traumatize him for all times.
Brad Dourif is becoming a member of The Pitt in a reasonably excellent position
Whereas it is attainable that Brad Dourif is enjoying another, random character, it is fairly secure to imagine that he is enjoying Cassie’s father. She had beforehand referred to as him to get him to return choose up Harrison, who was on the hospital after her ex injured himself in a skateboard accident. (Not solely that, however Dourif is just about retired from appearing and will have carried out this simply as an opportunity to spend time along with his child.) Within the press picture (above), it appears like Dr. McKay is explaining one thing to the elder Dourif as they stroll by the hospital. She’s nonetheless coated in blood and so they’re in all probability in a rush, because the mass trauma occasion is ongoing.
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This is not the primary time father and daughter have starred on a tv sequence collectively, as Fiona portrayed a youthful model of Charles Lee Ray on the “Chucky” tv sequence, by which her father reprised his position because the voice of the Good Man doll with the world’s worst angle. This time a minimum of they get an opportunity to really work together onscreen, and with a little much less blood. We’ll have to attend and see what occurs subsequent for the characters because the season finishes out, however with the information that “The Pitt” season 2 is on the best way, possibly we’ll get to see much more double Dourif goodness sooner or later!
