‘The Pitt’ Showrunner Admits Season One’s Notoriety Amped Up Pressure For Season Two: “We Had to Prove That It Wasn’t Just a Fluke”

The Pitt‘s freshman season garnered a staggering 13 Emmy nominations last year (winning five, including outstanding drama series), but it was topped this year by its sophomore outing with a whopping 25 nods, the most of any show in any category. That even shocked showrunner and creator R. Scott Gemmill, who calls the number of nods “almost embarrassing,” but “wonderful.” Gemmill talks with THR about the word cloud they used for season two, foreshadowing a storyline that never happened and what challenges the sophomore run threw his way. Do this year’s nominations feel any different from last year’s? The first season was weird because we wrote and produced the whole season without an airdate. We were done shooting and had gotten no feedback whatsoever on the show, and so we didn’t really kn