South Africa, March 27 -- Now in its second season, which premiered on Jan. 8, 2026, the show follows Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch (played by Noah Wyle) and his colleagues through a single 15-hour clinical shift, divided into one-hour episodes. The team treats patients against a backdrop of all-too-common American societal plagues, from substance use disorder to medical bankruptcies and mass shootings.

Spoiler alert: About halfway through the season, Dr. Robby and the staff at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center grapple with chaos ensuing from a less commonly depicted disaster - a hospital cyberattack. The hospital's network and computers were incapacitated, resulting in scenes of millennial residents struggling with fax ma...