After The Pitt season 1 episode 15 drops on Max, we'll all be getting discharged from our new favorite medical drama series. Yes, it's true: When episode 15 of The Pitt begins streaming on Max on Thursday, April 10 at 9/8c, there are no additional episodes of season 1 coming to your watch list. There's no episode 16 since Max ordered 15 episodes for season 1. That's the first season finale, and we'll have to stay patient for the currently in-the-works season 2.

It's definitely a bummer that there aren't more episodes of The Pitt season 1 on Max, but the streamer already made the series' episode count significantly larger than what's become the new normal on streaming. Most shows are only eight or 10 episodes, if that, while some can even be four episodes, like Netflix latest hit limited series Adolescence. Netflix's own medical drama series Pulse only ran for 10 episodes, while The Pitt opted for a total that more...