Megyn Kelly Says She's 'Hate-Watching' 'The Pitt,' Rips Show's 'Woke' Messaging and Portrayal of Conservatives: 'I Was Offended'

MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly announced on her podcast that she is "hate-watching" the acclaimed HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, launching a full segment to take down what she describes as the show's "woke" messaging.

She explained that she binged the Emmy-winning series over the summer and became deeply offended by its political leanings.

Despite her detailed breakdown shared on YouTube and Facebook, healthcare professionals widely consider the series one of the most realistic portrayals of an emergency room on television.

"I wasn't entertained. I was really offended. Now I'm, like, hate-watching. Now I'm like, what are they going to do next? This is unbelievable that this didn't make more news," the podcaster pouted.

Kelly took issue with a plot where Dr. Robby (played by Noah Wyle) intentionally falsifies a medical record to provide a 17-year-old girl with the abortion pill mifepristone. She argued the show treated the procedure like a minor "migraine headache" and framed the teen's conservative mother as a villain.

“So, this is entertainment by modern standards,” Kelly said on her podcast. “I wasn’t entertained. I was really offended. Now I’m, like, hate-watching. Now I’m like, what are they going to do next? This is unbelievable that this didn’t make more news.”

“There are all sorts of reasons why you are not supposed to give the abortion drug past 11 weeks, which include complications to the — I’m not going to use the term mother — to the woman trying to abort the baby, like increased bleeding and cramping and other problems,” Kelly said, making no mention that the abortion drug is considered extremely safe and effective by medical experts.

“This is all very sick,” she continued. “And they treat this truly like it’s a migraine headache, and it’s really no big deal.”

She targeted an episode featuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers entering the hospital to make an arrest, calling it "anti-ICE propaganda.”

Kelly criticized how the show handles a transgender character, its framing around "misgendering," and what she perceived as a biased portrayal of conservative, white, and Black characters.

“The daughter’s going to have the baby, and the angry, ugly leftist mom comes in and is like, ‘You’re not having that d--- baby; you will take this abortion drug right now.’ And then the nice white male doctor swoops in to say she’ll never forgive you if you make her kill her baby," she recounted.

The Pitt is a massive, record-breaking hit on HBO Max, achieving both universal critical acclaim and monumental viewership.

Despite Kelly’s outrage, it has cemented itself as one of the top three most-watched original series in the network's history.

Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a practicing physician and contributing writer for The New Yorker, highlighted the series for its medical accuracy and its ability to reflect broader societal issues affecting modern healthcare, transforming contemporary medical conversations into compelling television.

"What’s special about The Pitt isn’t that it’s medically accurate, although it is. (I even learned a few things about how to insert an emergency chest tube.) What’s special about the show is that it offers a kaleidoscopic view of how societal problems have come to pervade medicine," he wrote.