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  • The Week's Saturday Wrap
    Doctor heroism on TV, the return of milk, and the year’s dearly departed

     
    The year’s top TV SHOW

    The Pitt

    “Like all great hospital dramas, The Pitt spikes our heart rate with urgent medical crises,” said Kristen Baldwin in Entertainment Weekly. But the first season of this show also goes deeper as it ushers viewers through a day inside a Pittsburgh emergency room, unspooling its story in real time across successive 15 hour-long episodes. From the start, The Pitt “offers a relentlessly frank exploration of America’s broken health-care system—and the dedicated doctors, nurses, and hospital staff who refuse to break under its weight.” The cast, led by a “phenomenal” Noah Wyle, “make those 15 hours fly by.” HBO

     
     
    the year in food trends

    Appetites now: Got milk again?

    Cow’s milk is making a comeback. Reversing a long trend, sales of dairy milk are on the rise and alt-milk sales declining. The protein craze and MAHA’s interest in raw milks have contributed to the rebound, and milk has enjoyed an image makeover. Demonized in the 2010s as inflammatory, unethical, and environmentally harmful, it’s being recognized again for its health benefits and for being purer than processed soy, nut, and oat milks. On TikTok and beyond, young consumers who grew up on plant-based milks are discovering dairy for the first time and, perhaps inspired by Nicole Kidman in Babygirl, treating it as the decadent, sexy choice. “After a decade of restriction and replacement,” said Ashliene McMenamy in Bon Appétit, “milk feels nourishing and subversive.”

     
     
    obituary

    Among those who died in 2025…


    Robert Redford (pictured), Hollywood icon who dazzled in The Sting and The Natural and founded the Sundance Film Festival, died Sept. 16, age 89.

    Diane Keaton, Oscar winner and fashion leader who lent quirky appeal to Annie Hall and Something’s Gotta Give, died Oct. 11, age 79

    Tom Robbins, novelist who used LSD to conjure dreamscapes in books including 1971’s Another Roadside Attraction, died Feb. 9, age 92.

    Roberta Flack, smoky-voiced singer and pianist who topped charts with “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died Feb. 24, age 88.

    D’Angelo, Grammy-winning innovator who transformed R&B with hits like “Lady” and “Brown Sugar,” died Oct. 14, age 51.

    Dick Cheney, most powerful vice president in history, who pushed to invade Iraq and led the War on Terror under George W. Bush, died Nov. 3, age 84.

    George Foreman, fearsome heavyweight champ who charmed America by promoting home grills, died March 21, age 76.

    Giorgio Armani, Italian designer who dressed Hollywood stars and built a $12 billion global brand, died Sept. 4, age 91.

    Jane Goodall, British naturalist who upended our understanding of humanity with the discovery that chimps use tools, died Oct. 1, age 91.

     
     

    Sunday Shortlist was written and edited by Susan Caskie, Ryan Devlin, Chris Mitchell, Rebecca Nathanson, and Matt Prigge.

    Image credits, from top: HBO; Getty
     

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