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“It’s going to be painful. Layoffs are always hard,” Paramount President Jeff Shell told reporters during a briefing on the Melrose Avenue movie lot earlier this month, stressing that Ellison’s team plans to evaluate the operations, then make one deep cut.

She also has strong feelings about the music in the episode, fighting skeptical producers to use almost the entirety of a Kate Bush deep cut, “The Morning Fog,” even after “Stranger Things” had brought “Running Up That Hill” back to the charts.

Berg was shoved by officers and suffered a deep cut to her hand — also while wearing press credentials.

There is little in it that couldn’t be handled as live-action situation comedy; indeed, for long stretches you can close your eyes and let it play in your head like an old-time radio show — “Ozzie and Harriet,” or “Vic and Sade” for the deep cut — which testifies to the quality of the writing and the performances.

“While ‘The Pitt’ was airing, I started playing the Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ deep cut ‘Doctor Robert’ on a loop, subbing in ‘Doctor Robbie’ each time the chorus came around,” says Glenn Whipp.