I read it for the first time last year and that part definitely has not aged well.

Well, yes. I generally refer to The Pitt as the Wire of medical dramas, I was just using the framing of the article.

I also find baking bread in particular so, like, evocative of community feeling. It feels like some almost Platonic ideal of feeding other people in a way other kinds of cooking don't.

I mean, fair.

Unfortunately I think that day has come and gone. Pretty sure it was in March of 1987.

Teenagers being punished for having sex! Or, wait, that's just slasher stuff.

No. It never should have existed in the first place. It exists to entice Quebec into ratifying the Charter, which they wound up not doing anyway.