The Pitt, Season 2

[Anonymous]

Whitaker is probably one of my favorites this season.

[Anonymous]

They seemed to have dropped the Mel and her sister storyline quickly.

[Anonymous]

I find Patrick Ball alluring in a John Mulaney way.

[Anonymous]

I just read that Isa Briones (who plays Santos) got appendicitis during the filming of the season and had to have an appendectomy, and then filmed the latter part of the season post-op, which is one reason she is spending these last episodes sitting down in "charting hell." She'd just had abdominal surgery and was physically limited.

Kind of wild!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere so maybe this is nothing.

Langdon comes out of the bathroom and immediately goes into the trauma with the guy with the spinal injury. Then they need an attending and no one else is available so they send someone to go get Robby, who is... in the bathroom (they knock on the door and then he's zipping up).

I'm pretty sure it's the same bathroom because it's close to the trauma room where the spinal guy was.

Were Robby and Langdon in the bathroom at the same time? I feel like this is one of the reasons Langdon comes out of the bathroom looking kind of weird, not because he was doing drugs in there.

This is not the first time I've noticed weird stuff with the bathrooms. Earlier in the season when we were still wondering what was going on with Dr. Al-Hashidi, there was a scene were she comes out of the bathroom looking upset/troubled. This was a different time than when we see her go in the bathroom to call her neurologist.

I think the point of the bathroom is to show that they barely have time to go. You're overthinking it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just read that Isa Briones (who plays Santos) got appendicitis during the filming of the season and had to have an appendectomy, and then filmed the latter part of the season post-op, which is one reason she is spending these last episodes sitting down in "charting hell." She'd just had abdominal surgery and was physically limited.

Kind of wild!

Ouch!

Looks like we won’t find out what happens to Moran until S3
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/7fSSwZftZk

[Anonymous]

Pitt night today! We have to wait until 9 pm. Ugh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what was up with Dr. Al-Hashimi’s private phone call? Was she doing that on behalf of the possibly schizophrenic patient to see if he had a brain tumor?

No. She said she was a patient of the neurologist and was making an appointment for herself. It's very clear in the conversation.

We've seen have Dr. Al-Hashimi have two, what appear to be dissociative episodes. One in that cliffhanger early in the season when she's looking down at Baby Jane Doe and Samira keeps saying her name and she can't hear it, and then another in this episode right before she makes the call to the neurologist.

We also learned in this episode that she has worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders (she uses the French name of the org), including at the hospital Dasht-E-Barchi hospital in Kabul. If you are unfamiliar with it, Dasht-E-Barchi was the site of a massacre by a military insurgency in 2020, where a maternity ward was targeted and many mothers and hospital workers were murdered.

It is likely that Dr. Al-Hashimi has PTSD from that experience, that was triggered by Baby Jane Doe's cries. She probably sees a neurologist to deal with neurological effects of her PTSD, including flashbacks and dissociative episodes. She is recognizing the signs of a triggering episode in herself and she's reaching out to her doctor in order to address them as quickly as possible.

This will be interesting to watch unfold because almost everyone in that ED is dealing with some level of PTSD, due to the mass shooting event and/or Covid, as well as other more discrete incidents (Dana's assault, Santos' childhood abuse, Langdon's addiction). We are also seeing the trauma experienced by both patients and their families this season. Ilana, the rape survivor, in the immediate aftermath of SA by a friend. We also see Jackson's (the law student patient who has been hearing voices) family discussing another family member who committed suicide, and also the choice to conceal that from Jackson's sister. And then there is Roxy, the cancer patient, whose entire family is experiencing the trauma of her physical decline and likely imminent death.

I think this season is about trauma, both in the acute sense of someone with a critical injury being rolled into a trauma room at the ER, and also in the broader sense of the events that mark us and follow us throughout our lives. How it manifests, how people deal. Everything from thrill seeking as a way to quiet traumatic episodes (Abbott, also Langdon), self-medicating (Langdon), seeking treatment (Al-Hashimi), denial and escapism (Rabi), humor and putting up defenses (Santos), self-harm (also Santos, also Langdon, also maybe Rabi), digging into your work (ALL OF THEM), and so on. What is healthy, what is not, what works anyway.

So I’m not sure this is correct now based on the info we have now about her epilepsy.

[Anonymous]

Very interesting essay from Supriya Ganesh (Mohan)

https://archive.ph/WrtFo

I can’t believe we’re at the last episode already. Two hours!

[Anonymous]

Ok. Baby Jane Doe a little predictable right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Baby Jane Doe a little predictable right?

Yeah, I called it early on. It still brought tears to my eyes.

[Anonymous]

Watch past the credits for the last scene!

[Anonymous]

This episode was the hardest to watch.... ugh....but very good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Baby Jane Doe a little predictable right?

Funny because I think I’ve read this whole thread and I don’t remember anyone calling that one. I didn’t see it either and I’m so glad that it revealed itself in this episode. Why a beautiful way to end the season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Baby Jane Doe a little predictable right?

Funny because I think I’ve read this whole thread and I don’t remember anyone calling that one. I didn’t see it either and I’m so glad that it revealed itself in this episode. Why a beautiful way to end the season.

I think PP meant just within this episode.