The Pitt, Season 2
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Anonymous
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Easter egg sighting for this! Made me laugh.
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Anonymous
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Joy is becoming my new favorite.
Robby giving away his apartment and the "if I don't come back" line are another in his parade of red flags. |
Anonymous
You got your wishes, except for Baby Jane Doe! The overweight patient is so sad. That actor is excellent. |
Anonymous
Joy has been stealth awesome for weeks and these last two episodes it's becoming un-stealth. Meanwhile Ogilvie continues to grate. Ogilvie's main move is to immediately blame a patient for their symptoms and lecture them on some aspect of health within seconds of meeting them. He judges first, asks questions later (if at all). In this most recent episode, it was the guy with the kidney stone, with Ogilvie immediately lecturing him on how dehydration can contribute to stone formation (even though it was established at that point that this guy has had stones before and obviously knows this). No one has said anything to Ogilvie directly about this, but I do hope it's coming because he desperately needs someone to dress him down. It's not even just about being empathetic or compassionate. It's about being a good doctor. Doctors who have trash bedside manner and make assumptions and condescend to patients are bad doctors. Your patient is your best resource for information. Ogilvie is very book smart but he is going to make mistakes and become a sloppy, careless doctor if he doesn't realize that. However, doctors like Ogilvie are not uncommon at all. So if he's never called out, or if he's called out and it clearly doesn't sink. in, that would be realistic too. |
Anonymous
The scene where Howard (the overweight guy) speaks to his sister on the phone before surgery really got me. When they are rolling Howard back into the hospital and you can just hear his sister's disembodied voice saying "I forgot to tell him I love him." Oof. I really, really, hope Howard makes it. Both because I am just rooting hard for that patient, and also because of the scene after Howard went up to surgery where Abbott is confidently saying that their excellent surgical staff would save him, and Robby says nothing but just looks skeptical. Abbot and Robby both have trauma, both deal with dark thoughts. Abbott has his vices and certainly isn't just a ray of sunshine, but he works hard to maintain his fundamental optimism even in the face of a tough job that isn't always conducive to it. Robby is clearly on the edge of a very dark place, and his cynicism and almost nihilistic attitude is eating him up. ALSO did anyone else catch that moment when Robby was kind of between patients and sort of stops and looks around and then sneaks into the bathroom? Maybe it was just a callback to Season 1 when he had to pee for like two full episodes but kept being pulled onto urgent cases. But something about it felt ominous and I was a little surprised the camera didn't follow him into the bathroom. Compare this to a couple episodes ago when Dr. Al-Hashidi had a similar moment where something seemed off about her and she went in the bathroom, but the camera followed her and showed her calling her neurologist. I feel Robby and Al-Hashidi are being set up as foils of one another, not only in their management and doctor styes, but also in how each of them is processing and handling past trauma while working in this stressful job. We know Al-Hashidi is handling it by seeking out medical attention and calling for help when she feels she needs it. How is Robby handling it? We are only getting hints so far and most of them aren't good. |
Anonymous
I keep wondering if she will try to adopt that baby if no one shows up to claim her. There have been a couple of moments of her gazing at the baby. |
Anonymous
| Why did Westbrook close? Why not just go paper? Where are the doctors and nurses that work there? |
Anonymous
And now she's dating Dr. Garcia? |
Anonymous
Who seems like she's a cold b. |
Anonymous
Garcia said they are "keeping it casual" in this episode, so it's unclear if it's actual dating or just casual hookups. Santos appears to be having some mental health issues. They have been referenced on the margins several times. Early in the season, Robby made some reference to Santos speaking to a therapist, I think maybe in connection to the mass shooter event. My assumption is that after that event, all the staff were encouraged to engage mental healths services to deal with the trauma, and that some people are resisting or pushing away the help in a way that is concerning others. Both Santos and Robby seem to be in this group, and may be sort of enabling each other in avoiding dealing with how that event likely triggered past trauma for both of them (for Robby, his PTSD from Covid, and for Santos, childhood trauma). They went out of their way to show us that Santos has a history of cutting, and some of the scars on her leg looked somewhat fresh. She has been pushing Garcia hard for more intimacy during this season and Garcia has been putting up walls left and right. Santos might be relying on Garcia for emotional support in ways Garcia isn't comfortable with. Santos is also extremely stressed about her R2 year, struggling with workload, and is not getting much if any moral support at the hospital. It's not intentional, but a lot of people are piling on her or dismissing her in ways that are clearly wearing her down and might make her snap. Even in this episode, there was this micro-moment where Mel needed someone to take over her sister's care so she could go to her deposition, and Santos was suggested, and Mel looked at Santos and said "No" right to her face and then "not an R2" before they found Langdon. The focus of that scene was not Santos at all, but given what we know about Santos, her ego, her relationship with Mel (and with Langdon), I bet that stung. Plus right after that, Robby assigned Santos to cover all of Mel's other cases and Santos freaked out about not being able to do it. Santos is nearing a breaking point. Meanwhile, Robby and Santos are clearly not bad people and are still fairly functional, even to the point that Santos made a point of red flagging Whitaker's relationship with the farm widow to Robby so that Robby could gently talk to Whitaker about it and encourage better boundaries. These aren't villains. But something deep and dangerous is going on with both of them, and I think we are going to see them both bend if not break by the end of the season. I'm rooting for both of them and hope it ends with them both getting the help and support they obviously need and are not presently getting, for a variety of reasons. I also think that when this happens, it will be poignant that they are essentially in similar positions to where Langdon was at the end of S1 -- in crisis and in need of help and not doing a good job of getting it. I think the show will make some hay of that. |
Anonymous
| I loved Whitaker's reaction to Robby asking him to "house sit" |
Anonymous
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That's not an Easter Egg. They very obviously had a conversation about it. "Easter eggs in TV shows are intentional, hidden references, messages, or inside jokes inserted by creators for attentive fans to discover." |
Anonymous
What was with the warning about Whitaker helping out the widow? Even if he does end up dating her, Robby went full Santos, overstepping his bounds. |
Anonymous
Yeah, sorry. I posted that mid-watch when the woman in the furry costume was just briefly seen in the background while other stuff was happening in the foreground. It was before they actually introduced her as a character and had her interact with the main cast. I kind of wish it had been a true easter egg and never mentioned or addressed directly. It would be funny if throughout the season, you just periodically saw people in the background in furry costumes, like out in chairs or being treated for minor things in the clinic, but it just never surfaced to the actual plot level. |
Anonymous
I disagree that it was overstepping his bounds to tell Whitaker that he needs to be careful about boundaries with patients and their families. I would argue that is within his job description as an attending, and that part of the conversation was appropriate. Whitaker's relationship with the widow is not just a private matter because her husband was a patient in the ED. That makes it Robby's business. If Whitaker were in the exact same relationship but the woman had no connection to the ED, Robby would say nothing. I do think asking Whitaker to house sit while he's out of town, and especially doing this specifically as a way to discourage Whitaker's relationship with the widow (the whole "no babies" thing) was overstepping. It could turn out fine but it could also backfire horribly. It's similar to why Mel should not have been treating her sister. You are too close and can't be objective, and are mixing your professional and personal roles in ways that could get messy later on. |