The Pitt, Season 2

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Anonymous wrote:Kudos to HBO/Max for going old school with an episode release once a week vs a whole season drop. It allows a “water fountain” discussion so we can see everyone’s ideas. So much going on during each episode. I might have to do a re-watch this summer.

It's so enjoyable -- I love the wait, and being able to dissect one episode at a time.

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I think Santos should go into pedes.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really liking watching Santos grow. She was so good with the 12 year old firecracker victim. She has some maturing, but she'll be a good doctor.

And seeing Whitaker be a leader is the best.

And now she's dating Dr. Garcia?

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.

I like that they are showing that Santos treating her coworkers like crap has consequences. Last season, she was awful to everyone, and IRL, that means that people don't like you and are less likely to offer support. It bugged me last season that Santos was not only a jerk to everyone but did dangerous things wrt patients and was either vindicated by being right or just faced no consequences at all. Seeing how she gets in her own way in terms of getting help and support feels realistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think Robby is displaying suicidal ideation, but I don't think they are going to have him attempt suicide. In part because it's logistically challenging on a show premised on following the doctors through a single hospital shift -- unless he leaves his shift early for some reason and then his attempt is discovered before the end of the shift (which sounds like a horrible stretch even for a show that, yes, does play a little fast and loose with the time line sometimes), how could this work?

Robby’s attempts and care would happen in season 3. Season 2 is just setting the groundwork for it. They’ve spoke about how short the time will be between seasons so it makes sense if it rolls into the night shift.

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Anonymous wrote:I do think Robby is displaying suicidal ideation, but I don't think they are going to have him attempt suicide. In part because it's logistically challenging on a show premised on following the doctors through a single hospital shift -- unless he leaves his shift early for some reason and then his attempt is discovered before the end of the shift (which sounds like a horrible stretch even for a show that, yes, does play a little fast and loose with the time line sometimes), how could this work?

Robby’s attempts and care would happen in season 3. Season 2 is just setting the groundwork for it. They’ve spoke about how short the time will be between seasons so it makes sense if it rolls into the night shift.

Not happening. Robby is the rock and anchor of this show. They are not going to have him attempt suicide and destroy his character this early on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kudos to HBO/Max for going old school with an episode release once a week vs a whole season drop. It allows a “water fountain” discussion so we can see everyone’s ideas. So much going on during each episode. I might have to do a re-watch this summer.

Most shows do this. At least the ones I've been watching recently, i.e. Shrinking, Outlander's new season, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kudos to HBO/Max for going old school with an episode release once a week vs a whole season drop. It allows a “water fountain” discussion so we can see everyone’s ideas. So much going on during each episode. I might have to do a re-watch this summer.

Most shows do this. At least the ones I've been watching recently, i.e. Shrinking, Outlander's new season, etc.

+1 Real Housewives does this. I find it shot it as I want to binge a couple episodes at once.

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Anonymous wrote:Kudos to HBO/Max for going old school with an episode release once a week vs a whole season drop. It allows a “water fountain” discussion so we can see everyone’s ideas. So much going on during each episode. I might have to do a re-watch this summer.

Other than Netflix and sometimes Amazon Prime, which networks drop entire seasons on one day? HBO is hardly the outlier in this.

I like the old miniseries release schedule, one episode a day. Makes it an event.

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I think Robby is on track to have a motorcycle accident and serious scare because he has never addressed his own mental health. This season has shown how he is doing a worse job showing up for those around him because he has ignored his own blinking lights for too long. Dr. Al-Hashimi can be a peer who helps him have a breakthrough that getting help is a strength, not a weakness.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Robby is on track to have a motorcycle accident and serious scare because he has never addressed his own mental health. This season has shown how he is doing a worse job showing up for those around him because he has ignored his own blinking lights for too long. Dr. Al-Hashimi can be a peer who helps him have a breakthrough that getting help is a strength, not a weakness.

I agree it’s either that or his friend who is supposed to show up is going to have a serious head injury. They mentioned not wearing helmets multiple times and he has asked if anyone has seen his riding partner multiple times. Then the part where Robbie tells Huckleberry he can have his apartment if he doesn’t return.

[Anonymous]

Allow me to be the first:

HAPPY PITT DAY EVERYONE.

We made it to another week.

[Anonymous]

This article says he's gonna die. Pretty risky move, where would Gray's Anatomy be if they'd have killed off Gray in season two? More likely a failed suicide attempt, but from a plot standpoint how do they bring him back from that?

https://movieweb.com/the-pitt-season-2-robby-death-clues/

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Anonymous wrote:This article says he's gonna die. Pretty risky move, where would Gray's Anatomy be if they'd have killed off Gray in season two? More likely a failed suicide attempt, but from a plot standpoint how do they bring him back from that?

https://movieweb.com/the-pitt-season-2-robby-death-clues/

He is not going to die and I don't think he will attempt suicide. They won't kill him off because he's the star of the show, a producer (like a real producer not a vanity "executive producer" credit like some actors get), and the role has also led to a career renaissance that he is happy to have. No way is he being written off the show.

I also don't think he will attempt suicide because it would IMO feel really hamfisted. Someone like Robby could get to a point where he makes a suicide attempt -- he's clearly burnt out, dealing (poorly) with PTSD from Covid and what happened last season, and in need of help. He may have some suicidal ideation, or simply be using distractions (keeping the TV on all night, sleeping with a colleague, buying a bike and working on it, the adrenaline rush of riding his motorcycle) to numb himself and avoid confronting the negative thoughts he's obviously having. But I think having him do it this season would be rushing it (especially since he'd literally have to do it within the next few hours, in the middle of a hospital shift? that doesn't really make sense and I think IF Robby made an attempt, he'd go out of his way to keep it far from his colleagues and friends, who he obviously cares deeply about even if he's not getting along with most of them at the moment).

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I agree with 11:29. I think he will either make an attempt, or, as has happened with a few storylines, it will veer left and make a different point.

[Anonymous]

They aren’t going to have him attempt suicide because it will make his character look too weak. And people just don’t recover quickly from suicide. It becomes a lifelong battle with depression, and meds, and more attempts. It would just totally ruin the show and his character. Robbie is the backbone of the ER.