Anonymous wrote:Easter egg sighting for this! Made me laugh.

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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."

I loved Whitaker's reaction to Robby asking him to "house sit"

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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.

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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?

Who seems like she's a cold b.

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?

Why did Westbrook close? Why not just go paper? Where are the doctors and nurses that work there?

Anonymous wrote:They haven’t really done much with Dr Al Hashimi yet. I’m eager to see more.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I for one am excited that it's Pitt day. Whatever people might think about this show and the timeline stuff or weird inconsistencies, I look forward to it every week and am heavily invested in the characters.

This week I'm hoping Abbott comes back with the overweight patient, because I love Abbott and also like that patient and am rooting for him. Also hoping we get more of a focus on Robby this week. I feel like his story has been kind of on the fringes of everything all season, with indications that his mental health is bad and that people are concerned about him but also walking on eggshells a bit, and it seems like it's time to start focusing a bit more on that.

Also hoping for progress on Baby Jane Doe.

You got your wishes, except for Baby Jane Doe!

The overweight patient is so sad. That actor is excellent.

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 wrote: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.

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 wrote:Well I for one am excited that it's Pitt day. Whatever people might think about this show and the timeline stuff or weird inconsistencies, I look forward to it every week and am heavily invested in the characters.

This week I'm hoping Abbott comes back with the overweight patient, because I love Abbott and also like that patient and am rooting for him. Also hoping we get more of a focus on Robby this week. I feel like his story has been kind of on the fringes of everything all season, with indications that his mental health is bad and that people are concerned about him but also walking on eggshells a bit, and it seems like it's time to start focusing a bit more on that.

Also hoping for progress on Baby Jane Doe.

You got your wishes, except for Baby Jane Doe!

The overweight patient is so sad. That actor is excellent.

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.

Easter egg sighting for this! Made me laugh.

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