Warning: This review contains full spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 5!<\/p>\n
We\u2019re now five episodes and a third of the way into The Pitt Season 2. Most other shows these days would have rounded the halfway mark by now, but that\u2019s the joy of watching something that hearkens back to the pre-streaming era of television. There\u2019s still plenty of room left on this runway. Even so, the tone of the series is definitely intensifying as the situation at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center grows more dire, resulting in what is easily the strongest chapter of Season 2 to date.<\/p>\n
Episode 5 is great about addressing some of the niggling problems with previous installments, most notably when it comes to the relative lack of focus on Patrick Ball\u2019s Dr. Langdon. As I\u2019ve said before, if this season were to have a main focal character, it should be Langdon, but he\u2019s been purposely relegated to the sidelines by his old mentor. But now Langdon is back in the thick of things, and we start to see the simmering tension between him and Noah Wyle\u2019s Dr. Robby start to boil over. <\/p>\n
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It\u2019s great watching that mostly silent feud play out in Episode 5, as Robby does everything within his power not to talk to Langdon or be in the same room with him. You can easily sympathize with both men. Robby\u2019s angry dismissal of Langdon was one of the standout scenes of Season 1, and it\u2019s easy to recall the sheer pain and disbelief he felt in that moment. But at the same time, Langdon has paid his dues, and you can understand his frustration at being flatly rejected by a thoroughly unsympathetic Robby.<\/p>\n
That all comes to a head in the final moments of Episode 5, as Louie (Ernest Harden Jr.) fittingly becomes the catalyst that forces both men to work together. There\u2019s been the sense all along that the affable Louie\u2019s long string of luck is about to run out, and that finally happens here. Not a bad cliffhanger on which to end the week.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the ER, Dr. Santos (Isa Briones) is really the star of the show in Episode 5, as the series takes a slightly more humorous approach to her particular plight. The running gag of Santos getting one or two sentences deeper into her dictation, only to be interrupted again by Whitaker (Gerran Howell) or Ogilvie (James Howell), never gets old. But it\u2019s also nice seeing her on the backfoot so much this season, after Season 1 really played up her crusading, righteous doctor side. Paperwork is the bane of us all.<\/p>\n
By the same token, it\u2019s fun to watch the insufferable know-it-all Ogilvie continue to get his just desserts. Last week it was almost killing a patient with a reckless extraction; this week, it\u2019s being forced to clean out an elderly woman\u2019s impacted colon. <\/p>\n
Ogilvie\u2019s fellow student Joy (Irene Choi) also gets a nice little bit of added attention in this episode. Up until now, Joy has been a fairly one-note character. She\u2019s the scowling, disaffected med student who (understandably) can barely tolerate being paired with Ogilvie. But we get a chance to see a different side of the character when she swoops in to offer a solution to the family shuddering under the burden of crushing medical debt. It\u2019s a happy ending to a depressing subplot, and one that tells us a lot more about who Joy is and why she\u2019s seemingly so detached from it all.<\/p>\n
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