The Pitt<\/a><\/p>\n8:00 PM<\/p>\n
\n Season 2<\/p>\n
Episode 14\n <\/p>\n
\n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n
5 stars<\/p>\n
*****\n <\/p>\n
\n Everyone is concerned for Robby\u2019s mental state, given the truly shocking admissions he makes during this hour of the shift.
\n Photo: Warrick Page\/HBO Max\n <\/p>\n
Over the course of the 8 P.M. hour, several shocking sentences come out of Dr. Robby\u2019s mouth. Some thrilling, some chilling, some that will break your heart \u2014 all of them made me gasp. And this is really saying something since we\u2019re coming off an episode that ends with Robby uttering a shocking sentence when he asks Dana what happens if he doesn\u2019t come back in a way that we all know that he isn\u2019t talking about finding a new place of employment. When we see Dana in \u201c8 P.M.,\u201d she is visibly shaken by the encounter. Abbot tries to pay her a compliment about how she\u2019s the mama bear here, she\u2019s the glue, and then notices the woman is trying and failing to hold back tears. She is scared and worried about Robby, she tells him. She wants Abbot to talk to him, and she needs him to force Robby to actually listen. Nothing that Robby does over the course of this episode calms Dana\u2019s fears, nor ours.<\/p>\n
For a second, The Pitt really had me going. It had me believe that we\u2019d finally get a quick mending of fences between Robby and Mohan before this shift was out. He\u2019s been riding her so hard and so condescendingly, it\u2019s been tough to watch. After Mohan tortures herself a little more by sitting in the trauma room while Orlando\u2019s wife sobs over her husband until they\u2019re able to move him into the ICU, Robby asks Mohan how she\u2019s doing. It seems genuine. When she asks if this is a trick question, he says no. When she beats herself up a little bit, he assures her she did everything she could; this was the patient\u2019s mistake. It sounds comforting, almost. That is, until she asks what his mistake was, and he quickly responds, \u201cnot picking a higher spot to jump from.\u201d The noise that left my body upon hearing that. The way my eyes bugged out of my skull. If you needed any more evidence that the Robby we knew from season one has disappeared \u2014 or, perhaps, rather, has been beaten fully out of this man by trauma and stress \u2014 you got it right here. What a feat for a series, in just two seasons, to present a protagonist and then tear him apart both so convincingly and with such care that we can still recognize the guy we know.<\/p>\n
The only positive out of this moment is that Dr. Jefferson is close enough to hear it and to call Robby out on it. I mean, mostly he just makes Robby promise to keep his number handy on his trip, but what is he going to do? Tie the guy down? At least he is making Robby face some of the things that are flying out of his mouth.<\/p>\n
Jefferson isn\u2019t the only one to confront Robby. When McKay sees him rip into Javadi for filming a TikTok while on the clock, she doesn\u2019t hesitate to tell him he has it wrong \u2014 that Javadi is posting in the hopes of finding someone who knows where Jesse is. If Robby is refusing to confront who he is at the moment and, more importantly, why he is acting this way, other people have to force the issue.<\/p>\n
Perhaps this is another level of why Robby has been such an asshole to Langdon all day. As Dr. Ellis astutely points out to a mopey Langdon, she\u2019s been working with Robby for the past ten months, and she can tell that he isn\u2019t mad at Langdon; he\u2019s mad at himself for failing Langdon. They are both walking around trying to be martyrs. And if that isn\u2019t the perfect read on Robby, I don\u2019t know what is. Between that and Ellis breaking up the bar fight boys by informing them that they \u201care on different health journeys now,\u201d I\u2019m so excited we\u2019ll be seeing more of her in season three.<\/p>\n
Ellis is right about both Langdon and Robby. Since Langdon can\u2019t seem to leave the hospital even though his shift is long over, we find him repeatedly roaming the halls, inserting himself in conversations, and joining in on cases. If he is waiting around to prove to himself or to Robby that he\u2019s ready to be back, he gets his chance when a 53-year-old Lyman Paine is brought in after crashing into a telephone pole in his car. Langdon and Crus work on him until Robby rolls in \u2014 Lyman is quickly losing feeling in his arms and legs and begins to have trouble breathing. He has a partial dislocation of two vertebrae in his neck, and that is putting pressure on his spinal cord. They need neurosurgery to come in and perform a very complicated traction-type procedure, but they\u2019re delayed, and Lyman\u2019s condition is progressing fast.<\/p>\n
Langdon has an idea: He thinks he could do a closed reduction right there in the trauma room without any type of visual guide. It\u2019s risky. If they wait, Lyman could be paralyzed. If Langdon messes this up, Lyman could be paralyzed. It\u2019s a lot of pressure, and at first, you can see the frazzled, insecure Langdon that we witnessed a few hours ago, the last time he and Robby worked on a patient together. But this time around, when Robby barks at him, it\u2019s less cruel and more encouraging: \u201cDoctor the fuck up,\u201d he tells his former protege. And instead of buckling, Langdon doctors the fuck up. There is no blood or gore or people chaotically running around the trauma room here and this procedure is one of the most intense few seconds of the entire season. And Langdon pulls it off. (The procedure, not Lyman\u2019s head.) On top of saving a patient from quadriplegia, Langdon gets a \u201cgood job\u201d from Robby on the Attending\u2019s way out. I had to rewind it to make sure I heard it correctly. Is Robby hoping to fix things with Langdon before he takes his motorcycle ride? Later, when Langdon\u2019s big save is brought up again, Robby looks around for where he\u2019s gone, and Dana tells him his wish has come true: Langdon had to run upstairs for a mandated drug test, so Robby probably won\u2019t see him again. Dare I say, does Robby look a little let down by that idea? Even if that\u2019s all Langdon gets on this shift, this guy earns that sweaty sigh of relief and tiny smile.<\/p>\n
The third shocking bit of dialogue from Robby in this episode is the most heartbreaking one. Duke may be annoyed that he\u2019s spent hours at the hospital, but we should all be glad he\u2019s been around, keeping an eye on his friend. Even after Robby explains the options Duke has for taking care of his aortic aneurysm \u2014 surgery with a long recovery or a fifty percent chance of death within the year \u2014 he stays around to process the whole thing as Robby is in and out of his room. When an ambulance accidentally rams into Robby\u2019s motorcycle \u2014 have there been enough signs telling you not to go yet, Michael?! \u2014 Duke is there to take a look at it.<\/p>\n
Outside in the ambulance bay with the bike, Duke isn\u2019t afraid to engage in some real talk with his friend. He opens up about regrets and second chances and reminds Robby that one thing that can never be changed is death. You can almost see a physical impact of that statement hitting Robby. He\u2019s holding back tears and pauses before he says the thing he has been carrying around for a long time, the thing that has been slowly creeping up to the surface throughout this shift: \u201cI don\u2019t know that I want to be here anymore.\u201d And he doesn\u2019t mean the hospital. The hospital, in fact, is the one place he can stand to be. He has purpose there, he tells Duke. He can distract himself there. He says it again: \u201cI don\u2019t know that I want to be anywhere anymore.\u201d I desperately need someone to hug this guy as he falls to pieces, but Duke doesn\u2019t exactly scream hugger. Still, he looks at his friend with no judgment in his face, just concern and support (Jeff Kober has been so good all season) and asks his friend what he plans to do next, now that he\u2019s said that out loud. Robby\u2019s answer is to ride, but Duke is able to be both honest and gentle with Robby, wisely telling him that what he\u2019s doing isn\u2019t riding, it\u2019s running, and that\u2019s a pretty terrible final lesson for all \u201cthese kids\u201d he\u2019s been trying to teach and guide. If anything is going to get through to Robby, a reminder of what kind of effect his suicide might have on the people he cares about could do the trick.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll have to wait and see, of course, because before Robby and Duke can get any further, Robby\u2019s pulled into an emergency.<\/p>\n
If Robby gets to shock us all repeatedly throughout this episode, it seems only fair that he should be on the other end of that feeling, doesn\u2019t it? At the end of the episode, Dr. Al-Hashimi asks Robby for a second opinion on a patient. She pulls up a chart for him, and he starts reading about a 40-year-old woman with a history of seizure disorder that began when the patient suffered a prolonged bout of viral meningitis when she was five. It\u2019s not long before Robby stops reading to look at his fellow Attending: \u201cBaran, is this you?\u201d When they\u2019re using first names, you know it\u2019s serious.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Robby\u2019s slow meltdown means his lack of filter gets more and more potent, and we see that in one incident that is much more enjoyable than watching him berate his residents. When a 46-year-old woman\u2019s heart attack is initially misdiagnosed because the EMTs placed the leads way too low on her chest, Robby is not having it. He rips into them in front of everyone. The patient has large breasts, and they were so worried about offending her, they didn\u2019t do their job \u2014 she could have died. He asks the women standing around if they\u2019d prefer \u201cdeath with modesty or life with brief nudity.\u201d They all raise their hands. \u201cTurns out women want to live.\u201d It\u2019s not, uh, the most conventional way to teach someone a lesson, but it does seem effective, and Santos is a fan!<\/p>\n
\u2022 Noah Wyle wrote this episode. Is he going to add an Emmy for Writing to his treasure trove of awards this year?<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wyle\u2019s really revealing bits of himself with the pop culture references we get in this episode. A Rumble Fish reference and Gilligan\u2019s Island? It makes me happy then that he also wrote in that bit with Javadi basically telling him to get with the times, old man.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Okay, but Whitaker is right: Robby\u2019s the Professor and Dana\u2019s definitely the Skipper.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Whitaker standing up to Langdon is a great scene. How much of that is because he\u2019s actually annoyed with Langdon treating him like a naive little sidekick and how much is it because he was recently reminded how much Langdon hurt his very good friend Trinity Santos?<\/p>\n
\u2022 After realizing that her sister is building her own life, it seems like Mel is looking for a new hobby and\/or group of friends\u2026and that new hobby might just be Revolutionary War reenactment? Mel is too good for this world.<\/p>\n
\u2022 I was expecting way more fireworks-related emergencies this season, but I have appreciated how creative The Pitt has been with its holiday-related injuries. In this hour alone, we get a return of the Hansens thanks to a tug-of-war competition that ends with a rope slicing through a hand and a man stabbed with a handheld American flag. God Bless America, indeed.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Abbot casually telling the belligerent flag guy that he\u2019ll get him more pain meds, but he needs to shut his fucking mouth is all the medicine I need, actually.<\/p>\n
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