{"id":609441,"date":"2026-04-17T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609441\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:50:08","slug":"r-scott-gemmill-shawn-hatosy-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609441\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Scott Gemmill, Shawn Hatosy, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[The following story contains spoilers from the season two finale of HBO Max\u2019s The Pitt<\/a>, \u201c9:00 p.m.\u201d]<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the final hours of season two of The Pitt<\/a>, viewers have gotten more and more of a glimpse of Dr. Robby\u2019s (Noah Wyle<\/a>) suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat began with offhand comments and jokes led to him admitting first to his friend Duke (Jeff Kober) that he doesn\u2019t know if he wants \u201cto be here anymore,\u201d and then to Dr. Abbot (Shawn Hatosy<\/a>) that while the most important things he\u2019s done in his life have happened in this hospital, \u201cit is killing me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve seen so many people die that I feel like it\u2019s leaching something from my soul,\u201d Robby says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough this mental health storyline might seem extreme, as showrunner R. Scott Gemmill explains, \u201cit\u2019s a real thing,\u201d with the American College of Emergency Physicians<\/a> reporting that roughly 300-400 physicians a year die by suicide and the American Medical Association noting<\/a> that \u201cphysicians are at a higher risk of suicide and suicidal ideation than the general population.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd, as Gemmill argues, after a season of Robby rejecting conventional therapy<\/a> for the issues he identified at the end of season one<\/a>, the attending physician\u2019s season two storyline, \u201cshows what can happen if you don\u2019t take the time to resolve mental health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRobby is someone who is very good at giving advice and very poor at taking it, and he hasn\u2019t been dealing with his own mental health issues,\u201d Gemmill says. \u201cAs a result, they have exacerbated and got to a point where he\u2019s really in a bad head space, and he needs to take steps to get better, or things are going to get worse, and he could end up like a statistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Robby has tense exchanges with a number of his colleagues in the final hours of his July 4th shift, it\u2019s Abbot who\u2019s finally able to engage him in a conversation about his mental health.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAbbot is similar to Robby. He has been experiencing some of the same suicidal ideations,\u201d Hatosy says of the night shift attending who Robby found on the roof in The Pitt\u2018s pilot episode. \u201cHe\u2019s also a character on the show that has has had to manage the stress in the same way that Robby\u2019s has. They are understaffed. There\u2019s not enough funding to take care of everything coming through the door, and that wears on on these attending positions. They are very similar but very different at the same time how they handle things. And Robby respects Abbot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Abbot shares why he\u2019s held on despite losing his leg and his wife and advises that Robby find a way to \u201cdance through the darkness,\u201d Hatosy argues it\u2019s all of the interactions Robby has at the end of his shift \u2014 chatting with Dr. Mohan (Supriya Ganesh) about her future, talking to Dana (Katherine LaNasa<\/a>), Langdon (Patrick Ball<\/a>) insisting he needs help and saying he saw a lot of guys like Robby in rehab \u2014 as well as the pair\u2019s experience performing an emergency c-section and Robby spending a quiet moment with baby Jane Doe that hopefully keep him from a dangerous, final motorcycle ride.<\/p>\n

\n\tHatosy reveals that he and Wyle talked extensively about their last scene together in season two.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cComing into that last scene, we spent a lot of time with [The Pitt executive producer] John [Wells], who was directing, and Scott just sort of figuring out exactly where the dynamic came to,\u201d Hatosy says. \u201cAnd I thought it was really important to say that even though Abbot is under the impression that he is also doing the work, his hobby that his therapist recommended was golf but he\u2019s off working as a SWAT medic and getting shot at. So again, very similar paths. It\u2019s a death wish and it\u2019s something that Abbot believes he\u2019s in the process of working through. Maybe instead of once a week, he needs to go twice a week until he figures that out. But at least he\u2019s talking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGoing into The Pitt\u2018s already ordered season three<\/a>, Gemmill hopes that Robby finally gets some of the treatment he needs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHopefully, season three is all about that mental health journey and seeing him finally admitting to needing help and seeking it out and setting himself as an example of what should be done when one is struggling,\u201d Gemmill says. \u201cAs opposed to what seen in the last two seasons, which is what you shouldn\u2019t do and just shutting it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to his heart-to-heart with Abbot, Langdon shares his perspective as someone who\u2019s been to rehab and is trying to deal with his own issues.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s come to terms over the last 14 hours, 15 hours, with the fact that he that the role model that he looked up to and modeled his life after for so long might not be the sterling, pristine example to follow that he might have assumed previously,\u201d Ball tells The Hollywood Reporter of what prompts his angry exchange with his former mentor. \u201cI think this is why it\u2019s so it was so injurious in in season one, when this rift opened between Langdon and Robby, there is an assumption of like, \u2018Look, man, I see you hurting. I see what you are carrying. I see that you are in pain, and I see that you carry that pain for the benefit of everyone around you, and I see the responsibility that you hold, and I feel like I can see you and understand you and support you in a way that you need.\u2019 And whenever that that sympathy was not reciprocated back to Langdon, whenever his wound became exposed, I think that felt like a real abandonment. Now Langdon has had the the privilege of sitting with himself for the last 10 months and getting help and getting clean and getting someone to talk to and the space to acknowledge what he is feeling that Robby has not because he has had to show up at work every day and be responsible for everybody else. And I think Langdon is now able to come back in the door and say, \u2018Whoa, man, you need to pause because you are not doing well.\u2019 And this whole \u2018suck it up and don\u2019t talk about it and don\u2019t acknowledge anything that\u2019s going on with you,\u2019 which I\u2019ve emulated for so long, that led me down an errant path, and I think it\u2019s leading you down an errant path. I\u2019ve talked with people that have gone through what you\u2019re going through, that have dealt with these feelings, they\u2019re not that uncommon, and they can be overcome. They can be acknowledged, but it requires a willingness to pause and admit that they\u2019re there, rather than just running and continuing to run.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the end of the last hour, viewers got the answer to another mystery from this season as Robby learned that new attending Dr. Al-Hashimi<\/a> (Sepideh Moafi<\/a>) suffers from a seizure disorder, which Moafi said she knew was a part of her character since the end of the audition process, with Gemmill confirming it when she appears to zone out while looking at baby Jane Doe at the end of the first episode of season two, and that she did extensive research to try to understand.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI spoke to as many doctors as I could. I spoke to epileptologists. I spoke to doctors with varying disabilities and medical conditions and about how they manage it,\u201d Moafi says. \u201cI read a lot of testimonials of people who are living with this condition, or people who are parents with children with this condition. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe also watched footage of people with seizures that \u201cmanifest in a very similar way\u201d and insisted that the show\u2019s medical advisers let her know if anything in her performance wasn\u2019t accurate. At the end of the episode, after Robby insists Dr. Al-Hashimi disclose her condition to the administration or he will, viewers see her crying in her car, a moment Moafi says reflects \u201cthe world crumbling around her and the rugs having been pulled from underneath her.\u201d The moment also originally featured another dimension to her character, she reveals.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe car scene initially had a bit of dialogue where she gets in the car, she\u2019s about to drive, and she doesn\u2019t,\u201d Moafi recalls. \u201cShe calls her her ex husband to watch their child overnight. Instead of going to pick up her kid after work, she asks if he can watch her another night because she\u2019s having car trouble, and her ex says, \u2018Yeah, of course. Are you OK? You need me to come get you?\u2019 And that\u2019s when she chokes back tears, and she tries to hide it and get off the phone with him as quickly as possible and then completely unravels, because I think at that moment she is used to hiding. She\u2019s used to isolating. What she wants more than anything else is for someone to hold her and tell her, \u2018Everything\u2019s going to be okay. You got this. You\u2019re not going to lose everything.\u2019 She\u2019s just grasping at some kind of control in that moment and she can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen she tells Robby about her condition, after he\u2019s already spotted some curious behavior, she truly is seeking his medical expertise as someone she respects, Moafi says. But the way he reacts destroys the level of trust that she has in him, Moafi says, and that\u2019s something that will continue to affect their dynamic in the future.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe sees that there\u2019s like a very generous, loving, wounded child in him, and there is a generous wounded child in her, and so she takes that part of her and reveals it to him, in hopes of getting closer and finding connection through their shared, respective traumas and it backfires,\u201d Moafi explains. \u201cSo I think she expected to find more of a colleague and friend in him, in revealing herself, and it\u2019s that he threatens her, and it obviously flares up her trust issues. She can\u2019t be restricted or excluded just for having epilepsy, but she can be prevented from practicing if she poses a direct threat to patients or to herself, and usually this is at the discretion of the physician themselves. They\u2019re the ones who decide if it\u2019s safe, and so for Robby to come in and threaten her, that\u2019s the biggest betrayal. Because it is not his call, and she has proven throughout her life and her career that she prioritizes patient care, and it\u2019s not about her ego. And so she will go about this responsibly but for him to try to report her \u2014\u00a0she doesn\u2019t need to report herself. She got confirmation from her neurologist saying you\u2019re fine, you just need double coverage, which is standard for [the] ER. It\u2019s unusual to have single coverage. So the way that he\u2019s viewing this is he\u2019s taking everything kind of personally and making it about himself and his sense of control and not treating her like a colleague, like a pro, and so it\u2019s really unjust, and it\u2019s shitty, and I think that\u2019s obviously going to affect her trust issues moving forward and affect how she relates to him moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Langdon, though he\u2019s gotten a bit of his confidence back, particularly through the closed reduction of the spinal injury in the penultimate episode of the season, he\u2019s still on a longer journey of recovery that Ball says \u201cis an act of daily maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter his first day back, he\u2019s \u201cdoing OK,\u201d Ball says, noting that his character \u201cdidn\u2019t relapse\u201d but \u201cthat possibility is always there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are things that you can see over the course of the season where you can understand that Langdon is not perfectly reformed. There\u2019s still clearly some fear and resentment like that conversation with Santos (Isa Briones), that conversation with Robby, there\u2019s still this sense of having been wronged and anger around that that is not fully processed, that I think will take time. There\u2019s little breadcrumbs throughout season two that suggests that Langdon is coming in and really trying to put his best foot forward. But the sort of perfectly reformed act is a bit of a shield, and there maybe is still a lot of pain and embitterment going on behind that that I think there\u2019s still plenty of story to tell there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, looking at the superficial elements of season three, Gemmill confirmed that the show is planning a roughly four-month time lapse to November in part to have the hospital have to deal with colder-weather injuries.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe wanted a shorter jump; less story has transpired in between seasons,\u201d Gemmill says. \u201cWe wanted to do cold weather because we hadn\u2019t. We\u2019ve done summer, and we did September [in season one], and we figured it\u2019d be nice to do colder weather and what that brings into the ER and what sort of emergency situations change seasonally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne person who won\u2019t be returning, it was recently announced<\/a>, is Ganesh\u2019s Dr. Mohan, who won\u2019t be back for story reasons as the series aims to reflect the staff turnover reality at teaching hospitals.
While fans have been upset by both departures, Gemmill continued to defend the show\u2019s approach to cast changes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m sure people are going to be disappointed because people are going to come and go, and that\u2019s just the reality of the medical world that we\u2019ve created,\u201d Gemmill says. \u201cI think one of the things it does is it eliminates the false jeopardy that a lot of shows might have. If I show someone who might not come back, some shows you know they\u2019re coming back and so you don\u2019t really believe it, whereas I think here, people don\u2019t come back sometimes, and that adds an authenticity to it and real-life jeopardy that I think the show benefits from. And I think the show also does something very well, in that it launches actors careers as well. So I think that\u2019s one of the good things too, people come on the show and even if they don\u2019t stay I think the show is a good launch pad for whatever comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDr. Mohan will also be missed by Dr. Abbot, who Hatosy confirms \u201cdefinitely has feelings\u201d for his coworker, with whom he\u2019s had a number of memorable friendly interactions. But Hatosy suspects they\u2019ll find a way to stay in touch.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe could go to Jupiter and he\u2019ll find her,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019ll have a laugh about some medical case study from who knows where. Maybe they\u2019ll send a .gif to each other and an appreciation for how fantastic the doctors are who worked on it. It\u2019s sad but I guess that\u2019s part of the job and people move on. And it\u2019s part of television. Abbot will miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAbbot and Mohan aren\u2019t the only Pitt duo that fans have hoped would have a romantic relationship. For this series, though, with each season taking place over one day, Gemmill indicates it might be tough to show characters\u2019 personal lives.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur show really doesn\u2019t leave the ER, so we\u2019re not going to go home with people,\u201d he says. \u201cWe break the POV sometimes, but those are sort of quick little clips of life at the end of the shift. But anything that we want to do really has to be, I think, told within the confines of our sets, because that\u2019s where the show lives and breathes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFans are also enjoying the bond between Langdon and Taylor Dearden\u2019s Mel<\/a>, which Ball argues more resembles a brother-sister dynamic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think there is a sense of sameness,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is a sense of identification that Langdon finds in Mel. Mel is a primary caretaker for her sister, and there is an element of needing to be needed, and the disappointment that comes when Mel realizes that Becca (Tal Anderson) is an individuated person who might actually not need her as much as previously assumed, and that Mel was drawing identification of being a provider. And I think that is something that feels true to Langdon as well as a husband and a young father. I think that shared experience of needing to be needed is something that he sees in Mel. And I also think Mel is also an outsider and and doesn\u2019t quite fit in with the other kids. And I think that is something that I think any addict knows. There is a sense of chronic uniqueness or apartness that any addict understands. And I think there is, there is just a recognition there that I think is really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Mel may be struggling to fit in, she has a bonding moment with Santos at the end of the July 4th shift as the two let their hair down and perform a karaoke version of Alanis Morrisette\u2019s \u201cYou Oughta Know\u201d over the closing credits of the season two finale.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt just seemed like it would be fun to have a little Easter egg in the credits for the fans who put in all the time for the whole season and the whole episode,\u201d Gemmill says. \u201cAnd Mel and Santos had such a rough shift that it felt like they needed to blow off a little steam.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGemmill wrote the moment knowing Briones could sing and with Dearden on board, and selected Morrissette (\u201csomething they both could wail to\u201d) but gave them the option to swap it for another song, but they kept it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey went with for it with gusto. And that was one of my funnest little things I\u2019ve done in a long time,\u201d Gemmill says. \u201cIt was a nice, propulsive moment to launch us into season three with hope that these guys are going to survive, and they\u2019re going to do well, and they\u2019re going to thrive, and we\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[The following story contains spoilers from the season two finale of HBO Max\u2019s The Pitt, \u201c9:00 p.m.\u201d] In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,119652,225026,229739,145009,38553,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-609441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-noah-wyle","12":"tag-patrick-ball","13":"tag-r-scott-gemmill","14":"tag-shawn-hatosy","15":"tag-the-pitt","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}