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Spoilers follow for the second season of The Pitt through the finale, \u201c9:00 P.M.\u201d<\/p>\n
There goes my hero<\/a>, watch her as she goes \u2014 and maybe never comes back to the Pitt?<\/p>\n Season two\u2019s finale, \u201c9:00 P.M.,\u201d<\/a> is the culmination of The Pitt\u2019s season-long mirroring of Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi and Dr. Michael \u201cRobby\u201d Robinavitch, concluding with a pair of cliffhangers that leave their respective futures at PTMC up in the air. Rather than leave for his much-ballyhooed, much-feared trip to Alberta, Robby\u2019s final minutes in the episode are spent cuddling Baby Jane Doe, insisting to her (and himself) that everything is \u201cgonna be okay.\u201d And rather than drive home after revealing her seizure disorder to Robby, Al-Hashimi seemingly listens to his dire warnings about how she could have another episode at any point and put herself and others in danger. She stops her car in the parking lot and starts to cry, and in that moment it\u2019s not hard to imagine her sharing Robby\u2019s desire to be swaddled and assured that everything will be okay.<\/p>\n Both attendings end the season near rock bottom, but let\u2019s be real here: There\u2019s no world in which Robby, played by series star, EP, writer, and director Noah Wyle, does not return for season three. Sepideh Moafi\u2019s Al-Hashimi, though? Her status is more questionable, especially now that The Pitt has provided an answer to the 14-episode-spanning mystery that defined the character\u2019s introduction to the series at the expense of her characterization.<\/p>\n This season ends by informing us of Al-Hashimi\u2019s medical condition but by turning that character detail into a puzzle to be solved, the series underserved her until the very end. Nearly everything The Pitt revealed about Al-Hashimi has been filtered through Robby\u2019s reaction to it<\/a>, from her ethnic name to her time with international NGOs to her desire to hire two attendings for the daytime shift. How Robby feels about all this is given primacy<\/a>, and that becomes especially noticeable by \u201c7:00 P.M.,\u201d<\/a> when Robby \u2014 smarting from his fights with Dana about his obvious martyr complex, and irritated by Al-Hashimi calling him out for not reporting Langdon to the medical board, and increasingly worried about his friend Duke\u2019s health \u2014 clocks Al-Hashimi\u2019s brief moment of frozen hesitation when treating a teen who\u2019s having trouble breathing. Al-Hashimi recommends the correct treatment for the boy and saves his life, but this is now the second time she\u2019s seemed to lose her sense of self (the season premiere<\/a> ended with her zoning out while Supriya Ganesh\u2019s<\/a> Dr. Mohan<\/a> tried to get her attention) and that\u2019s enough to make Robby pay attention. Suddenly he\u2019s asking Mohan and other medical staff if they\u2019ve noticed what\u2019s up with Al-Hashimi, and The Pitt draws this out, adding Robby\u2019s questioning to Al-Hashimi\u2019s \u201c1:00 P.M.\u201d<\/a> call to a neuroscientist\u2019s office. Crucially, The Pitt doesn\u2019t follow her when she leaves the room after these incidents; what she\u2019s going through in these mysterious moments isn\u2019t as important as Robby\u2019s curiosity about them.<\/p>\n Setting aside how unbelievable it is that Al-Hashimi, who has been undermined by Robby all day, would trust him with her sensitive medical history, their fights about whether she should continue to treat patients aren\u2019t weighted equally. How Robby is written here, as the logical, pragmatic one telling Al-Hashimi that of course she can\u2019t keep working in the ER when she knows her medication isn\u2019t effective, and of course she\u2019s putting people in danger, is not so different from how he tells off Mohan, Javadi, and his other underlings. Robby and Al-Hashimi are clearly meant to be reflections of each other with each of them hiding something that could impact the quality of their work (Robby\u2019s depression and suicidal ideation; Al-Hashimi\u2019s increasing tolerance to her seizure medication and her two seizures during the shift). But where The Pitt centered Robby\u2019s trauma and self-loathing and spun character interactions and relationships off of it all season long, Al-Hashimi was first a riddle to be solved, then a problem to be addressed.<\/p>\n Al-Hashimi and Robby argue twice in \u201c9:00 P.M.,\u201d and in neither instance does The Pitt accompany her to see how she\u2019s reacting to Robby\u2019s disapproval and his insistence that she disclose her condition. Yes, this reveal about Al-Hashimi\u2019s health jeopardizes Robby\u2019s sabbatical and furthers his certainty that he\u2019s the only person who can run the unit correctly. It makes sense to follow him to see how this information further derails his plans. But when Al-Hashimi disappears to consult with the neurologist on call, why not show us any of that interaction? Why not let Al-Hashimi speak for herself in the same way that Robby has tried to explain to Dana and Duke his conflicted feelings about continuing to work at PTMC? Why not give Al-Hashimi\u2019s fears and doubts, and how they\u2019re progressing over the shift, the same attention as Robby\u2019s? Why not push the mirroring of these characters even more by emphasizing the symmetry of Robby doing whatever he can to leave the PTMC and Al-Hashimi doing whatever she can to stay?<\/p>\n If The Pitt had placed the seizure-disorder reveal earlier in the season, Robby and Al-Hashimi could have spent more episodes trying to figure out how to work together, and Robby could be more challenged in his opinion about Al-Hashimi, rather than getting the last word in a season finale. Moafi and Wyle are incredible in that second fight scene as they scream about whether it\u2019s Al-Hashimi\u2019s or Robby\u2019s call for her to work in the ER; every Pitt fan account that praises how beautiful the actors look<\/a> when their big<\/a> brown eyes<\/a> are filled with tears is correct. There\u2019s no real tension, though, because the show has so securely positioned Robby as the voice of reason, and because it structured the reveal of Al-Hashimi\u2019s condition in a way that deprives her of deeper characterization. In \u201c9:00 P.M.,\u201d both Javadi and Mohan, who Robby had harshly, even cruelly, criticized earlier in the season, ask for his approval of their choices and thank him for his guidance. Of course Al-Hashimi would follow that pattern and realize that Robby was right, and of course she would modify her behavior to follow the words of Dr. Daddy. Her ending is anti-climactic and abrupt because it doesn\u2019t feel like Al-Hashimi\u2019s story line was about her as much as it was about Robby.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a route for Moafi to come back next season because, as Robby says during their argument, Al-Hashimi could step away from the job for six months, get her seizures under control with new medication, then return, like how Langdon\u2019s residency spot was held for him while he went to rehab. And given Wyle\u2019s comments about how the series\u2019 next inter-season time jump could lead them to a winter shift<\/a>, the months between July and December would be just about enough time for Al-Hashimi to get her health in order. The Pitt has already said \u201cgood-bye\u201d to two<\/a> women<\/a> of color whose story lines, the creators insisted, were naturally wrapped up within the context of how ER training works. There are no such timing limitations on Al-Hashimi, and the ending that now seems like a way to end her story line could easily be transformed into a way to prolong it. The series has already established that the Pitt has two late-shift attendings, lead Night Crawlers Abbot and Shen, so it could naturally follow Al-Hashimi\u2019s suggestion that the day shift would run more smoothly with two attendings, too. If Al-Hashimi and Robby are really supposed to be reflections of each other, bring her back for season three and let her be more than just his shadow.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n