The Pitt - 2x14 - 8:00 P.M." - Episode Discussion

Robby saying the patient made a mistake by not picking a higher spot to jump from... Someone 5150 this man and lock the door to the damn roof.

“Sir, we’re going to get you more pain meds but I really need you to shut your f****** mouth.” Lmao 🤣

i have my own history with depression and suicidal thoughts (a very long time ago) and their depiction of robbie’s feelings are spot on.

"You hit me with a Rolling Rock, so you got Iwo Jima'd" Feel like that's just an all timer line

Watching this episode with Dr Robby finally admitting his plans out loud, then watching the latest Scrubs with Dr Cox. Rough night of feels

Robby gonna get committed

Another excuse for Robby not to leave…

My neighbor is an ER surgeon. She said the show is good. Like everything that can happen in your career happens all in one episode. lol Just had the conversation with her tonight. My kid banged her head and thankfully the good dr glued the cut together and we avoided the ER/urgent care!

Rare Langdon dub. I haven’t liked him, but seeing him smile made me happy for him

Dr Ellis. What a woman. So effortless cool.

It was actually relieving to hear Robby admit that he's suicidal. First step to solving a problem is admitting you have one, as they say. And I really hope he gets help. It's also a relief in part because I got tired of being called dramatic for saying he's suicidal lol

damn he's hurting. i might need someone to explain the langdon/whitaker situation because im way too asocial to understand why he got so upset.

Clock him, Javadi!

I was so scared Langdon would relapse.

I’m confused why Whittaker went after Langdon during the barn conversation. The anger came out of nowhere, what did I miss?

I feel like Whittaker spent way more time looking for his badge than it would have taken to go to the security office to get a new one.

I’m very confused by the Langdon/Whitaker argument. It feels a bit like that animosity should be about Santos, given their very different relationships with her, but I’m not sure that was what they were going for. That aside, another strong episode.

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Relating very hard to Robbie and it’s weird to have a such a deep understanding of a character through a subtext alone. Subtext that’s probably missed on a lot of other viewers in its subtleties.

I've said I don't want to be here anymore, yet it was the thing that got me the help I needed as a teenager. Hearing it from Robby broke my heart because I've been there.

The clerk lady being nice and helpful to Robbie and any one senior but mean to juniors is so on point. There's someone at work like this and is alway helpful when I need some support but all the apprentices and grads hate her. I wouldn't have known until my mentee mentioned she had negative interactions with that person. I still can't see it because she's always really polite with me.

I don’t think Langdon took the badge. Robby won’t be the suicide this time. Someone took the ID to access the roof. I think.

Robbie precisa deitar em um divã e conversar muito. Achei interessante como varias vezes esse programa falou sobre respeito ao colega profissional ( sem deixar de cobrar e instruir ) ai o Robbie faz aquela exposição com os Paramédicos e todo mundo age como se ele tivesse sido o cavaleiro branco da virtude, o que aconteceu com o bapo de respeito ?

I REALLY hate to say it, but that was the first episode of the show that felt almost... filler-y? It was an excellent episode of TV, and even an excellent episode of The Pitt under normal circumstances, but for the penultimate episode of the season, there was a strange lack of urgency and momentum to the proceedings, especially after the escalating psychological tension of episodes 10-12. I know this season is opting for a more character-driven climax compared to the more intense external incident of season 1's mass casualty, but even along that metric, this episode seemed to waste a lot of time on "ordinary" cases instead of meaningfully moving some of the established character threads forward. Feels like they're saving it all for the finale. - The highlight of the episode was of course Robby admitting to Duke (in alarmingly clear detail) that he is suicidal. Sounds like he knows exactly how he feels and isn't in denial - he just can't bring himself to admit it to anyone _in_ the hospital, because as he said, the hospital is the only thing that distracts him from his thoughts. I imagine he doesn't want to contaminate that sacred space (the "forcefield" as he called it) with the dark cloud he is trying so hard to keep out of there. - Seems like the Langdon resolution was just to give him a big win to restore his confidence. That was a tremendous scene and easily the most intense moment of the episode, but given the more interesting contradictions exposed in his fight with Santos (and Al-Hashimi hearing about it later), I hope they don't skip exploring those nuances and instead just collapse his story into Robby's arc (as they seem to have done with a lot of the other characters' arcs this season, including Dana, Mohan, and Whitaker.) Ellis telling Langdon that Robby is merely mad at himself for "failing" Langdon also seemed almost too easy an answer. Robby, as department chief, does have genuine reasons to be angry at Langdon beyond that, and if they just reduce it all to Robby's own unresolved guilt, it makes the story less compelling and multidimensional. - Whitaker snapping at Langdon was the biggest surprise of the episode. Seemed like he was really just taking out his pent-up frustration at Santos with her relentless ribbing about his farmboy background. He's not known Langdon very long. (Though I suspect that's precisely the point - his dynamic with Santos has become too enmeshed for him to radically change it, and while he's come to tolerate it from her, he doesn't want to put up with it from everyone else as well. And so he decides to nip it in the bud with Langdon - the other sarcastic hotshot of the ER - before it becomes a thing with him as well.) - Like I said above, some of the patients' cases were a bit harder to care about than usual, since it seemed like they were just there to stall the more important character drama. Of course, this is the ER and the point is that the inflow of patients doesn't stop so the doctors can work out their personal issues, but the episode continuing to devote extensive screentime to each case rather than shifting its priorities a bit is what made it feel a bit underwhelming for a penultimate installment. With season 1, since the climax was a mass casualty, every patient's case suddenly had a renewed urgency, and they found a way to handle each one in a way that still revealed something about the characters. There was some of that here (like Langdon's big save), but a lot of the cases over the past two episodes have felt inessential and filler-y, not to mention repetitive (a second case of someone stuffing something up their nose, another aortic aneurysm, the Nascar family returning for whatever reason.) - Some of the other non-medical scenes this episode also felt filler-y, like Mel talking about the Revolutionary War with McKay/Santos/Whitaker while charting, McKay explaining Javadi's TikToks to Robby, and the random subplot about Whitaker ordering a Lyft for an old lady. Again, these scenes would've been fine earlier in the season, but for episode 14 out of 15, they feel like padding. Overall gives this nagging feeling that they already explored everything they wanted to with this season in the earlier episodes, and they're just spinning their wheels these last few hours with repeat patients and recycled conversations about Robby's suicidal urge. - Weird lack of movement on Mohan as well. With Supriya Ganesh leaving the show, they have just one more episode to tie up her arc and explain her exit. - Noah Wyle's delivery of "awwww, M***********!" sounded exactly like Tim Robinson, lol. - Funniest moment of the episode: "Robby, GSW to the head!" "Somebody hit my bike!" "Duuuude, that sucks!" - Monica the Racist enjoying Mahjong wasn't on my bingo card. - Abbot and Shen bantering about how to handle their case load seemed like a glimpse into a possible Night Shift spinoff. Abbot has had strangely little to do these last two episodes and seems like he's there just because he needs to be (as the night shift attending), compared to the usual rush of competence and urgency his presence brings to the show. Again it seems like his primary story function this time is to talk Robby off the edge (which he quite literally did already last season). Curious how they'll handle it this time around. - Robby chewing out those two paramedics for incorrectly playing the EKG leads on the woman was a great moment, because it managed to deliver a PSA without it breaking the immersion, because the PSA itself was played as a moment of Robby being an a****** and choosing to humiliate the medics in front of everyone. If that monologue was included as-is without Robby being on edge, it would've felt like the show talking down to the _audience_ by breaking the flow of the scene to deliver a heavy-handed lecture ("Turns out women want to live" sounds like a comment you'd see on some Fauxmoi thread), but instead it was Robby talking down to the _characters_ by turning what could've been a private reprimand into a sanctimonious PSA. And yet the educational value of the scene remained: I myself didn't realize this was a widespread issue till I saw the episode. - It was nice to have Al-Hashimi's health issues confirmed as well. Though again, there was a sense of an unearned, too-easy win with that scene as well, where Al-Hashimi and Robby suddenly decide to just "appreciate each other's opinions" after butting heads all season. However, that could've just been lip service. Al-Hashimi went to Robby precisely for the bluntness that she has found previously problematic, because the case is her own, while I guess Robby just liked hearing some praise from her for once (even though he outright said last episode he thinks she's unfit to run the place, and appears to be saying so again in the finale promo.) The finale has a LOT to wrap up in just an hour (or 45 minutes given the show's track record). I'm cautiously optimistic because I'm not sure how it'll be able to resolve all the primary character threads in a satisfying way (especially given how much time the show keeps devoting to one-off patients) and because of a recent interview excerpt where Gemmill apparently said the finale will "leave some questions unanswered". This show is often called "The Bear for medical dramas", but I dearly hope this season doesn't turn the show into The Bear's third season, where all the narrative momentum vanished and the story became maddeningly interior, with every episode spent with the characters navel-gazing about their issues ad nauseam without any progression, and all the procedural scenes starting to feel interchangeable and unimportant. The show fell prey to its own success and got complacent. We're hardly there yet, but an unfulfilling finale would definitely point much harder in that direction. Let's see.

My prediction for the season finale - Robby doesn’t leave because of Al-Hashimi’s condition, also because Duke messes with his motorcycle!

Is it me or has this season been incredibly boring?

Langdon was definently high during the neck manoeuvre. And before you mention it, Opioids can take 1-6 hours after ingestion to become detectable in urine.

I have the feeling Robby is going to end up taking baby Jane Doe home as some sort of “reason to live” type thing.