'The Pitt's Noah Wyle Says Season 3 Will Explore Robby's Rock Bottom

Amen. What got me and what I’m grateful was said was Duke asking “is that the last lesson you want to teach these kids?” Oof. Such a great line.

Alternatively, there are those of us who have crashed, burned and arose from the ashes already.

Hey dude, I find a good shower cry helps exorcise the demons a bit. It’s private, and you can stand (or sit) in there until the water runs cold and you get all pruney. Be gentle to yourself, the world is difficult and taking a bit of time for yourself helps recharge the batteries a bit.

I think in Season 1 his d***-ish scenes were also.. understandable? Like he was a d*** when it came to anything regarding his mentor. Fair enough, sore point that day. Or yelling at the anti-vaccine parents at the end of the shift. Fair enough, long, traumatic shift and he is super afraid of losing his relationship with his stepson. Feels like in season 2 it was super unwarranted most of the time.

And they specifically had him doing things that he had counseled or cautioned against in the first season. Like in S1, he took Langdon aside and read him the riot act for publicly berating Santos in a way meant to embarrass her as opposed to instruct her. Then, near the end of S2, Robbie does that exact thing to Mohan. It was super intentional, to show that Robbie was falling apart.

Yep yep, I’m actually the director of a non profit behavioral health program. I’ve experienced compassion fatigue, and been accused of it by angry clients who were too smart for their own good lol.

You accurately described what I've been feeling from Robby. He hasn't hit "rock bottom", he has *serious* suicide ideation, which I've had, too, to the point where I had a friend who sent cops to my house to do a wellness check. I didn't *want* to die, but, I just couldn't keep certain thoughts out of my head, like, "Maybe the world would be better without me, because I feel like I'm such a burden" There's a lot of nuance to get through regarding suicide ideation , rock-bottom, and actually being suicidal. But, there's a lot of things we can learn and infer from Robby when he's holding Baby Jane Doe and talks about how he was abandoned when he was 8. So then you can kind of glean into the fact that Robby went into his profession in an effort to ensure that he could be someone who wouldn't abandon others- but S2 also (if you read between the lines) - showed us that Robby is abandoning himself. And this was something both Abbot and Langdon physically talked to him about. It's kind of interesting to me that we don't see the softer side of Robby after all the talks he had with Dana, but at that point, I attributed it to Robby being in the "angry, denial phase" but then we see Duke, Abbot, and Langdon dropping bombs on Robby and we see him swaddling Baby Jane Doe (however incorrectly, idk, who f****** cares about something like that) and he's talking to her, and sobbing, and I really, *REALLY* f****** hope this is where Season 3 goes. Robby absolutely needs a family. He has a family in The Pitt, in the ED, but it's the family that's comfortable, not the one he needs. I just really, *really* hope, that Baby Jane Doe is the catalyst that helps Robby find the family he needs.

If I remember correctly Thanksgiving is also the biggest day for cooking fires too.

They could mean a city blackout

I recently did a rewatch of ER and in season one they have a transgender person (waaay before that was ever mentioned) jump off the roof due to depression and the next scene shows the staff all enjoying the Christmas party. It was so devastating…..but it showed they deal with that every day. No one even brought it up. It was such an amazing/harsh juxtaposition

That’s exactly what I thought was going to happen

*Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes gif*

Maybe hanging out with Mel is what she needed?

Yep. And especially with Ted Lasso, people missed the *very obvious* point of the show. It isn't a 'let's watch an American be goofy and out of place in a foreign culture' show. It is a show about a man who flees his home country and takes a job he knows nothing about to escape his falling-apart life. How else was that arc supposed to go than through a complete mental health implosion?  Same thing here for the Pitt.

Yeah, I know angst makes for good art but some of us are a bit tired of every show being about broken men breaking down further until they eventually eat a bullet. House MD was good because even though he was a broken dickhead he was undeniably very good at what he did, and it was fun to watch him solve problems.

Or have him really suffer the consequences. No more scenes where the new attending reveals her deepest secret because she "respects his opinion" when his opinion has been suspect all day. No more "and then everybody applauds" moments where he stands up for women. If you are letting him fall apart let him fall apart. Javadi side-eyeing him was so good because she got to be her own character who was just sick of his shit.