"The structure of the Emmy-winning HBO Max drama The Pitt, where every episode covers a single hour in the life of a busy Pittsburgh emergency department, might suggest it's about how much can happen in 12 or 15 hours. In Season 1, that meant deaths, a mass casualty event, a doctor caught stealing pills, a charge nurse being assaulted by a patient, and a fourth-year medical student who spends the whole day being splattered over and over with things that force him to change"
"But more than anything, that season was the story of Dr. Robby, played by Noah Wyle, whose trauma from COVID and the death of his mentor, alongside a thousand other stressors, built and built over the day (and the season) until he collapsed, sobbing, in the room where the dead bodies were being kept. And in the second season, with Robby and everyone else, it's clear that the show is really about feelings and tensions that take more than a single day to play out"
The Pitt structures each episode around a single hour in a busy Pittsburgh emergency department. Season 1 features deaths, a mass casualty event, a doctor stealing pills, a charge nurse assaulted by a patient, and a fourth-year medical student repeatedly splattered and needing scrubs changes. The season centers on Dr. Robby, whose COVID trauma and the death of his mentor accumulate into a public breakdown where he collapses sobbing in the morgue. Season 2 begins ten months later with Robby still struggling. He rides helmetless to work before a sabbatical, treats colleagues coldly, refuses to engage with Langdon after his rehab return, and protects his new protégé Whitaker.
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