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HBO is back with The Pitt Season 2, the follow-up to the acclaimed season 1. The first season ended with the team pushed to their limits, and Langdon and Robby's relationship seemingly beyond repair. Now, the second season is set ten months after the first season, and the first episode sets up several storylines that may be resolved over the next fourteen episodes.
The season 2 premiere features the return of several characters from the first season. The first act of the episode features the return of Dr. Frank Langdon, who is on a personal journey after the season 1 revelation about his struggle with addiction. Also returning are Doctors, Mel King, Samira Mohan, Dr. Cassie McKay, Trinity Santos, and Victoria Javadi.
"On July 4th, Robby meets his replacement for his upcoming sabbatical, and a familiar face returns to the Pitt."
The Pitt Season 2 Episode 1 recap:
Here are some of the major events in The Pitt Season 2 premiere. To repeat, this season is set to unfold over the July 4 weekend. Wyle addressed the logic behind setting The Pitt Season 2 on this holiday in a Deadline interview:
“We were looking to plot this 10 months into the future, so everybody could have had a little bit of time on the other side of that mass casualty event to absorb it. We wanted it to be on a busy holiday weekend. We wanted it to coincide with Dr. Langdon’s (Patrick Ball) return from having gone through drug and alcohol rehabilitation, which takes about 10 months. There are all sorts of creative accidents that happen on the Fourth of July. You’ve got fireworks, you’ve got motor sports, you’ve got water sports, you’ve got all sorts of stuff going on.”
- Frank Langdon is back
The episode opens with Dr. Robby Robinavitch riding his bike to the hospital. This is his last day in the hospital before his three-month-long sabbatical. As that happens, Dr. Frank Langdon is also back at the hospital, but his relationship with Robby remains damaged, as the latter avoids talking to his former prodigy. Noah Wyle addressed their damaged relationship in the Deadline interview:
“Langdon really wants to be validated by Robby again, and Robbie really doesn’t want to have anything to do with Langdon. We think that it is because Langdon is the disappointment, you know, the student who betrayed him and lied to his face. And as the season progresses, you start to see that in some ways, Robby blames himself for Langdon’s behavior more than he blames Langdon, because he was the teacher, and it happened on his watch.”
Wyle further continued:
“Langdon was his star student, and that was more of a moral failing for Robby than it was for Langdon. Some of his hesitancy to be around him is like Superman being around kryptonite. He now represents somebody who has gone down the therapeutic road, faced their demons, made amends, humbled themselves, and come back to try to rebuild their life—but Robby’s not there yet. So it’s an interesting situation the two men find themselves in.”
- Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi
We also meet Sepideh Moafi's Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi, Robby's replacement, until he returns three months after July. She is introduced as someone who wants to use AI in the medical field, but this episode doesn't go that much into that. Her role in this The Pitt Season 2 episode is limited to observing how Robby works.
- Dr. Mel King is worried about her deposition
Mel was sued in season for malpractice, and it seems that her deposition is scheduled for Independence Day. The deposition does not happen in this episode; we may see it in a future episode.
- Kylie Connors
Dr. Trinity Santos is assigned the case of a young girl, Kylie Connors, who has cut her chin while climbing stairs. Kylie is accompanied by her father's girlfriend, but he is not there. Santos is soon informed about Kylie's medical record of injuries, which dates back even before her father started dating his current girlfriend. This has Santos believe that the father might be abusing the child.
Santos informs Robby and Hashimi about her discovery and the tests she performed. If the results of the test indicate abuse, she would report to the authorities. But the most intriguing mystery that The Pitt Season 2 premiere set up is:
- The abandoned baby
Somebody has abandoned a baby, and hospital staff have the child admitted to a ward to check its health. In the closing minutes of the episode, Hashimi receives a paper that shocks her, and the screen cuts to black, and the credits start to roll. The paper probably contains something regarding the baby's health, but we don't know its health condition yet.
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The first episode of The Pitt Season 2 is currently streaming on HBO Max.
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