A review of this week's The Pitt — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as my account is suspended for erotically seditious content...
Alan Sepinwall
These closing episodes of Season Two continue to ease back on the narrative throttle, this week in an episode where several scenes are devoted to fixing Robby's motorcycle after an ambulance knocks it over. The day shifters are mostly doing paperwork or wrapping things up with preexisting patients. (Santos spends the entire episode dictating and scanning.) Dana is still acting as charge nurse while waiting to see if someone can fill in for Lena. Robby and Al-Hashimi both pitch in on traumas, and Langdon gets to make a save that impresses both Robby and the super-confident Crus. Mostly, though, the night shift is handling the patients while our guys get ready to go home.
We've also wrapped up a number of the personal arcs by this point. Mel has made it past her deposition, and Becca went home hours ago. Santos' beef with Whitaker has subsided, and she's back to just teasing him when things go awry, like losing his ID badge or getting stuck with a big Lyft bill when a patient is verbally abusive to a driver and then pukes in his car. Mohan is still falling to pieces regarding Orlando, as well as all the other aspects of her Worst Day Ever So Far By Julio, and some other doctors have problems that either get addressed or will need to be addressed in the finale. As a result, Noah Wyle mostly gets to write about a guy he knows very well at this point, as Robby finally says aloud the thought that some of his colleagues (and many viewers) have been growing worried about for a while: