A review of this week's The Pitt — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I fall off a motorcycle pyramid...
Alan Sepinwall
Oh, Louie.
It was clear at the end of the previous episode that things weren't going to end well for PTMC's most popular frequent flier. Still, this week's Noah Wyle-directed episode wrings every bit of pathos out of Louie's demise.
Whether by choice or by coincidence, Wyle has often worked behind the scenes on episodes where the staff is confronted by the rawness of death. In the first season, he wrote the one where Robby helped the adult children of the man who built sets for Mr. Rogers say goodbye to him, and also the one set in the aftermath of the drowning case. Here, he's again depicting how even this jaded staff of medical professionals have a harder time accepting some deaths than others.