The Pitt (Max) TV Show • Page 29

Gonna start a petition for me to be in season 2 as a drunk yinzer standing outside the ER

 

Robby got a new hoodie!

 

Rewatch time, here we go!!

 

TV Line gave some season 2 updates. Mainly about the positions of new characters and changes in the ER hierarchy. Not really spoilery, but tagging anyway for people that want to go into season 2 completely blind.

New regular characters are going to be two new med students and one new nursing school grad. Skinny Pete actor will be playing an unhoused patient

All the returning students and residents have leveled up. Whitaker graduated med school is now a junior doctor and a resident intern (what Santos was last season). Javadi is now a 4th year med student doing her pregrad sub-internship.

 

Giving me further confirmation that the character I relate to most is Dr. Santos and why I feel defensive over criticism of her

 

Santos has shown she is a danger in a fast paced ER environment, and I hope S2 highlights some of that.

 

by danger do you mean total badass maverick

 

Total badass that may kill someone.

But I do feel like she had a great arc over S1 and it would be really interesting to see her have to deal with some of her abrasive personality, whether that be she moves to surgery or tones things down a little.

 

ok, you unlocked one of my weird, overly honest rants. bear with me.

the Tumblr lib remaining in me thinks that her archetype is usually only sympathetic in male characters. we call that character a hotshot or a maverick or a bad boy and ignore or justify his mistakes.

imagine a dude giving the threatening speech to the pedophile dad, I think the vast majority of viewers would think that was awesome. why? because it shows empathy for someone else and an experience he hasn't had. like, wow there's a man on a woman's side. a hero.

when Santos does it, I kind of cringe. why?? why don't I think it's even cooler when someone fights back for themSELF? idk. ingrained gender roles from a religious upbringing. in my head I was taught women need to listen to the guys and let them protect and stand up for them, and it's unlikeable or undesirable when they do it themselves. Santos has empathy for people like the assault victim, the suicidal guy, hell even Whitaker and his financial situation. AND she has the self-assured autonomy to not care what people think of her. it's dumb that her lack of congeniality erases all that.

she could be a character like King who shrinks back a little but powers through it. we like that in a woman character, but we don't like someone who's already conquered that fully. idk, it's interesting. I may be proved wrong as the show goes on, and the writers got their work cut out for them if they want to make the audience like her when we've been so primed to bristle at women who charge forward without worrying about the ramifications, despite what their pro-social or protectionist motives are.

here's an example. Santos gives the lower ranked people around her unwanted nicknames and talks over them, even berates them. like, that's just Dr. Cox from Scrubs! we love him! idk lol

rant over

 

The Pitt submitted 3 episodes for the Emmy Best Writing category

7:00AM written by R. Scott Gimmel. The pilot.
10:00AM written by Noah Wyle. Hoʻoponopono, Mr. Spencer passes away. Misgendered trans patient. Medication abortion.
2:00PM written by the show's chief medical consultant Dr. Joe Sachs. Freedom House. Pediatric drowning. Sex trafficking victim. Honor walk.

I think most are betting the pilot gets the nom, but I am hoping for episode 8/2PM. That was the best writing of the season IMO.

 

The Pitt season 2 takes place this week lol

 

Honestly I respect Wyle for at this point in his career leaning hard into typecasting being like "you know what? Maybe being known as the greatest TV doctor of all time is a pretty good acting career at the end of the day" and doubling down after already doing a decade stretch on a huge medical drama. It payed off.

 

Oh damn

Kinda makes sense storyline wise though. She was a 4th year resident. Typically once you graduate residency you go onto be an attending at another hospital.

Also cast members were in and out of ER all the time.

 

huge bummer

 

Well…fuck.

 

That stinks

 

Ugh loved her