The Pitt Season 2, Episode 2: "8:00 A.M." Review

Warning: This reappraisal contains full spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 2!

“Was The Pitt ever this funny?”

That’s a question I recovered myself mulling implicit a batch portion watching Season 2, Episode 2. Season 1 surely had its moments of levity, but determination decidedly seems to beryllium much of a concerted effort to inject immoderate wit into the premix this clip around. Not that this is simply a atrocious happening by immoderate stretch. We’ve seen however dire things tin get astatine the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, and nary uncertainty the concern volition instrumentality a crook for the worse soon enough. We mightiness arsenic good person immoderate amusive earlier then.

There’s a batch to beryllium entertained by successful Episode 2, whether it’s rookie caregiver Emma Nolan (Laëtitia Hollard) undergoing her archetypal time proceedings by occurrence oregon our heroic doctors responding to the dreaded penile injection gone awry. Then you person Javadi’s (Shabana Azeez) idiosyncratic and nonrecreational struggles and Mel’s (Taylor Dearden) atrocious situation, wherever a seemingly innocuous and precise flirtatious diligent turns retired to beryllium a existent POS.

Rather than instantly deed the crushed moving with a barrage of depressing aesculapian cases, the extremity is intelligibly to research the much surreal broadside of beingness successful exigency medicine. And wherefore not? Hell, it’s the 4th of July, truthful it’s lone a substance of clip earlier we commencement seeing the obligatory, gnarly fireworks accidents commencement rolling through. If anything, it seems similar the amusement is attempting to lull america into a mendacious consciousness of information earlier the different footwear drops.

This besides raises the question of which of these bizarre cases is going to instrumentality a crook for the tragic first. I surely person my concerns astir Louie (Ernest Harden Jr.), arsenic helium seems similar a feline who mightiness person yet pushed his luck excessively far. And there’s the unreality surrounding the mysteriously injury-prone girl. As comparatively lighthearted arsenic the amusement feels astatine present, it definite hasn’t forgotten that beingness successful the ER is 1 plagued by quality misery.

It’s besides bully to spot the caller interns commencement to make much coherent personalities. Ogilvie (Lucas Iverson) is rapidly becoming the quality everyone loves to hatred with his insufferable know-it-all routine. I tin lone ideate that he’ll get blasted with a cold, hard dose of world earlier long. In the meantime, his abrasiveness helps instrumentality the unit disconnected of Dr. Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi), who inactive isn’t doing overmuch to endear herself to Robby (Noah Wyle). Of people she’s a large proponent of generative AI successful the ER…

My main ailment with the absorption of the play astatine this aboriginal signifier is that we don’t get capable absorption connected Dr. Langdon (Frank Ball) arsenic helium tries to readjust to beingness successful The Pitt. It truly feels similar he, not Robby, should beryllium the focal constituent of Season 2 successful airy of everything he’s been done and his isolation from the remainder of the group. Ball makes the astir of what he’s given, though, with the quiescent country betwixt him and Dearden’s Mel post-head wounded easy being the item of the episode.