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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of The Pitt.
Appointment viewing medical dramas are so back.
Over the past three months, Max’s The Pitt has become a weekly must-watch television event for those hoping to avoid spoilers about the emergency room goings-on of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.
A spiritual successor to ER with a structure that recalls 24, The Pitt covers one hour per episode of a shift in the teaching hospital’s emergency department. The series was created by ER alum R. Scott Gemmill and stars veteran TV doctor Noah Wyle (also an executive producer and writer) as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, the chief attending physician tasked with overseeing the doctors, nurses, residents, interns, and med students responsible for caring for the Pitt’s patients.
Over the course of the 15-episode first season, Robby and his fellow healthcare professionals came up against emergencies ranging from a drowning to a series of overdoses to a mass shooting—all on the fifth anniversary of the day Robby had to make the decision to let his late mentor, Dr. Adamson, die from complications of COVID-19 in order to give a fighting chance to a younger patient who needed the resources. While Robby and the rest of the gang were finally able to clock out for the day at the end of the finale, a second season that will take place 10 months later and be set over the Fourth of July weekend is slated to premiere in January.
Considering the time jump and how hospital rotations work, there’s a chance some of the characters, like Whitaker (Gerran Howell) and Javadi (Shabana Azeez), will no longer be in the ER by the start of Season 2. However, since Whitaker will presumably have graduated by that point and July 1 is often when a new batch of doctors begin their training, Whitaker could potentially be back in the ER as an intern. As senior residents, Collins (Tracy Ifeachor) and Langdon (Patrick Ball)—if he’s allowed back—may have also moved on 10…
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