Spoilers The Pitt on Max

[TiQuinn]

What I think this show does better than anything, and especially any medical drama I've ever seen, is that every character is both deeply flawed but also deeply relatable. Like, every time a character does something that makes you go "why did you do that?" there's always eventually a "oh... that's why." Like, McKay is the poster child of this phenomenon. She'll do a thing that you'll be like "McKay you idiot!" but by the end you totally get why she did it, and you may not always agree but you can't deny she has a point.

My opinion on most of the characters throughout the show was basically a roller coaster, especially Langdon and Santos, who both rubbed me the wrong way in the beginning of the show and only one of them ended the season that low.

I think the only part of the show that really didn't work for me was the subplot with the old guy who used to work on Mr. Rogers. Yes, yes, Pittsburgh callout, I get it, you do this much better later in the show with the Freedom House, here every time it comes up it feels really awkwardly shoe-horned in. The daughter... I don't necessarily know if her acting was bad, or her writing was bad, or that as a person who has lost both parents in my 30's (one to death and one to abandonment) married to a person in her 30's who lost her mom in her 20's, I have trouble sympathizing with a 60-someodd-year-old-person essentially torturing her father because she's not ready to say goodbye yet, as unfair as that undoubtedly is. Whichever it was, she was just annoying to me from start to finish. Literally every other patient-focused subplot at least did something interesting or engaging, or showcased some aspect of the character involved. Even the annoying patients!

Mel is queen. That is all.

Dr. Robby needs a hug.

 

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Dr. Robby needs a hug.

Alternate title for the show: "Dr. Robby and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"

Also kind of disappointed no one slapped Santos but the look of surprise on the nurses face when she broke out the Tagalog makes up for it.

 

[Gradine]

Also kind of disappointed no one slapped Santos but the look of surprise on the nurses face when she broke out the Tagalog makes up for it.

Nah, last few episodes is where Santos gets to shine brightest, I love it for her. Sticking her neck out for the kid who tried to die by suicide (to say nothing of being the one to figure it out in the first place), throwing a lifeline to Whitaker; putting the fear of god into the... let's say overly handsy dad is peak The Pitt "that is a terrible idea and I love you for it". Also fully bombing every opportunity she had to get in the good graces of Garcia who clearly had a thing for her is some serious relatable lesbian content (and I don't even know if Santos even swings that way! Garcia, on the other hand...) She even ended up being right about Langdon!

No, I love all of my stupid baby doctors equally (and of course Mel more equally)

 

[billd91]

Also kind of disappointed no one slapped Santos but the look of surprise on the nurses face when she broke out the Tagalog makes up for it.

Santos may be obnoxious, but her heart’s definitely in the right place.

 

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[TiQuinn]

‘The Pitt’: Tracy Ifeachor Not Returning as Heather Collins for Season 2

Tracy Ifeachor will not reprise the role of Heather Collins in 'The Pitt' Season 2.

variety.com

That’s surprising and disappointing given that she wasn’t in the last handful of episodes of S1.

 

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‘The Pitt’: Tracy Ifeachor Not Returning as Heather Collins for Season 2

Tracy Ifeachor will not reprise the role of Heather Collins in 'The Pitt' Season 2.

variety.com

That’s surprising and disappointing given that she wasn’t in the last handful of episodes of S1.

A lot of speculation going around about this, ranging from scheduling conflicts (she was just announced to be cast in a new M. Night Shayamalan movie) to religious issues (she reportedly belongs to an extremely homophobic London megachurch and was unhappy with how the abortion storyline in S1 turned out). Nothing is confirmed or is likely to ever be confirmed (fwiw her rep, who is gay, is standing up her) so it's impossible to say other than it at least appears on the surface as if the parting at least on relatively good terms.

 

[TiQuinn]

A lot of speculation going around about this, ranging from scheduling conflicts (she was just announced to be cast in a new M. Night Shayamalan movie) to religious issues (she reportedly belongs to an extremely homophobic London megachurch and was unhappy with how the abortion storyline in S1 turned out). Nothing is confirmed or is likely to ever be confirmed (fwiw her rep, who is gay, is standing up her) so it's impossible to say other than it at least appears on the surface as if the parting at least on relatively good terms.

If it weren’t for her absence in the last quarter of the first season combined with the “bother decision” nature of the not showing up in S2, I’d chalk it up to just people moving on, being busy, whatever.