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Much like a car accident on a busy freeway, season 2 of The Pitt was almost impossible to look away from. Across 14 episodes, the HBO Max drama had fans stress eating through confrontations with ICE agents, cyber attacks, psychiatric meltdowns, and head injuries. (So many head injuries.) As torturous as it might’ve been for viewers, the show treated Noah Wyle’s Dr. “Robby” Robinavitch even worse, turning the battered moral compass of season 1 into…well, a bit of a dick. He insulted colleagues, he undermined his replacement on her first day, he let federal agents terrorize his employees without much of a fight. Those slutty little glasses could only do so much for his likability. By the time the day shift workers were limping through those emergency room exit doors, all of us were anxious for the scrubbed-up president of the sad dad club to treat his severe burnout with that ominously threatened sabbatical already.
