The Pitt: Season 2, Episode 4 - "10:00 A.M." Review

Warning: This reappraisal contains afloat spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 4!

The ending to past week’s occurrence of The Pitt suggested the bully times are conscionable astir implicit and everything is astir to crook precise bleak again for the men and women of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. That said, Episode 4 doesn’t extremity up delivering rather the tonal upheaval I was expecting. The hostility is mounting, to beryllium sure, but it’s wide the bid is inactive operating nether a slow-burn approach. And truthful far, that attack is moving conscionable fine.

There’s decidedly an accrued consciousness of urgency successful Episode 4 arsenic much patients commencement rolling in, including a beauteous gnarly lawsuit of parkour gone awry. But again, the writers intelligibly aren’t turning the dial up to 11. There’s inactive ample clip for the concern to truly spiral retired of control. Instead, we get a consciousness that the time is starting to vigor up adjacent arsenic this occurrence manages to cling to the wit and bosom that person defined Season 2 truthful far.

Ernest Harden Jr.’s Louie is astir apt the champion illustration of that equilibrium successful action. We get immoderate nice, heartfelt scenes betwixt Louie and his caretakers, including further bonding with Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball). But arsenic charming arsenic Louie is, underneath it all, there’s a nagging and increasing consciousness that thing is astir to spell wrong. Is Louie’s luck astir to tally out? Is determination immoderate unforeseen complication that’s astir to rear its head? I fearfulness the answers to some questions are a definite yes. That, on with a fistful of different cases similar the ongoing enigma of Jackson Davis (Zack Morris), provides this occurrence with each the play it needs.

If it seemed that Episode 3 wasn’t giving capable absorption to the doctors, that’s not an contented this clip around. This installment manages to support a large galore plates spinning and gives america invaluable clip with astir of the large players. In particular, we get immoderate coagulated scenes involving the newbies, Ogilvie (Lucas Iverson), Kwon (Irene Choi), and Nurse Nolan (Laëtitia Hollard). Ogilvie has rapidly go the feline we each emotion to hate, truthful it’s bully to spot him knocked down a peg erstwhile his overeagerness endangers a patient’s life. Meanwhile, Kwon’s insignificant wounded and Nolan’s bungled effort to gully humor punctual america that this bid truly does person a sly consciousness of wit erstwhile it wants.

And if it feels similar Langdon inactive isn’t receiving rather arsenic overmuch absorption arsenic helium deserves, astatine slightest Episode 4 makes it wide that this is by design. Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) is purposely (and possibly foolishly) keeping him astatine arm’s length, pushing disconnected that inevitable reconciliation country we each cognize is coming. Gotta wide the aerial earlier the large sabbatical.

Some other, much lighthearted moments truly stood retired this week. It’s amusive seeing Dr. McKay (Fiona Dourif) drawback a interruption aft immoderate of the play she endured successful Season 1, fending disconnected 1 flirtatious charmer of a diligent and forming a transportation with another. It’s besides hilarious to larn that Javadi (Shabana Azeez) has been moonlighting arsenic a YouTube advisor named “Dr. J.” Hopefully, we get to spot a clip oregon 2 of her amusement earlier the play is up. Finally, it’s absorbing to ticker the displacement successful the tenor of the narration betwixt Drs. Whitaker (Gerran Howell) and Santos (Isa Briones), present that the former’s banal is connected the emergence and the second can’t look to drawback a break. Is Santos adjacent up for an on-the-job affectional breakdown?