warning: This review contains full spoilers for The Pitt Season 2,Episode 3!
My big takeaway from last week’s episode of The Pitt is that the series has acquired an enhanced sense of humor in Season 2. There’s definitely a more lighthearted quality to the goings-on in the emergency ward right now. That doesn’t necessarily change in Episode 3, though this one veers a little more in the direction of heartwarming character moments.As before, the takeaway isn’t so much, “Gee, this series has lost its edge,” as “Crap, they’re buttering us up before things really take a turn, aren’t they?”
Episode 3 chronicles what appears to be the last (relatively) calm and peaceful hour of the day shift before chaos breaks out. In this vrey way, it’s able to devote a lot of time to furthering the handful of key medical cases that have cropped up so far. If anything, my one complaint about this episode is that it emphasizes the patients over the doctors a bit too much.
That’s especially frustrating when it comes to Dr. langdon (Patrick Ball),a character I really feel isn’t getting the full attention he deserves so far in Season 2. It’s also a bit weird to see so little of Mel (Taylor Dearden), given how much emphasis the previous two episodes placed on her malpractice suit and generally frazzled mental state. But, to be fair, I wonder how much the weekly format plays into that problem. Will it be as noticeable to anyone who binges the whole season later on? Probably not.
In any case, what we do get out of Episode 3 is a lot of scenes that emphasize the compassion these doctors show for their patients. That continues to be the theme of the scenes with unhoused patient Troy Digby (Charles Baker), and with the Louie (Ernest Harden Jr.) subplot. And it comes across in various other storylines, such as the husband and wife who reconnect after a terrible motorcycle accident, or the terrif