I guess I spoke too soon when I congratulated Whitaker for taking a decent picture of the board. Everyone’s faces as they peered over his shoulder were works of art, especially Santos’.
This episode was far less chaotic than I was expecting. There wasn’t a complete breakdown of communication. Patients were still seen and treated. Life in the ER continued. You could see things start to build up, though. Little things like not using the right pen or not stapling the right piece of paper to the chart.
It certainly doesn’t have the intensity of a mass shooting. Obviously. Basically nothing does. And while I don't want The Pitt to turn into one of those shows that has increasingly outlandish events happen in the name of continuously raising stakes… I do wonder if this will be enough to sustain the back half of the season.
It was interesting to see how hospitals used to handle charting and patient management, and the generational divide between the doctors was fun too. Abbot and Joy in particular was a pairing that I didn’t expect to enjoy as much as I did.
She continues to blossom after a rough start to the season. She’s grown on me. The disinterest in which she approached things this morning has mellowed into a kind of flat snarkiness that is a lot more appealing. Casually rattling off patients and their ailments with an offhand mention that she has a photographic memory is the kind of power move I aspire to.
I also enjoyed her correctly diagnosing the margarita burns when Javadi and Ogilvie immediately went to the worst case scenario. I know that she wants to go into pathology, but I would not be opposed if she stuck around next season.
Ogilvie, on the other hand, cannot leave soon enough. There just isn’t a single thing that is appealing about him, and every episode he finds just yet another way to grate on me. I cringed through his repeated comments about Howard’s weight. His behavior was just so far out of sync with how everyone else was acting.
Howard himself was a gem, though. Potentially my favorite patient so far this season. He had great screen presence.
We finally got Langdon and Santos in a scene together. It wasn’t nearly as explosive as I had imagined, but it makes sense now that I think about it. It was tense more than anything else. I’m not sure how to read Santos parroting the question that Langdon asked her last season, the one about guessing the blood alcohol level.
Was it an olive branch? A dig? Her letting him know that even after all this time, she still remembers everything he said to her, for good and for ill? I’m leaning towards the last one, I think. Either way, I’m eager to see how that develops.
And I am very glad that Langdon and McKay finally got a moment to talk. His expression when she told him that she was nine years sober was a little heartbreaking. It was like the clouds parted and he could finally glimpse a little bit of sunshine. I loved it.
Shifting over to Mel, we learned a little more about her malpractice lawsuit. I’m glad that it’s a case that we actually know about: the Dr. Google Measles Mom from the end of the first season. I’m a little surprised that she has any grounding to sue at all since her husband gave consent for the spinal tap, but it does underline how frivolous the case is.
I’m curious how much of the deposition we’ll actually see. Mel said that it was going to happen around 3:00, though, so I guess we’ll find out next episode. I am a little worried that it will distract her from watching the eye stroke patient, though. Hopefully nothing bad will happen to her. And hopefully nothing bad will happen to Harlow! The fact that her issue had such a simple fix could just be there to highlight how difficult it can be for a deaf person to get care. She was sitting in chairs when the shift started, so she’s been here for at least seven hours before getting treated. She could have been done hours ago with the proper accommodations.
The only thing that makes me wonder if everything is as simple as it seems is Harlow’s pained reaction to the injection Santos gave her. It was a much larger reaction than I had expected. So much of how we express pain is verbal, but even a translator doesn’t have the same effect as a patient yelling.
Continuing to check in on our long term patients, Roxie’s arc continues its march towards its inevitable conclusion. Her older son is the one who got to me, though. He clearly realized what was going on, and didn’t want to leave her side for a moment. Her other son seemed a bit too young to fully get it.
It’s just hard. There really is nothing to do to make that any better or any easier for the people involved.
Ilana’s story is the same. Moving from the quiet satisfaction of “I’m glad you were here” to the absolute gut punch of realizing that the police almost certainly are not going to treat her case with the professionalism and the humanity that she deserves was… rough. Yeah. It was just so viscerally unfair. Not even Dana yelling over the phone was satisfying enough to soothe anything. It just… it just sucks. There really is no other way to describe it.
Jackson’s story is hard too! I know that the conversation with the support group was supposed to be hopeful and had an emphasis on finding the good and the happiness and the new normal but to me it just felt off. It felt like it was implying someone with bipolar or schizophrenia could never hope to do something like study architecture at Georgetown because even their good days would make such a thing impossible.
And I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know a ton about either condition outside of the stereotypical depictions that you get on tv and in movies. So maybe that is true. It was just another thing that didn’t feel good.
This episode kinda just bummed me out. If anything, it’s just more proof that I could never do this job.
Random Thoughts
The margarita burns looked so, so gross. They were amazing.
No, I did not watch Abbot stick his finger entirely up Howard’s nose. Even just typing those words is giving me sympathy pains. Blegh.
Mohan would be good in geriatrics.
Robby is making a lot of comments on how he’s leaving soon or that he should have left last night. Too many comments. It feels like a jinx.
Digby spending time with Louie. “Louie got his wings!” Crying.
The drunk bar crawl girls recognizing that Langdon is hot. Santos’ face. Priceless.
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