The $30 millon toe in the water

The Pitt season 2 put many of its characters through the wringer, and writer Simran Baidwan is sharing insight into some of their arcs. the latest season of HBO Max's hit medical drama picked up almost a year after the first, shifting the focus to Fourth of July weekend as the hospital faces everything from a water park disaster leaving multiple injured to various festivity-related accidents.

The doctors and nurses also dealt with a variety of personal hurdles, ranging from Samira Mohan feeling uncertain about her career future to Frank Langdon returning to work after a stay in rehab.

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One that really split viewers was that of Noah Wyle's Dr. Robby, as his depression hits an all-time low and he becomes more abrasive with the various residents and Dana.

When asked about the approach to Robby's mental state and his increasing troubles with the other residents and nurses, the Emmy winner began by pointing out the show's real-time format as being an incredible play box in which, instead of having a span of days and weeks and months for someone to realize they've made a mistake and make amends, you're essentially catching characters near the end of their rope.

Simran Baidwan, Have a come to Jesus , so to speak. But in this environment, Robby is a little bit of a ticking time bomb.

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He knows he's going to be going, or hopefully going, on this trip. He clearly has not dealt with his demons of the past, not just the mass-cas, but Adamson, family things, and in that hour where he explodes at Mohan, that's hour 10 of a shift.

So I try to remind people that he has been percolating and building up and bubbling up, and I think there's something really great that, again, Scott allows us to do is to make our heroes fallible. He doesn't handle it well,he's not gracious. He does say some kind of digging deep, nasty things.

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Baidwan went on to expound on the infallible nature of Robby and the other Pitt characters, as their rougher sides allow our characters to be human, and pointed out that he gets called out for his behavior by multiple people in season 2.

She specifically pointed out the scenes following his berating of Supriya Ganesh's Mohan, with both Sepideh Moafi's Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi and Katherine LaNasa's Dana questioning him and saying things like, I saw that pep talk, don't come near me.

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People are noticing, because it's atypical of how he usually responds, and why does he respond that way? I think that there's a little bit of tinge in him, knowing he did wrong.

He goes back at the end of the episode to try to make a pseudo-apology, but when you say that to someone who is young and coming up, it means a lot.

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I think that there's also a part of him that maybe sees a lot of himself in her, and he knows that she can do better, and she can be better.

But what he's failing to recognize, maybe, in that scene, and in general, is that we can't alwways compartmentalize our personal lives from our professional lives.

He's done a really good job of it, and we have to take an examination of whether that's a positive thing or a negative thing.