Season 1 of The Pitt may have just ended on April 10, but discussions about where HBO’s hit medical show goes in its second season are already happening, thanks to the recent Season 2 confirmation. The show will maintain its specific gimmick — 15 hours (and 15 episodes in approximate real-time) at the Emergency Department of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital ER. Creator and writer R. Scott Gemmill, producer and director John Wells, and producer and star Noh Wyle recently provided a massive amount of information about The Pitt and the following season.
It was confirmed earlier in the month by Deadline that The Pitt Season 2 will begin after a time-jump of roughly 10 months, and will take place over the Fourth of July weekend. Part of the reason behind that is to give Dr. Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball) time to go through rehab after the events of the first season. “I think we will pick up on Langdon’s first day back at work, but it’ll be more than a month,” Gemmill told TVLine, adding:
“The biggest driver of [the Season 2 time jump is] Langdon. Thirty days is probably the minimum he would have to do. You can do 60, 90… and part of [the time jump] is driven by when we can shoot in Pittsburgh. We’re going to shoot in September again. It has to look like the right time of year, whether it’s spring, summer or fall, and we’ve done fall [in Season 1]. We’re going to do Fourth of July weekend. Nine, basically 10 months later, gives a lot of room for us to have developed a few stories in the interim and catch up with everyone. And with it being Langdon’s first day back, we get to catch up as he catches up with all those people.”
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Noah Wyle weighed in, saying, “Patrick is a brilliant actor, and we love Langdon, and there’s a lot more to mine in that relationship. So having him come back and be part of the hospital would necessitate bringing him through some sort of treatment program to allow him to come back.” He added:
There’s no benefit in coming back quickly, before everybody’s had a chance to have this experience really sink in, and it manifests itself in behaviors that are interesting to watch — that are different or more informed than in Season 1.
Additionally, they revealed that fans won’t see much of what happened in the 10-month interim between Season 1 and Season 2; flashbacks are not their bag. “That’s not the show,” explained Gemmill. “We start at 7 am and end at 10 pm, and I think that’s what worked for us. It comes with its challenges, but that’s also what makes it fun, because you’re playing in this tight little box.”
How Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) Changes in Season 2 of ‘The Pitt’
Release Date
January 9, 2025
Network
Max
Showrunner
R. Scott Gemmill
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Noah Wyle
Dr. Michael ‘Robby’ Robinavitch
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Tracy Ifeachor
Uncredited
Regarding Wyle’s own character, Dr. Robby, Gemmill disclosed that the character will be emotionally progressing after finally dealing with his issues and the COVID-era trauma which plagued him throughout Season 1. “I will say that Robby has taken steps in the interim to get better. Whether those go as well as one could hope is another thing,” explained Gemmill. “I think Season 2 will be about him and a journey, but I think he has moved to a good place with the Adamson of it all. I think he has come to terms with it.” He added:
“Ultimately, I think his meltdown at the end of Episode 13 was probably the best thing, in some ways, that has ever happened to him, because now it’s out there, you know? He’s been stuffing it down for so long, and it was eating him away from the inside, and finally, he couldn’t control that monster anymore, and now he has to face it. In doing so, we’ll move past it […] We want to learn what Robby has been doing to heal himself […] Getting himself mentally healthy again is part of his journey.”
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While Wyle will be evolving as a character along with other actors (who will be promoted in different ways), the basic structure of the show won’t change. “We’re never going to go to other departments,” said Gemmill. “The reality is that we don’t really leave our set. We don’t leave the ER. We did a few things at the very end where we saw people going home and stuff. But beyond that, I don’t expect us to go anywhere beyond the hospital and the ambulance bay until the last episode of next season.” He added:
“Because it will be July, everyone has been promoted or graduated to the next level. So, for instance, Whitaker will be an intern next year — so, finally, his character will finally be getting paid. Javadi is going to be doing a sub-internship, and we find out that maybe that’s just her stalling because she doesn’t want to make up her mind about where she wants to go. So we’ll see everybody, for the most part, and some people might be working different hours and different shifts, but it’s pretty much the same crew.”
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Is Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) Returning to ‘The Pitt’ in Season 2?
That same crew will probably include Katherine LaNasa as Dana, the charge nurse in the ED, despite the character having no more F’s to give by the end of Season 1. Sure, Robby tells her, “See you Monday,” as Dana gathers her things to leave, but she seems hell-bent on quitting in the season finale. Gemmill and Wyle are confident we’ll see her again. “Obviously, I can’t get rid of Katherine,” said Wyle. He continued:
“Obviously, Dana is an important part [of this show]. But Dana choosing to come back — if she chooses to come back, and how she comes back, and what Dana is like having made the decision to come back, and what she’s going to allow this place to either do or not do to her going forward, becomes the stuff that, you know, is the grist for the mill.”
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“In terms of Katherine, I think if next season were to take place the next day or the next week, you wouldn’t see Dana. I think she needs to take some time off to really talk to her husband, talk about what she wants out of life,” added Gemmill. “I think when she comes back, she’s going to have a bit of an attitude adjustment, though. She’ll be even less tolerant of bullsh*t. She’s going to be much more protective of her flock.”
Who else is returning to The Pitt Season 2? We can definitely expect Dr. Jack Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) to return, possibly in a much bigger capacity. “Abbot loves the night shift, so he’s not going to work a day shift if he doesn’t want to, but we have a surprise for him next season,” revealed Gemmill. Isa Briones (as Dr. Trinity Santos), Gerran Howell (as Dennis Whitaker), Ayesha Harris (as Dr. Parker Ellis) will certainly be returning as well. Nobody else has been 100% confirmed, but we can probably expect Tracy Ifeachor as Dr. Heather Collins, Fiona Dourif as Dr. Cassie McKay, and Taylor Dearden as Dr. Mel King to all return, along with some new characters, as Gemmill says:
We’re going to introduce a couple of new characters, as well, because there are always new people coming in and out of the hospital. So that will give us some new dynamics as well.
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