[hetjoshiiii]

[thebutterballhotline]

not to be dramatic but the reception of dr robby following ep 10 (and honestly most of this season) is genuinely alarming to me

in season 1 we see robby struggling with his mental health through flashbacks, conversations, and eventually his breakdown in ep 15. but much like dr mohan’s panic attack in s2, ep 10, the crisis presents itself in a way that a lot of people (gen z especially) are familiar with in terms of witnessing or experiencing debilitating anxiety

season 2 is different, we perceive robby’s mental health from a largely outside perspective. he’s lying, lashing out, and denying his current state to friends and colleagues. we are watching him experience a mental health crisis in real time and it’s… not palatable or comfortable. he’s acting unprofessionally, even cruelly, to people he’s supposed to be in charge of. it’s not pretty, dare i say it’s probably not supposed to be. it’s realistic. not everyone experiences a crisis internally or in an isolated fashion as is often presented in media.

as someone who works in emergency management (not medicine) he’s someone who’s not only experiencing profound ptsd and depression, but moral and stress injury sourced in the work he performs day in and day out. it’s an exhausting feeling and nearly impossible to explain to someone who hasn’t been through it. it’s scary to experience and frustrating to communicate through- your reality feels fundamentally altered compared to everyone around you.

tldr; dr robby is experiencing a complex mental health crisis and while it doesn’t excuse his actions, it is related to his outward behavior and actions. all his worst instincts are coming to the surface bc the man has been in crisis for months and is ready to give up, he doesn’t care about the consequences bc he doesn’t expect to be there for the fallout (shown in his response to the shutdown and al-hashimi)

the lack of nuance (or even grace) being afforded to the character is yikes considering this very realistic depiction of a severe mental health crisis

[noahwhyle]

THE PITT ╰┈➤ 2.10 | 1.14

[lissa]

2.10 “4:00 P.M.” vs. SEASON 1 | THE PITT

[delfin-zlosliwy]

behind every problematic age gap yuri there's an even more problematic, bigger age gap yaoi

[artigas]

i'm probably gonna say very little about fandom discourse around this ep because spring break starts next week and i'm running out of sanity but actually. i love everyone on the pitt being flawed and fucked up and nasty sometimes. i love robby being a hypocrite and repulsed by samira's anxiety because he's repulsed by his own. i love that, alternatively, samira is repulsed by her mother's loneliness because she's repulsed by her own, too. i love santos blaming langdon for her ostracization at the ED and her unwillingness to see that, separate of the langdon issue (however separate you can make it), if you go around being an asshole to your peers all the time, some people are just not going to fucking like you. i love that its garcia specifically who checks santos for the lack of decorum she's displaying in front of their patients in this ep because garcia herself could arguably stand to have a bit more decorum when talking about patients and she's also treating santos like a dogggg right now. i love that mel is overstepping boundaries with becca and coddling her in a way that doesnt allow becca the space she deserves to be an autonomous adult with autism who should be respected on her own terms because mel's also struggling with what it means to be an autonomous adult with autism who should be respected on her own terms. i think there's a difference between a show depicting characters behaving badly and cosigning their bad behavior. i think a good character and a good person are separate categories. i love that this is a show that isn't so obsessed with likability that it keeps its characters from behaving badly.

frankly, i hope these characters keep fucking up, and i hope they keep getting checked by their fellow fuck ups, because that's life, brother. there is no divine priestly class of sinless people who exist to tell the "bad" people off for their missteps. and i hope that, as the show progresses, we see robby, santos, mohan, langdon etc make more mistakes and better mistakes. and i love that this show, for all its flaws, is (imo) still holding true to its premise that people are not wholly defined by their best moments or their worst. no matter how uncomfortable it is to sit with that nuance or how tense that makes an episode of television lol.

[emziess]

Hey, are you free? The Pitt, S02E09

[beejwatch]

BJ holding his glass with both hands like a little kid drinking appley juice from a sippy cup. Every day he sickens me anew.

[ahotknife]

6pm and it’s still daylight outside we made it y’all

[sinkies]

whatever I'm out of here.

[garashir]

[nostalgebraist]

If Pikachu were real, it would not be a very pleasant animal. An enormous mouse that shocks you like an electric eel. I would run from these beasts

[transmortifried]

[inadvertently-biblical]

DIGBY the most considerate and kind

THE PITT - S02 E09 3:00 P.M.

[silly-geesei]

what if you were having a BAD DAY at WORK and then your LESBIAN SITUATIONSHIP said NO FIREWORKS DATE let’s keep it CASUAL and then you got invited to a FURRY CONVENTION

[slow--spark]

just give dana some time to distract security

[f4ther1ess]

online puppy girls are just nintendogs for doms

[f4ther1ess]

no one understands my contemplative genius but athens hated socrates too

[slow--spark]

bitchy dads and their bitchy daughters