A friend mentioned how The Pitt S2 is showing us Robby's struggles from the outside, not the inside as in the past. In S1, we followed him into the bathroom and saw his hitching breaths, his attempts not to cry. We saw his literal flashbacks, heard the ringing in his ears. In S2, all of that is absent. We don't follow him in. We don't get private moments with him at all.
It occurred to me that that may be why audiences are being so very harsh on Robby this season. Last season, he got empathy. This season, he gets scorn. (If not worse.) The thing is, we all experience other people's mental health struggles from the outside. We don't see their internal struggles, just their external actions.
And if this is how folks react to other people's declining mental health? Well, that is grim, indeed.
