Dr. Robby clocks back in for another nightmare shift in The Pitt season 2 teaser

The doctors’ conflict adds to the anticipation for the return of The Pitt, but if you didn’t know the context, it would be hard to tell that the second season teaser takes place on a new day. It’s been several months since we last saw the docs (season two takes place over Fourth of July weekend), but Robby is still wearing his same hoodie; Dana (Katherine LaNasa) is still at the nurses’ station; the interns still look quite young and fresh-faced, and trauma patients are still being admitted. When a new hire incredulously asks, “You guys do this every day?” Santos (Isa Briones) replies with trademark snark: “If we’re lucky.”

There are, of course, some changes on The Pitt. New characters will be introduced, and old ones—like Tracy Ifeachor’s Dr. Collins—won’t return. Speaking with Vanity Fair, Wyle said this adds to the series’ realism. “I feel the absence of any character that we’ve become invested in no longer being with us…that’s certainly true of Tracy, and that’s certainly true of any character that’s going to rotate through here to keep this place looking like a place where people rotate through,” he explained. “Someone said today, ‘I hope this show goes 10 years.’ I said, ‘Well, then I’m going to have to retire!'” Let’s just get through this shift first, Dr. Robby.

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