‘The Pitt’ Boss Says Noah Wyle’s Season 2 Storyline “Shows What Can Happen If You Don’t Take the Time to Resolve Mental Health Issues”

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[The following story contains spoilers from the season two finale of HBO Max’s The Pitt, “9:00 p.m.”]

In the final hours of season two of The Pitt, viewers have gotten more and more of a glimpse of Dr. Robby’s (Noah Wyle) suicidal thoughts.

What began with offhand comments and jokes led to him admitting first to his friend Duke (Jeff Kober) that he doesn’t know if he wants “to be here anymore,” and then to Dr. Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) that while the most important things he’s done in his life have happened in this hospital, “it is killing me.”

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“I’ve seen so many people die that I feel like it’s leaching something from my soul,” Robby says.

Though this mental health storyline might seem extreme, as showrunner R. Scott Gemmill explains, “it’s a real thing,” with the American

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