‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 9 Review: Heartbreak At The Pitt

The Pitt Season 2 Episode 9 picks back up at 3:00 PM as we go through another hour of the show; here is our review for it.

With the cyber shutdown still in effect, the Pitt is struggling with incoming patients and using old-school tech that most of the newer doctors are unfamiliar with.

The main new patient storyline is a 12 year old Jude Augustin, who blew two of his fingers off while lighting firecrackers. It’s unsurprising that there’s an injury like this during July 4th, but the way it is depicted is brutal. They show Jude’s very gnarly-looking hand, and it’s heartbreaking. We also learn through Santos that he has a blood alcohol level of 0.08%.

To add on to the heartbreak, we learn that Jude is living with his sister after her parents were deported to Haiti 9 months earlier and his older sister is raising him herself while balancing work and school. The blood alcohol level of Jude also requires the hospital to report to social services, which she’s forced to deal with.

This entire section of the episode is the best by far. This season has honestly been somewhat hit or miss with some social issues, but this one has hit all the right marks (at least so far). It’s unclear if the Ice storyline has to do with this one, especially considering the deportation angle it might have. It isn’t quite in effect this episode, but if it has to do with Jude and his family, I really hope the “balanced” take on the issue doesn’t taint what they’ve set up here.

Also a new patient to the Pitt is Becca, Mel’s sister. She comes in with a stomach ache and Mel is able to get her a bed to see what’s wrong. In the meantime, she is called up for her deposition so she leaves Langdon in charge of treating her, which leads to a pretty sweet interaction between him and Becca. There are also a couple of other short but great scenes: one between Emma and Dana, and another between McKay and Roxie about death.

Something I’m really not liking is the cliffhangers. Every single episode feels like it has a cliffhanger setting up the next rather than having some sort of conclusion. This is fine most of the time, but when you do it all the time, it has no effect. This episode ends with what should be a massive, massive cliffhanger, but it feels so tiring it’s hard to care until we actually see what’s in store in action. Using a cliffhanger on smaller things like the last two episodes, for example, lessens what should be a massive ending.

Despite that, it’s a good episode of The Pitt that could’ve been great had some other stuff been better if some of the other storylines were less awkwardly written, but the highs of the episode were great.

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