The Pitt Season 2 Recap: Dr. Robby Needs Therapy (And Now So Do We)

The girl who got the sunburn so bad that you could see the go-go outline on her face. The amount of time she's in the background and I'm like that girl had to get to set at 6 a.m. to be painted. That's a flag I'm saluted, I'll tell ya. Welcome back to Girls Rewatch! A podcast about girls and girls on TV. I'm Amelia. And I'm Evan. And oh my god, these aren't all girls, these are boys. I know, oh my god, God forbid. We thought we'd mix it up, take a little break from sex in the city real quick to talk about the pit. The season two finale premiered last night, did you watch it? Did I watch it, please? I was inside the gay nightclub animal. I said, everyone pull up to the side because I got to see Dr. Amishimu without her BBL jacket on. I take my octobody, I slam it onto the wall behind the DJ booth, I know, I got to watch this scene between her and Dr. Robbie. You went to animal twice this week, both on weekdays? Honey, I walked one on a weekend, that's an awful time to go to a gay bar. Right, it was bare night last night, right? Yeah, honey, yeah, please. Do you fit in or do you find lumbar? In a way, it's like, if you're hard as pure enough, you can fit in any setting. Yeah, that is. I will say, like, the way I was eating up the dance floor, I was the fattest of them all, the most emotionally gluttonous. What kind of music were they playing? It's like mostly about beeps about honey, it's something you might hear in the ER. No, literally, I can't wait to go doctor mode today. But first, we want to say we've officially launched a sub-stack. It went live yesterday. And we're prescribing you a subscription to that girl. We're prescribing you a subscription to that girl. Yes, please, so what can you find? What are some symptoms of this prescription? You might run into having a good time getting weekly. No, no, no, no, symptoms, remedies. Well, there are symptoms of the medication. Okay, yeah, for sure, for sure. What medication? Symptoms are having a good time. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We went, our past diverged in the meta four, but you do yours, yes. Well, I feel like if you've ever listened to a medical ad for a medicine, it's always the sentence where someone's longer than what I can cure. It's always a mom playing with her kid, gleefully for the first time in years, while they're like, and your breast may fall off and my kick gets her and also your mom will probably die. It's called that's a position. It's a lot of short films I watch, failed to even find this metaphor that you can find. Right, you know what? An ad for Wigovie. Big pharma ads are masters of the juxtaposition and it's a comedic choice, actually. They're doing IRAW. You won't find that much irony on our substacks. So what will you find there? Here's the things you will find by weekly episodes for Amelia and I covering our favorite TV shows. So we won't be talking about on this podcast, but just what we're feeling inspired by. You will find by weekly articles about from some of our favorite authors who be going out there running a little bit of essays about how their perception of sex into city is girls in general through medium for mediums. Amidian. Ammo. Because they're going to be in writer's mode. I'll tell you that. Everything's by weekly because this is a podcast that celebrates bisexuals that they wear. So we just wanted to keep it in line. I know. But please go check it out on there. Except for the bisexuals, you can get out of line all you want girl. Oh my god. Color outside the lights. Did you ever have color wonder as a child? I wonder what that is. I don't know. Oh my god. The markers were clear and they made it so you couldn't color outside of them. The color wouldn't appear. Oh, yes. I know exactly what I was addicted to those. I was addicted to carefully doing them and not even like getting them outside the line because the clear stuff that showed up on this, I thought was messy anyways. No, it's made for a type A girl like you. We took out. We both took an autism test today. I mean, here's the thing about the audit. I did like as I looked at the results afterwards. I got some autistic traits and you got none at all. Yeah. But ultimately, every single person that kind of takes this has ends up with autism diagnosis. Here's the thing about taking a personality test. It's like, well, first of all, I don't know that much about myself. The first to call an autism has a personality test. It's really unique. Yes. This is why we will not have you in the ER, but observe it maybe. Yeah, you know what? I just think it's so funny that those quizzes are like asking you so many questions where it's like, well, I've never even considered that. I don't know. Let me ask my mom. You know what I mean. Yes, of course. Ultimately, and I actually think this is alluding to the pit itself, where they say that your friends have a better understanding of who you are. So I ultimately think with any personality test, any diagnostic test, that has to do with maybe a personality disorder and/or learning super power. Learning super power. It is important to have other people in the room to help you through those diagnoses. It's some jeopardy when it's phone a friend. Is that jeopardy? It's what Dr. Seener says. Oh, you know what I'm thinking of? Deal or no deal? Nope. What am I thinking of jeopardy? Phone a friend? What game show is that? A more girl. Are you smart of the fifth grade? I've definitely had it. I think they did have that, but where do you know where originated from? No. And it's kind of this actually feels like it's I've given you a multiple choice now. It feels like the game itself. Which is who wants to be a millionaire? Who wants to be a millionaire? That's what it is. And they would get the, like, brother on the phone. And by the way, you found the right friend. I would phone you because you're actually somebody who knows so many facts. It's because of my light, light autism. It's because if you're some, by the way, it's a Quizlet. It wasn't like official. Anyway, it was through psychology today. Oh, really? Why was it red colored? Because they're trying new things with brand new things. Okay, cool. You know, I applied for a job to run social media for a tech company. It's psychology today. No, for like a, like a giant tech company that buys you lunch. I hope I get it. That's an autistic pivot. Nothing wrong with that. It's beautiful, but it was out of nowhere. Well, it was my life this morning. I know, I know, I know. But we should dive right into the pit. I think we should because there's too much to cover. I mean, so initial, initial thoughts. This is, I mean, we're both our huge fans of the pit. I think it's some of us revolutionary TV. I've ever watched. I'm not necessarily experienced with many medical dramas. Have you seen all 21 seasons, Legraza Anatomy? I mean, I've seen one or two episodes. No. Yeah, but I watch every other Shonda Land project. Every Shonda Land project, but where is Anatomy? Here's the thing. It's when you're balancing watching real housewives, summer house. I mean, real housewives on their own. They all got 15 seasons. I can't add another 15 season show in there. I know. You can't watch Gray's Anatomy now. I'm just surprised they didn't cross your desk in high school. Yeah, it's a good animal on a weekday. On a weekend, maybe not. But, yeah, it's always something that has mystified me in culture. And I've tangentially always been interested in the culture of gay characters they've had on there who've also been interns. Yeah, there's a lot of gay interns on that show. Yeah, to me, that's been huge. No, that is huge. But the pit is so fun because it's the breath of fresh air we needed because we love Gray's Anatomy, but then time passed. And it was like, we need something new that excites us. And I'm speaking, we the collective. I'm talking about myself. But I'm like, you guys get it. And then this was this was it. This is hello. But it is, I will say, my initial first thought is like, it does get a little after school special sometimes. But I'm like, you know what, that's fine. Well, I crave our earnestness that has been removed from TV. And I like clamber for it to come back. It ultimately disillivers and folds. And I think like TV is just more earnest now. Like we had our 30 rock era. Now we have hacks, you know what I mean? Like we want hard. Yeah, it's true. Well, I want 30 rock too. Well, comparing it even to Broad City, it's like, there's a lot more, there's a lot of hard. I mean, Broad City's pretty earnest, but I mean, let's go back to our art. Let's go back into the ER. Because there are some issues coming in quick. Oh my god. The way the shift was so long, I was obsessed with Joyce when she was like, my shift is done. I'm out of here. I was obsessed with when she goes, I have a photographic memory, and I'm not even going to really bring it up. Have you ever met a girl with a photographic memory who doesn't immediately bring it up? No, she, but you know what? I bet she's brought it up enough times immediately that she's like gotten to the age where she's like, I'm going to hold this one back, slide it in when they least expect it. That's what you do in expert negotiation. You hold that your biggest trump card until you have to play it. And this is why I famously do bad first impressions, so they get excited by my second impression. Hello, and I got excited too. But yeah, I mean, initial reactions to this season and the pit in general before we really dive into it. I mean, it really is an earnestly amazing show that triumphantly captures the drama of the ER, a myriad of political issues in more nuance and shows that actually are talking about politics too, because by the way, medicine is politics. Oh, my God. I mean, even the setting of healthcare in this country and even in a character dynamics with their familiars, like it is, it's so dynamic that it ultimately it traverses an infinite amount of boundaries that I don't think it's hard to even grapple with the extent that it does touch upon politics. A character, script, everything. No, literally put that on my whole lower sweater. I get so enthralled. It is. Also, I do wonder if people in Sweden who you don't like have all their needs met a watch this show and they're like, oh my god It that's a crazy place to be from But it's definitely interesting to watch especially my mom's a nurse and I'm always hearing like drama from like the hospital Like we need to set a pause off My mom's a nurse holding holding for pots and pans And it's like fun to get to see this like Either thing and what's so fun about this and it's the same reason I love Bridgerton is that nobody says what they mean Like they're just saying a medical jargon, but then they're saying it and basically they're saying like I'm feeling bad And I want to commit suicide But instead they're like push 17 of epic pen. Oh, yes, what are they saying behind the words? That's all yeah, cuz you know what? It's not about the words. It's about their eyes It's eye acting at its best except for that none who got gone orria The none who got not got me. I forgot about her eyes told a lot of stories in day I'm like eye acting and there's a girl who glued her eye shot. Oh, right and she was so mad. She was like This is so annoying. I like you did this to yourself I know, but she was trying her best to be beautiful and actually saw her fault society's fault for expecting so much to women I know you know what me immediately being like she was being stupid. That is my internalized Yes, and what it played out and we actually see that again in the ER We do an amazing situation where Dr. Robbie and of course, sorry listen hers We will go we'll we'll set it all up in one second, but there's an amazing situation 30 minutes We're the ambulance workers. They don't attach the The things below the girl's boobs and she's gonna die because she's gonna die because they feel in control I like actually touch a woman's larger breath and she's in an older body It is like showing the dark side of the me to movement and then Dr. Robbie shames him all in ear And he goes you could have done it some private the the ambulance workers and he goes I could of But you'll remember this better exactly which is like that's exactly what I do when I yell at people in the street Damn I'm being Dr. Robbie. Hello He cares and then in that same episode. It's episode 14 He then goes I don't even care if I want to live or not Oh my god, so he cares more about within slides and his own how many episodes are in this 15 my god every they're both 15 Okay, yeah, yeah, um, okay, let's set it up. Let's set it up. So season one what day was that what holiday? Season one wasn't a holiday with pit fast season one was pit fast, but it was it was just like a busy day in New York Yeah, and it was a lot of these people's first day It was it the month of September because it's ten months season two happens ten months after season one Which is cool. I love the jump cut. It's like um euphoria's jump cut In many ways. Oh my god, which we need to talk about euphoria No, we can intertwine that into Thumbs wallowing the fentanyl bags was so disturbing to a girl like me with and I think it was coke It was cocaine. Yeah, but it's cut with fentanyl because that's why the Stripper dies when she drops dad and they're like, let's go fishing Oh my god. Oh my god, but anyways season two picks up ten months later. It's the fourth of July No, sorry, the one not that stripper this the stripper inside the pimps house at the end of the episode. Oh That's why Rue gets in trouble Oh, oh, oh god. I got sorry. I just want to make sure because there's two women that died in that episode We can't lie in our Kind of a sort of story on our girls rewatch podcast. I don't want that. It's one to clarify. I just want to clarify But okay, first of all, I'm mad that it was the fourth of July if you it's like hacks doing a Christmas episode and it's fucking June it's like can we go in like like remember when parks and rec would release a Halloween episode around Halloween like The decorum you see this you have to understand this season to start to live. I'm January like third I know so I'm like, why was this a star on July 4th? No, no, no, I'm mad that they did the fourth of July. They should have been doing Valentine's Day same party today I know but here didn't we get so many amazing injuries because of July 4th. We do get the awesome So I don't want to see that I don't want to see the hospital them the mist of winter because winter is such a it's It's by day. Yeah, and they have so many awesome scenes outside I know it handicaps like individuals like you're not gonna You get something more exciting, but there's here's a thing July 4th is all made worth it to me when episode 11 the girl who got the sunburn so bad that you could see the Gogo outline on her face came in an American flag swimsuit that made every single choice worth it to me. It was like that girl was painted up like that to be in the background for so many days of her life walking her hobble between scenes like the amount of time she's in the background. I'm like that girl had to get to set at 6 a.m. to be painted. That's a flag. I'm saluted. I'll tell you no I'm like she better get union after that. Hello. Yeah Union organizer because she's part of America now. Yes. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Now the summary. Amelia, you want to take it away and this is Here we go. So it's Robbie's last shift before a sabbatical and he meets his temporary replacement, Dr. Baron, Alashimi, a no nonsense attending from Virginia. While a familiar face also returns to the pit. It's not Virginia. It's a V.I. Oh, what is V.A. Veterans. Period. I was like, I don't remember the Virginia part. I do remember she was a vet. So she's been in war like the night shift guy. The emotional core of the season is Robbie's mental health. The season's question not only his heroism, but his psychological. I'm sorry. Maybe it was in Virginia. It's close to DC. It makes sense. Hey, you know, they've got they've got military bases a lot of federal. Yes. They have a lot of federal buildings. But yeah, this season's literally all about mental health, which is important. It seems like it's a response to that. I'm going to get. But by the finale, Robbie admits to his friend Duke that he doesn't know if he wants to be here anymore. Girl, get a grip. And like, well, our new segment. Girl, get a grip. Basically, we follow all these characters as they reach their breaking point in this 14 hour shift day. Who do you think made it out the best? I've been little miss little miss sunshine, little miss 2021 years old. Dr. Victoria. Yeah. Victoria. I doctor, Dr. Queen. I know. But here's the thing. She saw us to go home to her parents at the end of the day. I know in her mom's. She doesn't have an income. She lives with her two parents that she absolutely despises. You know what? Would it occur needs to move in with Robbie? And then Dr. Jake can move in with Santos. They can I feel like they're they she should have been a karaoke with Malto. I am like, was she not? It's hard to tell. It's only to two of them. Santerson King. Yeah. Okay. Yes. So far of that episode, the season really crux off with the standpoint that Dr. Almas CD is coming in as Dr. Robbie's replacement. Sorry, I'm very I'm very bad at names. It's part of I dyslexia for people to know for a top. So if I get a few names wrong, I'm trying my best. Anyway, it's part of my disability. You have to learn. And you know, what it makes you human, which makes the podcast better. Listen to that. That's what we've been discussing. But yes, so it starts off with the crux. An initial premise is that Dr. Almas CD is there to set in her way of being in the pit where Dr. Robbie is as perfectionist who's been running the ER by himself for the last decade, early sedation shift. And he does not want the new sheriff in town who's there to replace him to change any to status quo. But she walks in with AI. It's like, girl, I'd be pissed too. Aye, aye, aye. That's what it sounds like to me. I love when they do the test. And it's like, yeah, so most of it's wrong. But it's going to get better. That's the best part about AI. It's like most of it's wrong. But you know, when it's like, it's mostly there, I'm not as helpful. What's so cool about living in 2026 is that we have to say things on TikTok as if they're fact instead of a companion. And then AI has to do the same. And so we're all operating from this is the truth. And it's like based on nothing. Well, I, this is all about media literacy. Like you must have certain own truth. And ultimately, I think every video, even if it has like misinformation of it is a litmus test. And you must teach yourself. Yeah, your most important skill you can learn is yourself. I listened. I was on the one train for 45 minutes last week. And these two boys from high school talked about how in middle school, it was 20. From your high school. And I hated Amelia. They were talking about how they've been using AI to pass every grade of school for the last six years. And they're like, yeah, I haven't learned anything. I would like to see that come up into pit as well. Or it's like, if they're going to push the conversation, yeah, I would love to see like a medical student who like fumbled his way through school. I think we're two years away. Yeah, literally. I think a gay doctor, the one the curly hair to never actually say his guy who I keep calling gay on it. And the nurse that gets taken. No, no, they in turn, the one with curly hair. Are you on the pit Twitter where everybody is like, no, there's, I open it up. But do you know the gay guy I'm talking about? No, he's the one who's fat phobic. Oh, Oglebee. That's a new one. He's not gay. It's a new guy. Yeah, who like freaks out because he is, to me, he's gay. It's like sometimes characters don't have to dress or gay identity in the show itself. But if you have enough undertones, like we all like as a queer person walking through America, you pick up on it. It's cadet Kelly. It was queer. It was queer. It wasn't always to be sad. Well, Oglebee really had a tough go of it for sure. I mean, they all day, but he really crumbled. I know he fumbled. Hello, what the pet expertly does is like execute on a similar principle set like what makes a good improv scene, which is a concept of building. of yes anding, like it's such a collaborative environment and all the doctors always have to like take each other's choices to build. The characters are very distinctive. I watch it and feel like a very proficient improv practice because the first few episodes initial critique is a season two is going to be so much worse in season one. It's so much slower and I don't enjoy the show, but ultimately if people's memory doesn't serve them season one was kind of received in the same way where people didn't really have a strong reaction to it until around like episode seven and everyone sort of tuning into the show, but initially it was just like a medical drama, but as this depends kept building in a character growth kept growing girl, that's when as the audience growth grew as well. And like as we got more stakes, that's when the stakes that audience came in. Well, are you a part of the community that waited seven weeks before starting so they could binge it all and be like, ah, people has such a fervor for this the binge of all part of the show because for season when I binge. Well, the idea of like waiting until all of season two is out and then watching it in the course of 12 hours or whatever would be so fun. Yeah, I did it for season one, but I'm also I became such a pit lover. Like I think it's probably like I watched like one through 11 of first season and I followed along for the last two weeks. But as someone who's been covering it very extensively on my own to talk like every episode I go in. This is I don't think people realize that the pits must watch TV show every single week for the last 15 weeks. But I mean, the numbers are hard to impress that because all the when they ring shows they do by minutes walks every week, but most shows are released in at all in ones like season's all at once, but the show has been like number three every week for TV shows. So it's by far in our culture the most watch show currently. Well, I think the gift that this show provides that a lot of shows don't is that the point of view isn't specific. Like we're not supposed to walk away feeling a certain way. Similar to girls where it was like I'm not going to tell you what to think about rape culture. Like let me just tell what happening. There's so much on set in this that people are able to project whatever reality they want on to all these characters. That's why so many people in the online conversations have all these like plots that you're like girl, where would you get that from? They're like that I look. Yeah. So it's like everybody's basically able to personalize the avatars of the story in a way that I think like makes it less controversial where it's like there's such a specific like political lens or like cultural lens that so many shows operate from. And this one is really like neutral. That leads us to a great question though. Oh girl. What girl are you? Oh my god. I know. It was already. Oh my god. I haven't thought about it. Oh I put it in the album. What page? Oh, I didn't. Oh sorry. No, no, no, no, no, no. We have we have done it for the last three years. No, I should have known. I should have known. Well, you know what? Let's go to our first break and then we'll be back. We will find out where what girl are we? Okay. This week I got like 90 degrees in New York. So I finally was like it's time to bring out the crop tops. This one you're seeing here. Yeah. I'm a cynic. Call me crazy. But I swapped out all my stuff. I literally got a handyman to install an AC in my window today. I feel like this spring. I'm really gonna change my light. You know, I'm always starting like a whole new thing. Every time I see you say I'm gonna change everything. I'm gonna change everything. And this is what I love about Weight Watchers is that they are the same and that they're like we're changing everything. What you thought we were, we're completely different now. And I'll never forget Weight Watchers taught my mom about fruit before that we had no fruit in the house. And then she went on it. And when she started to have fruit fruit salad all the time, I discovered grapes this way. What? Yeah. That's my life story. That's real about me. But what's the change this time? They have the app designed for your life. So you can either like if you are interested in GLP ones and that's like part of it, they have that. And then they also just have the app for like health tracking and like. Oh my god. Yeah. They have duality in a platform. No, by the way. I guess it's really choose your own adventure. It's not just a one-size-fits-all solution. It's dynamic and built for you. And it's not beautiful. That is beautiful, Evan. Stop the guesswork and start something that works. Join Weight Watchers Core Plus program for the ultimate weight loss support and better results. Go to WeightWatchers.com/girlsrewatch to get a special offer for our listeners. That's WeightWatchers.com/girlsrewatch for a special offer. Hello. Hello. And we're back from the break. So at the beginning of the episode, we are of course saying our friends know us better than we know ourselves. So instead of answering the question, girl, we're going to give each other a girl a girl away. So easy. You are Samira because you have a complicated relationship with your mother. You don't know exactly what to do with your career, but you have options and skill. You're a perfectionist who gets distracted by your overwhelming emotions at times, that derails you. And you look amazing in purple. Wait, that's so sweet of you. I never would have guessed. And this is your last season. Is she living? No, why? So be mental health specialist. Well, well, find out. Oh my god, that breaks my heart. I know. You know what? I love when she's British in interviews. Oh my god. I'm like, shut up. You're chic as hell. She's Australian. I think. Oh, well, anything that's like an accident. Almost all Australian or British. That's amazing. But it's shot here. Yeah, mama. Okay. Okay. Okay. You know, almost here's if I love this about TV a movie that almost every actor is British, but everyone they're all filmed here. It's not important to include, but it's important for me. Hey, yes. How did that read feel? Yeah, that feels deeply accurate. No way that kind of frightens me. Girl, what girl is Evan? Um, I feel like your doctor, Alashimi. What? Yeah, because the thing about you don't know me at all. Wait, you love AI. First of all, it's also like you're somebody who comes in with a lot of ideas. And you're like, I'm look like the way you started that new job. And you're like, I see what's going on here. I'm fired. Yeah, totally totally totally totally. As I thought that apparently they fire someone every single week, they fire my whole team. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. But it's like you came in with like, oh, I see how everything's going. And I have some ideas. She does exactly that. She's also like, she has a secret. Um, that's stressing her out. And she doesn't she doesn't want it to hold her back. Much like she has silent seizures. You have dyslexia. And you're like, but this isn't going to stop me. Yeah, like, um, I can still respond immediately in the ER though. Don't worry. Um, I also like that she's like caring with everybody. And like, yeah, she's a tough cookie. You're not really like that. You're a soft cookie. But I do have moments where I pause completely. You do have moments where you space out. And you're addicted to meeting everyone as as soon as you pick can. And the way she's like, immediately getting started at the beginning of the season being like, let's do some work. And we're figuring out our curl pattern. So that's what I think way. That's beautiful. Oh, that's a beautiful show. And then you look in purple. Do you ever watch the behind-the-scenes afterwards? And you realize like how much have you been doing that? Yeah. Oh, we haven't. Oh my god. The amount of like backgrounds, choreography. You know, there's a control room just to control the screens of like, oh my god. The amount of precision and thoughtfulness. I mean, directing an episode of this sounds like actual prison and hell. And now that I'm listening to that, it's famsick and listening to like how they're doing like girls. I'm like, that seems way more fun than an episode of the pit where there's like 30 people. I'm like, I want to see Jessa and Hannah have a fight. But instead, I've got a choreographed like 13 casual teams. For some people, that's their heaven. No, yeah. And there's a huge team here. No, 100 percent. But especially, you've never met actors. The special effects too. Yeah. What I enjoy about this show, it's like there's not, except for Noah Wiley, like there's Dr. Robbie. Yeah. There's not so much pressure on every individual actor. Like they all get enough screen time. I've never seen a show that more beautifully spritz up screen time between actors. Yeah. No one would ever feel like insufficient about their storyline or like if they're getting enough like star quality time, like everyone shines in their own way so distinctly. And that like as an actor must make you feel amazing in a show like this, especially as it was such a big ensemble. Have you read Lauren Graham's second book? No, but I should cover something like this. She's talking about how like in Gilmore Girls, it was so stressful because there was just pages and pages. She's the star. She's the star. Finally, she moves on to parenthood. And it's like, it was such a nice work environment because I was like paid for seven seasons, but we all had like normal schedules where it's like, oh yeah, we have like a couple in 10s days, but like the weight of a show isn't on your shoulders. It's like that killed anyone that does it. Yeah. And I mean, that for us, you know, fame sick. I like really does kill you. Oh my God. I'm famous. I could say so many things right about we have to talk about the business. I know. There's so many. Well, our problem is that we like did so many episodes and then took a break. I'm like, I have 11 episodes of me right now. Okay, the pit. Classic us. The act of good writing. Now, the no time jumps, no shortcuts, every conversation that sticks because it's happening right now is cool. And why has it never been done before, by the way? There's 24. There's 24. The TV show's for her. I never heard that. So it's a show. some of our concerts where it's, I believe, a 24 episode season where every episode is one hour of time as well. And it's, it's a spy show, though, or like a CIA commercial. Here I thought Noah Wiley created this in a way, though. I mean, I, it's because 24 follows, like, a main protagonist through a myriad of circumstances where there are like side plots, but it's mostly about the one guy. But this show, because it has so many ongoing plotlines, like there's, what I am amazed by the show, they're like, we get I was counting, we got to an F plot at some points, like, no literally, it is literally amazing. What was your favorite plotline of the Suzanne? Would you say it's impossible to choose. Well, some standouts. My favorite plotline would be, I already covered my two favorites. Oh, perfect. Okay, actually easy. I love Mel, Dr. King's relationship with her sister, Becca, Becca, for some reason that like emotionally, Becca getting her UTI, all of it. This is so emotional for me. Why? Because you have a brother. Well, it covers so many subjects where I mean, we see both these characters have autism in the show. So it's cool to see the difference between like a heavier autism diagnosis, the nuance between those two, and like how functional it can be in society, like with like a scale of disability. Also, the relationship between sisters and how one has like become preentified, which is also the caretaker role, hugging the caretaker role, which is symbolic for the whole show itself. And I think it's like such a common, it is so common for people in America to be like a caretaker for somebody in their family, whether it's their parents or their siblings or whatever, but almost no TV shows cover that because the people who write TV aren't typically in those positions. They're the artists that are not like. Yeah. So it's like definitely interesting to like see that and see like the pressure of like the immigrant mom being like hard on you and like all these things. Well, it's a very confusing relationship too because it seems that like Mel has had to step to the forefront to take care of her sister, but her sister is also trying to navigate her own independence in that relationship. Mel's using her sister as a way to avoid confronting her own shortcomings or like lack of like she's going through the ongoing lawsuit. She's going to the lawsuit. She's never been a karaoke. I mean, when Santos is like, do you like to do karaoke? She's like, I would like to let this for the first time ever. Yes. Yeah. It's and it's also very funny. When Santos pulls her hair and is like, let it fly. I'm like this. Thank God. You know, I didn't know that we were going to see them do karaoke because it cuts to credits. And then it cuts to the whole thing. I said, you ought to know what a relief when I started her play go, oh, thank God. But Mal and Becca was your faith. It was like, I wish someone was taking a jagged little pill in the show itself. There was a few people that need a medication that didn't get it, but yeah. Yeah. It's a musical episode. It's an anime style. It's all bad. Well, I thought it was a thematic with the whole show itself because it talks about, I mean, Crocs is like mental health this season. But I also think like the more underlying conversation is like relationship with caretakers and either that caretaker from the standpoint of like your parents, because we talk about Dr. Robbie's abandonment and then Dr. Adam Baby Jane is there the whole season who doesn't have any caretakers and Dr. Robbie's emulation with that character itself or Dr. J's relationship with her mother who comes into the ER to operate and how much pressure she puts on her daughter. And especially like a more nuanced relationship, which is like the Indian mother daughter relationship. Yeah, it's always so covered in TV, especially when a daughter said over like we haven't seen a lot of sorry a lot of overachieving daughters that are like Indian daughters on TV. I mean because the other example I can think of is never if I ever were it's a daughter who's coursing her own adventure, but she's in this like overachievement type or I mean, I have a lot of friends that are Indian and like to see like this relationship really play out on TV was was beautiful to watch. Sorry, keep going. Oh, I was just going to say what was so nice about that storyline specifically is that somebody who has so much pressure from their parents internalizes that pressure. And so like when she makes a mistake early on in her shift and it like absolutely like destabilizes her, like I connect with that so much because so often growing up, I was like, oh my God, my mom was going to be so mad and it's like my mom did not react, but it was like the voice in her head that I had like was me and then like even when I went to college I remember being like, oh my God, like my parents are so hard on me and it's like they don't talk to me. You like it's you, it's their voices in your head like whatever. And so I like that Dr. J in this you kind of like see that because her mom does like scold her, but like it's not really like she's constantly showing up like like it's mostly her being like fuck. Well, it's the other side of it where you see Dr. Robbie who's become because he doesn't have parents like becoming like overly dangerous in his actions because he doesn't have like he doesn't feel like he's a show up for anyone. Yeah. He doesn't have anyone at the end of the day like his sense of abandonment. He goes to another end where like he's become so like he doesn't care about life like he's given up because he doesn't have like the tethers of maybe the parental relationship which is the thing explained at the end of when he holds the baby Jane Doe and it's like I was abandoned. You'll be fine. I cry. I counted I cried eight times this season. I didn't even cry a lick. But I will say I found Dana and Robbie's relationship the most exciting. That was my favorite one to watch this season. It's most developed. Well, I mean because also the one interesting part about the ER is that so many doctors are on the newer end, but they don't actually have they're all exploring like they're related with one another to like you know an improv scenes when it's like you're supposed to know the character you meet on stage. They've known each other for so long also when the old nurse comes in a magamanica addicted to her. She's like y'all y'all kids. She's an administrative assistant. She doesn't she's actually not a nurse. I go people fought me on this online and a child nurse and I bring it up to because I don't want you to find yourself in the same perilous position that I have. I can't have the common-section warriors. What are they called? Yes. You got it. Oh, common-section warriors. Common-section administrative assistants. Uh, Santos being so annoyed about charting for six episodes did piss me off. I was like well, the her only plot being charting. The whole thing is like it's like remember the season three of the White Lotus how that dad kept getting calls and it's like we can't keep doing this. He got to call it dinner like I don't care. Wait, it's to me. It's funny. I that's what again like what I love about the show. It's had it ultimately. It has its moments of drama and it holds drama and it has its moment of comedy to lighten the drama and it holds the funny. Like I think there's a lot of shows where they draw money where everything is so like it's funny and it's series at the same time, but it's fun for a show to clearly like have distinctive tones during scenes because you're able to actually like discern exactly how you feel and sort of like the messiness that's happening in a season a show where it's like you're at a child's birthday party. The clown is an actually a creepy guy, but you also need pizza and it's like oh my god. It's like I guess that's funny, but also it's like serious. You got to make that show. That sounds really good. But do you know what I mean? Of course. I was just watching the season for finale of Gilmore Girls yesterday and it's exactly like that. Yeah, exactly. It's like there's so many stakes here too, but you're like oh, we got anchovies instead of pepperoni. No. I guess. I guess. Please. Whatever. Whatever. Major loser. What was your favorite? Well, we can go back to Dianne. Oh yeah, Dana. Dana. Hurt too. So Dana last time got punched in the face. Oh my god. Did I tell you? So did I say this on another episode? No. Dana has the whole plot line of doing the rape kit thing. Yeah, so moving. But then apparently her son has like all these allegations. So it's like no. Yeah, I read a whole Twitter thread. Are you kidding? Yeah, I'm not kidding. So that's a bummer. I think she's one of writers edition. Damn. Well, but then I'm like, well, wait, she, I, she's one of writers editions. She's one of the writers. Yeah, because her Noah. He's a writer. Yeah. Okay. This girl going on a day after her shift and the the amount of plots picked up and dropped would be frustrating if you weren't like, even more dynamic. Yeah, but what's so satisfying about that is like, well, that is how a shift works. Like that makes it more true to this because sometimes you're watching Gray's Anatomy and they're like, well, isn't that cute? Tied up in a bow, like, 1, 2, 3, whatever. But this it's like, okay, we don't ever hear about that again. Or like, we do hear about that. So many like mysteries like only murders in the building. Like if Steve Martin like notices a shelf, the shelf's going to come up later. But here, it's like if they notice something, it might not ever come back again. Well, because it's not a mystery show. Like, yeah, they don't, they're building suspense, but it's not be like in a classic mystery show. you like have an object that you were forward to in like episode one where like the haunted house across the street. And then episode two, you're like, oh God, there's someone in the house again. And then you just started to slightly noticing it, but it doesn't really like a weaves in and out of plot. And then it's like, and then it becomes the crux and then something happens in the house. So you like slightly notice, you're like, oh, there's a guy outside. And then you like like away and like the plot continues. But yes, I know exactly what I mean. Like this is a great example of season season two episode one, the end of it where Dr. Al-Mashimi gets a post-it note and her face is completely shocked. Do you remember this in what this season episode one, Dr. Al-Mashimi, she gets a note at the end of season one. And we don't get to see what's on the note, but she acts completely shocked by what's on the note. And then they don't tell you. Yeah, you know what, the whole thing with like her spacing out. And we later learned it's a seizure. I'm like, you know, I was stressed every day at my day job thinking about what was going to happen to her. Meanwhile, you could have just told me. Yeah, literally. There was so many things that it felt like the tension was bigger than the payoff. Yeah, me and a BBL jacket. When it came off, I thought she was going to fall apart like the girl in the green ribbon. Now, can we take a moment to talk about our boy, Whitaker and Langdon? Oh, can we? So Whitaker is like, hooking up with the farmer girl whose husband died. And she has a baby. Yeah, which is funny because during the season, he and again, you're talking about they drop plot. He Whitaker also goes. Whitaker right there. Yeah, Huckleberry. He goes. Don't call him that. He has to not be called that. Dr. Robbie goes, oh, you're going to take care of my house when I'm gone. So you don't hang out the pregnant woman. He goes, yeah, absolutely. And then you see him get in the truck out with the pregnant woman with the monster truck. It's so, but here's the thing about the Whitaker Langdon scene where Whitaker stands up for himself. I said, what is going on? That's been killing me. I've had this like voice in my head for the whole season of how Huckleberry talks. It's always like, I can't believe that. It's too much because Langdon is like, oh, you're like Charlotte's web. You're like, I can just imagine you on the farm with the good old pigs. And then he goes, you can't call me Huckleberry anymore. And then he goes, actually, because I, it's like, I'm more like this other TV show. It's like, well, you just got to fend about calling your like being referred to one TV show. And now you're all upset about your own reference. I just, sorry, that was confusing. I just thought like I was like, is this how boys like do an ego war with each other? What is going on? I'm like, I think even actors were confused. Right. You could tell in their acting, they were confused. Actually, if somebody watching was like, that was actually a very clear. Can you please leave a comment and explain what was going on? Langdon and Santos fighting. I do think what would have been the coolest thing ever was if Langdon like was like, ding, ding, ding, announcement everybody. I did have a drug thing. And that was what the whole thing. Like Santos yelling, I'll only forgive you if you do that. I'm like, that's kind of valid. But he kicked out the yard. Right. He would lose his job. Right. It would be valid. I'm not the nine. I'm just saying. I'm on Santos side. He can't really do that because he loses job. And then I'll show Dr. Robbie's credentials. We put into question. Oh, well, I really like him. So I don't want that to happen. Actually, Dr. Robbie does need to get better help. That's not if it's a little sponsored. Sorry. A different one. No CD. No CD. Let's cut to our second break. And then when we get back, we will wrap it all up in a beautiful bow just like they did. Yeah, literally. Evan, I still can't get over Jones or Beauty. It's literally now a part of my life. I'm excited for it for summer because the way I've just been like wearing sunscreen on my face during the week, having this in my bag whenever I need to like look alive. Hello. She's alive. Reanimated. Now you said your mom loves this stuff too. Oh my god. She loves it. I guess there's nothing so fun about connecting your lips to your cheeks to your wherever else you want to apply blush. Like the telephone color story on the face. This is the miracle bomb. They also have like a couple other things. 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Just head to jonesroadbeauty.com and use code Girls Rewatch at checkout. Guys, after your purchase, they might ask you like where you heard about them. Please tell you you found it out from me. Oh, found it from Amelia. Now, we've gone to the part of the episode where I would like to say that the ER is a mirror for America. Whoa. Yeah. And what's it reflected to you? So, you know, there's a lot of issues and they're complicated. It is mainly what it is. It's not so black and white. Is there one in protect? Okay. Well, of course, there's the ice of it all. There's the guy with the health insurance, the medical debt. Oh, my God. That broke my damn heart. I mean, it's a whole, there's not a single moment. One one interesting critique of if we start off the ice topic where when that episode came out, believe it's number seven. Mm-hmm. Or I mean, it always like number nine or whatever. People had a real critique of why are you bringing politics into the pit? I mean, well, healthcare isn't neatly litical. Boom. And the pod there. Well, it's the cover. It's always the conversation. Well, I'm just like, that is so, of course, what would happen. Right. Exactly. Like, it's not like, let's shoehorn this in. It's literally like, it wasn't also overly done. Like, one critique it did also get on the left was that it wasn't as poignant as it could have been or damning of ice. Oh, they wanted to be. People wanted to go much further than it did. Right. Because you know what, these characters are like, please just move over there so we can do our job. Right. And you can do your job. But I think if it was Grey's Anatomy, like Meredith would break some rules. Yeah, yeah. Like I do think this show is very like, well, we can buy somebody in Uber home, but we can't like adopt the baby. Exactly. Like ice punched a gay doctor. And then he got arrested. And then like, if it was Grey's Anatomy, they would have had a protest. It would have been a whole thing. Yeah. There would have been a whole thing. I think that's the difference. Yeah. And it ultimately, it's a great way to shoehorn politics instead of zeitgeist. I mean, it's so timely. And I'm there's no other show. I really know that like, even has covered ice. Yeah. Honestly, other than the news. Yeah. And I think it is like, well, how does ice? I mean, I remember being so interested in how like doctor and healthcare weaved into people in the prison system. And like what that looks like. Right. So similar with ice, it's like so interesting because it's like, you don't automatically think of that. And you're like, that is so complicated. And to me, it feels more earnest because when I watch everything on TikTok or social media about the coverage of ice or even the news, there's like a distinctive angle to it. And ultimately, I feel like it's why people enjoy comedy telling the news as well. Because when you are portraying it in like more earnest, and you like have like a kind of like distinctly cited, it ultimately becomes more truthful, at least in my standpoint, like when like John Stewart talks about the news, I believe him more than the average news anchor because everything feels so angled these days. You know how it's being produced by John Stewart because he's being so real in his opinion. You can like truly walk away with it. And you'd like never know exactly like how the camera is being faced. And like what was edited in and out of it, like a clip during the of ice in like Minnesota, per se. Like I don't know the exact fold truth. I have I see what I can. And then I try to discern. But because when it's scripted show talking about ice, you know exactly like what's happening from beginning to end. And because of that, for me, as a viewer, like I'm actually able to formulate my opinion even more. Which is fuck ice. Literally. So beyond ice, another thing that was like really huge in this season was the cost of health care, not having health insurance. And like one thing going wrong can put you thousands and thousands of dollars in debt forever. And it is like, I mean, it's just like a reminder of like how poverty is a cycle and how you get stuck in it. And like how we're all so close to situations of yours. Dr. Samira Mohan. Mohan is dealing with this father who has diabetes and like is kind of not doing well, but he's already in medical debt. And this is going to put him in more medical debt. And he doesn't want to miss work because he'll lose his job. And so he's rushing out and she's like, you need to stay. And then she's like, well, at least let me give you some things you can take home. And then he runs away. And then they try to get a case worker to like, help try to cover the costs. And it like lowers it to like 20 K from 50 K. And they're like, well, that doesn't help me. Like I work like gig work contract work like I don't have benefits. I'll never be able to make that up. The interest will still be a whole issue that follows me. And like, then he tries to kill himself or that's like, at least the suggested plot. Right. Um, where like he falls. But Dr. Robbie is like, I'm sure he jumped and he just didn't jump high enough. Yeah. Which like, I can't even imagine being a father and being so overwhelmed by like being a burden that you like are like the best thing I can do for my family is kill myself. That is so. And that's so like the stakes for so many people. And it ties in to the episode itself, which is all about like the trajectory of mental health between or to show itself for doctors for ER doctor. And even just even for the people taking into the ER, where we have so many cases where I mean, a really great example on is the mother with cancer who chooses to die at the hospital. Yeah. Because her like mental journey has ended as well. It's so like the what's Abigail Breslin movie? Sisters. The sister. My sister's keeper. Yeah. Where it's like Cameron Diaz Kate's ready to die let her. And it's like the husband's whole thing where it's like, that is like somebody who's like, you're married and kids. And it's like, you've made your peace with death. But then like, there's other characters in your life who haven't. And like, that is so devastated. I mean, that was the saddest thing to watch. And also the something that was really meaningful to me while watching, and especially like as we wrap up the season in most recent episode, where Dr. Alma Shidi has had these seizures. And she finally allows Dr. Robbie into her internal world. And he had just like a long list to his friend that he was feeling suicidal. And to watch her battle as she feels like she was this perfectionist and like tried to hold up a certain standard. But in her way, like her distress of the job is a thing that has caused the seizures to come back. And the mental toll that's taken. And then it's also on her physical health as well. Like how those are so intertwined. And Dr. Robbie, who's like physically found in a way even sicker than she is. Well, what is so powerful about their specific thing and reaching the breaking point is like how Robbie reacts being like, I won't let you control this. You are. And it kind of like proves that he does still have this will to live because if he really thought he was going to go die, he would be like, whatever. But the fact that like that information is given to him. And then all of a sudden, he responds, it's like when an earthquake happened to me, when I was depressed. And I said, I actually do want to live. Yeah. Like you realize. Yeah. Well, and ultimately, it seems that like he gains like a, he wants to live more more as the show goes on. Like even at the point where he like finally tells his friend that he's suicidal, it also seems within the episode that like he, like gotten, like yes, he's sad, but like he got into a better place throughout the season as well. Because episode one, he starts off so defeated. Yeah. Only the only thing we witness is like his walls coming down more, but not, I don't think like where his mindset, like I don't think he was in a worse mindset. And the moment he's like even able to acknowledge the truth, like it just pointed him in the direction of getting help because he's the whole season. He's just telling everyone else to get help, how they can get help prescribing them, how the other doctors, the patients, anyone he can talk to is like, how can I improve your life? How can I like create you to be a better version yourself? And I mean, like he kind of like lays down his own case, he is able to find a better version for himself as well. Yeah. It's any predictions, just to close out the conversation, any predictions for the new season, we really can talk about this show for like 17 more episodes. I know. Maybe we will. Maybe we will. I don't want to stop stock maybe. So I, it's hard to say with this show, like the initial predictions, I want to let this go into it, but it's hard to necessarily give a clear one because you don't know exactly where the show is going to pick up again. But I do think we will see Dr. Robbie back in the ER. I don't think he had went long on his journey on the motorcycle, unless the other side is that he's like completely injured by the motorcycle. And he just, he's getting, he's healing from it. It's his first day back in the ER after an injury. It's like when Meredith was like recovering in a bed being a doctor still. Yeah. We might see that. Um, I imagine, well, what I am nervous might happen is he'll come back and he'll be like on his woo-woo shit. Like, we're like, he is like transcendental meditating. And then like, he's in a really good place and he's everything solved. And then the like three months of healing he experienced immediately shatters in like one of the shifts. And then like, he's kind of back to, I think that one having just because they like to build the show so much. Yeah. I think any major event would have happened before. I think like the thing that like undead all the way, I think it could happen during the episode. I don't know if it happened right in the first hour though. I'm in his friend will die though, unfortunately. Oh, the old one. Yeah. I'm excited to see Mel like find a hobby outside of taking care of her sister watching Elf with her sister. Um, like, I want her to like join of Ali Bali. Yeah. And then I really am excited for Santos. Um, what if she got a plot line that's like, well, we know she like hooked up with the one doctor who's mean. Um, but I love like something else. I think we'll finally see sex in season three. I don't think we'll ever see sex. No, I think we've been hurting for most in the show. It's been sex tonight. Ultimately thing. It is cool how many fans have been able to weave sexual tales onto this sexless show. The best. Well, there's moments they let they want you to speculate. They want you to totally writers know exactly what they're doing. And that's what they will leave literally moments of just like lingering eye contact. Catholics everywhere are frothing up the mouth. Oh, I'm ready. How many of these US is to tell you. I love it. I think Dr. J will get into her presidency program of doing therapeutic emergency psychiatric emergency. Yeah. Thank you. And then Samira, is she going to go into geriatrics or what? Yes, she does. Period. She at the end of the episode she tells Dr. Robbie. And she gets the old guy to check his feet. That was huge. Hello. That was cool. You're high climbing me. Thank you guys so much for listening. 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