Another week, another hour in the July 4th shift on HBO Max‘s The Pitt. And as usual, the show stayed all business as… Wait, hold up — and spoilers past this point — is Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) practicing a little private medicine with nurse Noelle Hastings (Meta Golding)??
About halfway through the episode, we meet Hastings, a new character for Season 2, as she comes around a corner to interrupt a convo between Robby and Dr. McKay (Fiona Dourif). “Belay that order, sailor,” Hastings says flirtily, which may be a word or perhaps not. “Doctor… Robinavitch.”
“You can call me Robby,” Dr. Robby says, and you can see the sparks flying.
“You can call me Noelle,” she shoots back.
The camera then hilariously cuts to McKay, who realizes you can cut this vibe with a knife. “You can just tell me what the hell’s going on here,” she says.
Robby, in a rare case of being flustered, can’t get out the info that Hastings is the “bed control manager,” to which she clarifies she’s the “space manager,” and things get back to business… Though McKay isn’t buying it, and Hastings and Robby are certainly playing the whole conversation like two parents laying down the law for an annoyed teen.
After McKay leaves, Hastings wants to know what’s up, with Robby explaining she has a “heightened sense of empathy,” and “is good at picking up on stuff.”
“You didn’t say anything, did you?” Hastings asks.
“Nope,” answers Robby. “I subscribe to the Falstaff advice: discretion is the better part of valor.”
The conversation ends with a helpful reminder that Robby is about to head off on a three month motorcycle trip sabbatical, with Hastings pointedly saying, “I don’t understand why you can’t leave in the morning,” before Robby excuses himself… Though he promises he’ll find her before he leaves.
There’s a kicker to the whole sequence, which is the all-seeing charge nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) calls on Hastings before she leaves the ER. “Hope you know what you’re doing,” Evans says.
“What is that supposed to mean?” Hastings asks, to which Evans gives a knowing look. “I’m a big girl.”
“Okay, big girl,” says Evans.
So yeah, in case you’re not Dr. McKay or Dana Evans and couldn’t put two and two together: Hastings and Robby are doing some bed management of their own, if you know what I mean. How serious it is is TBD, but it certainly seems like whatever is happening they’re going to be putting things on hold for three months while Robby goes on his journey of the mind. And Evans’s warning could be that she can see Hastings is falling hard, while Robby has his own demons to deal with that mean he likely won’t be able to commit.
Putting aside the rising temperature of it all, it is always surprising when this show delves into romance… It’ll never be Grey’s Anatomy with doctors hooking up in the closets, or even the helicopter crashes of E.R. (well, probably). But in a weird way downplaying it makes it even more romantic and intriguing. We get so much on these doctors work lives, getting anything about their personal lives has the sense of uncovering buried treasure.
So is there more to come on #Robastings? Given he says he’ll say goodbye, probably. But if not? You’re a big girl, you can take it.
The Pitt Season 2 Premiere Dates And Episode Guide:
New episodes of The Pitt premiere Thursdays on HBO Max at 9 p.m. ET. While the full episode release schedule has yet to be officially announced, the season will run 15 episodes, and we currently expect it to run straight through without breaks, with one episode premiering per week.
We also expect that it will follow the same real-time format hour by hour as Season 1. While the first nine episode “titles” are confirmed it’s always possible there could be a twist at the end of the season. So full caveat here that this may change, TBA by HBO Max.
Here’s what we expect from the full list of episodes in The Pitt Season 2 with premiere dates.
- Thursday, January 8, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 1 – “7:00 A.M.”
- Thursday, January 15, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 2 – “8:00 A.M.”
- Thursday, January 22, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 3 – “9:00 A.M.”
- Thursday, January 29, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 4 – “10:00 A.M.”
- Thursday, February 5, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 5 – “11:00 A.M.”
- Thursday, February 12, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 6 – “12:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, February 19, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 7 – “1:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, February 26, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 8 – “2:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, March 5, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 9 – “3:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, March 12, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 10 – “4:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, March 19, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 11 – “5:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, March 26, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 12 – “6:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, April 2, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 13 – “7:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, April 9, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 14 – “8:00 P.M.”
- Thursday, April 16, 2026: The Pitt, Season 2, Episode 15 – “9:00 P.M.” *Season Finale*
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