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Patrick Ball Awards Chatter Interview About ‘The Pitt,’ Addiction

Patrick Ball Awards Chatter Interview About ‘The Pitt,’ Addiction

Published by Daniella Wilson

Patrick Ball, an actor who is quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s top young stars, first burst onto the scene in 2025 with the debut of HBO Max’s emergency room-set drama series The Pitt, on which he plays Dr. Frank Langdon, a senior emergency medicine resident. Langdon works under senior attending physician Dr. “Robby,” who initially regards him as a protégé, but later loses faith in him upon learning that he has been stealing prescription painkillers from the hospital in order to work through a back injury. The show, which marks a reunion of ER star Noah Wyle, writer R. Scott Gemmill and showrunner John Wells, has found a large and loyal audience, garnered massive critical acclaim and last year, for its first season, was awarded five Emmys including best drama series. This year, for its second season, it has landed a field-leading 25 noms, including, in the category of best supporting actor in a drama series, one for Ball, who the TV Academy egregiously overlooked for his work on season one. Over the course of …

Noah Wyle on The Pitt Robby Therapy Issues, Langdon Tensions Explained

Noah Wyle on The Pitt Robby Therapy Issues, Langdon Tensions Explained

Published by Daniella Wilson

[The following story contains spoilers from the The Pitt season two, episode four, “10:00 a.m.”] When Noah Wyle‘s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch ended the first season of The Pitt with an emotional meltdown followed by a heart-to-heart with Shawn Hatosy’s Dr. Abbot on the roof and Abbot offering to connect Robby with his therapist, some sort of mental health treatment seemed like it would be on the horizon for season two. But, in an exchange with Christopher Thornton’s Dr. Caleb Jefferson in episode four, viewers learn that conventional therapy hasn’t really been working for Robby, as he says the last two people he saw weren’t his “speed” and that his upcoming motorcycle-trip sabbatical is the only sort of “zoom therapy” he’s interested in. “He’s coming up against what a lot of physicians face, which is it’s really hard for a doctor to be a patient,” Wyle told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the season two premiere. “It’s really hard to suddenly shift that vocational focus that’s been so directed outward, out of necessity for self …

Taylor Dearden on Mel’s Reaction to Langdon’s Rehab

Taylor Dearden on Mel’s Reaction to Langdon’s Rehab

Published by Daniella Wilson

[The following story contains spoilers through the second episode of The Pitt season two, “8:00 a.m.”] As Patrick Ball‘s Dr. Langdon has returned to the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center from a stint in rehab in The Pitt season two, viewers are likely watching how numerous characters are reacting to the disgraced doctor‘s return to the emergency department. While Noah Wyle’s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch is still cold to Langdon, banishing him to triage and refusing to engage too much with his formerly trusted colleague after he discovered Langdon’s drug addiction and kicked him out of the hospital near the end of season one, Taylor Dearden’s Dr. Mel King greets Langdon with open arms — literally. When she first sees him, she shouts out his name and runs over to give him a hug, eager to welcome back the fellow physician with whom she appeared to develop a fast friendship on her own first day in the emergency department in season one. But while she seems excited to see him, it’s not until the second episode …