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Noah Wyle The Pitt Season 2 End Interview: Mental Health, Real Robby

Noah Wyle The Pitt Season 2 End Interview: Mental Health, Real Robby

[The following story contains spoilers from the season two finale of HBO Max’s The Pitt, “9:00 p.m.”] The Pitt season two finale conversation between Shawn Hatosy’s Dr. Jack Abbot and Noah Wyle‘s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch about their respective mental health struggles is not the first time that the two close friends and fellow attending physicians have talked about suicide. In fact, the topic comes up just minutes into the series’ first episode as Robby finds Abbot on the roof and jokes that jumping on his shift would be “rude.” Later in the first season, it’s Robby who’s up on the roof as Abbot tries to reassure him while Robby’s crying and talking about how he let himself and his staff down. Though both Robby and Abbot walk out of the hospital together at the end of season one, it was that moment that planted the seeds in Wyle’s mind for Robby’s suicidal thoughts in season two. “What would happen if Abbot hadn’t come back? If Abbot hadn’t stepped out and talked Robby down at …

Season 2 of The Pitt Has Fans Turning Against Dr. Robby

Season 2 of The Pitt Has Fans Turning Against Dr. Robby

If you dig into the vast and voracious community of The Pitt fans on the internet, you’ll find some curious opinions. After season two’s premiere in January, there were people who started shipping charge nurse Dana (Katherine LaNasa) and her new mentee Emma (Laëtitia Hollard)—in other words, wanting them to become a couple. Others are annoyed that Dr. McKay (Fiona Dourif) and Dr. Javadi (Shabana Azeez) haven’t gotten enough screen time together this year. Still more are obsessing over whether Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) is a “girl dad.” But by far the oddest Pitt opinion I’ve found served up by the algorithm is that Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) is ruining the show. This is strange on multiple levels. Wyle is an executive producer of The Pitt, as well as one of the driving creative forces behind the series. It quite literally would not exist without him. Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch is also the show’s main character—as much as this ensemble series has one. During the show’s wildly popular first season, Robby was treated as a …

Robby Hoffman Jokes Spirit Award Grant Recipients Can ‘Spend Money How You Want’

Robby Hoffman Jokes Spirit Award Grant Recipients Can ‘Spend Money How You Want’

Robby Hoffman was the most frequent presenter at the 2026 Independent Spirit Awards, and in between delivering some of the most shining commentary on Sunday, she had to jokingly walk back a claim she made when introducing a grant recipient. The Hacks star hit the Hollywood Palladium stage to state the winners of the Spirit Awards‘ three grants: the Someone to Watch Award, the Truer Than Fiction Award and the Producers Award. While she was introducing the first honor, Hoffman joked that “you can spend the money how you want. I mean, what the hell do I care, right?” (Tatti Ribeiro, director of Valentina, earned the Someone to Watch Award last month.) When Hoffman returned to launch the Truer Than Fiction Award segment, she joked that “the reason I’m back is they told me you’re actually not allowed to use the money however you see fit on the last grant.” “I didn’t read the script that they apparently emailed that came out a couple of weeks ago,” Hoffman said. “I’m behind on my emails, that’s the …

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

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

[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 …

“Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World

“Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World

Formed in 1965, the Doors burned hot until Jim Mor­ri­son died in 1971, and the band final­ly broke up in 1973. The group left behind more than a few fine songs—“Light My Fire,” “Break On Through (To the Oth­er Side),” “L.A. Woman,” and “Road­house Blues,” to name a few. Above, the music col­lec­tive Play­ing for Change pays trib­ute to anoth­er Doors clas­sic, “Rid­ers on the Storm.” Fea­tur­ing per­for­mances by the two sur­viv­ing Doors mem­bers John Dens­more and Rob­by Krieger, the video also weaves in appear­ances by 20+ musi­cians, every­one from Lukas and Mic­ah Nel­son, to Don Was and Foo Fight­ers key­boardist Rami Jaf­fee. Accord­ing to Play­ing for Change, the “per­for­mance reimag­ines the clas­sic anthem as a med­i­ta­tion on uni­ty, hope, and shared human­i­ty,” qual­i­ties that oth­er­wise seem in short sup­ply today. Enjoy! If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. It’s a great way to see our new posts, all bun­dled in one email, each day. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er …

Robby No Helmet, Dr. Al-Hashimi Tension

Robby No Helmet, Dr. Al-Hashimi Tension

[The following story contains spoilers from the season two premiere of The Pitt, “7:00 a.m.”] When The Pitt shared the opening of season two with viewers eager for a fresh glimpse of the hit medical drama, footage of Noah Wyle‘s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch riding a motorcycle to work was quickly met with variations of the same comment: Why isn’t Dr. Robby wearing a helmet? Particularly for The Pitt, with Wyle and others on the show stressing accuracy, showing the main character doing something that many ER docs say they would never do was a surprise. But, fear not, Pitt fans, all will be revealed. Showrunner R. Scott Gemmill and executive producer John Wells say the choice to have Robby biking in a more dangerous way “was by design,” Gemmill says, and to show that he was doing something he shouldn’t be doing. “It shouldn’t be how he is,” Gemmill tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Pennsylvania is a no helmet law state so you can ride without a helmet. And some people do. Robby shouldn’t, and …