Warning: This review contains full spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 10!
The best episodes of The Pitt are nothing if not an ordeal. They leave you physically and emotionally exhausted after an hour of watching these intrepid doctors and nurses frantically scramble to stem the tide of human suffering. Watching the series is equal parts stressful and rewarding, and rarely has that been more true than with Season 2, Episode 10. This latest installment fires on all cylinders as it chronicles another harrowing hour at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.
I won’t even bury the lede here – I think “4:00 PM” is the first 10-worthy installment of Season 2. It’s not that this episode is drastically different from its predecessors. Given the way that this series unfolds in real-time across a single day, there’s obviously a strong throughline linking each and every episode. But all the moving parts combine in a subtle way to create what is easily the most harrowing and gripping installment of Season 2 so far.
The big development in “4:00 PM” involves a new influx of patients injured from a malfunctioning waterslide. That in itself yields plenty of compelling drama. We get the woman with the severed leg (a subplot that benefits from a bit of black humor involving Ogilvie [Lucas Iverson] fumbling over said leg). We get the father more concerned about the whereabouts of his son than his own serious injuries. And we get the mystery of whether the critically injured, potentially paralyzed child is that son. All of this combines to add even more urgency to an already frantic ER.
