"We'll See Everybody, For The Most Part": Here's What You Need To Know About "The Pitt" Season 2

If you've been connected the net lately — oregon heck, had a speech with ANYONE — past chances are you cognize astir The Pitt, a caller aesculapian play starring Noah Wyle that has go everyone's caller obsession.

Created by R. Scott Gemmill, this caller aesculapian play follows a radical of doctors moving astatine a infirmary successful Pittsburgh. What makes this amusement peculiar is each occurrence follows an hr of Dr. Robby's (Wyle) 15-hour displacement arsenic the main attendant successful the trauma hospital's exigency room.

The archetypal play was a runaway occurrence — and had the champion word-of-mouth campaigning I've ever seen successful the streaming epoch — with Warner Bros. Discovery revealing that each occurrence averaged 10 cardinal viewers since its premiere occurrence successful January 2025.

And now, it's clip to look up astatine Season 2, which Max already renewed for a 2nd play backmost successful February 2025.

So, here's everything we cognize astir The Pitt Season 2 (so far):

There are evidently MAJOR spoilers up for The Pitt Season 1!

1. First, the 2nd play volition travel the aforesaid format arsenic Season 1, with each occurrence pursuing 1 hr successful a shift. Speaking astir the value of the unsocial format for the show, creator R. Scott Gemmill told Variety, "The real-time facet seemed to beryllium the champion mode to seizure this satellite that we’d ne'er seen before, and we weren’t definite it was going to work, adjacent up until we started shooting."

2. The adjacent play volition beryllium acceptable 10 months aft the decision of Season 1, and it volition instrumentality spot implicit the Fourth of July play successful Pittsburgh. "Fourth of July has a clump of things, and we’d done a vacation past season, Labor Day. It conscionable fell into place. There's fireworks; idiosyncratic doesn’t bash truthful good astatine a hot-dog-eating contest; somebody’s sunburned. You tin spot each the cases wandering in," Gemmill told Vulture.

3. There volition besides beryllium 15 episodes again, with Gemmill telling Vulture, "It's tempting to bash more, but it’s precise hard connected our crew. I'd alternatively archer a choky 15 than a floppy 18." While Season 1 was primitively expected to lone beryllium 12 episodes, the 15-hours successful the displacement ended up moving beautifully.

4. The clip leap volition besides mean that definite doctors mightiness not beryllium moving successful the ER anymore. However, Gemmill told TVLine, "We'll spot everybody, for the astir part, and immoderate radical mightiness beryllium moving antithetic hours and antithetic shifts, but it’s beauteous overmuch the aforesaid crew." Notably, Whitaker (Gerran Howell) volition beryllium an intern present and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) volition apt beryllium doing a sub-internship.

5. The play volition apt prime up with Langdon's (Patrick Ball) archetypal time backmost astatine enactment aft Robby demanded helium cheque himself into a 30-day inpatient rehab if helium wanted to travel back. Gemmill told TVLine, "I deliberation we volition prime up connected Langdon's archetypal time backmost astatine work, but it'll beryllium much than a period ... The biggest operator of [the clip leap is] Langdon."

6. Since Season 2 starts with Langdon's archetypal time back, it allows the assemblage to catch up with the characters portion Langdon does. With a 10-month clip jump, determination volition beryllium a batch of improvement for storylines and characters that audiences (and Langdon) volition beryllium learning astir erstwhile the play begins.

7. At the extremity of Season 1, it seems similar Dana (Katherine LaNasa) won't beryllium returning, and if the adjacent play were to instrumentality spot "the adjacent time oregon the adjacent week, you wouldn't spot Dana," according to Gemmill. However, due to the fact that of the clip jump, it sounds similar Dana volition apt return, but we'll spot a displacement successful however she approaches the job. Gemmill told TVLine, "I deliberation she needs to instrumentality immoderate clip disconnected to truly speech to her husband, speech astir what she wants retired of life…. I deliberation erstwhile she comes back, she’s going to person a spot of an cognition adjustment, though."

8. In keeping with the format of the play chronicling 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. successful a shift, determination volition not beryllium flashbacks to what happened successful the 10-month clip leap due to the fact that "that's not the show," according to Gemmill.

9. Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) won't beryllium joining the time displacement successful Season 2 due to the fact that helium "loves the nighttime shift, truthful he’s not going to enactment a time displacement if helium doesn’t privation to," according to Gemmill. However, helium teased to TVLine that the writers person "a astonishment for him adjacent season," with Wyle adding, "We besides haven't told him yet."

10. The 2nd play volition present "a mates of caller characters," according to Gemmill. He told The Hollywood Reporter, "You person med students showing up, you person med students moving on, you person specialists showing up. That allows america to support it live and support it authentic, so, yeah, I deliberation it helps to spot immoderate caller faces. And caller faces bring caller characters and caller perspectives."

11. Season 2 volition besides research Robby continuing to grapple with his past trauma and statesman a larger healing journey. Gemmill told The Hollywood Reporter, "Robby knows his concealed is retired and realizes that helium has to travel to presumption and woody with this, and portion of this 2nd play volition beryllium astir seeing Robby and what steps he's taking to woody with his past trauma, and adjacent the astir recent, the wide shooting, but portion of it is his travel of healing."

12. Brainstorming has already begun connected the types of aesculapian cases that could beryllium explored successful Season 2. Gemmill told Vulture that helium had "four oregon 5 pages" of aesculapian cases helium wanted to perchance research erstwhile helium got to the writers' country for Season 2. Some of the things connected the database were: Safe-haven babies, ICE successful the ER, "a fewer caller diseases," and a script wherever a wife's exigency interaction is her husband, adjacent though they aren't unneurotic anymore.

13. For Season 2, Wyle volition constitute "two much episodes than helium did successful Season 1 and volition nonstop an episode," according to The Hollywood Reporter. For the archetypal season, Wyle wrote the episodes "10:00 a.m." and "3:00 p.m.," aka Hour 4 and Hour 9 of the 15-hour shift.

14. According to Wyle, per Variety, filming is scheduled to statesman successful June 2025. A bulk of the bid is filmed connected the Warner Bros. soundstages successful Los Angeles. However, immoderate exterior shots are filmed connected location astatine Allegheny General Hospital successful Pittsburgh.

15. And finally, arsenic of close now, Season 2 is connected way to premiere successful January 2026 — precisely a twelvemonth aft Season 1 premiered connected Max.

Well, that's each for now! We'll beryllium definite to update you arsenic much info is revealed astir Season 2!

What did you deliberation of The Pitt Season 1? And what are you astir excited for successful Season 2? Tell america everything successful the comments below!