I thought that was a bicycle injury, not a motorcycle, and car vs cyclist, a helmet isn’t the problem…
Langdon has been and continues to be a shit. I’m on Robbies side. He’s come back from six months (?) rehab and apologised to EVERYONE but the person who caught him, who should have been the absolute and complete first stop. If he thinks he wasn’t putting some poor student doctor into a completely crap position in reporting him, then he’s not got the rehab bit correct and I’d not trust him being clean. He’s an addict who’s been caught and blames the innocent person for it.
He is also treating her like a brand new medical student, and in front of people who don’t know the story. It is telling that Robbie hasn’t been assigning her to him, and he did this stuff when other people are present. He is getting some sort of revenge inside the limits he has.
I do like how ER/Pitt portrays flawed people and the actor is doing it very well. But Langon is a shit who does not yet need forgiving.
What’s going on with the suicidal mother? She claimed to have tried to get the kid to help her in the garden, but then the camera lingers on the dirt under his fingernails. Am I missing something obvious?
I think they’re providing clues a little at a time. I don’t think she’s being quite truthful. There’s a reason she stepped in front of that truck.
Yeah, she is obviously lying about what happened. She said she was gardening, but she was wearing a dress and didn’t seem to have any dirt on her.
Santos is really pissing me off. She has no business telling Langdon how to make his amends. She really needs to dial back her anger and attitude.
I agree to a point about Santos but it’s the one time when some of her anger is justified. He did put her in a bad position and with everyone (except Robbie) so happy to see him back, she is right to point out how unfair that is. His apology was weak, he confesses to being an asshole and didn’t really acknowledge upfront that his behavior was criminal. I don’t like Santos as much as I like Langdon, but I liked someone pointing out that he still has a way to go to be forgiven entirely.
Edited to add- I think I identify with her here because I once had to testify against a bad veterinarian that I worked for. There were at least two other vets that were well aware of his incompetence, but they didn’t testify at the hearing, it was staff that had to. I was truthful about the event- it was a terrible action by the vet, but I was questioned aggressively and with some hostility by one of the board members. I just thought that the vets that worked there should have reported him long before it got to that point, but they distanced themselves from it as much as they could.
I think Santos was justified. She and Robbie are the only ones who know he was stealing drugs (and put patients at risk). He’s not honestly making amends if he doesn’t acknowledge that fact.
I disagree. She can chose to accept his amends or not on a personal level. It’s not up to her to make demands about what he does beyond that. It’s in her past. It’s up to her to let that go. He will have to deal with it every day for the rest of his life.
She claims she has been treated like a pariah since he was forced to leave. Maybe that’s part of it. Maybe she’s unwilling to admit people treat her a certain way because she’s an asshole towards everyone?
To make another prediction based on absolutely nothing other than what just popped into my head, Langdon will think about it for the next few hours and then come clean to everyone at the end of the shift.
The new boss knows now. It will be interesting to see whose side she comes down on. I’m on Team Santos.
The award for the most hated character has to go to Javadi’s mother. She comes in during the aortic dissection and immediately assumes it was her daughter’s mistake in front of everyone. She’s despicable.
Not as sure. Could be. Could be that she put him the car for a time out and didn’t realize the danger. But could be that she is telling the truth and feeling that guilty for not keeping closer tabs on him.
The close-up of her hands was pretty telling. If they put her on a psych-hold, does that mean she is not competent to authorize treatment of her son?
Thinking about this some: In a workplace like a hospital ER, how does word of Dr Langdon’s theft not spread like wildfire among the staff? In real life, would there be professional repercussions if Santos told roomie Whitaker across the breakfast table one morning — and this fact were discovered?
Also, Langdon disappears for six months. Have to be a lot of plausible rumors filling in the knowledge gaps of the collective staff.
Make that a 15- to 16-hour shift. Dr Robbie agreed to wait until Duke got his CT scan in “3 or 4 hours”. Tying Duke neatly into the plot.
What I really hope that means is that there will be 15 episodes this season.
I think that’s the plan, although the actual hospital shift is only twelve hours (which is how it works many places). The first season had the mass casualty incident to explain why everyone stayed past the normal shift end but I don’t see how they use that excuse every season. People are naturally exhausted and another crew is coming on-shift at the end.
Because they should have been dirty from gardening?
On the other hand, it looked the boy was digging in dirt. Any chance the boy put some kind of poisonous plant in his mouth or something? The doctors did diagnose heatstroke, though. Hmmm.
This is already confirmed. The 15th episode of Season 2 will be April 16th.
Yeah. The camera is either trying to tell us something (she’s lying) or purposely trying to misdirect us (she wears gardening gloves).
Incidentally, prior to the beginning of the season, the executive producer John Wells said on a podcast that the show was asked by HBO Max that the portrayal of ICE be “balanced.”
But no, they [HBO Max] just wanted to make sure it was balanced. The thing we have to be careful about when we’re talking about any of these issues—when we’re talking about vaccines, when we’re talking about the way in which the healthcare system works—is to make certain that we’re actually presenting both points of view. Because we’re not really in the business of preaching to the choir on this show. There are real issues about immigration, there are real issues about immigration enforcement within the public health system in which you really need people to come in. So, that’s what we were dealing with, and they just wanted to make sure it was balanced. But they weren’t saying ‘Don’t do this’ or ‘Don’t do that.’ In fact quite the opposite—we showed them a lot of the research and they were like, ‘yeah, that looks like a good story.