Final night time’s The Pitt Season 2 premiere on HBO Max reunited two Season 1 favorites in probably the most lovely means attainable. When Dr. Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball) returns to the Pitt for his first shift after months away going by way of rehab and counseling, nobody is happier to see him than his Season 1 mentee, Dr. Mel King (Taylor Dearden).
As quickly as Mel sees that Langdon has returned, she exuberantly goes in for a hug, earlier than pulling again, realizing that they’re in a piece place. It’s a cute second that followers may need already seen prominently positioned in HBO Max’s trailers for The Pitt, nevertheless it performs even higher inside the context of the scene.
“It was nice,” The Pitt star Taylor Dearden advised DECIDER about Mel and Langdon’s reunion. “I feel Mel feels very insecure about her lack of associates and I feel to have somebody she is aware of is on her aspect, it’s all the time refreshing for her to sort of really feel like at the very least somebody will get her.”
“Yeah, I feel it’s nice. I feel it’s a really attention-grabbing relationship,” Patrick Ball advised DECIDER. “And I feel it actually is that this kind of unlikely bond that reveals up between the 2 of them.”
For Langdon, the state of affairs is extra sophisticated. He’s returning after an prolonged absence triggered by the Season 1 reveal that he was not solely hooked on benzos, but additionally pilfering medication from sufferers like Louis Cloverfield (Ernest Harden Jr.).
“I feel it’s most likely troublesome to return again in and have somebody like Mel — who I’ve beforehand felt like a giant brother to and beforehand felt like a mentor to or a task mannequin to — and understand that I’ve actually let her down,” Ball stated. “I feel the disgrace spiral kind of makes it troublesome to be as current for that relationship as possibly he ought to or might be.”
“However, yeah, I feel coming again in and seeing all of my outdated associates once more is a sophisticated expertise,” he added.
Followers of Mel and Langdon’s friendship have extra to sit up for in subsequent week’s episode, when the 2 lastly do get an opportunity to catch up and join.
“I think about the ten months with out him was, , she did wonderful and she or he befriended everybody to a level,” Dearden stated, “however simply this shared trauma, too, of going by way of mass casualty collectively and having him be one in every of her solely advocates, I feel, it’s good to be again in that in that area.”
The Pitt Season 2 Episode 2 premieres on Thursday, January 15 at 9 PM ET on HBO Max.
