Now That "The Pitt" Season 1 Is Over, Here's Everything You Need To Know About Season 2

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15-04-2025

If you've been on the internet lately — or heck, had a conversation with ANYONE — then chances are you know about The Pitt, a new medical drama starring Noah Wyle that has become everyone's new obsession.
Created by R. Scott Gemmill, this new medical drama follows a group of doctors working at a hospital in Pittsburgh. What makes this show special is each episode follows an hour of Dr. Robby's (Wyle) 15-hour shift as the chief attendant in the trauma hospital's emergency room.
The first season was a runaway success — and had the best word-of-mouth campaigning I've ever seen in the streaming era — with Warner Bros. Discovery revealing that each episode averaged 10 million viewers since its premiere episode in January 2025.
And now, it's time to look ahead at Season 2, which Max already renewed for a second season back in February 2025.
So, here's everything we know about The Pitt Season 2 (so far):
There are obviously MAJOR spoilers ahead for The Pitt Season 1!
1. First, the second season will follow the same format as Season 1, with each episode following one hour in a shift. Speaking about the importance of the unique format for the show, creator R. Scott Gemmill told Variety, "The real-time aspect seemed to be the best way to capture this world that we'd never seen before, and we weren't sure it was going to work, even up until we started shooting."
He added, "I think one of the things that separates the emergency department from other forms of medicine is the time factor — not just the amount of time you wait to be seen, but also the patients that are brought in who only have moments to live if these guys don't work fast enough."
2. The next season will be set 10 months after the conclusion of Season 1, and it will take place over the Fourth of July weekend in Pittsburgh. "Fourth of July has a bunch of things, and we'd done a holiday last season, Labor Day. It just fell into place. There's fireworks; somebody doesn't do so well at a hot-dog-eating contest; somebody's sunburned. You can see all the cases wandering in," Gemmill told Vulture.
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Gemmill said if they are fortunate to get a few seasons under their belts, then maybe they'd explore doing a winter season. But, for now, they film some exterior scenes in Pittsburgh in September, so it's easiest to do a summer-themed season.
3. There will also be 15 episodes again, with Gemmill telling Vulture, "It's tempting to do more, but it's very difficult on our crew. I'd rather tell a tight 15 than a floppy 18." While Season 1 was originally supposed to only be 12 episodes, the 15-hours in the shift ended up working beautifully.
4. The time jump will also mean that certain doctors might not be working in the ER anymore. However, Gemmill told TVLine, "We'll see everybody, for the most part, and some people might be working different hours and different shifts, but it's pretty much the same crew." Notably, Whitaker (Gerran Howell) will be an intern now and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) will likely be doing a sub-internship.
When asked if we would ever see any of these doctors or interns working in other departments outside of the ER, Gemmill said, "We're never going to go to other departments."
5. The season will likely pick up with Langdon's (Patrick Ball) first day back at work after Robby demanded he check himself into a 30-day inpatient rehab if he wanted to come back. Gemmill told TVLine, "I think we will pick up on Langdon's first day back at work, but it'll be more than a month ... The biggest driver of [the time jump is] Langdon."
6. Since Season 2 starts with Langdon's first day back, it allows the audience to catch up with the characters while Langdon does. With a 10-month time jump, there will be a lot of development for storylines and characters that audiences (and Langdon) will be learning about when the season begins.
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Wyle told TVLine that the time jump also allows the doctors to grapple with the trauma that comes with working in the ER during a mass casualty event. He said, "There's no benefit in coming back quickly before everybody's had a chance to have this experience really sink in, and it manifests itself in behaviors that are interesting to watch — that are different or more informed than in Season 1."
7. At the end of Season 1, it seems like Dana (Katherine LaNasa) won't be returning, and if the next season were to take place "the next day or the next week, you wouldn't see Dana," according to Gemmill. However, because of the time jump, it sounds like Dana will likely return, but we'll see a shift in how she approaches the job. Gemmill told TVLine, "I think she needs to take some time off to really talk to her husband, talk about what she wants out of life…. I think when she comes back, she's going to have a bit of an attitude adjustment, though."
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Wyle also added to TVLine, "Obviously, Dana is an important part [of this show]. But Dana choosing to come back — if she chooses to come back, and how she comes back, and what Dana is like having made the decision to come back, and what she's going to allow this place to either do or not do to her going forward, becomes the stuff that, you know, is the grist for the mill."
8. In keeping with the format of the season chronicling 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in a shift, there will not be flashbacks to what happened in the 10-month time jump because "that's not the show," according to Gemmill.
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He added to TVLine, "I think that's what worked for us. It comes with its challenges, but that's also what makes it fun because you're playing in this tight little box."
9. Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) won't be joining the day shift in Season 2 because he "loves the night shift, so he's not going to work a day shift if he doesn't want to," according to Gemmill. However, he teased to TVLine that the writers have "a surprise for him next season," with Wyle adding, "We also haven't told him yet."
Speaking about the reveal in the Season 1 finale that Abbot has a prosthetic leg, Gemmill told the Hollywood Reporter that they knew the reveal would happen from "the get-go," and they wanted something to connect him to how well he was able to perform during a mass casualty scenario.
Gemmill said, "We wanted to make Abbot a vet, and his experience in those scenarios, those situations, inform him somewhat as a doctor. And when we got to see how well he performed during the mass casualty because he's been in, unfortunately, those kind of situations before, and that seemed like if he suffered an injury, a pretty significant one, as a result of that, I think it makes for a more interesting and a more sympathetic character."
10. The second season will introduce "a couple of new characters," according to Gemmill. He told The Hollywood Reporter, "You have med students showing up, you have med students moving on, you have specialists showing up. That allows us to keep it alive and keep it authentic, so, yeah, I think it helps to see some new faces. And new faces bring new characters and new perspectives."
It also sounds like there are no current plans to incorporate the night shift doctors, like Ellis (Ayesha Harris), into the day shift crew for Season 2.
11. Season 2 will also explore Robby continuing to grapple with his past trauma and begin a larger healing journey. Gemmill told The Hollywood Reporter, "Robby knows his secret is out and realizes that he has to come to terms and deal with this, and part of this second season will be about seeing Robby and what steps he's taking to deal with his past trauma, and even the most recent, the mass shooting, but part of it is his journey of healing."
Wyle added, "[Robby can't] go home and pretend to himself any longer that he doesn't have a problem. So it's really a question for Season 2: problem identified, Season 2 treatment. Whether or not he buys into it, what mode he would buy into, what effect it would take — doctors don't make the best patients."
12. Brainstorming has already begun on the types of medical cases that could be explored in Season 2. Gemmill told Vulture that he had "four or five pages" of medical cases he wanted to potentially explore when he got to the writers' room for Season 2. Some of the things on the list were: Safe-haven babies, ICE in the ER, "a few new diseases," and a scenario where a wife's emergency contact is her husband, even though they aren't together anymore.
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He added, "There are so many things going on; you just have to open a newspaper. Where do you start? For us, it's not about finding stories — it's about deciding which ones not to tell."
13. For Season 2, Wyle will write "two more episodes than he did in Season 1 and will direct an episode," according to The Hollywood Reporter. For the first 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.
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"10:00 a.m." featured the nurses taking bets on where the stolen ambulance is, and it continued the medical abortion storyline and the death of Mr. Spencer, with Robby helping his two adult children deal with the loss.
"3:00 p.m." followed McKay (Fiona Dourif) believing one of her patients was being sexually trafficked by her "boss," and the episode ended with Doug notably punching Dana.
14. According to Wyle, per Variety, filming is scheduled to begin in June 2025. A majority of the series is filmed on the Warner Bros. soundstages in Los Angeles. However, some exterior shots are filmed on location at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Some of the exteriors that were filmed on location in Season 1 were Abbot and Robby on the roof, the doctors in the park at the end of their shift, the helicopter landing on the roof, and more.
15. And finally, as of right now, Season 2 is on track to premiere in January 2026 — exactly a year after Season 1 premiered on Max.
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It's been reported that Max intends to have a new season of The Pitt air every year.
Well, that's all for now! We'll be sure to update you as more info is revealed about Season 2!
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