Ball says he cannot wait to see what occurs with Langdon in Season 2, earlier than reflecting on his character’s season-long drama with Santos and the way some viewers have been “rooting” for the incorrect physician.
Warning: This put up incorporates spoilers concerning the season finale of The Pitt.
That is a wrap on Season 1 of The Pitt — with Dr. Langdon’s future on the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital hanging within the stability.
The Max medical drama, which has already been renewed for a second season, follows a bunch of docs, nurses, interns and sufferers — in actual time — throughout one shift within the emergency room. All through the primary 15 episodes, Patrick Ball’s senior resident, Dr. Langdon, begins off as an enthralling character, earlier than butting heads with intern Dr. Santos (Isa Briones), who ultimately exposes him for stealing medicine from sufferers.
Whereas Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby kicks him out of the ER, Landgon returns to assist after a capturing floods the hospital with sufferers. Within the finale, as issues lastly start to decelerate after a chaotic couple of hours, Langdon thanks Robby for permitting him to return — solely to be met with anger and disappointment from Wyle’s character.
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It is a highly effective confrontation between the pair, as Robby insists Langdon indicators up for a 30-day in-patient therapy program, and undergo urine assessments and NA conferences for five years. “You let me down, you let all people down, particularly your self. This job will f–k you up in the event you let it. You let it,” he tells him, earlier than Langdon throws Robby’s breakdown again in his face. Their heated dialog ends with Robby yelling, “F–k you!” whereas storming off — and Langdon’s destiny unknown.
“It was unimaginable,” Ball instructed TooFab of filming the emotional confrontation. “As quickly as we completed that scene — that scene was my very last thing for the season, it was the very last thing we shot, it was an evening time exterior and all people was on location — as quickly as we wrapped it, Noah simply turns to me and like offers me this large hug.”
Pictures Ball shared to Instagram present the pair hugging it out within the hospital parking zone, after they wrapped filming (above left).
“And like all people circles up and [producer] John Wells is available in and offers me a hug and and it was, yeah, it was fairly life affirming,” added Ball. “It was fairly wonderful.”
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As for whether or not Langdon will take Robby up on his “second likelihood” provide, Ball mentioned he does not know what the writers have in retailer for Season 2.
“I do not and I believe that is for the very best. I believe it is for the very best as a result of I am horrible at holding a secret,” he instructed TooFab. “I do not know what occurs, however [creator R. Scott Gemmill] is actually good … at what he does. I can not wait to see what he has in thoughts.”
He additionally touched on Langdon’s interactions with Santos after his shock return to the hospital, as his character did not do a lot to easy issues over together with her after he realized she was the one who reported him.
“It should be a very attention-grabbing factor to navigate as a result of I believe there’s– clearly there is a various methods through which Langdon was within the incorrect and I believe, to what diploma can he take possession over that and be taught from that can be attention-grabbing to see,” he instructed TooFab.
“However I additionally suppose his job and profession and life as he is aware of it has been utterly derailed by her. That will require a large slice of humble pie,” he mentioned of Langdon presumably making an attempt to take accountability and cease blaming Santos. “It’s going to be a very attention-grabbing factor to unpack going ahead.”
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Ball then mirrored on how fan response to Santos modified all through the season, because the character initially rubbed some viewers the incorrect method together with her confidence, angle and for delivering somebody they rapidly grew keen on.
“Scott Gemmill, the show-runner, it was only a masterstroke in how he constructed the season. Like Langdon is the man that everyone likes. He is enjoyable, he is a very good time. And we wish to root for him as a result of he makes issues enjoyable,” mentioned Ball.
“After which Santos is available in and is sort of the naysayer and is sort of brash — weirdly, sort of in an analogous method that Langdon is brash — however for some purpose, it is off placing over right here, whereas it is charming over right here,” he continued.
“I believe the viewers was was rooting for Langdon to be proper. Then at any time when it turned out that that Santos was telling the reality, I believe there’s rightfully a little bit of self interrogation that everybody has to do as as to why. Why could not we imagine this?” he requested. “My dream is that in the event you return and also you rewatch the season, you may see, like, the indicators are there. I believe the discourse round all of it’s actually attention-grabbing. A few of it is extra clever than others.”
He concluded, “However I believe the truth that there may be such a wealthy dialog occurring round this dynamic is wonderful as an actual testomony to the way in which Scott wrote it.”
Season 1 of The Pitt is streaming now in full on Max.
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