It’s hard to believe we are barely seven months away from another season of The Pitt, the 15-episode season 2 ending just a short while ago. But in the interim, we’re getting new interviews and information about the series, and the latest is an interview with Sepideh Moafi, who played new character Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi in the series, who butted heads with Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby.
Fans, however, began to theorize that the actors were butting heads in real life, leading to the somber end to her story arc, something that Moafi shuts down in a new Variety interview:
“Absolutely not,” she says. “We’re really great colleagues. Noah and I have always had a great working relationship, which is why it actually felt safe to do the darker, dirtier work in episode 15, particularly because, between setups, we were shooting the shit and laughing. So that’s completely false that there’s a personal sort of beef or rivalry between us, at least not that I’m aware of. You can check with Noah, but I don’t know about this.”
The interview confirms that Dr. Al-Hashimi will be back for season 3, though her new storyline is under wraps, and she doesn’t know how many episodes she’ll be in. The season ended with Robby questioning her competence due to a recently resurging seizure disorder.
The question about the feud with Noah Wyle stems from a vocal subset of The Pitt fans who take to social media to often criticize the show, its character storylines and much of the time, Wyle himself. There was a similar movement to find “justice” for Supriya Ganesh’s Dr. Samira Mohan, a big character who will not return for season 2. Though that is after a two-season arc based around her not being a fit for the emergency department. Fans turned it into something else, however.
This fandom has also expressed itself in other annoying ways. Dr. Trinity Santos actor Isa Briones went on social media to call out fans who now scream things during her Broadway shows:
“Hey, hey, hey!” Briones wrote on Instagram. “Once again, Broadway is not a circus. Do not yell whatever you want at the performers. Yelling ‘when are you going to finish your charts’ before I sing ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’ is f***ing disrespectful to the performers onstage and your fellow audience members. Y’all are pissin’ me off.”
This is, of course, not the majority of the millions upon millions who watch The Pitt, but if you track these online conversations, the fandom does seem rather…off, even compared to other big-name series. Hopefully, with all these post-season 2 conversations, things can settle down a bit for season 3. But don’t count on it.
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