Season one introduces Dr. Robby and his Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital dayshift team, which includes two bright-eyed medical students, an arrogant intern, and multiple resident doctors.
While the workday is already chaotic from the start, the drama intensifies when there’s a mass shooting at a festival near the hospital.
Robby is barely keeping it together already, still dealing with trauma from working at the hospital during the pandemic. When his stepson’s girlfriend dies on his watch due to injuries from the shooting, he breaks down and is consoled by one of the medical students.
The team pulls through with only six deaths out of the 112 patients that come to the hospital. Dr. Jack Abbott, a night-shift doctor, talks Dr. Robby down from quitting — or jumping off the roof.
There are other unresolved stories at the end of the finale. Dr. Langdon was caught stealing drugs, Dr. McKay got in trouble with the police for breaking her ankle monitor to help save the multiple shooting victims, and there are a few patients still in critical care that have to be passed on to the night shift team.
Season two may not even address or resolve these story threads.
R. Scott Gemmill, the show’s creator, said during a Deadline Contenders TV panel event in April that season two would be set 10 months later than season one, during a Fourth of July weekend. It will still keep the 15-hour shift model.
Holidays are some of the busiest days for hospitals, and the Fourth of July has one of the biggest spikes in hospital visits of the year, partly due to incidents with fireworks. Fans are expecting even more chaos than season one.
