https://ew.com/the-pitt-season-2-first-look-reveals-new-doctor-langdon-returns-exclusive-11794042
Sepideh Moafi arrives as Dr. Al-Hashimi, an attending who will have some "tension" with Dr. Robby in season 2.
Season 2 takes place on July 4th, 10 months after the events of the season 1 finale. Showrunner R. Scott Gemmill tells Entertainment Weekly that timeline was chosen specifically to bring back Dr. Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball); the season will take place over the course of his first day back after completing rehab. (For those who might need a quick refresher: Langdon was caught stealing medication from the hospital, leading to a blow-out fight with Noah Wyle's Dr. Robby and the revelation of a drug addiction)
Gemmill acknowledges that most of the other doctors will be well aware of Langdon's drug problem by now — "gossip seems to travel faster than the internet" — but there are some new characters that won't know the extent of what happened. It'll be the first time Langdon and Robby cross paths since their dramatic fallout in season 1. "Let's just say there's a lot of history that has to be resolved between them before they can get back to any kind of normalcy," Gemmill says.
One such new character is Dr. Al-Hashimi, played by Black Bird and Generation Q: The L Word star Sepideh Moafi, an attending who arrives at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center from the VA Hospital, where she previously worked with Dr. Mel King (Taylor Dearden) and Dr. Samira Mohan (Supriya Ganesh).
"She's gonna be someone who's very progressive in her approach to medicine and believes in the modernization of the medical field," Gemmill says. "And Robby's a little bit more old school and there'll be a little bit of, let's just say, tension as they try and figure out how to work together."
He adds, "Robby has a very specific way of how he likes to run his emergency department, and Dr. Al-Hashimi has her own specific ways of how she likes to run an emergency department, and they're not necessarily cohesive."
According to Gemmill, season 2 is really about Robby "coming to terms" with the post-traumatic stress disorder he picked up during COVID.
Robby's journey includes a plan to take some time off, but it might not be so straightforward, Gemmill teases. "There's some questions whether he'll really do it or not, because it's not in his nature to step away from the work."
The Pitt season 2 debuts in January 2026.
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i already love her… she could be straight up evil and i wouldn’t care… welcome to the pitt dr al-hashimi
Sepideh Moafi was great in Black bird!
The Pitt s1 was awesome! Looking forward to the second season!!
Langdon and Robby in the same room again??? I need a defibrillator for my heart rn 😭
Can’t wait!
Idc what anyone says, I need to see the beginning of a Mel and Langdon emotional affair in s2. Do it, Noah!
Oooh yes more nurse Jessie please!
Hopefully Dr. Al-Hashimi fills the Collins-shaped hole in my heart.
So excited! This is one of the only modern shows where I was waiting weekly for new episodes to drop purely to see what happened next. I do it, too, for some shows like the White Lotus where it’s kind of a cultural thing to talk about Monday morning at work, but the Pitt was so good that it was true anticipation for the story.
I would say in terms of representation they did really great and it’s not the whole stereotypical type of shit hollywood usually pushes. the two women who were nurses or assistant doctors? idk their role but them being filipino was a great add on (im dating a filipina and she says that many nurses move to the US or Canada to work). Also the fact that one of them is a muslim filipino and there weren’t any instances where she had to take off her hijab to stop a bleeding patient was good.