What To Know
- Shawn Hatosy teased how The Pitt Season 3 will begin on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
- Hatosy also revealed he’ll direct again.
While filming on The Pitt Season 3 is about to get underway in the next week, and the episodes won’t be streaming until likely January 2027 (if it follows the same pattern as the previous two seasons), we’re getting hints about what to expect. The latest suggests a change to what we’ve gotten to kick off a season.
“People will be surprised how we begin,” Shawn Hatosy, who plays Dr. Abbot, revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on June 11. “That’s about all I can say.”
The first two season premieres began following Robby (Noah Wyle) into work, with the second one seeing him riding his motorcycle in while “Better Off Without You” by The Clarks played.
It’s “a comment about what Robby’s trajectory is over the course of the season,” executive producer R. Scott Gemmill told TV Insider of that song choice. “Last year, Abbot was having an existential crisis. This year, I think it’s a little bit more on Robby’s plate.” We certainly saw that throughout the season, culminating in him admitting just how bad it was to Duke (Jeff Kober) in Episode 14, then Abbot in the finale.
Hatosy’s quotes suggest that we might not see Robby on his way to work to begin the new season. Or maybe he’s referring to the night shift handing things over to the day shift and we’ll be picking up in the middle of one of those instead. We’ll have to wait and see.
Hatosy also revealed that he will once again be directing in Season 3. He was behind the camera for the ninth episode of Season 2.
“John Wells and JoJo [Johanna Coelho], our DP, they’ve really created this visual language. So, as a director, you’re coming in… It’s something that shoots in sequence. There’s one location. It is a follow the action type of camera,” he told us of directing The Pitt. “So as a director, you’re able to lean in and explore these performances in a way that I don’t often get as a director on other shows because you’re having to figure out so many other things. But the style is such that there’s not a whole lot of decisions to be made on where we’re going to put the camera or what’s the location, where should we put this, because it’s all already laid out.”
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The Pitt, Season 3, 2027, HBO Max