The Finale of The Pitt just flipped the script on Dr. Santos (Isa Briones).
When The Pitt first appeared on Max, one thing quickly became clear: viewers hated Dr. Trinity Santos. A fourth-year medical student, Santos was instantly pegged as the show’s villain, and honestly, it’s not hard to see why.
From Episode 1, she came off as arrogant, abrasive, and deeply unlikeable. She was quick to show off, quicker to put others down, and didn’t shy away from giving her peers some crass nicknames. And not to mention, her bedside manner was downright horrible, as she treated her patients more like school experiments than people in pain.
And let’s just say, Pitt fans didn’t take too kindly to her character.
“She’s f---ing insufferable, egotistical, and lowkey sociopathic,” one Redditor declared.
Others shared similar sentiments, writing: “I can’t stand her 🥴” and “I don’t like her either. Way too cocky.”
So, when Santos accused senior resident Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball) of stealing drugs from the hospital, most viewers were doubtful. But then later on, it turns out she’s right.
As the season, which just aired its finale, progressed, viewers started to see some of Santos’ icy exterior melt away. And by that finale, even the most hardened Santos-haters had to admit that maybe they had it all wrong about her. After all, during the episode, they watch as she comforts a patient after his failed suicide attempt and even offers to let Whittaker (the guy she calls Huckleberry) stay in her spare room after she learns that he has been crashing at the hospital.
Viewers are now admitting that they were wrong about Santos, praising the show’s writers for the care they put into her story arc.
And, of course, the previous Santos apologists took their victory lap, happy in the knowledge that they were right about her all along.
“Santos defender until I die, real b------ get it,” one person wrote on X.
“Santos is the best character on The Pitt,” another person commented.
In an interview with Vulture, Briones spoke about the hate Santos got over the season and shared her own perspective of the character.
“She clearly just needs therapy and a hug. We all have trauma, we all come from someplace, and it helped to know her backstory has this kind of deep trauma for her that informs everything and makes everything a little more nuanced,” Briones said.
If there’s anything The Pitt finale has taught viewers, it’s this: Maybe we are all a little too quick to judge.
