Noah Wyle Has One Major Goal With The Pitt's Dr. Robby

This article contains discussions of mental health and mass violence.

There's been a lot of discourse, as of late, about the state of masculinity in our troubled times (if I may, I highly recommend reading Jessica Winter's New Yorker essay on the topic). As it turns out, Noah Wyle — the Emmy-winning star and executive producer of HBO's smash hit medical drama "The Pitt" — has his own goals when it comes to helping young men navigate increasingly tricky territory, and he did so through a storyline about, of all things, a mass shooting.

In season 1 of "The Pitt," Wyle's Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch meets a young man named David Saunders (Jackson Kelly), whose mother Theresa (Joanna Going), makes herself sick so that she can go to the ER and report her son for keeping a list of women