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I feel a little like I’m the guy covered in exploded human right this minute – because after this episode? My head just exploded. Seriously!? SERIOUSLY!?
BAILEY is pregnant. Wow. I mean I feel like we all thought that might happen? Because – for the love of God don’t drink the water at Grey-Sloan Memorial (did that make it to Mer’s list?) – she’s been so moody. The hot flashes totally hit it on the head; nice red herring with the heart-attack/panic-attack potential. But mood swings make sense. And geriatric pregnancies aren’t so far out of the realm of possibility … it’s just – Bailey has had her baby. And he’s now what – 16? Or 15? (He was 4 maybe when infant-adjacent Zola came into the picture and she’s 12 or so now … right?) Just – can’t even with that. Bailey is pregnant. Amelia is pregnant. Teddy just had a baby. Who’s left? Maggie? Jo? DON’T DRINK THE WATER!
And while Mer’s explosive list has really blown up all over the place … Bailey’s perimenopause is not an acceptable reason for her to continue to be a jerk to Meredith! Just like Hunt’s PTSD was not an excuse for his infamous Jerkbag behavior – Bailey’s hormones being six sorts of silly is not an acceptable reason for her to be treating Meredith this way. PLUS (as so many fans have reminded the internet over the past week) she’s currently the biggest hypocrite on Grey’s … having helped commit insurance fraud herself some moons ago!
Karev’s steal-n-recruit method is working pretty good. One of two things is going to happen, now that Hunt has joined team PacNorth. It’s either going to shift the entirety over to PacNorth and the show now has several seasons built in trying to turn a sow’s ear hospital into a silk purse Grey-Sloan wannabe. Or (the more likely of the two choices) it’s going to – as Alex said – be revealed to be backed by Russian mafia and be absorbed by Grey-Sloan (with the charge led by Jackson Avery somehow) and everyone will eventually get to come back home. But in the meantime, fingers crossed that Karev keeps casting his line and getting doctors – maybe he can fish back Robbins!
Text on a screen does not Sandra Oh make. But we all heard Cristina’s voice read that text out in true Mer-Cristina fashion. So it’s like an ‘almost’ return of Cristina. But that wasn’t even the best part of this week’s Meredith’s traumas. Not only was it a delight to hear the opening narrative have a callback to the early-early seasons where it was primarily focused on a Meredith-centric personal experience, but Meredith’s complete lack of self-preservation has reared its crazy head from seasons of slumber!! The bomb-cavity-hand-throwing-‘shoot me’-gun-men-taunting-wildly-dark-n-twisty Meredith has surfaced in this ‘do what’s right – not gonna sit back and sit on my privilege’ moment.
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AND it appears to be spelling the end of MerLuca! YAY!!! *happy dance* Preview for next week shows the discussion of ‘he’s just fun and sex but will he ever really be more?’ The answer is no. Call Riggs, find out that his couples therapy with Meghan didn’t go well, bring him back, end of story. Or move to Switzerland like Cristina suggested.
Koracick and his Jr. Deputy need to go back to Hopkins. And they can take Schmidt with them. He’s not TeamGreySloan anymore. (Someone please go out to the parking lot of no return and fetch back Qadri!) And I love, love, love the thunder-jacket for dog-people with Amelia and Link. Not sure how wild I am about the sentimentality of it all … but they seem to be actually almost kind of made for each other (hate it when Maggie’s right … it makes her even more annoying – and the only thing that could make her even more annoying is if she too turns up pregnant … DON’T DRINK THE WATER!)
I’m thinking this counts as the ‘Halloween’ episode (nothing is going to top ‘Thriller’ from Season 10 with the ‘ghost patient’ that Edwards kept failing to treat and Murphy getting bit by that vampire-zombie patient!) because we had supreme gore in the patient who didn’t die from the stowaway in the plane falling and exploding on him … AND we got some of the most intensely gruesome close-up surgical technique in a long, long, long time with Avery’s skull-kid. THAT was pretty intense (warning to the squeamish!)
Guess we’re going to see how/if Ben takes the news next week. And fingers crossed no one else at Grey-Sloan-Pac-North turns up preggo!!
Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 8:00 PM on ABC.
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