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Most of the episode I think I wanted to just hate it. Here we ago with that non-sequitur-yet-necessary episode that feels like it’s out of sync with everything else but still has potent information. With limited characters – literally we only got Grey, Richard, Maggie, Jackson, and a brief glimpse of Alex. (Plus Catherine and Koracick. Is back. AGAIN.) And those types of episodes just feel like forced character development days …
Except that ending. With Richard. OMG. I mean not his ending-ending phone call, which COME ON – after you bash up a bar like that did you really think there’s any way you’re NOT going to be arrested? And of course the double irony of ‘don’t tell Catherine’ while she’s all but begged poor Meredith to not tell Richard about her big medical secret … so here’s Mer caught in the middle. Again.
But THAT ending forgives all the other sins of this episode, of which there are many. We’ve all been on eggshells wondering when Richard was going to fall off the wagon. Especially the scene at the end of last week with him sitting at Ollie’s grave – you knew it was coming. And here you get the ‘chips for shots’ (absolutely despicable!) and he goes into the bar, you just feel it’s happening. Which makes perfect sense because of what’s going on in scenes unbeknownst to him. And then he walks away and you get this little breath of relief. But when he came behind the bar, took the bat (because every bartender has a bar behind the bar) and just smashed the place to bits – UGLY CRY. That hugely cathartic moment, and all the pent up frustration behind it was worth every minute of the rest of this hot mess of an episode.
Let’s go back to Frankie. And let’s all be shocked for two seconds that this nurse who has been at Grey-Sloan Memorial since the Seattle Grace days of when Richard was chief, is 28 weeks pregnant. Except we’ve never seen her before. (Not counting a few sneaky cameos earlier this season … mostly just last week.) And then let’s remember that Shonda’s favorite thing to do is recycle plot lines. And now let’s all remember Isaac, the beloved Radiology Tech (who everyone at the hospital knew but we’d never seen until that episode back in season 6) who had the impossible tumor (you know the one from the MerDer bedroom wall?) And how he was a huge deal because he was ‘one of their own.’ Well this is that, only with a pregnant nurse. The literal difference here is Shepherd saved Isaac. Poor Webber could only save Frankie’s baby.
And good God – WHO decided to put the nurses in those butt-ugly seafoam-minty-avocado scrubs!? And why wasn’t Frankie wearing them!? I know we all have our weird color-coded scrubs going on … navy for attendings, light blues for all the peons further down the chain, salmon on gynie-squad, and that fuzzy peach in derm … remember those heinous orange ones from Mercy West? But the nurses in weird Mint Julep? Bleh.
Gonna start calling Koracik Dr. Mold. He grows on you. I sort of loved the way he described Derek’s describing him. And despite his ego, his over-the-top personality and all his nonsense, he does actually seem to be a really decent human being. That whole ‘do you want me to shut up or talk?’ line to comfort Mer pre-takeoff was good. I love to hate you, Dr. Mold.
Not gonna lie … I feel like Dr. Mold is probably Shepherd quality. He saved Amy. He brought a bit of spiritual reckoning to Kepner … so why the hell not? I mean unless in the natural progression of things Shonda has turned into the halfwits over at American Horror Story and is just going to start slowly killing off the remainder of the cast one tumor/medical malady at a time … So the prognosis for Catherine is good. Come on, if irritating Izzie survived …
Jaggie, Jaggie, Jaggie … still in limbo. They are so sudsy from all their soap opera drama they could put Irish Spring out of business. Maggie is definitely her sister’s sister. At least before Meredith got all whole and healed. Running runs in the family, that trait she CLEARLY inherited from Ellis. She finally tries to open herself up to him – since she basically fails life when it comes to opening up – and as he tries to explain to her what she desperately begs him to explain? She just bails. Yet again. Move on, Jackson. It sucks that you love her, but maybe – and I can’t believe I’m saying this – but maybe somehow this will bring Kepner back … though in order for that nonsense we’d have to kill Matthew and then they can raise Harriet and Ruby together like sisters. Hot. Hot. Mess.
Next week is the ‘fall finale’ (they used to call it the winter finale because it used to happen in closer to Christmas.) Seriously? Seriously. Seriously!? We’re eight episodes in and going for the fall finale!? WHO PLANNED THIS SEASON LAYOUT? Go home, ABC Network, you’re drunk. At least it looks like we get the rest of the cast back next week. And potentially more steamy hotness between Dr. Kim & Glasses. Maybe he’ll reconsider. And can we PLEASE stop this lil nonsense with DeLuca? She is not McDreamy plucking up the intern. Or whatever he is now. Resident? He’s not an attending. (Is he? I don’t think he’s an attending. Or a fellow. I never can follow the pecking order … it’s intern, resident, and then whatever.)
And it wouldn’t be a Grey’s ‘finale’ without some sort of mega-disaster. Super Storm is coming. (Didn’t we have one of those already? Oh wait. Recycled Plot Lines. I forgot.)
Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 8:00 PM on ABC.
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