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WHY WOULD SOMEONE BRING A GUN TO A BLOODY PARADE? Why does someone bring a gun anywhere? When it comes to Shonda & Team hitting hot-button issues on the head – she knocks them out cold. Not the first time we’ve dealt with stone-cold shooting issues, and this one minces no words about the state of our country’s current messy gun-control affairs. When that Scottish guy starts on about the shooting in a Scottish school 20 years prior was enough for them, they changed their laws and never had one again, and parallels it to how his son might die from this gunshot and nothing will change – it’s harrowing. Over and over we revisit this – with Karev saying it’s not even the first gun-shot kid he’s treated this week, and Avery pointing out how this one won’t even make the news. Coupled with his statement about ‘places he’s afraid to let Harriet go’, Avery’s driving home that point that 8-million Americans get to see in this latest episode. Keep reinforcing the messages like this – use your camera to spar, Shonda.
Two seconds of mad-props to Kevin McKidd for being around all those Scottish actors with their accents and not once slipping into his own natural Scottish accent. (Who wants to see the blooper tape for this week’s episode???) Hunt and Leo with Avery and Harriet walking into and out of daycare together was so much like Derek and Sloan with Zola and Sofia, it was too cute! And a shout-out to Chief Derek Shepherd who made the ‘wall of chiefs’ (and no, Bailey, Sloan was not ‘interim chief’ he was a substitute one-day for Owen’s faked illness when dealing with his extra-marital affair back in the days of Cristina.)
Loved that little moment where Bailey, in the most backhanded way possible, told Alex she was proud of him. Seriously, when they started out – we all thought it would be Meredith and Cristina. Who knew Karev had it in him? Bailey needs to settle on down, her time to rule and reign is returning shortly.
Also, welcome back all four interns! Hooray! But wait – where did Link and Kim go? Is that it? If we get the quartet of interns we have to cut ortho? Or if we have the full ortho team we can only have some of the interns? But we had more screen time with Koracick, so I guess we can’t afford everyone all at once. That patient coming in with her not-husband-bestie and her husband … yes, we’ve seen all of the ‘case compares to social/sexual’ situations before. So this one was tailored to Teddy-Owen-Amelia-Koracick. Nice to see that she and Koracick finally got a tiny bit of that UST out. Baby should be on its way any minute now.
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Owen and his tantrums and uncontrollable temper are at it again; no surprises there. Poor Amelia, every time she tries to open up and be honest, it bites her in the behind. Too bad because Brittney-Betty’s parents seemed so sensible.
Maggie and Kiki … it’s like deja vu of Mandy & Marcus King … except with bullying in an awful way instead of manipulative flirting … (Bailey and her high school crush in the ER from Season 4? Back when Erica Hahn was still head of cardio?) But this just serves to strengthen the sisterhood bond between Maggie & Mer, since you know, they’re sisters and they’ve got each other’s backs. Good message in that character’s storyline. And at least Mer’s telling Maggie about DeLuca went over way better than the whole Riggs thing. Of course, DeLuca is no Riggs. Nor is he a Derek. He needs to go away.
There was a really odd and beautiful moment where we just had music – something Grey’s really used to be known for – where three different surgical montages were happening and there was flawless cinematography swirling around in those moments accompanied by a song. More of that needs to happen in the future. Also nobody’s patient died this week, so that’s a double bonus, especially as it was touch-and-go with the gunshot kid.
Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursday at 8:00 PM on ABC.
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