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Seriously? SERIOUSLY. Somehow we back-pedaled so hard we started moving forward again. Carina DeLuca, who – you know – is on staff permanently but never actually there until there’s a paternity debacle, a brain tumor to diagnose, or psycho-trauma with Andrew – resurfaces, just in time to remind us of Papa DeLuca’s Manic-Depressive Bi-Polar sickness. That Andrew is now experiencing in full rage. (WHICH I HAVE BEEN SAYING – and just not calling it that- SINCE HE RIPPED HIMSELF UP TEN SECONDS AFTER SAM AND FELL RIGHT INTO MER!!! Carina even said as much!)
So, DeLuca ended it with Mer. Good. I mean, not good for Mer – like Maggie said some weeks back – she’s had a lifetime of hurt and didn’t really need more. But maybe now she can move forward with McWidow and his fantastic children. Yay. He did manage to diagnose the patient, though. Anyone else see remnants of Rogue!Ben in that IV-injecting scene? And he’s with us for now. At least through next week, until a super-blizzard attacks Seattle (we haven’t had one of those yet – I don’t think!) and he goes off in a fit of mania to retrieve a liver. (There are worse ways to be written off … he could become Alex and just have text bubbles from here to eternity …)
Totally knew Mer was texting Alex. A little disappointed that we got the ‘is typing’ bubbles and then nothing. But maybe that’s because whoever is texting from his phone decided that a text message isn’t the best way to say ‘by the way, Alex is dead because … reasons.’
Maggie actually had redeeming qualities this week, trying to be a real sister. Amelia was raised by/with/as wolves – those Shepherd sisters (who Derek and Mer respectively called wolves on several occasions) are something else. But Jo has a point – maybe the tumor is back? Or maybe it’s just pregnancy hormones. Raising her baby boy with Maggie (and presumably Mer, and Zola, and Bailey, and Ellis, oh my!) not gonna fly … especially not if/when Owen finds out.
LOVE how it sort of almost totally didn’t but could have come out in the elevator with Link and Owen that the baby might be Owen’s. Loved even more how Jo just threw it out there in the OR and Owen didn’t even bat an eye – like how could that even be possible that he’s the daddy of Amelia’s baby? PS did Teddy take a field trip to Iowa too? It’s been like three weeks now. Is Kim Raver preggo IRL? Or leaving Grey’s again? Maybe she went to fetch Addison Montgomery …
Jackson showing up at the end to apologize to Maggie was great, actually really thoughtful. Did he break up with whatsherface from StationSnooze yet? (Don’t know, don’t care, still didn’t watch. Not going to watch it next week either.) Just because there’s zero hope for Catherine and Richard – who is apparently now clinically depressed but at least he’s not drinking? – doesn’t mean that Jaggie is completely hopeless? Should we care? He probably doesn’t have time to raise Maggie’s sister-mom baby along with Harriet (who is probably full time with Kepner & Matthew & Ruby.)
Bailey and her PeriMenopause. LOVE LOVE LOVE. So truth. And Carina was totally right about Mer’s poor judgment with DeLuca (but Derek was not better with her.) She’s the of general, Andrew’s a resident … if she wasn’t ‘dating’ him there wouldn’t be a question.
I had this sinking feeling when Niko started pushing Schmidt away last week that this was EXACTLY where that was going. The super-strict, judgy-parental Asian stereotype is 100% in play here, so I was not in the least surprised when the words out of his mouth were not ‘I haven’t told them that you’re my boyfriend’ but instead ‘I haven’t told them that I’m gay.’ Because no couple on Grey’s gets to be that perfect for that long without hiccups. Or sometimes infidelity. BOOM. WOOF.
That should cover all the bases; Bailey doing the string-pull thing to get the siblings of foster-street kid in was pretty great. Learning McWidow speaks Italian? Also amazing. Where is Parker? And Zander Perez HAS GOT TO GO. (Ooooh – Koracick was missing too this week … maybe he’s with Teddy!)
Next week should be pretty interesting. A Super Blizzard. It’s not a ferry boat crash, a plane crash, a mass shooting, a mudslide, sinkhole, super-storm, or a bar-car thing, but hey at least it’s a new spin on a heightened and recycled dramatic plot twist!
Episode 1615: Snowblind
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So once again, we’re coming into half of something because Station 19 can’t drive in its own lane but even that can be forgiven after all of the jaw-dropping OMG moments on this week’s episode. There was so much happening that it almost felt like a mid-season/winter finale. The blizzard is halfway through when we join our doctors (else why would we be having a snowball fight in ‘sub-zero’ every five seconds someone’s getting frostbite temperatures?)
Where oh where oh where does one even start? Teddy came back this week, which naturally means Amelia has to not be there (apparently we can only afford so many doctors an episode.) And herein – she has many panics about whether or not her sinking feeling, which apparently she has had all along, is reality or just her going crazy. Could Amelia’s baby be Owen’s? What she’s thought since apparently she heard Amelia was pregnant? But in-between and amid all that, there’s time for a ridiculous snowball fight with Koracick and then an epic fail of not asking the right question to Maggie (who does indeed tell her she’s not crazy, except now Teddy is 100% convinced Owen is Amelia’s baby daddy rather than just questionable paternity.) This sends Teddy to the first of many mind-blowing outcomes on this week’s episode – straight into the waiting arms of Tom Koracick. Whom she kisses. Passionately. In his hotel room.
Among other insane decisions, though this one actually has been building for at least three weeks, Bailey takes in/fosters Joey. (Of course Ben will be okay with it. Eventually. Just like she said.) She’s got the extra room because of her miscarriage, she needs this right now, he does too. And Ben’s hardly there so it’ll be fine. THAT was heartwarming in an ugly-good-cry kinda way. But not before she toted that boy all around the hospital showing him her version of a career fair.
SCHMIDT. Another mind-blowingly epic shocker and no – not the ‘I lost a patient, who went semi-rogue and almost cut into another patient – kind of way’ but with his total flip-coin on Levi. He wants love and openness. And he is NOT trying to change Nico. And that gaslighting manipulative behavior from Nico is NOT acceptable. And when he threatens to walk out, Schmidt begs him not to go, and they start making out again? But you can see it in his eyes; he’s just compromised in the worst way.
Back to the patient he lost, who turned up in Dr. Webber’s skills lab and then in Dr. Webber’s OR. (I forgot how annoying Helm really is! So sort of nice to see her shuffled off for a minute.) While that story line was really fascinating, and I’m glad she didn’t hurt anyone (and definitely didn’t see it coming) what Webber revealed made everyone go nuts. First we’ve lost Alex (though we FINALLY get to see how they officially write him off next week) and now we’re losing Webber??? Parkinsons!? Old age!? Permanent nerve tremors from years of being an alcoholic!? Something else!? Putting that stethoscope around her neck – I lost it. So much ugly cry. Because he’s right. He, like Cristina and Meredith, and Derek – ‘if I can’t be a surgeon…’ Just thought we were done with dramatic catastrophes for the ‘Big Three’ (or the 3 that are left!)
Jo’s serious flip-out on Schmidt was great even if it is a deflection of her ‘OMG Alex left me.’ Doing what Grey’s does best and using the patient’s experience/revelation to parallel what’s happening with the doctors … she’s convinced that he just left her; end of story. We’ll learn next week. I’m hoping for a Derek style ending. Then at least we get closure. But I swear, if they take that ‘late-late onset schizo … like his brother (and honestly – once Schmidt re-caught his patient – I was 100% expecting her to be revealed as schizo-affected and then to admit that she was Karev’s little sister, Amber.) Sort of expected Link – given the state he’s in – and Jo to have lost their minds together and started making out (like Teddy and Koracic.)
DeLuca has got. TO GO. Yesterday. Yes he saved the little girl, possibly at the cost of his fingers and surgical career, but that cavalier ‘you’re praising me for not listening to you’ high-horse he’s on? And worse still that whole ‘Every time you forget something I don’t accuse you of having Alzheimer’s’ … DONE DONE DONE. He needs to go. But that’s palpably present given the way Grey and Hayes discussed him outside at the end. ‘It was great; he was one of my first.’ As in – NOT ANYMORE.
McWidow totally had a cute side smirk/falling in love glance JUST LIKE DEREK did at the end of their exchange. I saw it and replayed it three times. It looked JUST LIKE DEREK. Meredith was crying ever so slightly in that shot; widow friends. Maybe they can finally heal together. (Riggs was so close …) I think her and McWidow are going to get on just fine. (Maybe that will finally prompt the return of Cristina!) Love how he knew about ‘Evil Spawn.’ HA!
All in all you can now add ‘super blizzard’ to the list of Seattle-Grace-Mercy-Death catastrophes that the Grey’s doctors have endured. Here’s hoping that after 16 seasons next week they do a good and proper send-off for Dr. Alex Karev. (Also nobody cares about Jackson because he’s way too Station 19 now. Maybe he and Ben can swap.)
Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9:00 PM on ABC.
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