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It’s Link; let’s not waste a whole review-recap write-up sputtering and puttering around the issue the way the episode did. LINK is the father. But he doesn’t get to know that before he confesses his ‘I pick you, I choose you’ love to Amelia. So everything works out for them. Yay.
Maybe not so much for everyone else. This week was all over the place. But there are some positives to arise from it, though the big one was the ‘happily ever after Link + Amelia = Baby’.
First big happy? NO MORE Vixxson. That hot mess fell apart because that’s what Jackson does. (Have we ever cared about who he was with other than that one time when he kissed Yang a million seasons ago? And he wasn’t even with her!) Maybe Station 19 will stop clinging on now … (we’ll miss you, Ben!)
Okay – that literally might be the only other positive that came out of this week’s episode … and half of you aren’t even going to find that positive. Everything else was so all over the place – and can we talk about Teddy?
HOW are we supposed to like her? One blip – one teeny little moment of ‘maybe doubt’ (which as it turns out isn’t even a factor?) and she goes RUNNING straight back into Tom’s arms. Not once – but TWICE!!! I’m not usually Team!Owen, but I mean – seriously? Even Owen deserves better than that!
Meanwhile Koracick is trying to grapple with his conscience – but not the one that doesn’t keep him from jumping into bed with Teddy. Too bad this episode aired after Bloomberg dropped out, since I think it had an important lesson that we might have all needed to learn. But the long and short of it is – big bucks talk. And rule-breaking … per Mer … is ‘allowable’ if it’s for the greater good/will make the crappy world a little less crappy. (Betting the farm that *IF* filming gets to resume … the Season 16 super-finale will revolve around an infectious Pandemic-style virus … since they haven’t had one of those yet either!)
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So now Grey-Sloan Memorial will be richer than Midas, thanks to something Koracick saw on a billionaire’s scan … which is only as dangerous as the check is big. But it’s going to give Mer her ‘health care for all’ pro-bono surgery plan. So … hooray for the greater good? No McWidow this week; we can still only afford 7/8th of the cast at a time. (Mer’s patient died; sadsauce because that’s reality – we can’t afford our life-necessitating meds, so we ration … and then we die because America’s health care sucks. They nailed that on the head.)
We beat the dead horse of Alex’s departure to death a little more with Jo’s take on Wicked‘s ‘For Good’. She will survive. (Even if the relationship of her patient did not.) And Richard went off the rails with Bailey (sort of in reverse of the way she went off the rails when she was struggling with her OCD.) Really sad that he’s stepping down, but he’s got a point – step out at the top of his game … but does that mean we’re losing James Pickens Jr. too? (How many more core loses can the show take? We’re down to the final three … and in what reality are we all buying that Torres and Bailey were in their internship/residency track together??)
And DeLuca. Maybe he’s our big ‘other departure’ for Season 16. (We’re all still waiting for Addison Montgomery to show up to deliver Amelia’s baby …) He’s completely lost his mind as the Mania sets in. (And the replacement therapist they got that’s not Dr. Wyatt or Dr. What-Was-His-Name … though I think he might have retired after he didn’t die …) is blander than bland. But since he spent 30 seconds with her, it’s fine. Desperately trying to pick up Jo? He needs to go. Never bought into the whole MerLuca thing to begin with. THIS just furthers my point.
Sending regards to Helm, Parker, Niko, and McWidow; hope they enjoyed their social isolation this week, wherever they were. Next week shows us what we can only hope will be the final downfall of DeLuca.
Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9:00 PM on ABC.
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