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As if the shock of McDreamy wasn’t enough to make us all stop breathing – this week’s surprise ‘return from the beyond’ guest has everyone’s heart stopping. Seriously? SERIOUSLY!? Back and beautiful – George O’Malley is the man in the beach shack and it’s a struggle all episode long to fight back the ugly cry because everything they talk about is so damn beautiful! (They even cheesily slide in some excuse about its being easier for Meredith to imagine him aged to cover the fact that a decade has passed since T.R. Knight has been on the smash TV series.)
All of the recollections and reminiscing and explaining how he really did change her life (and props to George for haunting his mom in an attempt to ‘shake the grief out of her’ – O’MALLEY!) is really, really wonderful. He was such an informed and integral part of her past and the reflections that he gives in this episode bring so much more closer to the George character than his send off ever did.
Grey’s continues to slam the pandemic reality in our face in a way that has you catching your breath, squeezing those you’re in quarantine with, and even ugly crying with – yet again this week. Richard’s ‘I always knew about those in isolation suffering alone but I never thought about their loved ones’ really packs a pathos punch. And the pan-out shots of Richard, Meredith, George and Bailey on the log on the beach at the end was a striking and beautiful image. (Seriously, though? Talking her down of her fear from the film viewing room because she thought that’s where they kept the skeletons? NOPE.)
George pretty much confirmed that no matter how bad Meredith’s COVID gets, she will not be seeing Cristina (‘…she didn’t die…’) but that still leaves hope for a Lexi resurgence. (We had to do Derek first for sheer shock value. That, and the Pandemic is so bad Grey’s Anatomy had to resurrect McDreamy to bring the world joy.)
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In other episode new, JoJack – NOPE. Still such a hard nope on that. Not as sex friends, not as weird not-dates, just nope. Nope, nope, big ol’ bag of nope. Next!
Loved Levi’s statistic about having a sex buddy and basically shouting about it’s being war-time all over the parking lot for everyone to hear. That was hilarious. Helm, spunky and chipper, seriously needs to get over her crush on Mer, it’s just never going to work out. Loved that she got to show a little nerd-side with Koracick, though. And poor Koracick. ‘Feels fine’ until he doesn’t. (Next week shows him and Bailey’s mom fighting for their lives as they succumb to COVID symptoms. Well, him for sure, Bailey’s mom could be unrelated.)
That seemed out of left field also. When she called her mother after her heart attack, her parents seemed fine. Now they need assisted living? Hmm. (Maybe they should have eased into that – ‘senior community living?’ But then again, Richard had a hip replaced in Boston that was never mentioned …) Loved her trying to guide Hunt in the right direction when it comes to owning the systemic racism. ‘Change the protocol.’ Grey’s never shies away from the real, important issues. And they’ve nailed it on the head once again with the Asian-American patient and Hunt’s misdiagnosis.
Link might be the first person to ever actually let Amelia vent her spleen-feels, so there is hope for them yet. Glad that he explained he has to have the positive and that she’s okay with that. Maggie and Winston seem to be doing okay too. Nailing the reality of this pandemic on the head once again with the ‘way too awkward family Zoom celebrations’ because how many of us have had those this year?
It’s all coming to a head. Next week looks we’ll have an emotional – can’t say reprieve as we’re all going to worry about Tom Koracick and Bailey’s Mom – but an emotional … shift. At least it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing Ellis, Lexi, Adele, Mark Sloan, or any other dead important person in Meredith’s life until 2021.
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