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Well, at least the — whatever they are … surgical new-residents? … at least they’re back in the tunnels. And so memorable are they that I can’t even remember a single one of their names … except Derek’s nephew — Skywalker. BOMB-DROP. Nepotism found its way to Grey-Sloan in a way most unexpected.
One of the new interns … the slightly cocky one who screwed up major-big time by telling the wrong mother that her son wasn’t actually brain dead when he was … is apparently Derek and Amelia’s nephew. We’re all sitting here fuming as he starts chanting in surgery ‘it’s a beautiful day to save lives’ trying to figure out how they’re going to work that in … as Derek (despite COVID fever dreams from — was it one or two seasons ago) has been dead many, many years now … when Amelia and Meredith drop it from the gallery that he’s Derek’s nephew.
It tracks. Loosely. Derek did have four sisters, several of whom have children of a yet-to-be-seen-origin … so this kid could actually be one of the other sisters’ grown-up boy … hired (not only because he’s a reject-screwup) because he reminds Meredith of … ? Amelia. He’s got McSteamy vibes with McDreamy looks (and blood, apparently) but totally follows Amelia’s behavioral patterns.
The other four … well … Griffin? The one who was late — she apparently was born at Grey-Sloan (back when it was Seattle Grace?) and her mother died in childbirth and she hasn’t been back since. The one calling himself Blue (because he’s a blue-ribbon, first-placer …) is channeling serious Cristina vibes — he lies to get in on a surgery, he’s got an insanely dry wit, and is cutthroat to a fault. And the other two — one slept with Link a la Mer-Der on their first hookup, pre-her-first-day, and then there’s a fifth one.
The whole episode jolts at least six months into the future from when Nick walked out, Bailey walked out, Webber walked out, and Teddy & Owen fled. Except Bailey shows her face (long enough to show she’s still in the picture and literally nothing else) and Webber is back like he never left. Even Teddy & Owen seem to have returned without an issue (they’ve paid a quarter of a million dollars to make the criminal charges go away; Owen still has a medical license under 6-month supervision).
No mention of Kai Bartley, but Amelia seems unphased. No mention of Winston’s brother who swindled he and Maggie out of ten-grand a piece, but neither of them seem phased either. Nick Marsh is of course back in Seattle because of the ‘organpalooza’ (described in poor taste by one of the new residents) only to be offered a position to keep him there by Meredith … which according to the trailer for next week’s episode — he takes.
It was a disjointed and jarring episode that seemed to introduce no one, resolve nothing, and strangely still feel somewhat Grey’s. Lessons learned from this week include: ‘I want to be a tree; caskets and cremation are just land and air pollution.’ Totally not wrong. And Bokhee got her one-line-of-the-season in: ‘They keep getting younger and younger’ (alongside the long-term anesthesiologist, who concurred with her comment about the new bunch of doctors).
This season opener has the flavor of Season 9 — where we jumped ahead post-plane-crash without any real explanations … only to have them recapped in episode two? Though the trailer for next week doesn’t give much hope for that.
Still fighting, still kicking, and this strange new bunch of — diamond-in-the-rough-rejects … well, we’ll see how they go? They’re never going to be Meredith, Cristina, George, Izzie, and Alex (not even Jo, Stephanie, Shane, Heather, and Leah were that …). Schmidt flees OB, despite a promise to Jo, who is now not speaking to him, to be chief resident, and Link and Jo seem to be back on good-friend speaking terms. Guess we’ll see how this season floats along as it floats along.
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Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9:00 PM on ABC.
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