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Seriously. SERIOUSLY!? Whoever greenlit that episode as a winter finale should be fired. That barely even passes as a regular season episode. SERIOUSLY!?
And once again — big old network LIE — as it was NOT a crossover event. There was not one iota of character-bleed or carryover that mattered from Station 19 this week … so that was another 43 minutes wasted.
TV producers, Shondaland, ABC, and the whole team is getting L-A-Z-Y if they think it’s acceptable to air six episodes, call this milquetoast, lackluster, half-assed episode a ‘winter finale’ and then put the show on hiatus FOR OVER THREE MONTHS.
SERIOUSLY!?!?
The most exciting thing that even happened this episode was that the damn house caught on fire. And everyone was fine. And Maggie even managed to get the Post-It note out. (Goodness knows where the tumor-wall-slice went … but the Post-It, thank the gods, was saved!)
You get that moment of Meredith saying to Zola and the kids that it’s okay — it’s just stuff — because they are okay and they are what is important. But it’s hard — she grew up in that house. She came back to that house (more than once) and she built her life there. First with the gang, then with Derek, then with her sisters and kids post-Derek, it’s hard.
Shepherd finally makes Lucas come clean about being a Shepherd, though it looks like he has actual medical issues with being/staying focused (that probably won’t come up until the back half of the season.) And he does get a crazy kiss with Simone after he flames out in the locker room but she flees from that pretty quick.
Owen and Teddy might have some hope, as the patient (the semi-carryover that you didn’t actually need to watch Station 19 to understand) they are working on brings the dynamic of their marriage into focus. He even suggests that she apply for chief, as Meredith is officially leaving for Boston. (Which means … she will come back as this was episode six … and she’s contracted for eight … but Episode #7 shows her leaving …)
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Nick is still in the up-down-who-knows place. She made the Boston decision without even consulting him but she wants to fight for them, and it’s Derek in DC all over again. (Was never all that wild about Nick in the first place, but he beat the pants off of DeLuca, so there’s that. Bring back Riggs. Bring back Riggs! I mean — we can never get Derek back — not truly … not unless Meredith has a brain tumor … so BRING BACK RIGGS!!)
Bailey doesn’t get the clinic open but then she does — renaming it from The Denny Duquette Memorial Clinic (of presumably full-service) to the Elena Bailey Free Clinic for Reproductive Health (named after her mom.)
Jo and Schmidt snipe at one another as he tries to keep the pit under control, Link and Jo are still having mushy gushy feelings for each other, and Winston and Maggie are blowing up. She’s more like Cristina than we ever thought. She does NOT respect that he is choosing her as his passion, instead of cardio. That he wants to be a vascular surgeon to save their marriage apparently is not something she can respect — because she made it clear — she would never give up cardio. (So, so Cristina.)
It’s all up in the air … maybe they set the house on fire so that Meredith has to leave. I mean they dropped her out of the sky in a plane crash the last time they needed to force-move a character who didn’t want to go halfway across the country.
The back end opener on February 23 … OVER THREE MONTHS AWAY … looks like an anniversary episode. Maybe she’ll finally move to Boston. Or maybe she’ll hide out there like that year she was pregnant with Ellis. Back to feeling like this show has once again jumped the shark and without Meredith it’s just going to sink. Of course, even with Meredith at present — it might sink anyhow.
Terrible, lame, miserable, half-assed, winter-finale. DO BETTER, Grey’s Anatomy.
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New episodes of Grey’s Anatomy return Thursday, February 23 at 9:00 PM on ABC.
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