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Okay this week was all about things we should have learned from before.
- Maggie needs a kidney in a jar.
- Link needs that pause-the-elevator-for-emotional-moment trick.
- And Ben Warren and Mia Bishop (of Station 19 which totally should have been a crossover this week) should have defaulted to Chief of Surgery attention when getting in in the first place.
No kidney in a jar is going to really fix the Maggie-Winston drama. Because at the end of the day Derek really did love Meredith and Meredith really did love Derek. And while she was an Intern with inspo — he made up for stepping all over her feelings. Because he loved her. Winston who did half the damn project — couldn’t even get a legit apology out of Maggie. And next week’s preview shows them in counseling … where she’s considering a job in Chicago (which we all know she’s taking since Kelly McCreary has already announced she’s leaving Grey’s … unless they kill her off … still up in the air on that one). So Winston is probably gonna stay in cardio because they’ll need a new head of cardio.
Jo holding it together and being so strong, right up until she couldn’t anymore was beautiful. We got to see a whole array of how doctors handled and processed trauma. Jo letting it all out in the elevator with Link standing guard was beautiful. Still needs to learn the McDreamy-Bailey-tested elevator stop trick, but it was beautiful all the same.
Webber getting Yasuda back to a base-level calm was also a really beautiful moment. Expressing that the trauma is not normal, not what that job is supposed to be, and her freezing up and having a panic attack about it is what makes her human. The icepack to ground her in reality, the naming objects in the room; it’s all very telling and very much appreciated. And he’s right. That isn’t the job. And it shouldn’t be. America is so far beyond broke — where people are driving cars into Doctors (don’t even get me started on bringing guns to school …) that we’re shell-shocking the people who signed up to help us.
The levity of this week — because you’ve got to have it — is Maxine, who is apparently Jules’ roommate? The octogenarian and her bestie from the residential community (who have apparently sublet a spare bedroom out to Jules) turn up in the ER with what looks like ‘swollen knee’ and the other one with ‘burns when I pee.’ Turns out? It’s a Gonorrhea outbreak at the senior living community, which they hilariously discover … is all thanks to Hal. (A ‘lady’s man’ from their living community.) It’s all comic fun and games because they treat it and then go on the whole ‘someone call the campus director of the facility to inform them that they have an outbreak, need to get everyone tested, and start handing out condoms to the residents.’
But the tragically beautiful takeaway from that is Maxine’s speech. About how women are judged no matter what they do, if they have sex they’re sluts, they’re forced to carry a baby, and whether they have a child by force or by choice they’ll be judged for and by that too. But the — and her words — ‘beauty of this toxic masculinity, this terrible patriarchy?’ is that around age 60, women become invisible and can do whatever the hell they want. So she’s having wild amazing sex and living her best life. Mic. Drop. Walk. Away.
Ben and Mia spend a bit of time chasing around the hospital (if you caught the tail-end of Station 19, they ran there on foot. Ben from the station and Mia from somewhere out on call.) To make sure Carina and Bailey were okay. The truly beautiful moment there is twofold. ‘We’re awful people — this is what Miranda and Carina feel like every day because we’re constantly putting ourselves in danger.’ (And as Mia points out — you, Ben Warren, purposefully put Bailey in this hell because you were a doctor, hell an anesthesiologist, when she married you.) And the other beauty is Ben laying eyes on his baby girl Pru in the daycare. ‘All this chaos and craziness going on out there and she’s in there putting ears on a potato.’
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Teddy gets stuff done. Because she’s Teddy. Owen runs trauma like trauma is meant to be run. And thank God they didn’t screw around with Addison. Cristina Yang isn’t the only one who can have her shoulder popped back into place. Really really thought (and am pleasantly relieved) that we did not go down the ‘adrenaline covered my fatal internal injuries’ crisis path with Addie. She’s fine, and like a phoenix is rising from the ashes and getting back on the road with the PRT. (Anyone else wondering if Lucas has memories of her? Even if he was young, Derek would have probably still been married to her then?)
And the visiting OBGYN from Tennessee? Pulled through her intense injuries from being flipped up on the car, and her baby boy — Connor — pulled through too. The struggle surely isn’t over, but it was really nice to see a (temporarily) HappyEnding for at least those patients.
Real roller coaster this week because it was a lot of touch and go and they were insistent on spooking the hell out of us by making us think at any moment Addison was going to collapse from undetected internal injuries. Hell, Derek died from as much. But everyone made it out okay. There may even be hope for Carina and Mia (follow that drama on Station 19).
This week was a nice shift back to patients and senior doctors, away from all the intern-resident drama. Next week we’ll probably go back to more of it with the stampede/bull-crush victim, but hey at least we’ve never had ‘trampled by a bull rider’ before.
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New episodes of Grey’s Anatomy air Thursdays at 9:00 PM on ABC.
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