Last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy was called “Let the Truth Sting,” and I have to say that for the second week in a row, it almost felt like I was watching classic GA again. There was more humor than heavy stuff, and that’s precisely why I fell in love with this show back in Seasons 1 and 2. GA doesn’t do well when it tries to position itself as a serious medical drama like ER, but as long as it sticks to fluff, it’s pretty fun. Here’s what happened in episode 4×03.
Meredith: There was almost zero interaction with McDreamy this week, which was quite a refreshing change. Instead, Meredith finally had to confront Lexie, who was tired of being ignored. After the half-sisters yell at each other for a while, Bailey steps in to tell Meredith that the best thing to do would be to give Lexie some answers about her mother’s death. So Meredith sits down with the file and goes over every single line of it, presumably answering all of Lexie’s questions along the way.
George/Izzie: George continues to be pissed at the world. What the hell is wrong with this guy? He’s had anger issues ever since his father was sick way back in the middle of S3. It’s hard to believe he was one of my favorite characters a couple years ago. Anyway, this week he’s mad because Izzie keeps asking him if he told Callie about them yet. He just needs her to back off so he can do it on his own terms.
Izzie, meanwhile, spends most of the ep talking with Really Old Guy, the semi-comatose patient in whose room the gang used to eat lunch when they were interns. Really Old Guy (Charlie, by the way) suddenly wakes up while Izzie’s group is doing rounds, and of course he knows all the lates gossip because he apparently overheard everything.
Charlie tells Izzie that he just wants to die, but naturally she won’t let him. However, there’s nothing she can do when he checks himself out of the hospital and dies while sitting fully dressed in his wheelchair.
Bailey/Callie: Callie spends most of the day hidden away in a lounge doing paperwork. She doesn’t even care about all the personnel drama that Bailey tells her about. When Bailey finally tries to confront her about everything, Callie says don’t bother. She knows Miranda is better at handling all that stuff than she is, so there’s no reason to spell it out. Bailey then surprises her by saying she’s going to start acting as Callie’s No.2 woman, whatever that means.
Later, Callie is waiting for George in his hotel room. When he arrives she tells him to “Just say it,” at which point he blurts out, “I slept with Izzie.”
Alex: He gets assigned an old intern, and even though the guy’s a pain in the ass, Alex doesn’t want to yell at him because it would be like yelling at his grandfather. But the intern gets in the way one too many times, so Bailey ends up yelling at Karev, telling him that there’s a pecking order in the hospital for a reason. That seems to serve as a wake-up call for Alex, because he goes back to being the jerk he was in Season 1, first by snapping at his intern and then by outing George as a repeater in an elevator full of interns.
Cristina: Not much of a storyline this week. She faked being sad about Burke in order to sucker Meredith into giving her the interesting surgeries.
My Reaction: Although not much actually happened in this episode, it was still fun for the most part, which is why I liked it. For instance, Cristina’s storyline wasn’t substantial at all, but it was funny to see her pretending to mope around whenever Meredith appeared. I also liked her exchange with Alex, when she said that sad was her fake emotion and that he had to find something else to use.
George is becoming more and more insufferable every week. Just when I think my hate for him has reached an all-time high, he goes and outdoes himself. What Izzie sees in him is beyond me. I hope when these two finally get together, it will be filled with misery and mistrust. With the way they got together, they don’t deserve to be happy.
Lexie still grates, but at least she and Meredith are talking now. Hopefully they’ll be a bit more civil to each other now that they’ve cleared the air about Lexie’s mom’s death. Then maybe Lexie will have some purpose for being here this season other than to cause Meredith anxiety.
I was caught off guard by how brutal Alex was in outing George in the elevator because it’s been a long time since we’ve seen that side of Karev. But in thinking back to S1 and S2, Alex and George never really got along at all, and Alex didn’t bother hiding his feelings back then, so what he did wasn’t completely out of character. Still, that whole thing was pretty cold.
Overall, this was a pretty good episode. Do you think we can have 3 good ones in a row? Check back next week to find out!
Sorry that I’m so late in getting this Private Practice recap up, but I’ve been incredibly busy for the past couple of weeks. Plus, I’m still trying to settle on a decent viewing/writing schedule since my days are now filled with other activities. I can only write in the mornings or at night, which is definitely putting a crimp in my style! Anyway, I’m sure you don’t care about that, so let’s just move on to the recap of episode 1×03, “In Which Addison Finds the Magic.”