Last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy was called “Losing My Mind” and served to inch a few storylines along as we head into the 2-hour finale next week. I have to say that I didn’t like the ep as a whole, but a couple of things I saw gave me hope that all is not lost with this show. Will GA still have a place on my TiVo next fall? It really depends on how the finale goes. I hardly ever give up on shows midstream, but have been more willing to pull the plug this year (Prison Break and The New Adventures of Old Christine being the latest casualties). I’ll have to wait and see if GA makes the cut!
Meredith: Spent most of the episode stalking her psychiatrist to demand her file back, thinking that she was miraculously “cured” and didn’t need therapy anymore. The therapist (sorry, don’t know her name) resisted, for a while before finally giving in. My TiVo actually messed up the last couple minutes of the ep, so I didn’t see Meredith’s last scene myself, but from what I gather from other people, she talked to the therapist about how her mother tried to commit suicide when Meredith was 7. That, coupled with Thatcher’s departure, has led to her current abandonment/intimacy issues.
Callie/Hahn/Sloan: After being called out as a whore last week, Sloan is determined to turn over a new leaf. He resists several offers from Callie to go to the On Call room, saying that he’d rather talk instead. Of course it doesn’t take long for his old self to surface after Hahn mentions something about a threesome between her, Callie, and Sloan. Later, to make sure Sloan got the picture, Hahn kissed Callie in the elevator.
Alex/Ava/Izzie: Ava was all kinds of crazy tonight. She was still convinced that she was pregnant despite the fact that Izzie showed her an ultrasound of her empty womb. She also screamed at Sloan to give her a boob job so that her body would match her face (was she trying to say that her face was pretty or something?). Sloan recognized Ava’s behavior as some sort of PTSD and recommended that Izzie get a psych consult. When Izzie finally told Alex what was going on, he predictably snapped at her just for being the messenger and said he would handle Ava.
Later, Alex brings Ava back to Meredith’s house and says that she will be staying with them for a few days. By this point, Ava is practically catatonic. She just sits there like a lump and is clearly far worse off than Alex is willing to admit.
Cristina: Cristina was still in a funk all episode long. She was going off on anybody who came within two feet of her, and particularly laid into George and Lexie. Those scenes were a bit uncomfortable perhaps, but everything she said was true. I just wish EVERY regular cast member had paraded in front of her so we could hear Cristina’s take on all of them!
George: I was very surprised at how tolerable George was this episode. Maybe it’s the fact that he mostly interacted with a 14-month old instead of his peers, but whatever it was, I need more of this George. I can’t stand what the character has become in the last season and a half, so anything that gets him back to normal is fine by me.
Bailey: Still having problems with her husband, yada yada yada.
Derek: Don’t know, don’t care.
My Reaction: As I said above, this episode just inched the major storylines along by the tiniest bit, so it was mostly pretty boring. There’s not really much to talk about here, so I’ll go with the “shocking” Hahn/Callie kiss. Sorry, but that wasn’t hot at all. I like Callie, but I don’t like Hahn at all and think these two have no chemistry at all. A lesbian couple would be fine by me, but not these two.
What would have been even better than the kiss, IMO, is if Callie had turned and followed Hahn out of the elevator instead of going after Mark to the on call room. Now that would have been unexpected and interesting!
Ava cannot leave my screen fast enough. Please let next week be the last time I ever have to suffer through another ep with this character? How in the hell did she end up being a recurring character for more than a season anyway? There’s nothing to her, no substance or anything! She’s boring and she’s dragging Alex down. If the writers wanted to give him a storyline, why couldn’t it have been with Addison last year? Those two were great together!
Plus, I call bullshit that Alex would suddenly be all tender and caring with a woman after treating all the others like crap. It’s out of character for him to take Ava in like this and it totally rings false.
When is Cristina going to snap out of her funk? It feels like she’s been “off” all season as well. What happened here??
Honestly, I’m just glad the finale is coming up. I hope it’s worth watching, and I hope next season turns out to be much better than this one!