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Post by kaz on Feb 16, 2011 22:04:02 GMT -5
Golden Hour (2/17)
MEREDITH QUICKLY LEARNS THAT TIME REALLY IS OF THE ESSENCE WHEN SHE'S PUT IN CHARGE OF THE ER, ON ABC'S "GREY'S ANATOMY"
Loretta Devine ("Waiting to Exhale," "Boston Public") Returns as Adele
"Golden Hour" - Meredith, looking to prove she is Chief Resident material, learns that anything and everything can happen in an hour's time when she steps up to run the ER for a night; meanwhile, Bailey sneaks off with Eli and gets into a little mischief, and everyone is surprised when the Chief's wife, Adele, shows up as one of the ER patients, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Grey's Anatomy" stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Chyler Leigh as Lexie Grey, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins, Kim Raver as Teddy Altman, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery and Sarah Drew as April Kepner.
Guest cast includes Scott Foley as Henry, Rachael Taylor as Dr. Lucy Fields, Daniel Sunjata as Eli, Loretta Devine as Adele, Moe Irvin as Nurse Tyler, Jeffrey Doornbos as Mitch, Elizabeth Bogush as Gia, Dondre T. Whitfield as Oliver, Jason Gray-Stanford as Josh, Jacy King as Whitney, Cade Owens as Nathan, John Henry Canavan as Stewart, Nick Armstrong as Dave, Josh Randall as William, Billy Wood as code nurse, Payton Silver as Dr. Knox, Ariel Felix as C.T. booth tech and Linda Klein as Scrub Nurse Linda.
"Golden Hour" was written by Stacy McKee and directed by Rob Corn.
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Post by ruralstar on Feb 17, 2011 22:17:05 GMT -5
Three weeks of filler is three too much. That said, at least this week had some real substance.
If you're a Meredith fan you should have been in hog heaven. I usually can't stand her but I must say I quite enjoyed her front and center moments, especially the very tense OR scene. Shonda tends to like her happy endings but I'm glad she didn't go that route with the heart patient. An hour can change so much and that storyline really hit my emotional buttons. Nice to see Meredith have something to focus on besides Cris and Owen's relationship. Can't say I'm all that anxious for another Meredith centric ep, see previews for next week, but at least EP seemed to have brought her A game. Especially loved the eye acting in the OR between her and Kim Raver.
Soooo glad to not see Mark or a whiff of the whole Callie/Az/Mark baby triangle. Can't stand that.
Bailey and her nurse in the on call room... Meh. The only bit that made me laugh was Derek opening the door on then. Otherwise it struck as very unBailey.
Alex and the blond chick. Oh yeah, big surprise.
Liked the softer side of Cris when she heard that Meredith had lost a patient. To me that is more of a friendship moment than any speeches about being each other's person.
So is Adele the Alzheimer's patient Meredith will be dealing with? Makes a lot more sense in a very tragic way than Owen's mom, who we really don't know.
Owen...uh, Owen who? Blink and you missed him AGAIN! d**n I want Kevin back on my tv screen.
- On the whole, did you like or dislike this episode?
It was better than the last two.
- What would you like to have seen more of? And less of?
More Owen.
- Favourite line/scene/storyline?
The whole story of the guy who died in the OR was good stuff.
- What would you rate the episode out of 10?
Still feels like filler but not the complete drech of the last couple of weeks. I'll give it a 6
- Will you watch this episode again? Probably.
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Post by ella1967 on Feb 17, 2011 22:22:11 GMT -5
I don't have the energy after this work week to type up my own review but I have to give Rural credit for giving me the best laugh I've had all day. Way to go, you!
Nice to see Meredith have something to focus on besides Cris and Owen's relationship.
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Post by ruralstar on Feb 17, 2011 22:25:10 GMT -5
I don't have the energy after this work week to type up my own review but I have to give Rural credit for giving me the best laugh I've had all day. Way to go, you!
Nice to see Meredith have something to focus on besides Cris and Owen's relationship. Hehe, glad you enjoyed the comment. Tis the truth, no?
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Post by trinity on Feb 17, 2011 23:23:06 GMT -5
I consider it the weakest episode from this season so far. Another filler episode: I wasn't expecting any CO scene and little Cristina and Owen in general in this episode so there was no surprise for me that we didn't get much. Blink and you almost missed both of them.
I don't want to believe that Cristina might be changing her mind on being Callie's baby godmother just because Mer said so. And it bothers more and more that this Mer/Cris friendship has been just one sided, with Cristina giving in and making compromises all the time. Meredith is a friend when it's convenient for her. If they are trying to depict a healthy friendship between these two then this isn't what I see.
In rest just a Meredith in a ER, nothing spectacular, just nice to see she has grown into a fine doctor, 'cause emotionally and in her relationship with Cristina she has a lot growing up to do.
Shonda had tried to play a little with our emotions, with heart patient story, but I personally wasn't impressed, I am was almost sure he would die. Probably my medical background said its words, so I am not easily impressed.
A bit of Alex which I liked, he was like the fresh air of this episode even with the whole Lucy story. Always nice to see Alex.
And I suppose Adele will be the next patient in the Alzheimer trial.
I never considered EP a great actress, this episode proved it, she had just one facial expression throughout the entire episode.
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Post by Leanne on Feb 18, 2011 15:06:31 GMT -5
I actually quite enjoyed the episode I like this idea of having one doc dominate a show and hope that at some point Kevin gets a chance... Loved the medical cases and thought it showed up a typical hour (how realistic im not sure) but certainly entertaining
Alex and the new doc were good, and enjoying this little flirt between Lexie and Avery
Bailey like a school girl just isnt my cup of tea
Hardly any Owen and a little bit of Cris...
fully got why Meredith was worried about cris being a Godmother (interesting that in the US a Godmother is a guardian as well not the case here Godmother would only make sure you got religious instruction a guardian would take you in the event of death)
Ok so Adele is a worry and probably going to be Alzheimer's related
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Post by MarryMeOwen on Feb 18, 2011 19:22:38 GMT -5
A character study of Mer, but also another filler episode in my opinion I can see why they wanted to start focusing on Mer because the season is winding down we have 7 episodes left of this year hardly any development in the last 3. But regardless, I thought this was a good Meredith episode minus the mediocre hodgepodge of nothingness which was the rest of the episode.
I guess I am getting bored, wanting my OC fix, even Cristina was playing a minor role this episode. I was half paying attention during the Teddy dating bits, even though Josh Randall was her date who I liked on "Ed". I really could care less about Teddy and Henry. I sill don't enjoy the character, but she only works as supporting and not in the lead stories.
I initially thought Mer was being immature about the whole "You have to say no to Callie" argument. I think Meredith can come off as really selfish, which was a shame because last week she was being very adult moving past all the Thatcher drama with Lexie. But then she explained why and it was a very touching moment. I guess I'm not used to the focus being on Meredith because its been so much on other characters. I really don't see an issue with Cristina being god mother to two babies but whatever.
I am finding all the secondary stories so boring. I really don't care enough to write about it here LOL Though the Adele s/l seems interesting, maybe the Chief was offering Mer the diabetes study because he was trying to distract Mer from the alzheimer's study due to it being too personal for him. And in a messed up way it is kind of like karma for the Chief.
Anyway that's it for me.
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Post by ella1967 on Feb 20, 2011 14:20:58 GMT -5
One thing that occurred to me after watching this episode that got me wondering. In terms of the whole godmother discussion. It seemed interesting to me that Meredith wasn't feeling like the universe was giving her a message about never getting pregnant from the fact of Callie's pregnancy. The thing that seemed to tip the scale for her was that Cristina would be involved in that child's life as godmother.
Interesting too that she couched her fears amidst telling Cristina that it's not that she doesn't want to share her with anyone else, although that was a fear she exhibited earlier this season in terms of both Cristina's marriage to Owen and its timing as well as Derek's seeming friendship with Cristina as he tried to help her get back to work.
And then Meredith went on to say that having Cristina agree to participate in Callie's child's life as godmother made her feel like the message she was getting was that she'd never be a mother herself. Almost as if she's more focused on Cristina's place in her life than than on a baby's place in her life, at least for the purposes of this conversation.
I'm sure they're laying groundwork for something, I'm just not sure what. Maybe it was simply an attempt to advance the story outside of the real-time hour concept or maybe it has a deeper meaning in this S.7 concept of rebirth? I'm hoping for the latter, but we'll see.
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