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Post by kaz on Feb 18, 2011 0:21:00 GMT -5
You can always tell when it’s going to be an intense night at Seattle Grace — the opening scene is just too quiet. Things weren’t peaceful for long. Meredith was heading the ER for the night, and though she tried to delegate, she couldn’t seem to get a break from anybody: not Lexie, who accidentally discharged a man as he was actually having a stroke; not from the chief’s wife, who came in with a broken risk, asked Meredith not to bother the Chief, and subsequently got her yelled at; not the pair of crazy drunk guys who came in because one of them had a knife stuck in his head. On top of all that, there was a boy with a broken femur waiting for an OR, and a guy in a hurry to take his kid to a basketball game waiting for permission to leave. Cristina mulled a godmother proposal from Callie while Lucy made nice with Karev over talk of college hoops. And Teddy tried desperately to leave for the night while her insurance-scam husband entertained her date. After ordering a head CT for the Chief’s wife, who seemed confused, Meredith made time to sneak away for Derek to give her a fertility drug injection. But it wouldn’t happen in the break room, where Bailey had apparently finally given into Louis’s advances. By the time Meredith returned, her basketball fan was coding. Teddy’s date would have to wait — she rushed into the OR without even scrubbing in. The surgery was messy — and in the end, a heartbreaking failure. The patient died on the table. Meredith recovered in the maternity ward, where she confessed to Cristina that she felt like Cristina saying yes to Callie’s question meant she’d never have a baby of her own. She confronted the Chief about his anger over the scan she ordered for his wife. It seems that the Chief’s wife may be entering dementia — and that he’s entering denial. But it wasn’t all bad news. Somehow, the guy with the knife in his head had his buddy pull it out and walked away absolutely fine. Karev gave up his floor seats to do the femur kid’s surgery, and Jackson used the tickets to ask Lexie out on their first date. And that, Meredith revealed in voiceover at the end, was all in an hour. Remember that before you become an ER doctor or nurse. blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/02/17/greys-anatomy-season-7-episode-15-golden-hour-tv-recap/
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Post by betinad on Feb 18, 2011 1:05:09 GMT -5
It’s 6:48 am. And I’m late. Well, technically I’m on time, but I’m late for me because I really wanted to get here early to fix myself a giant cup of hot hot hot steaming black super hot coffee. To wake me up. And help me function. And also, because it is unseasonably chilly for Los Angeles and I don’t do chilly. --But First Rehearsal is supposed to be starting at this very moment and I’ve only just now parked my car so I forego the coffee and, instead, book it to Stage 7 to get to the first rehearsal of the very first scene of our eighth day of shooting on my latest episode of Grey’s. It’s a special episode – for all sorts of reasons, especially because it’s an episode that has Meredith Grey, aka Ellen Pompeo, in all but six of its scenes. Which is fantastic and cool and unprecedented for this series and… a headache. The headache being that because Ellen is in every scene, she has the weight of this entire episode resting on her shoulders. And she wasn’t feeling well when we wrapped last Friday night. Which could mean bad news for all of us if she fell sick over the weekend (which would be entirely possible since she’s been living on set with the rest of us for over a week now and, let’s face it, set is basically just a Petri dish full of head colds and stomach flus and sore throats waiting to pounce and attack.) So, I’m worried about Ellen and the fate of this entire episode, and that’s giving me a headache – or, maybe the headache is from my lack of coffee but either way – I make it to Stage 7, just in time for First Rehearsal. We rehearse the scene privately with (basically) just me, Rob (our fearless director) and the cast. It goes smoothly, with a few minor questions from Rob and Ellen, which I answer (hoping I even make sense as I’m barely coherent before there’s coffee in my system) and then it’s time for an open rehearsal with all of the crew. We go through the scene again, throw down marks, then Ellen and the other actors head off to get changed and beautified while the stand-ins take their places and I hunker down in a corner with my script to do a quick rewrite of the scene we just rehearsed. It’s not a big rewrite, because I don’t do that – I won’t rewrite scenes the day they are shooting; I think it’s bad form – but this is a minor change to a line that clearly wasn’t working because the timing of the scene plays out differently in person than it did in my head when I wrote it. That happens sometimes. It’s one thing to envision a scene in your head, but when it comes to life right in front of you? It takes on a life of its own. Sometimes things don’t work. And sometimes, if you’re lucky, they work so so so well. Just the other day, we shot the scene where Derek walks in on Bailey in the on-call room, and – obviously – I knew it was going to be funny, but actually seeing the look on Derek’s face and hearing the scream escape Bailey’s mouth? Possibly one of my favorite moments in all of Grey’s history. Which is saying a lot, as I have a lot of Grey’s history. You do realize, don’t you, that this is the very first time in seven seasons Bailey has EVER used an on-call room for anything other than sleeping? And don’t get me started on the Derek/ Meredith elevator scene we shot that same day… Again. I knew it was going to be fun to watch – but it was even better than I could have imagined. And dirtier. If, you know, you have a dirty mind like me. But this scene I’m rewriting now is just a little tiny change. I give the script changes to Nicole, our script supervisor; I swing by hair & makeup to let Ellen know about the changes (since they include some changes to her lines) and while I’m there, I listen carefully to see if I hear any raspiness to her voice or congestion in her head. Nope. That’s good. She seems perfectly healthy. Someone nearby sneezes, and I shoot them a nasty look. Then, almost as instantly as I shoot the look, someone else sweeps by with disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer. Excellent. I’m confident our leading lady is in good hands. Ellen and I share a few quick baby photos (her daughter and my daughter are around 6 months apart) and then I hurry off to the writers’ bungalow because I want to make sure Shonda has dailies to watch from the night before. I’m about halfway to the bungalow when I get a call that Rob wants to show me a scene up in editing. The bungalow will just have to wait. I turn around and head back to editing, by way of craft service, because my head is now pounding and my left eye is starting to twitch which is a sure sign that I need some coffee. SOON. So I head past craft service (where a guy with a knife in his head is pouring salsa onto a breakfast burrito) and I make a beeline to the coffee station when – seemingly out of nowhere – appears Linda, our Grey’s Anatomy medical guru. She’s in a state. One department says one thing and another says something else, and what she really needs to know is just how much blood DO I want to see on Knife Guy’s shirt which, by the way, should really have been changed into a hospital gown by now. For the record. Is what she says. So I say, sure, he can be wearing a gown in this scene, and less is more, with the blood, please, especially right now, before I’ve had any coffee or even thought about breakfast -- and that’s when I realize, I have, in my decaffeinated fugue state, already walked all the way upstairs to editing, where Rob has his scene cued up and waiting. So I sit down and watch a rough cut of a scene and as I watch… I’m a little bit struck by just how different and cool this episode is going to be. We’ve been able to be really inventive, to think outside the box. Take the clock motif that runs throughout the episode, for instance. Once you start looking for the clocks, you kinda can’t stop. They’re all over the place in this episode. One of my very favorite examples is when Mer and Teddy are hurrying onto the OR Elevator, and as Meredith pushes the elevator button in the distance, the camera racks focus onto a clock displayed on a monitor in the foreground. SO COOL. I was also able to tell five different patient stories in this episode, when we generally only tell three, maximum. And not only are there five patients, but somehow they all manage to intersect with Meredith, in a really satisfying way. Each one makes an impression on her. Even the story inspired by my 2 year old nephew, who broke his femur late last year and spent six weeks stroller bound with two full leg casts. And then there’s Meredith. This is her episode. An hour in the life of Meredith Grey. It’s always been fascinating to me -- How do doctors fit everything they fit into one day? What would a sliver of their day actually look like? We don’t see it on our show a lot, but the reality is, doctors DO juggle more than one patient at a time. And they do make room for their personal lives in between all that multitasking. We all do, don’t we? We carry on multiple conversations and handle multiple interactions and tackle multiple to-do-lists all the time… So what would it look like if we were doing all that, only one of the big things on our to-do-list was “Save Patient’s Life?” Meredith’s version of multitasking deals with life and death. And yet, in so many ways, it’s just another day at the office. She’s juggling patients and catching misdiagnoses and scrubbing in on emergency surgeries and she’s losing a patient. All in one little hour. She lives through the ups and the downs of life and death, and then it’s time for her to turn around and do it all over again. Because that’s what you do if you’re a doctor. You may go through hell and you may look death in the eye and you may be reminded of your own mortality or failures or insecurities… but then you have to shake it off. Put it behind you. And continue on with the rest of your day. Move forward. Go treat your next patient. Because after this hour, comes the next, and the next, and the next… And this scene, the one we’re watching right now, it encapsulates all of that. It’s Meredith and Cristina at the nursery, looking at the babies. Those of you who are die-hard Grey’s fans know that the nursery is the place where Meredith goes when she needs a little comfort. We haven’t seen it in a while, but this seemed like the absolute perfect moment to bring it back. Especially in the wake of how Meredith and Derek have been struggling to get pregnant this season. There was no more appropriate place for Meredith to seek comfort in this episode than here. Looking at all the cute cute babies. (Plus, and you may have already figured this out about me, but I have – apparently – become a SUCKER for cute babies myself.) The scene is perfect. So perfect, I even (for a moment) forget I still haven’t managed to get back to that d**n coffee station. Rob gets a text. They are ready to shoot downstairs... So we bid farewell to David (the editor) only first, I take a quick moment to oooo and ahhhh over his newest baby photos (David’s son and my daughter were both nicknamed Blueberry in utero. Which means, I’m sure, they have some deep cosmic connection.) And then it’s time to head back down to set to take our seats at video village just in time to begin shooting the scene we rehearsed almost exactly an hour ago. “Rolling, background and… ACTION!” First shot, 8:03 am. And there you have it. (Approximately) an hour in the life of me making an hour in the life of Meredith Grey. And all before my morning coffee. www.greyswriters.com/
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Post by earth2eternity on Feb 18, 2011 3:37:07 GMT -5
'Grey's Anatomy' Recap: One Hour Can Change Everything February 17, 2011 10:15 PM EST Time for an all-new episode of "Grey's Anatomy" on ABC. This week, things are hectic in the emergency room at the hospital. The patients are stacking up, and more patients are coming in. Meredith is trying to get Alex Karev to stay and help when he comes in to file paperwork, but he has floor seats for a game that a patient gave him. A new patient comes in while Meredith is checking on Adele. The man has a knife in his head as the result of a tailgate party brawl. Things don't slow down at Seattle Grace at all. Meredith is in charge, and she is running from patient to patient and trying to make sure everything runs smoothly before she and Derek head out for their dinner plans. Teddy also has dinner plans, but they are ruined by a patient coming in and the arrival of her husband at the hospital. These two are not married in any real sense of the word. Meredith is also dealing with the fact that Callie has asked Cristina to be the godmother of her child. Meredith tries to talk Cristina out of it. Meredith has more pressing issues on her hands though with the patients in the emergency room having more serious injuries develop. A man with a migraine ends up having a stroke, and Adele seems to have problems consistent with a head injury from her fall. Everyone is trying to get out of the hospital to attend the big basketball game though, even the guy with a knife in his head. Instead of waiting for an operation, his friend pulls the knife right out. That doesn't seem to have any immediate adverse effect on him. However, Meredith is dealing with a guy that came in with heartburn or a case of chest pains, and he codes after she and Derek find a way to steal a moment to inject Meredith with her fertility medicine. Meredith is able to bring back the guy that almost coded, and once Teddy arrives on scene, the two of them must head into the operating room immediately with the man. There is no time to waste. This is not your ordinary day at Seattle Grace. Even with how quick they are able to get the man into the operating room, Teddy and Meredith aren't able to save him. After the failed surgical attempt, she goes to the baby ward and finally explains to Cristina why she doesn't want her to be Callie's godmother. She is successful, but she is still worried about Adele. She thinks the woman might have Alzheimer's, but Webber won't hear anything of it. From this, she goes to tell the man's family about his death. All of this at Seattle Grace took place in the span of just one hour. That is all. All this madness and Meredith running around took place in just sixty minutes. Life and death, patients coming and going, and people breaking up and making up. Major life decisions were made in that time. Just another day in the lives of those that work in Seattle Grace and "Grey's Anatomy" - exactly. Even Bailey loosens up a little and sleeps with the nurse chasing after her. Karev gives up his floor seats to help a boy. Doctors are made in just one hour. "Grey's Anatomy" proves once again why it was one of the best dramas on television. entertainment.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979065062
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Post by betinad on Feb 18, 2011 12:42:29 GMT -5
Kirstin’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Recap: Meredith Is Selfish Not To Let Cristina Be Godmother To Callie’s Baby! Just because it makes her sad about being childless, doesn’t mean Meredith shouldn’t support Cristina being a godmother to another kid! That’s so uncool! I’m beginning to lose my lust for Grey’s Anatomy. Lately watching repeats from season two excites me more than new episodes. However, if I’m going to rant about anything from the “Golden Hour” episode Feb. 17, it’s Meredith Grey’s (Ellen Pompeo) total and complete selfishness when it comes to Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) being a godmother to Callie’s (Sara Ramirez) baby. She is being irrational! Early in the episode, Cristina breaks the news to Meredith that Callie has asked her to be a godparent in her child’s life. Instead of acting like a normal person, Mer gets awkward and tells Cristina under no circumstances should she accept the honor. Why? Because it makes Mer feel like Cristina thinks she’ll never have a baby. This is where I get confused. Why can’t Cristina be a godmother to Callie’s kid AND Mer and Derek’s? Is there some sort of unspoken rule you can’t be a godparent to two kids? I get Mer is all hopped up on fertility hormones and stress, but it doesn’t give her a complete pass to act like a crazy lady. Then again, I was also surprised at Cristina’s willingness to go along with Meredith’s demands. Without even questioning her behavior, Cristina agrees to tell Callie no. On a lighter note, I loved Meredith and Derek’s (Patrick Dempsey) “date” in the elevator. He tells her to drop her pants because he’ll be in and out quickly…obviously, we think they’re about to have a fast rendezvous. She drops her pants, he sticks something in and she grimaces. Plot twist, she was only getting a hormone shot in her butt. Pretty clever! All in all, I just want Meredith to get preggers already. C’mon, Shonda Rhimes — give that lady a baby! What did YOU think of the episode? Was Meredith irrational with Cristina? Sound off below! www.hollywoodlife.com/2011/02/18/watch-greys-anatomy-7x15-recap-golden-hour/
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Post by betinad on Feb 18, 2011 12:44:08 GMT -5
Everything about 'Golden Hour' felt very familiar: young doctor takes charge of a shift for the night; a slew of interesting, humorous and tragic cases come through the doors; a patient dies despite best efforts; a patient with a personal connection to hospital staff unexpectedly shows up; and the outcomes of the various cases end up having an emotional resonance for that young doctor. So, this is nothing we haven't seen before on every medical drama on television. It's not that 'Grey's Anatomy' didn't do it well, but when you've seen this kind of episodes umpteen times, the story lines can't help but be predictable. Meredith had to oversee the E.R. and as she noted, the "golden hour" is a term doctors use to describe the crucial 60 minutes after someone experiences a trauma. This is the hour that often determines whether a person will live or die, and as Meredith found out, "An hour, one hour, can change everything. Forever." Among the many patients she had to deal with on her shift was Chief Webber's wife, Adele, who came in with an arm injury. Or so it seemed. Meredith began to feel suspicious after noting that Adele was trying to get down Christmas ornaments in February. Then Adele forgot she'd been examined already, and of course, Meredith wanted to run more tests to see what was happening. But the Chief was in total denial. He's already dealt with his lover suffering from Alzheimer's, and likely doesn't want to face the idea his wife might be similarly afflicted. No doubt this storyline will come back in a big way in future episodes. If Adele does end up with Alzheimer's, the Chief will be wrecked. The saddest case of the night was probably Oliver, the dad with chest pains who just wanted to take his son to a basketball game. That his prognosis turned dire so quickly was horrifying, and watching Teddy and Meredith scrubbing up with hand sanitizer in the elevator was a chilling scene. That contrasted starkly with the guy who came in with a knife in his head. Somehow, he ended up walking away, while Meredith had to make the awful phone call to Oliver's family. Miracles happen to some people and not to others, and it's all just a big mystery. Other notes: • Derek's faking out Meredith in the elevator was hilarious ("Drop your pants. I'll be quick, I'll be in and out.") So was him walking in on Bailey and her boy toy. • Scott Foley returned as Teddy's "husband," and it's great that the show is using him so judiciously. I loved when he told Teddy that her date "used the word shan't -- and he wasn't being funny. As your husband, I think we can do better." • The Alex/Dr. Lucy Fields flirtation continues. Is anyone else starting to tire of the whole "look how dedicated Alex is, look at that heart of gold under the a**hole exterior!" stuff? • The Avery/Lexie flirtation also continues. And now they're going on a date! (Let's hope it involves Avery shirtless) www.tvsquad.com/2011/02/18/greys-anatomy-season-7-episode-15-recap/
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Post by betinad on Feb 18, 2011 14:56:12 GMT -5
Grey's Anatomy Episode Recap: "Golden Hour" Natalie Abrams In this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy, Meredith is tasked with running the ER for a night, where she'll learn what the "Golden Hour" means the hard way. Meanwhile, the Chief's wife shows up in the emergency room, and Bailey sneaks off with Eli for an on-call room tryst. For those who don't know, the "Golden Hour" is the window of time that will determine whether a patient lives or dies. This hour will be lead by Meredith, who volunteered to run the ER to get a leg up in the race for Chief Resident. Meredith's first main case is a man named Oliver, who has been experiencing chest pains, but seems to be OK. He's in a hurry to get out of the hospital so he can take his son to the big game, but Mer insists they do more tests. Little does she know, this man will be in the OR in less than a (golden) hour. Meredith is surprised to find Adele in the emergency room, who slipped on the stairs and hurt her arm. Once the Chief finds out she's there, he yells at Meredith for not telling him, but Adele covers for Mer, who later thanks her, but starts to notice some discrepancies with Adele's story. After Callie splints the hairline fracture in Adele's arm, the Chief is upset to learn that Meredith ordered tests on Adele's head. Her tests come out clean, but Meredith suggests there is something else wrong. "You've got Alzheimer's on the brain," the Chief yells, putting the subject to rest. The Chief's wife is the least of Mer's worries, since a very drunk man comes in the ER with a knife in his head. Cristina is astounded to find that his brain function is completely intact. While Lexie, Jackson, Owen and Mark are looking at the charts, his equally drunk friend pulls out the knife. An hour later, he checks out against medical advice just to go to the game. Alex, who has a night off, has to come in the hospital to sign all of his old charts. Once Lucy learns that Alex is going to the big game, she decides to help him forge his signatures. The two seem to really be hitting it off. After signing all the charts, she wonders why he hasn't invited her to the game. He then does, but she's busy — she just wanted to see if he'd ask her out. After repeated insisting, Bailey agrees to go in an on-call room with Eli, but is nearly caught by Meredith. Later, Derek and Meredith have a short break and rush into the on-call room, where Derek sees Bailey and Eli getting it on. He and Meredith, who didn't see the pair, rush to the elevator to seemingly have sex, but it turns out he's just giving her a fertility shot. Just after Lexie has discharged a patient, Meredith sees the chart and realizes the man is about to have a stroke. Mer finds him in the parking lot and is able to save him, but she gets upset with Lexie for discharging the patient without catching this near-fatal ailment. In the end, the man breaks up with his hellish girlfriend, who probably gave him the stroke in the first place. Back to Oliver's case, Mer enlists Teddy's help, who has her date hang out in the waiting room until she's done. He's kept busy by... Henry, Teddy's husband. The two bond while he waits for Teddy. Oliver later codes while in the CT machine, and Teddy calls for immediate surgery on his aorta. Unfortunately, he dies on the table. Henry later insists Teddy's date isn't good enough for her. "As your husband, I think we can do better," he says. Throughout the hour, a young boy with a broken femur screams in pain. He needs surgery, but there is no OR available. His father continually freaks out, until Alex decides to skip the game and do the surgery, where Lucy looks on from the gallery. He gives his tickets to Jackson, who takes Lexie. Earlier in the episode, Cristina revealed that Callie asked her to be the godmother. Meredith suggested she say no because she wants Cristina to be her godparent-in waiting. After losing Oliver, Meredith admits the real reason Cristina should say no: By accepting the role of godmother, it's as if Cristina is saying she'll never have a child of her own. The episode closes on Meredith answering Oliver's phone. His son, Max, has called, and she asks for his mother so she can reveal the news. And as our hour in the OR ends, Meredith continues on into the night, patient after patient. What did you think of Meredith's "Golden Hour"? Do you like the pairing between Alex and Lucy? Do you think Jackson and Lexie will hook up? Hit the comments with your thoughts on the episode. www.tvguide.com/tvshows/greys-anatomy-2011/episode-15-season-7/golden-hour/191535#recap
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Post by betinad on Feb 18, 2011 16:45:34 GMT -5
So if I'm being honest I have to tell you that I started last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Golden Hour," not really knowing what to expect. I'd read that it was structured in real time, so we would be privy to an hour in the life of Meredith Grey as she worked in the ER. I like Meredith well enough most of the time, but the thought of having her (or any one character) in pretty much every scene? That concerned me. However, I also knew that the episode was written by one of my favorite GA scribes, Stacy McKee. Stacy wrote my favorite episode of all-time, "Elevator Love Letter" (519) and she also penned the other concept episode of this season, "These Arms of Mine" (706), which was in documentary style. Oh, Stacy, how much do I love you? You came through again with an engrossing hour that illuminated how doctors spend the minutes of their days -- juggling their personal issues with their professional obligations all while dealing with life and death stakes. An Hour in the Life of Meredith Grey I have to give Ellen Pompeo a great deal of credit for the success of this episode. I suspect it was a daunting task to have the weight of the entire show on her shoulders, and she came through in a big way. I found myself completely absorbed as Meredith dealt with FIVE patients (Heart Dad, Broken Legs Little Boy, Knife Man, Adele Webber and Stroke Guy) and major stress (death of a patient, compassion for a child in excruciating pain, incredulity at the dumb luck drunk people seem to experience, deep concern for a friend and mopping up a misdiagnosis) all in the space of an hour. She also grappled with her continued infertility. I loved her scenes with Derek and Cristina. MerDer in the elevator was pretty darn adorable, and the Twisted Sisters rocked it again. My one quibble concerns the whole Cristina-as-godmother subplot. I get where Meredith is coming from, truly, but that struck me as more than a little selfish. Plus, I'm not sure how Cristina being the godmother of Callie's child has to impact her being the godmother of Meredith's child. Cristina and Callie are friends, too, and I hope Cristina's decision to defer to Meredith's wishes won't strain the Cristina/Callie relationship because I love them. OK, true confessions. There's one more quibble. Zero Cristina and Owen? Again? Seriously? Waaaaaaaaah! The Dating Lives of Miranda and Teddy What can I say about Bailey? How about this equation? By-the-book-and-very-flustered Bailey plus hot-and-mischievous-and-did-I-mention-hot Eli engaging in clandestine-on-call-room shenanigans equals hilarious. Pretty much perfection. I really love how Eli brings out a playful side of Miranda and how he just gently but firmly ignores her when she takes herself too seriously. And the look on Derek Shepherd's face as Bailey screamed in horror? Classic Grey's. As for Teddy? Hell must have frozen over because I find I don't loathe her anymore. See? I can be fair. Now that she's far away from Owen I can look at her more objectively. For perhaps the first time last night, I saw true toughness and skills in her as a doctor. And although the whole Date vs. Husband of Convenience story was silly, Scott Foley's Henry is so darn charming that he made it work. Wake up, Teddy! You've got an adorable husband who seems really into you! Stop dating random odd men. Two Things I Loved Plus One I Didn't Alex Karev gave up floor seats to the Huskies basketball game because a little kid needed help. I don't care that I saw that one coming a mile away. Karev plus peds equals swoon. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Lucy Fields is coming around. Jackson and Lexie are going to the game together. I shall now duck the rocks that Mexie Fans will soon be throwing my way as I say, "YAY!" I think they are adorable. Plus they are age-appropriate and at similar places in their lives. There's real potential here. I caught it immediately when Adele kept telling different variations of the story of how she injured her wrist. I fear that Meredith is absolutely right in being very concerned about the state of Mrs. Webber's mind. Oh, Shonda! How could you? First Ellis and now Adele? Poor Richard. Please tell me that he's not about to lose the other love of his life to early onset Alzheimer's disease. I have a very bad feeling about this. Sigh. The next all-new episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Not Responsible" airs Thursday, Feb. 24 on ABC. www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-fan-columnist-no-39429.aspx
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Post by Leanne on Feb 19, 2011 3:10:52 GMT -5
February 18, 2011 headlineplanet.com/home/2011/02/18/greys-anatomy-hits-ratings-low-justin-bieber-does-little-for-csi/By Brian Cantor Justin Bieber might be a draw at the box office and might have boosted viewership for this year’s Grammy Awards, but his ratings contributions to scripted television series continue to be minimal. Tuesday’s Bieber-focused “Glee” episode delivered one of the worst ratings of the season, and his return appearance on “CSI” similarly meant little. Thursday’s episode of the CBS veteran was only good for a 2.9 adults 18-49 rating with 13.27 million viewers. Though he likely minimized the impact of the “ratings spell” that has been cast on so many shows all of a sudden, he did not recharge the aging series. “CSI” timeslot competitor “Grey’s Anatomy,” meanwhile, continued its downturn with another season low. This week’s episode dropped to a mere 3.7 with 10.20 million viewers. That also meant a weaker turnout for “Private Practice,” which hit a season low of its own at a 2.4 and 6.85 million viewers. Earlier in the night, ABC’s “Winter Wipeout” continued to feel the “Idol” burn with a 1.9 and 6.19 million viewers.
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Post by betinad on Feb 21, 2011 18:49:53 GMT -5
The great thing about television is that characters can be made superhuman. In one stroke of the pen, writers create instant villains or heroes. In last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith Grey impressed me with her ability to put out one fire after another after being tasked with running the ER for the night. We’re accustomed to seeing Bailey take charge over the hospital, and there was a time when Cristina was a force to be reckoned with. But Meredith has always had a tendency to be a little emotional and needy. She’s brilliant like the rest, but seems perpetually in a crisis. Not so in last week’s episode, aptly titled Golden Hour, which refers to that “magical window” that determines whether a patient lives or dies. The entire episode follows just one hour at Seattle Grace. It’s 6:00 pm and Meredith is swamped. Alex is off work, but needed to come in and sign some charts and complete his paperwork. Teddy is trying to wrap things up because she has a date. For everyone else, it’s business as usual. The backdrop of the episode is the PAC 10 conference championship game (college basketball), and everyone is trying to watch. Meredith begins with three patients who have reached that critical hour. Her first patient is a relatively young man named Oliver who presented with chest pains. Oliver hopes to be released quickly so he can take his son to the game for his birthday, but Meredith and Teddy do a quick consult and agree that they should run more tests. Meredith’s second patient is a four year old with a broken femur who is in a lot of pain. There are no available operating rooms, and he is long overdue for surgery. Perhaps Meredith’s most important patient during the golden hour is Chief Webber’s wife Adele, who has fallen and injured her wrist. Meredith pages Callie, but doesn’t mention that the patient is the chief’s wife. When Callie shows up she is ticked off, and she’s not the only one. The Chief is angry that he wasn’t immediately informed that his wife was at the hospital. To her credit, Meredith takes it in stride. Adele explains that she fell off a step ladder while looking for Christmas decorations. She also forgets details about the conversation she had with Meredith only a few moments ago. Although her wrist has been taken care of, Meredith orders a CT scan because she has some neurological concerns. When the Chief finds out, he is very angry and seems to be in denial about the possibility of his wife having Alzheimer’s. He tells Meredith that her personal experiences with the disease and her work on Derek’s trial are clouding her judgment. I agree that Meredith is probably more attuned to the disease than the average doctor would be, but that doesn’t mean that she’s wrong. There’s no way someone should be looking for Christmas decorations after Christmas. While Meredith deals with one of the more stressful days on the job, Bailey and her new boy-toy nurse Eli are feeling amorous. Bailey isn’t one of the more adventurous docs at Seattle Grace. While nearly everyone has engaged in some hanky panky at work at some point, Bailey has not. Eli brings her out of her shell, and she nervously agrees to sneak off to one of the rooms with him. When Derek and Meredith are on the lookout for a place to be alone, he ends up walking in on Eli and Bailey with Meredith in tow. He quickly backs away with Meredith, who hadn’t seen them in the room. Derek injects Meredith for fertility purposes, and was looking for somewhere discreet to do it. At first it seemed that he was slyly trying to have a quickie at work, but when he spoke of “giving it to her,” he really meant an injection. Alex is slowly but steadily endearing himself to Lucy, who sees that he is kind and caring, despite her initial impression of him. He goes the extra mile for his pediatric patients, and ends up feeling sympathetic for the four year old with the broken femur. He gives up his prized basketball tickets to pitch in and help the young patient. Avery. the recipient of those tickets, invites Lexie as his date. I knew he was making a move on her! Best of the episode: Meredith making a great case for herself as the next chief resident. Worst of the episode: Her patient died unexpectedly and never got to take his son to the game…on his birthday! What to watch for: Alex and Lucy. Season 7, Episode 15: The Golden Hour (originally aired February 17, 2011) Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC. poptimal.com/2011/02/greys-anatomy-review-the-golden-hour/
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